The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-11
CLASH OF The LAWMAKERS.
More Explanations in the ThTte-COT-
neTtd Row al Atlanta.

fore the Senate Committee-Senator
McGregor Follows in a Speech Con
demnatory Of the Speakers Action.
The Senate Adds an Amendment to
the Appropriation Bill Giving the
Military s21 900 Per Year-several
Other Amendments to the Appropria-
ton Bill Also Adopted.
Atlanta, Ca, Dec. 10.-There were per-
sonal privilege speeches and explanations
all around in the Senate to-day over the
controversy between Speaker Fleming of
the House and Senators Venable and Nc
p Gregor.
Senator Harris Of Macon was the first
to FIRE his gun of. He was sore over a
report Of the judiciary committees &C
ton which appeared in the Macon Tele-
graph. claiming that the criticism of the
article was a reflection on the committee.
After INDUCING his feelings on the pro-
verbal failing Of newspaper reporters to
get things wrong the senator made an ar
gument. or, rather. an explanation, in
tended to justify the action of the COM
mittee He said: when the committee
first considered the registration bill it
was agreed to lay it on the table. on
coming out of the committee room. met
President Venable. He promptly said such
action should not be taken. and it ought
TO be reported back to the Senate. That
same evening met Speaker Fleming. He
had heard of the action Of the committee.
He asked to be heard and said he should.
i could not get the committee together
that evening, but ] did the next morning.
The speaker was heard and the commit
tee promptly agreed to report Il back to
the Senate. This whole matter is tenn
pest in teapot. l believe that each SEN
ator was actuated by what was best for
the state. irrespective of what action the
House committee had taken, or would
take on the Venable insurance bill"
Then Mr.. Cummings Of Augusta got up
and after stating that he, as the senator
from Speaker Fleming's district. was in
a sense his representative on the floor Of
the Senate, was proceeding to have read
as part of his remarks the two column
card published by the speaker this morn
ing in regard TO his appearance before
the Senate committee when Senator Nc
Gregor, who was handled rather pointed
" by the speaker in his card, called a
halt. He declared that the speaker Of the
House Of Representatives should not be
allowed to make a speech on the floor OF
the Senate, which was in effect the read
ing Of his card. On this objection the
card was left out of Mr.. Cummings re-
marks. After stating that he was not
present Saturday when Mr.. McGregor's
salty attack on the speaker was made,
he said: THE remarks of Senator Nc
Gregor were uncalled for. His remarks
were unjust There was no improperly in
Mr.. Fleming's appearance in the commit
-. 60 = H. kaI in
trouduced. II is usual and proper. l
deny that in that committee room Mr..
Fleming uttered any SANDER against any
member Of the Senate. He simply stated
rumors that prevailed at the capitol, and
at some time the parties concerned had
denied the truth Of them. There was
nothing wrong in this II Mr.. McGregor
had been present and heard what Mr..
Fleming did say, 1 am sure he would
not have objected. Mr.. Fleming did not
score anybody in the committee room"
Mr.. Cummings was handed copy of the
Savannah Morning News Of Sunday by
Senator Osborne, with the headline,
Scored the Senator's 10 Their Face"
marked. The senator from Augusta at
this felt a touch of the wounded spirit
that had prompted Senator Harris, and he
closed his speech by protesting that the
speaker had not scored the Senate com
mittee TO their faces, not that he knew
o. ana ne was IN the committee room
when the speaker made the speech that
has turned the Senate upside down, SO to
speak.
Following Mr.. Cummings, Senator Nc
Gregor had his inning. He Waxed warm
at intervals, declaring that it was unpre-
cedented in national or state history for
the presiding officer of one house to in
fiuence the proceedings of another. The
influence Of the speaker before a COM
mittee was greater than that of a hundred
outsiders. The doors of the committee
rooms ought to be shut TO such undue in
fiuence as the speaker welded. AS to the
questions the speaker had put to him in
his card. he would ignore them, but would
answer the senators or a Senate commit
tee freely.
Later in the day Mr.. McGregor said he
would not answer any mans questions
when he accompanied them by showing a
pistol under his nose. The way to an
swer Speaker Fleming's questions, he
SAID, was not by word of mouth. Mr.. Nc
Gregor said he freely admitted that he
had determined to work for the EXPOSE
ton appropriation, if thereby he could
prevent the passage of the registration
bill. The end justihes the means, he
thought.
2 The most important business in the legis-
lature to-day was done in the Senate when
that body tackled an amendment onto the
aspiration bill for giving S21, 900 to the sup
port of the military for each of the years
1885. The friends of the soldiers say this
action assures the appropriation going
through in the House. as being an amend
ment, it will not require a constitu-
tonal majority to pass it when il goes
back there, but only a majority of a
quorum They claim that a majority of
those present are in favor of the appro-
priation and will vote for it when it goes
back.
Several other amendments to the appro-
priation bill were adopted The normal
school at Athens was given $4,000 and 50. 600
was voted for repairs at the State Uni
versity. These three items were defeated
in the House.
The military appropriation went through
by a vote of 26 to p
The appropriation for the academy for
the blind was increased from 5000 to
s20,O 900.
The deaf and dumb asylum was given
$1,000, instead of $4,000 as appropriated
by the House
There viii be no reformatory in Geor-
gia for Juvenile offenders for the present.
at least. The bill of Mr. Harrison of
Quitman to create one was taken up in
the House to-day. On account Of the late