The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-30
ABLOODY SHIRT DEBATE.
THE KILLING OF A POSTMASTER
AGAIN DRAGGED FORTH.

Kelley Of Kansas Brings the Matter
Up-spinola Raises a Laugh by Call
ing for the Police-The Chair Tries to
End the Discussion on the Ground
of Waste of Time.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-In the House
this morning the journal was approved
without objection.
| On motion of Mr.. Sherman Of New York,
bill was passed providing for the issuing
of the commission Of P. c. johnson as rear
| admiral
The House then went into committee
Of the whole, with Mr.. Payson in the chair,
oa the military academy appropriation
bill.
THE SILVER POOL COMMITTEE.
The committee having arisen informally,
Mr.. Dingley Of Maine, chairman of the
committee investigating the alleged 'silver
pool" presented a special report OF that
committee The report states that in the
usual form a subpoena to appear before the
committee was served upon J. A. Owenby,
| and that the said Owenby has
refused or neglected to obey the
subpoena. The report is accompanied by a
form of an order for adoption by the House
for the arrest of Owenby for contempt
After a brief legal discussion as 70 the
power Of the House to compel the attend
as preamble to the order, and the order
was made.
THE MURDER OF MATTHEWS.
The committee Of the whole then resumed
its session. Matters ran very smoothly for
awhile, until the murder of Mr.. Matthews,
postmaster of Carrollton, Miss, was
brought up by Mr.. Kelley Of Kansas in a
speech, in which he criticised some former
remarks made by Mr.. Lewis of Mississippi.
He denied, as stated by Mr.. Lewis, that the
murder of Postmaster Matthews was
attributable to other than political
causes. He had authority to say that Post
master Matthews had been killed because
he was a republican. The gentleman from
Mississippi, promising his remarks with
| quotation to the effect that nothing but good
should be said of the dead, had heaped
ISLANDERS upon the dead man, which he
would not have heaped upon him if the
man had been living. He (Mr Kelley
denied the statements made by the gen tie
man in regard to the character OF Post
master Matthews.
KELLEY TAINTED.
Mr.. Flower said that he had heard the
| gentleman from Kansas make speech
pitching into the distinguished gentleman
| from Arkansas (Mr. Breckinridge). That
| gentleman had been returned to congress,
while the constituents of the gentleman
from Kansas had turned hun down. The
more of such speeches the gentleman from
Kansas made the better 1t would be for the
| Democratic party.
Mr.. Lewis, in reply, said that while the
people Of the whole country were enjoying
the privileges of constitutional liberty, the
stentorian and strident voice of the gem
tlennan from Kansas was heard crying:
Murder murder murderp
sPINoLA RAISES A LAUGH.
"Call the policen-ejaculated Mr., Spi-
| nola, in a tone Of mock terror; and the con,
trast between the earnest voice of Mr..
| Lewis and the timorous voice Of Mr.. Spi-
| nolR was so apparent that for some mo-
ments Mr.. Lewis was unable to proceed
on account of the laughter.
MIR. Lewis, continuing, said that the self
accredited and swift witness IN every killing
| that had occurred in Mississippi and
Arkansas-the gentleman from Kansas
had sought to create the impression that the
people of those states were in rebellion
against the constitution and laws of the
United States.
Mr.. Kelley-He has proved it.
Mr.. Lewis-I want to say that he is in
revolution against the mandate of the peo-
pie as pronounced at the last November
election. | want to say that he is in rebel
| lion against his own constituents, who have
| relegated him to the shades of private life.
want to say that he is in rebellion against
the people of Kansas, who have just spoken
and whose voice has filed the cathedral of
this hemisphere, but which has fallen I'M
needed on his deaf ear.
KELLEY INSUPPRESsIBLE.
Mr.. Kelley said that he was not here to
traduce the character of any man. He was
defending the character of the republicans
of the south who had been killed because
they were republicans. He was sorry that
Mississippi could not furnish man on this
floor with enough of justice in him to save
him (Mr. Kelley the trouble of doing so.
Mr.. Hooker of Mississippi said that he
was getting a little tired of the broadcast
accusations made against the people of Mis-
sissippi before tribunal which had not the
power TO try them. He protested against
the raising Of sectional animosity.
The chairman attempted to put an end to
the political discussion by calling attention
the absolute necessity of the speedy pas
sage of the appropriation bills, but his
remarks had little effect, the controversy
being transferred from Mississippi to Ten
nessee, Mr.. Williams of Ohio critlcising
and Mr.. Richardson defending the
conduct Of Senator Harris when
governor of that state After a
stormy scene between the chairman mr.
McComas) and Mr.. Breckenridge of Arkan-
sas, pertaining to question Of recognition,
the committee rose and reported the bill to
the House. No quorum appearing, the
House, without disposing of the bill, ad-
journed