The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-22
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.
A Big Fuss Kicked Up About Mills
Service on the Committee.


Motion-Senator Vest Likens Chan
dler to the Mosquito Sent to Make
Men Miserable - Senator Sherman
Comedies the Right of the Demo-
Gratis to Avail Themselves of the
Services of Senator Mills.
Washington, Feb, 21.-After the routine
morning business in the Senate, in which
the presentation of remonstrances against
the Wilson tariff bill was the only thing
noticeable, Mr.. Allen, pop, of Nebraska,
offered resolution calling on the Attor-
ney General for statement as to whether
he had recently given to the Secretary of
the Treasury an Official opinion that sill
yer certificates were not lawful money,
and for copy of such opinion and all COR
respondence on the subject. With a
slight verbal modification the resolution
was agreed to.
Mr. Voorhees,, chairman of the finance
committee, rose TO question ofpersonal
privilege, and sent to the clerks desk and
had read Washington dispatch to the
Philadelphia Press containing a state
ment as to the democratic members of
the committee waiting on President
Cleveland at the white house and receiv-
ing instructions as to his desires on the
subject of certain provisions of the tariff
bill.
THE DISPATCH ABSOLUTELY FALSE.
After the dispatch was read Mr.. Voor-
hees said: 1.-THE value of that dispatch
from here to one of the leading newspa-
pers of the United States consists in the
fact that there Is not the slightest, faint
est, trace of truth In single word or syl
able in it. Nothing Of the kind took
place, and nothing out Of which it could
be manufactured. Not a thread exists
out of which this fabric of falsehood
could have been woven. But. so we go.
And how are we to help it2
l rise this morning to the hope
less task of stemming a current of
misIatement, knowing, however, that it
will go on just the same. But the circum-
stantialty of this statement, involving
the President of the United States, is such,
and the circulation that IL will receive is
so extensive, that thought 1t my duty to
lay it before the public and to start the
truth in its tardy race. Things of this
kind lead me to reflect how much of false
hood we believe in history. / doubt il
seven-tenths of human history is not un-
true as written. The correspondent of this
paper says that he asked me a question
and that made an evasive answer, but
that he was in a position TO state the
facts, and then he makes a statement
which has no foundationat all l can
say Emancipation Of some question being
asked me that we are doing our work
pretty rapidly and pretty well. A good
deal of hard work has been done on the
Wilson bill, and there will not be much
delay. The bill will be reached here at
the earliest moment possible, and that
moment is not very far of"
MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Chandler asked Mr.. Voorhees, TO in
form him and the Senate if the senator
from Texas, Mr.. Mills, or the senator
from New Jersey, Mr.. Mcpherson, was
member of the finance committee.
Mr.. Voorhees, informed him that the
record would show who constituted the
committee, and that the senator should
look at the record, rather than to 20
"spearing" with a question as to who
were at work and who were not at work
They we're pretty much all at work. The
senator from Texas had done a magnih-
cent work, and was one of the mainstays
of the committee. He [Voorhees did not
know what the senator from New Hamp-
shire was after, or what he was after half
the time,
Mr.. Chandler said that he though t
that his inquiry was perfectly proper
one.
NONE OF HIS BUSINESS.
Mr.. Voorhees, have no disposition to
give a curt answer to the senator from
New Hampshire, but I Will say to him
that we are doing our business in our own
way, and that it Is none of his business
laughter). He is not a member of the
committee and has no duties connected
with IL We are hart n vvnrr ana dOinv
the best we can.
Mr.. Chandler-I beg to say that it is
my business to know what the finance
committee is doing. 1t has bill before
it which Is utterly destructive of the in
dustries of New Hampshire.
Mr.. Voorhees, said that he was not TO
be betrayed into any loss OF temper by
anything which the senator from New
Hampshire might say
Mr. Mandersou, rep, of Nebraska
called attention TO the newspaper state
ment that Mr.. Mcpherson had been some
what disgruntled by the fact that he had
been left off the subcommittee in charge
of the bill and had absen ted him self from
the Senate chamber and from the com
mittee room, leaving the senator from
Texas to act in his place.
SHERMAN MAKES A STATEMENT.
Mr. Sherman, rep, OF Ohio, one of the
republican members OF the fnance com
mittee, declared that the tarih bill had
not been considered at all before the com
mittee proper. He had been informed
that it was the custom TO refer such
bills, in the first place, TO a sub-commIt-
tee of those in favor Of them, and he had
no fault TO find with the finance commit
tee for doing so in this instance
Certain it is" Mr. Sherman continued,
that no member OF the finance commit
tee who is classed as republican has
been called into consultation in reference
TO action on the bill. / do not know but
what, on the whole that may be the bot
ter way 10 present the question / I'M
derstand that a subcommittee Of three
senators is considering the bill, and that
IL is 10 be reported, in due time. 10 the
majority OF the committee. composed Of
democrats, and eventually, / suppose, TO
the whole committee, when the republi-
cans will have some words 10 say. AS TO
the point whether the senator from
Texas or the senator from New Jersey Is
acting on the subcommittee Is q question
that / do not think we are bound 70 look at.
II is a matter Of family arrangcmcnt.
II the other side desired 10 secure the
services OF the senator from Texas, who
is familiar with che tariff question, we
have no right 10 RrOwl or object u Is
sufficient Tor me 10 say now that the tariff
bill hns never yet been considered by tho
finance committee; but II, no doubt viii
be In due time"
MEMBERSHIP on TIE COMMITTEE.
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