Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-24

officers Of the United States war vessels had not
done their duty. Americans owed it to them
selves and to their flag to investigate the mat
ter. Where was our bossted vigorous American
policy?
Mr.. Hit said thai he believed tha. every
member of the House was in accord in regard
TO the propriety of adopting the resolution
He wished to know ali the facts in reference
to the matter. and he was advised that the
State Department would send the intorIna-
ton promptly. He instanced the case Of
Gomez, political fugitive, on the same
line OF steamers whom the government
OF Nicaragua attempted to arrest. The
Captain. BY consular advice. had refused to de-
liver him up. Secretary Bayard had sent a
dispatch stating that il had been the plain duty
ot the captain to deliver Gomez TO the local
authorities The resolution was adopted.
RESOLUTION TO ExcLUDE KENNEDY's SPEECH
FROM THE RECORD.
Mr. Stewart (Nt), from the committee on
Judiciary, reported the following resolution:
The House deeming il high duty that the
utmost courtesy and decorum demanded bv
parliamentary law and precedent should mark
the mutual relations of the two houses of Con-
gress does hereby express its disapproyal Of
the unparliamentary language used by the
Hon. Robert p. Kennedy, a Representative from
the state of Ohio, in his speech delivered on
the foor Of the House on the Sd day of Septem-
Der, 1890, and published in the Congressional
Record OF September IA. 1891, and considering
II lmpracticable TO separate the unparlama n
tary portion OF said speech from such parts
thereof as may be parliamentary; therefore. be
ii further
Resolved, That the public printer be directed
TO exclude from the permanent Congressional
Record the entire speech OF Hon. Robert p.
hennedy In the first resolution mentioned.
Mr.. EkSSEDy IL HIS OWN BEHALF
Mr.. Kennedy requested to be heard in his
hal
shown to refuse him this request, but after Mr..
Oates( Ala. )said that while he concurrcd in the
report he thought that the gentleman should
be heard, and after Mr.. Boutelle (Maine) de-
clared that it would be an outrage 10 deny him
the request, Mr.. Kennedy was accorded the
floor for twenty minutes
Mr.. Kennedy said that he had asked the COM
mlttee ON the judiciary either 10 let his speech
appear in the Record entire or to strike IT out
entire. He was willing to stand before the
people of America on that speech. believing
that the people Of this country in their first
Judgment and IN their sober second judgment
would approve the words he had uttered.
Referring to the portion Of the speech de-
livered in Philadelphia last night
by Speaker Reed, in which the Speaker
spoke of the House as being the
representative body Of the people. he said
land that represented the people of the United
States SO fully. so completely and so entirely
as the body to which he belonged II the peo.
pie of the United States were not to be heard
on this floor OF what floor could they be heard!
He had
HEARD FROM THE COUNTRY
1t had been charged bya few persons that he
had given aid and comfort to the democratic
party. What were the indications that he had
done so2 He held in his hand clippings from
newspapers throughout all America, and in all
that list there was not one single democratic
paper which had approved his speech. But
there were hundreds and hundreds of clip.
pings from republican papers, and with one or
two exceptions they approved his words. He
also held in his hand letters from every Sec
ton of the land, from Maine to California and
from the lakes to the gulf, indorsing the words.
letter and spirit Of his speech. He was
WILLING TO STAND BEFORE THE PEOPLE
Of the country and wait for their Endorsement
The party to which he belonged had pledged
in its, platform and during the campaign
to perform certain duties and fulfill Ger.
tain promises. One Of these pledges. lac
said-the first and greatest pledge
was that the republican party would put in
the statute books of the land law for the pro-
lection of every citizen. high or low, rich or
poor, white or black, so that he could go TO the
ballot box deposi. his vote and have ii counted.
IL was because his party had failed to do that
that he has stood upon thir floor and spoken
Of broken pledges and broken promises. This
House had performed its pledges. and as the
Speaker said in Maine the other day, it had re-
deemed every promise made to the people.
THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
The resolution expunging Kennedy's speech
from the permanent record was adopted-yeas
Isl, nays IS.