The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-26
FIFTY.THIRD CONGRESS.
PETERS COMMONWEAL RECEP-
TON RESOLUTION REJECTED.
The Anarchist Speech of Senator Allen
of Nebraska Severely Criticized-The
House Devoted the Day to Bust
ness on the Private Calendar.
+ SENATE.


senate was called TO order today Sen
ator Sherman, from the committee Oh
foreign relations, reported a bill for The
cor ection of an error in the Behrinl
sea bill recently passed, by the substi,
tuition Of the words exclusive" fol
"iucllsive. The int 4tlon of the
act, he said, had been entirely
changed. The bill was passed.
The resolution introduced recently
by Senator Allen calling on the secre-
tary OF the treasury for the amount oil
APPROXIMATION made and expended for
| the improvements of rivers ant har-
bors from March, 1887, to date was
| passed
The PETER resolution for the APP
pointmeut of reception committee
| tor Coxey's army of the Commonweal,
! known in senate paTlance as 1.-THE com
mittee on communications" came up a
! few minutes before l o'clock, but in
! those few minutes it received some
very rough handling. Senator Haw
! lev. who dealt the blows, said he
! would have preferred to have some
member of the dominant party in the
senate take the floor, for certainly the
speech Yesterday of Senator Allen of
| Nebraska ought not to be allowed to
| 20 forth to the country as representing
| in any degree the views of the senate
| He criticised Senator Allen for his ref
erence to the CommOnweal
army as the people," and
also for his illusions to the
district militia under command of
General Ordway. He ventured to say
that General Ordway had given more
study to the question than had the
senator from Nebraska, and that not
one step would be taken by him ex
cept at the command OF the civil
power.
These men who were coming here
did not represent the general views of
the American people; they were not
coming with the intention of prOstrat-
ing themselves at the feet of congress,
but to impress them by their presence.
In conclusion Mr.. Hawley said there
were many other things in the speech
of Mr. Allen which should be refuted,
but he did not propose to do It. Il
am sorry to say, but | am bound to
say it, that the speech of the senator
from Nebraska was such as would be
received with applause by a gang of
anarchists and it would not require a
microscope to discover in t the
microbes and bacciIli of anarchln."
Senator Allen was about to reply to
Senator Hawlev, but the hour of
o'clock having arrived the resolution
went over without action and tle tar
if bill being laid before the senate Mr..
Ctallinger of New Hampshire spoke
against the bill.
Mr. Gallinger was followed by SEN
ator Mcmillan of Michigan, VINO said:
"a comparison between tie Will
son bill as it comes fran the
house and the new Canadal tariff
shows how close an understanding
must have existed between the trains
ers of the two measures"
Senator D0lph followed n a speech
against the bill in which he incident
ally paid high tribute 10 eX-Presi-
dent Harrison.
AT O'clock Senator Delphi suspend
ed his speech. He will conclude to-
morrow Then the senate at $50 p
IN. went into executive session and at
800 adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, April 20.--There was
a passage at arms, tiguratively speak
ing. between representatives Burrows
and Wheeler today Mr.. Wheeler was
tainted with talking four columns of
the Congressional Record ia precisely
one minute, and retortea that the pro-
test came with bad grace from one
whose hands were red with par.ia-
mentary murder Mr. Burrows re-
called a previous example of Mr..
Wheeler's tluency, a speech that occu-
pied five minutes in the delivery, hav-
ing taken up IA columns of the Rec
ord. A motion was made TO refer the
subject to the committee on printing,
but Mr.. Wheeler cried quits by asking
leave to withdraw his remarks. Out.
side of this episode the proceedings
were very embarrassing.
Practically no business was trans.
acted. Under the rules, it being Fri
day, the day was devoted to business
on the private calendar. Three small
unimportant bills were PASSED and the
rest OF the day was Spe"t in the fruit |
less discussion of a bill to settle some
Tennessee war claims against the gov
eminent, amounting to $4,000
Ii was finally ended when Mr.. En-
loe made point of no quorum on u |
motion to recOmmit the II.
The evening session was devoted TO !
pension business.