The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-24
, ROW OVER NICARAGUA.
,,oReAN AND VEST RESUME THEIR
sPAT IN THE SENATE.

a.a.ement in 3 Newspaper Adds a
,-aw Chapter to the Controversy
Tba civil Services Reform Commits
.,on Given Lively Shaking Up by
sa,stor Gorman-The Debate @ Long
ore.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Among the
.,+i.i,ns presented to the Senate to-day
20. one from fifty ministers of churches, in
and near Kansas City, Mo-, against the
o,aning of en- exposition, under the control
A. the government, on Sundays.
The proposition for printing 100. 900 copies
If the report of the agricultural depart>
Tns,t on diseases Of the horse, provoked a
disc,ssion. 1t was finally passed, after an
,u,e7dment reducing the number of copies
20 $1,000.
THE NICARAGUA CANAL
Mr.. Morgan made personal statement
IN connection with a Washington dispatch
10 thsSt Louis Republic, commencing Mr..
Vests speech in opposition to the Nicaragua
canal bill. and stating that it was difficult
20 see low any reasonably sane honest man
could support the measure. There was no
ohiection, Mr.. Morgan said, to certain crit
icism being made on private account; but
The nerson who made it had the privilege Of
the floor of the Senate through the indul-
gance of democratic senator. He visited
me cloak rooms, and had access TO the sena-
tors in such way as to give, perhaps,
neculiar degree of authenticity to his accu-
saton of dishonesty against the senators
who advocated tle Nicaragua canal bill
VEST ON EADs' sCAEME.
He Mr.. Morgan) had read on Saturday
tram raDOrf of Mr. Vast
In favor of the Eads Tehauntepec ship rail-
way bill. and he would now read some fur
Their extracts from it to show that the pend
ing bill was predicated on exactly the same
doctrines. and in regard to the same general
section Of the country as that bill was.
Having read extensively from the report,
Mr.. Morgan said that the committee on for
eign relations felt justified by that report in
bring forward its report on the Nicaragua
canal project.
MORGAN THREATENS ACTION.
Mr.. Morgan vent on to state that the
committee on foreign relations had not sup
posed that it was exposing itself TO the
criticism of the newspaper correspondents,
who, by the courtesy Of the senator's, had
access TO the floor. Pressure of that sort,
he said, might come from outside of the
Senate, if it would but, when it came from
persons enjoying the hospitality of the
Senate, it was something that he did not
feel disposed to put up with. He had now
called the attention of the senate to it, and
would take action later on unless the matter
was corrected.
MOORE WAS NOT VESTS SECRETARY.
Mr.. Vest, in order to correct possible
inference from Mr.. Morgan's statement,
said that Mr.. Moore, the correspondents of
the St. Louis Republic, was not a secretary
90 no aud ,,Aka hn nfy5Ia -
the floor through him.
Mr.. Morgan admitted that. and also dis
claimed any idea that MIR. Vest had in
spired word of the dispatch.
HAD NEVER TALKED WITH MOORE.
Mr.. Vest said that he had never conversed
with Mr.. Moore on the subject and had
never seen the statement until half an hour
ago. He thought that the senator from
Alabama was unduly sensitive about
that newspaper article. The head
ing of it calling the bill a proposed
steal" had been prepared in the office
of the Republic, and he was assured that
MIR. Moore never intended to charge any
senator with being actuated by corrupt or
improper motives. The only language of
the dispatch that could be complained of
was the statement that in view of his (Mr.
Vests exposition of the measure, it was
dlfncult to see how any reasonably sane or
reasonably honest man could support it.
NO IMPROPER MOTIVE CHARGED.
That was not a charge of improper
motive against tho committee on foreign
relations or any of its members. 1t was
an exaggerated statement of the cor
& respondent, either of the imperfections of
the measure itself. or of remarks which he
n Mr.. Vest had made He had not the
slightest difficulty in saying that he believed
that a dofok n %, :.
argument but that was simply question OF
opinion and Judgment. If the senator's were
10 notice such newspaper statements they
might as well dismiss all other business, He
was always satisfied if the correspondent
gave him credit for being reasonably hon
est. HIS would be as far as any senator from
being an accessory, either before or after
Tue TACT, to charge improper motives on the
part OF the senator from Alabama, or any
member Of the committee.
MORGAN STICKS TO HIS POINT,
MIR. Morgan said that he had called up
the subject, not because the correspondent
chose to criticize the motives of the senators
OUT he objected to any man having access
60 the floor who made it his business to libel
the senators by an assertion that they were
neither honest nor sane. That was get
ting little too closely home.
Alter remarks by Mr.. Reagan the sub
lect was permitted to lapse, aud the Senate
went into executive session. After the
doors were reopened the credentials of Mr.
Jones OF Arkansas, for his new senatorial
term, beginning March 4 next, were pre-
sented aud placed on file.
sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS,
The Senate then proceeded to the consid
e!a 1on OF the sundry civil appropriation
otl. long discussion arose over the pro-
VISION VISION for new postoffice building in
washington, the result of which is a re-
4 qnirement that the new building shall be
IRE proof and not less than seven
stories high. An amendment permitting
me Secretary of the Treasury to make
temporary appointments of architects,
.xIlea draughtsmen aud civil engineers il
.ae ONCE OF the supervising architect, wui
.ae text OF discussion on the subject Of
t.Vll service examinations. II came out il
.ne discussion TINT the purpose of tht
amendment was to get rid of the require
.nenC OF civil service examination for suct
employees.
G0RMAN