The state chronicle., 1892-12-15
Senate.

WASHINGTON, Dec 14,-The certificate
of Presidential electors for the state of
Florida was presented and placed on
file.
The Presidents veto of last session of
the bill to submit to the court of private
land claims the title of William McGar-
rahan to the rancho Panoche Grande in
California, was laid before the senate as
a special order and the vote was about
being taken on the question ''shall the
bill pass the objections of the Pres dent
of the United States to the contrary not
wi;hstanding ?" when Mr.. Sanders de
manded an explanation, on the part of
the friends of the bill, of the reasons
why it should pass. He went on to ex
plain his own understanding of the mat
ter-one Of his objections to the bill be-
ing that it rested on the imputation tina
the judicial and executive departme nts
of The government had been for many
years past guilty Of wrong doing in the
pre- tmises. He was unwilling, by any
vote of his, TO make So grave an irnputa
ton
Mr.. Teller, of Colorado, argued in
favor of the bill. The claim, he said,
had been before congress and the depart
ments for very many years and there was
no excuse for any man in public life not
understanding the question thoroughly.
The case, Mr. Teller said, had attracted
national attention. II had been q stand
ing scandal for twenty five years, and if
the bill now became law the people of
the United States would be satisfied
that Justice was done to one of them who
had been wronged through the official
agencies of the government. 1t would
rebound to the interests of the govern
ment every there, and strengthen the
peo Die in their attachment to the gov
ernment.
Mr.. Hunton, of Virginia, on rising tc
support the bill, made statement some
what personal to himself. For great
many years, he said, he had been q unse
for McGarrahan, but had never received
a dollar of compensation. The relations
of attorney and client had been entirel!
severed before the session be gan; and ht
had now no more interest In the claim
than any other senator. He had examined
the case time and again, and was NOR
familiar with it than perhaps any othe
senator. He was proceeding to give
|
morning hour expired, and the bill wen
over till tomorrow.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the anti option bill and Mr.. George
Of Mississippi, continued his speech (be
gun Yesterday in favor of it. he com
menced by saying that he saw IN one
the New York papers that the dealers
in futures in the city of New York ha
undertaken to punish the people OF tn
United States because the senate ha
| Yesterday, in performance of it's own COZ
stitutional duty, proceeded to conside
this important bill. Cotton had bee
made to fall or or points, the dea
in futures thereby undertake to fore
5 the senate to cease the performance OF i
8 constitutional duty. To show that ia
! in cotton was purely fictitious, purely
the spirit of bravado, he called attensio
8 to the fact that while cotton had gor
: down in New York, corn and provision
had gone up in Chicago. He took
that senators would treat such thre a
with that degree of contempt to whit
they were entitled. In the course OF n
= argument he said, in reference to Il
suggestion that the bill should 60 oV
till after the holidays, that postpon
ment of action was impossible witho
!. giving up the bill. There was, he sal
d blessing in disguise in the short crop
k cot oa with which Providence h
e afflicted the southern people. Th
a blessing was; that, while the gamble
y, and spectators might temporarily d
'e press the price, there was a dehcien
"a for consumption, and the consume
would be obliged to come forward a.
take cotton at proper prices. The prese
time was therefore the time when
fe bill could be passed with the best pr
poets of escapting the denunciation