Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1890-09-18
TARIFF AND KENNEDY
Senate Tariff Amendments Nom
Concurred In.
KENNEDY'S BREAK CONES Up.
EnIoe Proposes a Resolution of Censure on
the Buckeye Member-Bayne Gives Him
9 ScorIng-GrosVenOr Raises
Point OF Order.


with Senate amendments with the rec
ommendation that the amendments De
non-concurred in Referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole.
Mr.. Mckinley then offered resolu-
ton from the Committee on Rules, but
before it could be read Mr.. Enloe, OF
Tennessee, rose to a question OF privi-
lepe. He offered the following resolu-
ton:
HResolved, That the Clerk of the House OF
Representatives be direct d to communicate
10 the Senate the fact that the House repro
bates and condemns the utterances of the
Hon Robert p. Kennedy, a Representative
from the State Of Ohio delivered in the
House September 3, rejecting upon the
character and integrity of the Senate as q
body.
Mr.. Dingley, of Maine, raised the
point of order that this did not present
such a question of privilege as would
take the gentleman from Ohio, Mr.. Nc
Kinley, from the floor.
At the suggestion of the Speaker Mr..
Enloe withdrew his resolution for the
present and Mr.. Mckinley, from the
Committee on Rules, reported resolu-
ton for the immediate consideration
Of the Tariff bill in the House After
two hours general debate it should be
in order to move to non-concur in the
Senate amendments in gross and agree
70 the committee of conference asked
for by the Senate, and the House should
without further delay or other motion
proceed to vote on the motion The
previous question on the resolution was
ordered-yeas, 116; nays, Il
Mr.. Blount of Georgia, protested
against the resolution, contending that
1t was a parody on deliberation. 1t
would have been better to have pro-
vided for no debate, for this course
would at least have had the semblance
of directness The right to vote on any
separate amendment was denied to
every member by this order. The
House should eject this order. 1t was
an unfortunate spectacle. An order
was to be made with view of prevent
ing the testing OF the sentiment Of the
house on any special proposition. The
purpose of the order was to take the
whole subject of taxation from the
House. The resolution stripped the rules
of the last piece of conservatism which
they contained. Under the pretense of
doing business the ma -ority had broken
down the rules 1t had abrogated the
power of the House toeonsider the sub
ject of taxation and had relegated that
subject to small number of conferees
and-sarcastically- was business.
Mr.. McAiillin, of Tennessee, opposed
sie resolution and criticised the Com
mittee on Rules for reporting it This
majority in caucus had determined not
only that the minority should be throt-
tied, but that the plumed knight should
be throttled.
The resolution was then adopted
yeas ia nays r.
After debate the Senate amendments
were non-concurred in-yeas 120, nays
81
Mr.. Enloe then called up his resolu-
ton in regard % Mr.. Kennedy's speech
on September 3, when Mr.. Grosvenor, of
Ohio, raised the point of order that the
resolution was not in order. The time
TO have called the gentleman from Ohio
(Mr. Kennedy to order was when that
gentleman delivered his speech. The
gentleman could not now be called to
order for his utterances
Mr.. Enloe contended that the point
was not we'll taken. 1t was a question
affecting the dignity of the House and
the integrity Of the Senate. The gen.
tleman from Ohio, Mr.. Kennedy, had no
more right to make personal attack
upon a member of the Senate than he,
Mr.. Enloe, had to state the Speaker
was corrupt orsthat the President was
criminal. He then sent to the clerks
desk and had read extracts from Mr..
Kennedy's speech as it appeared in the
Record this morning. He argued that
It was due to the House that no utter
snces rejecting upon the Senate should
be admitted into the Record.
Mr.. Bayne, of Pennsylvania, said that
he concurred in the remark of the gen.
tleman from Tennessee. 1t was due to
the Senate of the United States that
the House should adopt the resolution
which had been offered. 1t had occurred
perha ps for the first time in the history
Of the country that two Senators Of the
United States had been attacked by
name in the House of Representatives
and the Senate had been attacked as a
body, and that epithets had been ap-
piled to those Senators which would
dishonor and disgrace any man before
the country. 1t was in the interest of
Justice and truth and of the honor
and integrity of this body that no
technicality should interfere to pre-
vent the House from doing its duty.
The utterances of the gentleman from
Ohio on September 8 had been with
held for revision and had not appeared
in the Record until to-day, so that no
tice could not be taken before by mem
bers To-day those remarks appeared
shorn, perhaps, of some of their animosi-
ties and Misrepresentation, but not
withstanding containing such palpable
charge of corruption in the Senate that
the House could not refrain from put
ting the seal of its condemnation upon
them This was no place to attack
members of the Senate. The rules
and courtesy which had always been
maintained in this body had pro-
tected its members against assaults
from the Senate and the Senators from
assaults from the members Of the
House He trusted in the interest Of
what was right, Of what was due to the
House in honor to itself, that no techni-
eality should be allowed to coRe in the
way Of condemning the utterances made
oy the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. ken-
nedy).
Mr.. Grosvenor said that he had made
the point Of order because he believed
that whatever action the House took
should be taken in the regular way by
report from q committee.
Mr.. Bayne offered an amendment to
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