Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-07
SENATOR'S FEEL INJURED.
flIpPant Talk In a Newspaper-A Co
plant Against Newspapers.

plant Against Newspapers.
WASHINGTON CITY, March The senate
in secret session yesterday continued the
debate on the means of outgeneraling the
newspaper men in the matter of publishing
what the senate doesn't want to be made
public. The constitutional question was
fully discussed, nearly every member Civ
ing his views Edmunds made a suggestion
that did not seem to go down with the sem
ators, looking TO putting each senator under
oath as 10 whether he was the "leak" In
gals bad proposition that seemed equally
unpopular. II was to appoint committee
to confer with the press representatives and
try TO convince them that they were all
wrong If after that any correspondent
violated the rules, he should be expelled
from the press gallery. Nothing was de-
cided upon.
Contemptuous Paragraph.
Dolph showed some personal feeling In re-
gard to the following paragraph, printed in
Wednesdays Star: "Ths senate smelling
committee was not in session to-day. The
senate itself is supposed to be maturing a
plan to close the mouths of the journalistic
lions who are sndeavoring. with a good deal
Of success, to tear the entrails out OF secret
sessions. 1t is probable that the business,
or fun, or whatever else it is, may be taken
up tomorrow, but to-day nothing will be
done because senator Dolph who is chief Of
tho 'snellers,' Is giving a salmon lunch ia
the restaurant
This paragraph, Dolph said, was written
by a man who enjoyed the privileges Of the
press gallery he thought It Was an outrage
that a man who was granted special privi-
leges by the senate should be allowed to
abuse one OF its members in this way.
How the Senators Look at 1t.
Among senators generally there Is de-
cjded unanimity OF sentiment as 10 the
wrong which they believe is being done by
the press. They say that the treatment to
which they are being subjected is unfair and
lacks the elements OF decency. You occu-
pants OF the press gallery are our guests"
said.one and we have.never been anything
but liberal in our dealings with you We
have given you a private gallery, from
which every one except yourselves 10 ex-
cludsd by rigid rules You are furnished
with ali necessary accommodation and you
are not even called upon to pay your sta
tiouery bills We treat you with every re-
spect and have the kindliest feelings toward
you; yet because we will not give you our
proceedings while In executive. session you
abuse us and ridicule matters Of which you
cannot know much, or know even that .little
with any degree OF precision.
Not In Secret session for Fun.
"The popular idea OF the executive session
born OF the misstatements and alleged
humor Of the press-is that we are like chill
dren out on frollc and that we gossip as
old ladies do at tea fight. This is un Just,
untrue and ungsntlemanly. Did you ever
stop TO think that we are reforming a duty
similar TO that OF the cabineti Our func-
tions ara executive and we pass upon pre-
cisely the same matters have been consid-
cred by the president and his official family,
yet We never hear any popular clamor or
alleged demand for public sessions OF the
cabinet. We do not play in executive ses-
sion; we perform the duties which the con-
stitution demands of us Personally, give
you all the information which / can with
propriety make public, but because / regard
the rules OF the senate l am abused without
stint"
Believes In Radical Measures.
Another senator, who is very much inter-
ested in ths work of the Dolph committee
said that he was in favor of expelling from
the gallery any correspondent who insulted
the senate by the publication of what pur-
Ported 10 be a report OF secret session pro-
ceedings He would not advocate the exclu-
sion of newspaper, but he would insist on
the guilty writer's being put out and kept
out. 81 would treat him." said he, las
would man who would print converse
ton he might hear while guest at IN din
ner table
Ninety Per Cent. Wind, 10 Per Cent. Fact.
WASHINGTON CITY, March IF J. Lef-
ems of Chicago and H B. Scharmann, of
Brooklyn, president and vice present, re-
spectively, Of the Brewers Association of
the Unised States, appeared before the ways
and means committee yesterday and made
arguments against any increase in the pres
ant duty ON hops. Mr.. Lefens said that the
reports concerning the contemplated pur-
chases Of American breweries were usually
% per cent, wind and 10 per cent fact