Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-02-14

postponed until tomorrow, and the bill
was read by paragraphs for amend
ments.
Mr.. Hayes OF Iowa, offered an amend
ment providing session clerks for rep
resentatives with salary OF SO a day.
A point OF order was raised against 1t,
but it was overruled by the chair.
Mr.. Boutelle OF Maine, excited a
good deal of merriment in advocating
the amendment by declaring that never
before in the history Of the country had
ever assembled congress which would
need the services OF clerks as much as
would the members Of the Fifty-second
congress.
Mr.. Kelly of Kansas, offered an amend
ment to Mr.. Hayes amendment provld,
ing that the clerks should he appointed
under civil service rules. The reading
of the amendment chcited much laugh
ter, but it was de- 10 to 81.
Mr.. HAYES ;..>adment with an
amendment fixing the salaries OF the
clerks at 300 a month was agreed to
without division. The committee then
rose and the sundry civil bill was
passed.
On motion OF Mr.. Brewer of Michi-
gan, senate amendments to the fortifi-
cation appropriation bill was noncon-
Cured in and o conference was Or
dered. The house then adjourned.
Washington, February 10.-Mr.
Wickham of Ohio, asked unanimous
consent for the committee on coinage,
weights and measures TO sit during the
session of the house.
Mr.. Hopkins of Illinois, objected, but
subsequently withdrew his objection.
and the leave was granted.
The army and navy pension appro-
priation bills were sent to conference.
Mr.. Abbott of Texas. from the COM
mittee on public buildings and grounds,
reported back the bill providing for the
extension OF the public building Of Dali
las, Tex, at a cost OF 100000. This
bill passed congress last session, but
was vetoed by the president. The
recommendation OF the committee is
that the bill be passed over the veto.
The bill was passed-yeas al, nays go,
the necessary two-thirds voting in the
affirmative.
In the general debate the Barrundia
case was revived by Mr.. Dalsell of
Pennsylvania, who defended the action
of Commander Reiter. The public rep
rimand administered to Commander
Reiter by the secretary of the navy was,
he said, unwarranted and unjust. A
naval officer had been degraded by a
public reprimand without the interven-
ton OF court martial. To Commander
Refers demand for court martial
came the reply that the demand showed
ignorance of naval discipline. Could it
be that an honorable officer, who had
faithfully served his country for many
years was to be disgraced by the dictum
of an an official whose career began yes
terday and might, in the mutations of
politics, end tomorrow? If it could be
so it was high time that there should
be some legislation on this subject.
The secretary had exceeded his
power and done a wrong that
called for redress. for Commander
Reiter to have complied with the rule
laid down by the secretary of the navy
would have been to violate the general
practice among the Spanish American
states and the well recognized princi-
pies of international law. He (Mr. Dali
zell) affirmed that Guatemala had a
right to arrest Barrundia while on
board the Acapulco. Was there he
asked one law to be followed when we
faced the flag of little Guatemala and
another law to be followed when we
faced the lion of Great Britain, the
lilies OF France or the lordly ensign of
Germany? He said ',nay." and if gen.
tleman answered ives" he would still
insist that an officer of America who
recognized the authority of South
American law could be guilty of no
faultf in refusing to violate it unless he
had instructions OF superior authority |
to violate it, and Reiter had no such in
structions.