The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-27
SHE SANCES NEW YORK, WASHING
ON AND s. LOUIS FOR HE
WORLDS FAIR.
HOW THE LAST BALLOT STOOD.
Vote of the Texas Delegation-Mills Sticks
to st Louis and Charlie Stewart to
Washington.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-Mr. Chandler
iRep.) rising to question of personal priv
leges called attention to the fact that the
Senator from Florida (Mr. Cal) in debate
last Thursday had uttered words personally
offensive to him which he had not then
heard, and followed up that breach of order
by changing and adding to the official re-,
port of his remarks paragraph still more
offensive. He (Mr Chandler) deemed it
his duty before replying to the assault
made upon him to bring tie Senator's con-
duct before the Senate for such action as
might be deemed just and suitable
for such transgression: He there
luton stating that the Senator
from Florida had charged him in debate
with the personal responsibility of the out
raging of women and numbering of chill
dren and destruction of happiness of
households in the South by men who were
emissaries behind him. and that the Sena-
tor had in addition inserted the following
paragraph which he had not spoken:
The blood of Saunders Gf the evidence
nected with prosecutions in United States
Courts) will rest on his conscience. The
Shrieking ghosts of outraged and murdered
women and children, the victims of
the wild lust and passions of
a race who owe all they know of religion
and civilization to the Southern white peo-
pie and not to the Senator from New Hamp-
shire will disturb his sleeping and his wax
ing hours Like BanquU'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. MCCalD is Censured, and orders the
words so inserted and paragraphs so added
to he stricken from the report in the Con-
gressional Record.
Mr. Call defended his course in the mat
ter asserting that he had in debate ex-
pressed substantially the same idea as was
expressed in the additional paragraph. He
had simply changed the phraseolOgy as he
had right to do and therefore the state
ment made by the Senator from New IIamp-
shire was not true. 1t was the first time i'll
all his eleven years service in the Senate
that he had heard it claimed that 1t was NOT
admissible for a Senator to correct, to eX-
plain, to amp!ify language used by him so
as TO express more clearly the idea intended
TO be conveyed.
Senator Chandler repealed the in
timation that anything which he
had stated was not true. He de
sired to have the decision of the Sen
ate on the question he represented. He
asked no projection 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 was
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 pub
lished throughout the country as if they
had been actually spoken in the Senate
Chamber. He sent the original Of the OBJ
jectionable paragraph by page to Senator
Call and asked whether that was his writ
ing.
Mr.. Call said this was an extraordinary
performance on the part of the Senator
from New Hampshire and he repeated the
assertion he had in the debate clearly and
distinctly charged that Senator with the
responsibility for the death of Saunders
and for other niquities committed in the
South. The report when it came to him
was not he said full and accurate report
of his remarks, and he was authorized by
the Committee on Practice of the Senate to
correct ard to transpose and he had done
10 more than that. After debate on the
objection Mr.. Chandler's resolution went
O, er till tomorrow.
COlnnuhlC lCaIloh iloih 'hC Ih.CiiSy
General, with the report of Marshal Mizell,
as to the assassination of Saunders, United
States Deputy Marshal in Florida, was pre-
sented and referred to the Committee or
Privileges and Elections.
The Senate proceeded to business on the
calendar and passed bills authorizing the
construction of railroad and other bridg,s
over navigable waters as follows: Across
the Arkansas river, correcting Little Rock
and Argenta, Ark; between Pierre, Hughes
county, and Stanley county, South Dakota;
Deshea county. Ark.
At o'clock the Blair Educational bill
came up as unfinished business and Sena-
tor Faulkner addressed the Senate in OPP
position to it. Coming down to the practi
cal provisions of the bill Senator Faulkner
pointed out the inconsis1 ency of first dis
tributing the fund within Stats between