Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-30
SOME AFFAIRS OF STATE.
Excitement in the Ellis Island Investigation
-lrregularities in Connection With
Observation-Disclosures by the Senate

| ASinhu AuVSSCtBaGlOu ny tuc Jo"S oouoVo onsA
House Committees on Immigration to-day
was marked BY animation and tartness.
There was a spirited controversy between
| Assistant Secretary Nettleton, of the Treas.
| uty Department. and Chairmen Chandler
| and Stump, of the committees, particularly
| between the two first named. Chairman
Chandler, in questioning Mr.. Nettleton,
sought to place upon him the responsibility
for the policy under which the the depart
| ment used immigration head money for I'M
| provements at Ellis Island. Mr.. Nettleton
| resented this as an ATTEMPT tofix on him a
responsibility not properly attaching to
him and accusing the two Chairmen OF hos
tflity to him. Senator Chandler went so far as
| to charge Mr.. Nettleton with making q false
| statement and this charge the Assistant
Secretar = resented in language as severe as
| that used by the Senator subsequently Mr..
| Nettleton withdrew the accusations he had
made against the Chairman, and peace and
| harmony reigned. A still more sensa tfonal
| time afterward when Assistant Secretary
| Nettleton read letter calling the attention
| Of the Secretary of the Treasury and Of the
President to the management OF the ONCE OF
superin tendent of Immigration by W. D.
| Owen. In brief, the letter said that Mr..
Owen was incompetent, thoroughly untrust-
worthy, guilty of circulating malicious SLAM
the handling Of public moneys: There was
| also a specific allegation that Superintend-
ent Owen had attempted to secure improper
owen explained that there was an irregu-
| larity in connection with the voucher re-
| ferred to. but that he was not responsible for
| It. He denied having circulated any Sian
| dereus or untruthful reports about Mr.. Net
tleton
The bill creating Board of Regents of
Education for the Indian and Oklahoma
Territories recently introduced into the
Senate by Judge Perkins, of Kansas, was
drawn by Rev. DR.. Malcolm MacVicar, Sup
erintendent of Education Of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society. Thu bill has
received the highest Endorsement from the
Commissioner of Education, the Secretary
of the Board of Indian Commissioners and
the Secretary Of the Indian Rights Associa-
tion. as we'll as from sotne of the most prom
fnent religious and secular newspapers in
the country.
CONTRIBUTIONS by the Senate to-day
were as follows: John H. Baker, United
States District Judge for the District of In
diana. Daniel T.. Hindman, agent for the
Indians of the Sisseton Agency, S. D.
Mr.. HATCH, from the Committee on Ag-
riculture, to-day reported to the House q
bill designed to make oleomargarine manu-
factured in one State or Territory for ship
ment into another State or Territory SUBJ
ject to the laws and restrictions of the State
or Territory into which it is shipped. Mr..
Hatch also reported the Paddock pure food
bill.
AT the conclusion of q conference be
tween Speaker Crisp, Mr.. McMillin and
others, this afternoon, the opinion of Chair
man Springer as to the best course to pursue
on the tariff bills was again requested, and
Mr.. Bryan, Of Nebraska, was designated to
confer fully with him and report his views
to the Democratic majority of the Ways and
Means Committee At the conclusion of
this conference, Chairman Springer, whose
physician has all along protested against his
following letter to the acting Chairman of
the COMMITTEES:
WASHINGTON, D. c., March g, 1892
Hon. Benton McMillin. House of Representatives:
MY DEAR SIR am advised by my physician
making Of a speech in the House in the near
future would probably cause a relapse which might
debate on the bill ''To place wool on the free list
@ sent o the
senate at as early day as possible. I hope to be
move the passage oi the free Wool bill above mem
~ ' WILLIAM N. SPRINGER.
This letter will be spread before the Demo-
cratic members of the Ways and Means
Committee tomorrow by Mr.. McMillin, and
there ia no doubt the programme to-day sub
stantially agreed upon will be adopted-sub-
majority of the House. It is likely that
in view of Chairman Springer's condition,
Representative MoMfllin, who has had en-.
tire charge of the tariff bills in the House.
will make the closing speech in advocacy of
the bill.
The recent and now famous trip of
party of Congressman to the mountain town
of West Liberty. KY, for the purpose of
officially witnessing the burial of the late
Representative Kendall will cost the Gov
ernment 81, 1855 Sc. The bills as rendered to
the Committee on Accounts foot up that
sum. The items are as follows: Joseph
Steiner, professional nurse, three days, $50;
George M. Bond, for the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad, eighteen persons from WASH
inkton to Morehead, Ky, and return at $2S
each,$520 90: ticket for corpse. .$A 45: lunches,
50; meals on dining car, SIS: special train
car Austerlitz. sl35; commissary supplies
furnished by Pullman Company. sl7s 91; W.
N: Robinson, hotel at West Liberty, Ky, for
snd M losns AND AND
meals for William Phillips IS; E. G. East
man. for carria9es and hearse across coun-
$50: lining. extension nh Handles and silver en-
graved Clate, 800; copper metallic lining, $40:
hearse, 81: sundry other expenses Of under.
taker, $lSo; total, ~, lS6 o6.
DURING the recent proceedings of the
Senate in executive session, the question
came up whether the Senate has power to
expel one or more of its members for vfolat-
ing the rules and regulations governing
executive sessions. Senator Pugh, as men,
Der of the Judiciary Committee. took the
ground that the Senate has the power to pass
upon the qualifications of the members and
punish them for any violation of the rules.
The question was put to him whether the
Senate had the power to deprive State of
its full representation in that body, and the
answer was that the House and Senate have
the right to saw whether their members are
duly elected, and also whether they conform
to. the rules and regulations in accordance
with the oath they subscribe S.,fs to when they
siderable length in favor of the expulsion Of
anv Senator or employe who was convicted
of revealing the secrets of the executive
sessions. Several other Senators, whose
opinions were sought on this subject, agree
with Senator Pugh that there is an unwrit-
ten law to the effect that any Senator who
is found guilty of betraying the secrets Of
the executive session is subject to expul.
sion There is not q case on record where a
Senator was punished to this extent for an
offense of the kind mentioned, and there is
no immediate prospect OF setting prece-
dent in that direction. There are SO many
new Senators in the body that Senator Sher-
man and some of his followers thought the
fresh men ought to be taught a severe les
son with regard to executive sessions.
FROM NEW YORK TO FRISCO AfooE
A Scientific Scholar to Make . Long Trip
With Enclishmen.
NEW YORK, March 29-Dr. Emil Doom who