Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-03-11
FROM THE CAPITOL.
MR.. CALLS INTERPRETATIONS.
The Subject Discussed in the Senate
Proposed Election of Senators by
the People.
PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS IN THE HOUSE
THE SENATE.

THE SENATE.
The attendance of Senators at the opening
prayer was SO small that a call of Senators was
ordered, and after quorum was thus obtained
the journal of yesterday was read and ap-
proved.
The credentials Of Mr.. Allison for his new
term, commencing March 4, 1891, were pre-
sented and ordered to be placed on file.
House bill for the appointment OF a surveyor
Of customs for Columbus, Ohio, at a salary of
81, 500 with the usual fees and commissions,
and to extend to that city the privileges of @
port OF delivery, was, on the motion of Mr..
Frye, taken up and passed
THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION OF IMMIGRATION.
The House amendments to the Senate con-
current resolution instrucsing the Senate and
House committees on immigration to investi-
gate the workings of the various laws on i'm
migration were taken up and read. They add
to the scope of the inquiry the subject of
the purchase Of American industries by for
elgn capital and the converting of Bedloe 3
Island, NY. into an immigrant depot.
Mr.. Chandler moved that the amendments
be concurred in.
MIR. Edmonds said he had no objection to the
first amendment. but he had doubts as to the
other. The result, he thought, would be a
temporary and perhaps indefinite stay on the
treasury department in carrying out the
change that had been agreed upon. He sug-
gested that the matter should go over for q
day until the views of the Treasury department
as to Bedloe's Island might be ascertained.
MIR. Chandler said he had no objection and
the resolution accordingly went over till to-
morrow
Among the petitions presented and referred
was one from Florida asking duty of 81 box
on foreign oranges.
The following bills for public buildings were
reported and placed on the calendar:
Newark, N. J. Traditional to the former ap-
preparation OF $3.50, ,0OO), $3OO,0O0; Houston,
Tex. (additionaD, $4,000.
FOR ELECTION OF SENATOR'S BY THE PEOPLE
Mr.. Mitchell introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the Constitution
providing for the election Of Senators by the
votes OF qualified electors in the states, and
said that he would. at an early day, address the
Senate on the subject.
PORTRAIT OF JOHN PAUL JONES.
Mr.. Voorhees, offered a resolution (Which was
referred to the committee on library in
structing that committee to inquire into the
propriety Of purchasing from George B. Mat
thews the portrait painting Of John Paul
Jones, now in the care of the Navy department.
LOTTERY IN INDIAN TERRITORY
Mr.. Morrill, offered a resolution (Which was
agreed to) directing the Secretary of the In
terror to report any information in possession
OF his department in relation to authorizing
any lottery company by the Indian territorial
government Of the Creek Nation.
THE sHERIDAN-cRooK CORRESPONDENTS.
Mr.. Dawes offered a resolution (Which was
agreed to) calling on the Secretary of War for
copies of correspondence between Lieut. Gen
Sheridan and Gen. Crook in regard to the
Apache Indians in 1885,
THE INTKRPoLATED SENTENCES IN MR.. CALLS s
SPEECH.
Mr.. Hoar called up the resolution reported
by him yesterday for the exclusion from the
Record OF the sentences interpolated by Mr..
Call in the report of his remarks in the discus
sion with Mr.. Chandler some weeks ago
Mr. George opposed the resolution as being.
so far as his experience in the Senate went,
without a precedent. While it did not ex-
pressly contain q censure it was certainly cana
BILE Of that Interpretation.
He had recently looked over the debate in
question and found 1t to have been character
lied by extreme acrimony and by bitter per-
sonal illusions, contained in more speeches than
one. For instance, he found that the Senator
from Connecticut NIr. Hawiey)-a very able
and discreet Senator-had characterized Mr..
Pasco's speech as
"A SORT OF PREMATURE APOLOGY FOR MURDER"
He had looked over the report of Mr. Calls re-
marks and found that what he did actually say
contained every allegation, distinctly and une-
quivocally. that was contained in the clause
which the committee recommended to have
e1punged from the Record. He read some
Of the extracts and asked Mr. Hoar why the
committee had not ordered them to be struck
out. they being just as Objectionable as in the
clause that had been interpolated.
Mr.. Hoar replied that the committee had felt
restricted to the sentences set forth in the reso
luton under which it acted.
MIR. George went on to compare the words
actually spoken with those inserted in the
Record, and argued that while there was a
verbal change there was no change of meaning.
The same idea. he said, was expressed in the
paragraph introduced de noyo as in the words
actually spoken. but without as much precision
and force. 1t was q mere rhetorical amplifca-
ton. As to the reference to
BANQUo's GHOST
Mr.. George admitted that in that alIusion
Mr.. Call had been guilty of breach of taste,
That ghost, he said, had been brought out for
duty for some three or four hundred years
1t had been brought out on former
occasions in the Senate. For mythical
being that had NO existence except in the dis
ordered imagination OF the people of the mid
die ages he had thought that that particular
ghost, that particular myth. had served
its full time and ought to have been
dismissed from further attendance on the Sem
ate-put on the retired list and Gas his friend
from Texas, Mr.. Reagan, might possibly sug-
gesD without a pension.
SAFE PLACE FOB PERSONALITIES
Mr.. George went on to speak of the time
when personalities in the Senate led to per-
sonal conflicts, but said that now there was
no safer place in Gods creation for
man who desired to insult another
with impunity than the American Senate.
Everybody knew that. And it was no evidence
OF spirit, no evidence Of courage, for a Senator
to get up and use insulting and abusive Lam
guage to another Senator.
Nor was it an evidence Of want of spirit or
OF want Of courage that the Senator about
whom such insulting and personal language
was used did not call the other Senator to
personal account. The duello was clearly out of
the question now. Personal conflict on the
street was equally out Of the question. How.
Hampshire been injured by the change Of
phrase? Was it because he ought to have
had the opportunity to answer back? Because
he had not the fsherwoman's opportunity to
blackguard back! That was all, and that
was the way the thing stood.
The adoption Of the resolution xould he