The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-12-15
FIFTYSECoND CONGRESS-.
ANTI.oPrIoN BILL CALLED UP BUT
WENT OVER A DAY.
Senator Vest POurs Hot Shot into the Cor.
rupt Federal Court at Fort Smith Con
gresham Cummings Reaches After
John Wanamaker's Scalp.
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WASHINGTON, DEC. IL. = When
Speaker Crisp entered the house at
noon today and assembled TO his chair,
there was spontaneous outburst OF
applause from all present on the floor
and from occupants of the gallery, a
tribute of sympathy with the speaker
in his unpleasant connection with the
Reform club dinner.
Mr.. Cultivate of Ohio, chairman
of the committee on military af-
fairs, reported the..army appropria-
ton bill and it was referred to the
committee of the whole.
Mr.. Davis of Kansas, from the COM
mittee on labor, reported a bill to pro-
hibit the employment of convict labor
on public works.
Mr.. Cummings of New York offered
for reference resolution reciting TAN
editorial in the New York Sun of the
30th ultimo, headed the Outrage by
the Post Office" This editorial
charges that the clerks in the depart
ment at Washington are in the habit
of excluding newspapers from the
privilege of being carried through the
mails as second class matter without
previous notice to publishers, and
that such action is intended, and fur.
ther, that it has "been discovered that
there are persons residing at the ma.
tional capitol who will attempt the
adjustment of the difficulties for d
money consideration, and seek en-
possessed with persons oc
cupying,. responsible positions,
and 1t is further stated
in said editorial article that the osten-
sible reason for interference with the
distribution of trade journals is a
desire to keep the mails from being
loaded down with advertising matter
for which people have not subscribed,
yet during the months that preceded
the election many millions of cam
paign documents were carried in the
mails at rates not allowed publications
issued for business purposes or in the
interest of such causes as temperance
or religion. 1t is again recitsd that
men holding important offices under
the administration have recei ed the
same privileges permitted the cam
paign committee, but pronounced
illegal when ordinary citizens would
seek for them. The postmaster gen.
eral and the superintendent of census
have each taken personal advantage
of an opportunity to use the mails in
a manner that the department pro-
nounces illegal for other citizens.
Resolved, that the committee on
postoffices and postroads be directed
to investigate the charges above sci
forth and to that end call before them
the postmaster general and demand
an explanation thereof.
Bills were passed to create an add.
tional land district in New Mexico
and to dispose of certain abandoned
mility reservations in Wyoming
Adjourned.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-Numeroui
petitions for and against the anti
option bill were presented, also petit
tions for Sunday closing of Worlds
Fair and for government control OF the
Nicaragua canal.
The bill to provide for the punish
ment of crimes on the high seas com
mitted by persons not seamen, was
passed.
The joint resolution introduced by
Senator Vest for the appointment OF 9
commission to treat with the five civ
ilized tribes of the Indian territory
with view of making agreements tC
nd mr. RI fa ont To n
severalty, was taken up and Senator
Vest made some corrections to the
statement then made by him as Il
court expenses in the territory, these
corrections showing large increase
on figures then given. The summary
for the United States court in Arkan
sas, Texas, Kansas and Indian Terri
tory (tOr business of the territory
showed the expenditure for the LAS
three years of ST. 1866 instead o
$817 900.
Senator Perry criticised Senator
Vests description of lAwlessness II
the Indian territory as overdrawn anc
exaggerated.
Senator PETER advocated the reso
luton, declaring the Indian Territory
refuge for thieves, burglars anC
murdereIs.
Senator West, replying to the re-
marks of Perry in defense of Judge
Parker of the Fort Smith court, mar
rated the case Of poor negro who
had been tried in that court, found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged fol
shooting one of party who broke
into his house at night, and who
turned out to be deputy marshal
the judge having charged tue jury
that defendant was presumed to have
knowledge of the official character
of the man who had been killed. The
case had been brought to his (Vest's)
attention, and he had taken the re-
cord OF the case to the department OF
juetice where the pardon clerk recon-.
mended pardon. He (Vest broug ht
the papers to President Cleveland,
who read them that same night and
committed the sentence to ten years
mprisonment. Judge Parker after
wards denounced that action ON the
part of Cleveland as an interfer-
ence judicial authority, and
has since then denounced Pres
ident Harrison for Interfering with
one of his sentences. That is the sort
of cou which is to give to the civil
lied Indians of this countr, an idea OF
our mode of administering justice.
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