The critic., 1891-02-23
SENATE.

In the Senate to-day the credentials of
Mr.. Plat for the term beginning March
next were filed. A number of petitions
were presented and referred.
A discussion ensued on a proposition
for printing 100000 copies of the report of
the Agricultural Department on Diseases
of the Horse" in the course of which Mr.
German inveighed against extravaganza
in the way of public printing and pre-
dicted that in 1892 an increase of taxation
would be necessary to meet the expendi-
lures of the Government.
/. Mr.. German said that he was willing
that $4,000 copies should be printed and
distributed among the farmers (not
among racehorse mem.
Mr.. Power urged the printing of the
larger number, not for the benefit of
horse racers, but of horse raisers.
etMr. Paddock expressed the opinion that
the Committee on Printing, in reducing
the 100000 copies to 10000, had cut
too deeply, and that the desire for econ
omy would have been better shown in
striking out an appropriation of 100000
for the ornamental work Of the Geological
SURVEY.
Mr.. Hawley advocated the reduction.
The House resolution proposed to spend
500, 900 on the books at time when the
expenses of the Government Printing Of
flee had run up to s3,O0O,0O0 year.
Mr.. Cockrell, replying to remark OF
Mr.. Germans as to public documents be-
ing Oh sale at all the secondhand book
the case without the connivance of Sena-
tors and Representatives.
Mr.. Berry-Does the Senator intend to
state that any Senator ever disposes of
books issued to him for his constituents
to secondhand book stores?
Mr.. Cockrell-I am not making that
charge. But these books come from the
quotas of Senators and Representatives,
and they can't come from any other
Mr.. Berry---If the Senator knows of any
Senator or Representative who has done
such thing hope he will make it public.
Mr.. Cockrell-lf the Senator from Ar
kansas will inquire at the Senate docu-
ment room whether all the documents
allotted to Senators have been sent out by
them he will ascertain the facts.
What, for instance, does Representa-
tive from New York City care for his
agricultural reports? Probably he has q
clerk who tells him that he wants to dis
tribute them, and he tnrns them over
franked to this clerk. And so it is with
many other documents.
Senator or Representative who does this
ain investigation should be made and snch
Senator or Representative should be ex-
PEELED.
And any clerk who is guilty of such an
0ffense should be dismissed. The charge
is very serious one, and II the Senator
from Missouri knows any facts of the
kind the country ought to know them.
Mr.. Dolph agreed with Mr.. Berry and
would offer resolution of inquiry If lac
was sure that secondhand book dealers
were not of that privileged class that
would decline answering the questions OF
committee IAN allusion to the CORE
spondents who refused to say where they
got reports of doings in executive SESSION.
Finally an amendment offered by Mr.
Harris fixing the number Of copies al
10000 was agreed to.
The conference report on the bill pro
yiding for the allotment of lands in sew
crafty to Indians was agreed to.
Senator Morgan made personal state
ment in connection with a Washington
dispatch To the st. Louis Rephbtic, com
mending Mr.. Vests speech in opposition
Ia the Nicaragua Canal blu and stating
that IL was difficult TO see how any rea
sonably sane and reasonably honest mar
could support the measure. There wa
no objection, Mr.. Morgan said, to sucl
criticism being made on private account
Dut lut ptISOn WHO Nltit IL ilUu lllt PRIV
lege of the floor of the Senate through th'
indulgence of a Democratic Senator.
He visited the cloak rooms and had &c
cess to Senators in such way as TO give
perhaps, peculiar degree of authenticit,
to his accusation of dishonesty agains
Senators who. advocated the Nicaragu'
Canal bill.
Having read extensively from the re
port, Mr.. Morgan said that the Committe
an Forign Relations felt justified by tina
report in bringing forward its report OF
the Nicaragua Canal project.
Mr. Morgan went on to state that tn
Committee on Foreign Relations had no
supposed that II was exposing itself to tn
criticism of newspaper correspondent
who, by the courtesy of Senator'S, ha,
accepted the floor.
Pressure Of that sort, he said, Nigh
come from outside of the Senate, il
would; but, when IL came from person
enjoying the hospitality of the Senate !
was something that he did not feel dis
posed to put up with.
He had now called the attention of th
Senate TO it, and would take action late
on unless the matter was corrected.
Mr.. Vest, in order to correct q possibl
Inference from Mr.. Morgan's statement
said that Mr.. Moore, the correspondent o
the 81. Louis Republic, was not a secretar,