Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-01-29
A Motion 10 Increase the Members OF
the House Foreign Affairs
Committee
TO sEvLNry.rIvE INSTEAD OF
THIRTEEN.
Representative Aliens Humorous Re-
marks on the Question:
The senate.
Aliens Humorous speech on the
rrestdcut's Message.

I eu, uut was broken into by tue prehen.
tation OF the PrcSldenps message and
tho Chilean correspondence. After
being read they were referred 10 the
committee on foreign afIaln.
The discussion Of the rules was then
resumed.
Mr.. Reed spoke In opposition 10 the
committees report. He favored the
rules u the Flfty.nrst Congress aud
proclaimed biz adherence TO the MAJOR
ity rule. He criticised the Holman
amendment, concluding that this body
ought to be ~ free ~ II could for the
| purpOse OF legislation. He said that
the majority would bo responsible not
only for what happened, but for what
did not happen. Applause on the
| Republican side.l
Allen drew the attention Of the
/ House TO the Chilean controversy
again by moving 20 amend the rules
by increasing the membership Of tho
committee on foreign affairs from
thirteen TO seventy-hve, aud delivered
humorous speech In support thereof.
The great struggle To which
members Of the committee had
been subjected the last few days
he said, prompted him to offer this
amendment. The House has no right
/
| thirteen mon. Furthermore that was
an unlucky number, and he did not
want any unlucky happenings In
foreign aiihir. He did not blame the
foreign affairs committee with any
haste, but you know how easily thir.
teen men might DO taken unawnres
and rushed Into war with some sort Of
| precipitation.
| Allen went ON 10 say that he was not
familiar with diplomatic Correspondence
between nations, but he did know the
code Of honor that governs gentlemen.
In Mississippi, when one gentleman
Institutes n correspondence with an
other and brings him down to the point
" difference, aud finally sends him an
ultlmatum, u that man, after sending
That ultimatum, were 10 rush into
| print and publish that correspondence
before he had time TO hear from the
uitimatum, he would be persona noa
grdtd In that State. IL IL not tho
proper thing, when you have sent an
ultimatum, to rush into print and give
| your side OF the case 10 the country be.
fore you have the reply. Allen then
read from newspaper interview y
remark by ex.Speaker Kelfer TO the
effect that tue sentiment In the
Republican party is drifting toward
Harrison. His message ON the Chilean
emhruglio was issued just In timo.
"NOw," said Mr.. Allen, "this drifting
Of sentiment toward the President
might have stopped, II he hadn't got
in here with that Chilean message
Just In time.' remember that, not
u great while ago, when the President
was TO 60 to New York, the train which
was to leave at 1850, was detained I'M
III ten minutes after II, lest the Presi-
dent should travel on sunday, and yet
| am Informed that the President had
n number OF printers working all day
Sunday to get his message Just In
time.'" General laughter ana Demo-
cratic applause.)
Allen continued Mt some length to
make raps at the Pan-Americsn Con-
grefs and reciprocity schemes, much
to the delight OF hiB Democratic breth-
reu. He wanted to know why we
should proceed with such haste to
bring the government OF Chile, an
other republic, our sister republic, "a
| part OF the great "Pan-A merican Com
gr,ss," into state OF humiliation. OF
course Aliens motion was defeated,
but II bad served Its purposo In giving
him chance to deliver his speech on
the subject.
Messis. Mcmillan (Tenn.) and
Catchings Miss defended tho pro-
posed tules and animadverted on the
code adopted by tho Fifty-Hrst Con.
gress and Speaker Reeds ruling.
The rules wero then read by para
graphs for amendment. The member
ship OF tho committee on interstate
and foreign commerce was increased
from sixteen 10 seventeen.
| IL
mont giving the committo on District
OF Columbia Jurisdiction over appro.
| priatiOns for the support OF the district,
| Pending action, Mr.. Cochran IN. w
announced the death of Representa-,
tive Spinola, ana the House, az mark
Of respect, adjourned.
THE SENATE.
The Presidents message, trans.
hitting the additional correspondence
In the Chilean matter, was presented
and read. They referred It to the COM
mittee on resolutions.
The resolution offered, directing tho
secretary Of State TO furnish 10 the
Senate copies Of all agreements made
with other countries, relating TO the
interchange Of trade and commerce,
with all tho information received rs TO
the practical effect OF such agreements,
was then taken up ani Hale addressed
the Senate on the subject.
Senator Hale spoke at great length
upon the benefits OF reciprocity, which,
be said, was annexed TO protection ami
brosdoned the field OF the American
labortr by opening
NEW MARKETS. FOR THE PRODUCTS
to be- paid for in articles which could
never be competed with In his labor.
He did not hesitate in stating, ns the
result OF his observation, that the reel
proclty clause OF the Mckinley act was
the part Of the measure which fiOatsd
the whole act and kept IL from being
swamped by the storm. This reciprocal
plan was born VI distinguished Rspub-
lean paIenthge and adopted by that
party. Tho Democratic newspapers
denounced 1t NJ All impracticables sham.
The senator from New York, who had
lately entered the chamber AZ mem.
Der OF this body, and who brDught M n