Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-24
TAKING THE BALLOTS
Chicago Leads OFF Well.
NEW YORK GAINING VOTES.
WASHINGTON LOSES AT FIRST.
LIVELY SCENES IN THE HOUSE
A SENSATION IN THE SENATE.
VIEW YORK GAINING VOTES.
LOSES AT FIRST.
LIVELY SCENES IN THE HOUSE
A SENSATION IN THE SENATE.
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
Mr.. Chandler, rising to a question Of per-
sonal privilege, called attention to the fact that
the Senator from Florida (Mr CalD in the
debate last Thursday had uttered words
personally offensive to him (Which he had
not then heard) and had followed up that
breach Of order by changing and adding to the
official report of his remarks a paragraph still
more Offensive. He (Mr. Chandler) deemed it
his tyvbefore replying to the assault made
upon him) to bring the Senator's conduct be-
fore the Senate for such action as might be
deemed just and suitable for such transgres-
sion.
RESOLUTION OF cENsURE.
He, therefore, offered a preamble and reso-
luton stating that the Senator from Florida
had charged him in debate with personal re-
sponsibility for the outraging of women and
the numbering OF children and the destruction
of the happiness of households in the
south by men who were the emissaries
behind him, and that the Senator had in addl-
ton inserted the following paragraph, which
he had not spoken: THE blood of Saunders,
if the evidence shall show his death was in any
way connected with the prosecutions in United
States courts. will rest Oh his conscience. The
shriekinS ghosts of outraged and murdered
women and children, the victims of the wild
lusts and passions of a race who owe all that
they know of religion and civilization to the
southern white people and not to the
Senator from New Hampshire, will disturb his
sleeping aud his waking hours. Like
Banquo's ghost. it will not down; and the
ocean will not wash his blood-stained hands
from the guilt Of the rape and murder of these
tender white women and children" The
resolution condemns such action as a
breach OF privilege, for which the
Senator Mr. Call) is censured, and orders the
words SO inserted and the paragraph added
to be stricken from the report in the Con-
gressional Record.
SENATOR CALL REPLIES.
Mr.. Call defended his course in the matter,
asserting that he had in debate expressed sub
stantially the same idea was expressed in the
additional paragraph. He had simply changed
the phraseology. as he had a right to do; there
fore the statement made by the Senator
from New Hampshire was not true. 1t was the
first time in his eleven years service in the
Senate that he heard it claimed that 1t was not
admissible for Senator to correct, to explain,
to amplify the language used by him, SO as to
express more clearly the idea intended to be
conveyed.
MR.. CHANDLER AGAIN.
Mr.. Chandler repealed the intimation that
anything which he had stated was not true.
He desired to have the decision of the Senate
on the question presented. He asked no pro-
lection for himself. He only asked that the
Senate should decide whether such language
might be used by one Senator in relation
to another Senator, and whether the Senator
from Florida to be permitted with his
pen, alone i'll his room, to write out additional
charges and send them to the public printer
to be published throughout the country
as il they had been actually spoken
In the Senate chamber. He sent the original
OF the objectional paragraph by page to Mr..
Call and asked whether that was in his hand
writing.
MR.. CALL REITERATEs.
MIR. Call said that this was an extraordinary
performance on the part of the Senator from
New Hampshire, and he repeated his assertion
that he had in debate clearly and distinctly
charged that Senator with respOn-
sibility for the death of Saunders
and for the other iniquites committed in the
south. The report when 1t came to him was
not, he saidA tull and accurate report Of his
remarks, and he was authorized by the COM
mon practice OF the Senate to correct and to
transpose, and he had done no more than that
TAMPERINa WITH THE RECORD.
Mr.. Teller expressed the opinion that there
should be no tampering with the Record ex-
cept to correct grammatical mistakes Ger
tainly nothing of a denunciatory character
ought to be added to the report.
Mr.. Harris suggested that the resolution
should be printed and go over till tomorrow
and the Senate could determine the proper dis
position OF II. His own idea was that it should
be referred to the committee on rules.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCURACY.
Mr.. Hoar spoke of the necessity that the
Record should be one of Photographic correct
ness as therein lay the sole safety of every
Senator's reputation for his action in the
Senate.
Mr. Vest ridiculed the idea of the photo
graphic correctness of the Record and alluded
to the fact that few years ago the same speech
was published having been made by two
different representatives and had been pre-
pared by neither.
Mr. Sherman thought that the proper dispo-
sition of the resolution would be its reference
to the committee on privileges and elections,
and said that the established custom of the
Senate had been that nothing Of personal
character which was not uttered should DO
injected into the report.
THE RESOLUTION GOES OVER
Finally, on objection of Mr.. Harris, the reso-
luton went over until tomorrow.
Nominations Today.
The President today sent to the Senate the
following nominations:
Jos. A. Wingfeld, supervisor Of census, third
district of Virginia.
Albert F. Price, United States marshal, dis
trict North Dakota
Withdrawn-Frank W. Winston, supervisor
Of census third Virginia district.
THE HOUSE.
In spite of a bad day, with rain falling and
the skies so dark that full head of gas blazed
above the glass panels of the ceiling of the hall
of the House at high noon, when the Speakers
gavel fell, the galleries were packed with
spectators and crowds INSTRUCTED the corridors.
All of these people had gathered to witness the
deciding struggle between the adherents of the
cities of New York, Chicago, st. Louis and
Washington. upon the result of which depended
the location Of the worlds fair OF 1892
THE GAIIRRIEs