The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-29
CONGRESSIONAL.
Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.

Yesterdays Proceedings in the Senate
and House.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-In the Senate
to-day, the Presidents message, trans
uniting additional correspondence in the
Chilean matter, was presented and read.
1t was referred, with the correspondence,
to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
A resolution offered directing the Sec
rotary of State to furnish the Senate copies
OF ali agreements made with other coun-
tries relating to the interchange of trade
and commerce, with all information re-
| ceived as to the practical effect of such
agreements, was then taken up and Hale
addressed the Senate on the subject.
Argument was then continued on the
La A bra claim, and afterward brief ex-
ecutive session was held.
The Senate then adjourned till Monday.
IN THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-The debate on
the rules was resumed this morning. but
was broken into by the presentation of
the Presidents message and the Chilean
correspondence. After being read they
were referred to the Committee on For
eign Affairs.
The discussion on the rules was then
resumed.
Reed spoke in opposition to the COM
mittee's report. He favored the rules of
the Fifty first Congress, and proclaimed
ms adherence to the majority rule. He
criticised the Holman amendment. con-
tending that this body ought to be as free
as 1t could for the purpose of legislation.
tie said the majority was responsible not
only for what happened, but what did not
happen. Applause on the Republican
side.
Allen of Mississippi drew the attention
of the House to the Chilean controversy
again by moving to amend the rules by
increasing the membership of the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations from thirteen
to seventy-hve, and delivered a humor-
Gus speech in support thereof. The great
struggle to which the members of the
committee had been subjected the last
two days, he said, prompted him to offer
this amendment. The House had no
right to impose so much responsibility on
thirteen men. Furthermore, that was an
unlucky number, and he didn't want
any unlucky happenings in foreign af-
| fairs.
| Allen went on to say that he was not ia
miliar with the diplomatic correspond
| ence between nations, but he did know
| the code of honor which governs gentle
men in Mississippi. "If, when one gen.
tlemen institutes correspondence with
| another and brings him down to the
| point of difference, and finally sends him
an ultimatum-if that man, after sending
| that ultlmatum, were to rush into print
and publish the correspondence before he
had time to hear from the ultimatum
| he would be persona non Qrato in that
State. 1t is not the proper thing, when
you have sent an ultimatum, to rush into
print and give your side of the case to the
| country before you have q replyv
Allen then read from newspaper in
terview remark by ex-Speaker Keller
to the effect that the sentiment in the
Republican party is drifting rapidly to-
ward Harrison. His message on the
Chilean embroglio was issued just in
time. Now says Allen, this drifting
of sentiment toward the President might
have stopped if he hadn't got in here with
that Chilean message Just in time.' l
remember that not great while ago.
when the President was to 90 to New
| York, the train that was to leave at 1l:4O
was detained until 1910, lest the Presi-
dent should travel on Sunday, and yet
Pm informed that the President had
number OF printers working all day last
Sunday to get that message of his in Just
in time.P' lGreat laughter and Demo
cratic applause.
Aliens motion was defeated.
The rules were then read by paragraphs
for amendment.
The membership of the Committee on
Interstate and Foreign Commerce was
increased from Is to H.
Hemphin offered an amendment Civ
ing the Committee on the District of
Columbia jurisdiction over the appro-
priations for the support of the district.
Pending action, Cochran of New York
announced the death of Representative
Spinolo, and the House, as a mark of
respect, adjourned.
Death of California Pioneer.
SPRINGFIELD Ill.), Jan. 2s.-Captain
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