Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1890-09-16
THE HOUSES NEGATIVE.
Senate Tariff Bill Amendments
Non-Concurred In.
THE KENNEDY SPEECH DISCUSSED.


ative's Philippe Excluded from The
Congressional Record. aud Its Author
Censured by the House.
WASHINGTON, Sept 16-The house re
ceiyed the tariff bill with senate amend
ments from the ways and means commit
tee, and after two hours discussion voted
to non-eoncur in the senate amendments
and send the bill to conference. MIR. Enloe
offered q resolution reprobating and con-
demning Mr. Kennedy's speech on the Sd
Of September so far as 1t reflected on the
senate as a body. This was discussed for
some time, but pending action on the re-
solution the house adjourned
Mr. McKlnley's Resolution.
Mr.. Mckinley offered the following reso-
luton, which was adopted-yeas, l14;
nays, ~
Resolved, That after two hours general debate
i shah be in order TO move 10 non.concur in the
senate amendments in gross, and agree to the
committee Of conference asked for by the senate
and the house shall without further delay or other
motion proceed 10 vote on said motion
Democratic Protests.
The resolution was bitterly opposed by
Messrs Mcmillan (Tenn) and Blount tGa.)
Mr.. Blount said the resolution stripped the
rules of the last piece of conservatism
which they contained. Under the pretense
OF doing business the majority had broken
down the rules. II had abrogated the power
ok the house to consider the subject of tax
alton and had relegated that subject to a
small number of conferrees. Mr. MeAillan
said the majority in caucus had determined
that both the minority and the plumed
knight should be throttled.
Mr.. Yaux's Attack.
Mr. Vaux pa said that the country was
looking to the house for an intelligent dis
cussion OF the tariff question. But he rose
not to say one word on this subject, but for
the single purpose OF trying to inform the
people that the Republican party forbade
the right of representation ia the house of
representatives in the american congress.
He wanted the people 10 understand that
free speech was gone in the house Of repre-
sentatives. Talk about a bill for free
ballot and fair count
The majority had better pass a bill Civ
ing free speech to the peoples representa-
tives which had been taken away by the
misrule under which the house was gov.
erned. He wanted the people to under
stand that the inherent rights of a repre-
sentative to speak for his constituents had
been taken away from him. That right
never could be taken from him unless
force was used to compel him to take his
seat. The tariff bill was a matter OF gen
eral interest. Two hours were given to
discussion Of 400 senate amendments
This was done because the majority wanted
to veil itself behind a secret confab. He
wished TO say to the farmer and to the
laborer that this tariff bill was a cJeat.
Two thousand people were enriched by the
tariff bill and 90, ,OO0, 600 were impoverished.
The majority believed in every trust save
one-the trust in a righteous and just God.
Cummings an Unwilling Passenger.
Mr.. Cummings On. y } said that he was
an unwilling passenger in the Mckinley
tariff congressional limited express train.
The down east engineer and the Buckeye
conductor were running the train on their
own hook and in defiance of the will Of
the people. lie uttered his protest against
it. That was all he was allowed to do.
Maj. McIkinley's Retort.
Mr.. Mckinley said that if the committee
on rules had erred in reporting the resolu-
ton it had erred in giving too much time
for debate. He invited the attention of
the house to the fact chat not fifteen min
utes Of the two hours had been devoted to
the discussion Of the senate amendments
OF the tariff question at all. The methods
Of the majority were known to the coun-
try. The trouble with members on the
other side was that they did not discuss
measures, but called names, and while
they were calling names the majority had
gone On and done more public business
than bad been done by any house OF repre-
faff ffxsnr pfaa . ~ .. -
ernment. The senate amendments were
then non-eoncurred in-yeas, 40; nays, 81.
The Kennedy Speech Debated.
When Mr.. Enloe called up his resolution
In regard to Mr. kennedy's speech, Mr..
Grosyenor (O.) raised the point OF order
that the resolution was not in order The
time TO have called 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
well taken. Mr.. Kennedy had no more
right TO make a personal attack upon a
member Of the senate than he lMr. Enloe)
had to state that the speaker was corrupt
or that the president was criminal. He
then sent to the clerks desk and had read
extracts from Kennedy's speech as it ap-
pears in The Record. He argued that it was
due to the house that no utterance reflect
ing upon the senate should be admitted
into The Record.
Mr. Bayne (Pa.) said that he concurred
in the remarks of hr. Enloe. It occurred,
perhaps, for the first time that two sena-
tors Of the United States had been at
tackled by name in the house Of represent
atives, and the senate had been attacked
as a body, and that epithets had been
applied to those senators which would dis
honor and disgrace any man. Mr. Kenne-
dy's utterances had been withheld for re-
vision, and had not appeared in The
Record until today, so that notice could
not be taken by members.
Today those remarks appeared, shorn
perhaps Of some of their animosities and
Misrepresentation, but still containing
such palpabe charge of corruption upon
the senate that the house could not refrain
from putting the seal Of its condemnation
upon them. He trusted, in the interest of
truth and justice, of what was due to the
house. in honor to itself, that no techni-
cality should be allowed TO come j. the
way of condemning the utterancessnade
by Mr.. Kennedy. Mr.. Bayne offered an
amendment to Mr.. Enloe's resolution di-
recting the public printer to exclude from
The Record Mr.. Kennedy's speech.
In Liou's Grip.
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