The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-19
An ATTACK ON CLEVELAND.
4 RefOTmeT Creates a Sensation in
CaTOlinaS House.


tion Extending the President and His
Party an Invitation to Visit the GEN.
eral lAssembly-The Resolution Adopt
ed, But the Attack Renewed at the
Night Session in a Resolution Bit
terly AssailinR the President as a
Traitor to His Party-The Resolution
Consigned to Oblivion.
Columbia, S. c. Dec. 1s.-In the House
Of Representatives to-day at l O'Clock,
Mr.. Magill of Abbeville introduced the
following concurrent resolution, and there
was an interesting scene:
Whereas, The President Of the United
States and party are now visiting in our
state, and, whereas. the general assem-
bly, is now in session. and desire to ex-
tend to the President and the gentlemen
accompanying him that courtesy due his
exalted character and official position, be
it
Resolved by the House, the Senate con-
curing. that an invitation be and hereby
is extended to the President of the United
States, and the gentlemen comprising his
party, to visit the general assembly. now
in session. and accept the privileges OF
the floor of the House.
AS soon as the resolutions were read
DR.. Wych of Newberry moved TO receive
it as information.
Mr.. Duncan Of Newberry, a reformer,
then said: Il hope this matter will not
be disposed of in this way. I am opposed
to avtapdfpo such corrtas,r 20 a Iorasfdapt
for whom we justly entertain so little
respect. I therefore move to table the
resolution"
The speaker seemed to hesitate about
putting the motion. He said as the pre-
siding officer he doubted the propriety Of
such a motion.
Mr.. Manning, a conservative. said the
matter had come before the House and
action looking to receiving il as infOrma-
tion would have a bad appearance. He
suggested that the resolution be wItn-
drawn
Mr.. Patton, conservative, from Rich
lands said that such action would be very
strange, that it would be worse than to
consider it and vote it down. They
should remember that Mr.. Cleveland was
President, that this was an honor they
should accord any President,
faith, and no matter how much opposed
to his policy and politics they were. They
should do Mr.. Cleveland this honor, not
because it was Mr.. Cleveland, but they
should pay this respect to the Office.
Mr.. Watson, the reform leader, then
took the floor. He said he hoped the res
olution would not be Withdrawn. The
matter, if withdrawn, had gone so far
that it would be given full publicity
While they might differ in policy from the
President, Mr.. Cleveland was nevertheless
the President of the United States. 1
hope we won't go down on record as
taking such action as this"
Mr.. Tatem of Orangeburg, another lead
ing reformer, took the floor and tried to
help Mr.. Watson control the House. He
said they could not afford to vote this
resolution down. Nobody was more op-
posed to Mr.. Cleveland's policy than him
self but it was time to stop.
Mr.. Williamson indorsed Mr. Watson's
remarks. He said this a duty they
owed themselves and their state.
The speaker then took a hand, saying
they were assuming an opposition to the
resolution which did not exist so far as
he had seen. He said he had noticed no
opposition. He suggested that the vote
be taken on the adoption of the resolu-
ton. He then quickly put the motion on
a viva voce vote. No nays were heard,
and he declared the resolution unanimous
ly adopted.
In the Senate DR.. Byrd and one other
senator voted against it, but there was
no discussion or other incident.
At the night session of the House Mr..
Duncan brought the matter up again.
He introduced the following sensational
resolution, which was signed by himself
and ]. H. Blackwell of Williamsburg.
was sent up to the speaker, who asked
Mr.. Duncan what he proposed to do with
the resolution, have it passed and re-
corded in his own behalf, or something
else Mr.. Duncan said he wanted it
spread on the minutes. The resolution
read as follows:
Resolved, That with all due respect for
the Office of President of the United States,
and with due Difference to the policies
and principles of parties, we wish to be
recorded as ever ready to do honor to
whom honor is due but in our opinion,
Grover Cleveland having prostituted the
high Office of President of the United
States in using his opportunities in the
betrayal of the Democratic party and the
reputation of democratic principles we
record ourselves opposed to the resolu-
ton passed by this House, doing honor
to the greatest party wrGcker in the his
tory of American politics.
After the matter had been read Mr.
Pollock and several members jumped up
and addressed the speaker.
Speaker Jones-The matter is not de-
batable.
Mr. Winkler-I move to lay the resolu-
tion on the table.
The speaker put the question, and it
was laid on the table.-three mo" votes
being distinguished.
The House then got back to it's work
but Mr.. Duncan was not yet done. In
about ten minutes he arose again with
a copy OF the state constitution in his
hand. He said he rose to a question of
personal privilege. He quoted a section
from the constitution giving any member
the right to object to anything adopted
by the body, and to have his reasons for
his protest recorded in the journal
1t was a home strike. He said, after
reading the section, that he asked accord
ingly that his resolution be recorded.
The speaker ignored the request and
started to continue the regular work.
Mr. Duncan-Mr. Speaker, 1 want your
ruling on my point. I want to know if
this House can openly violate the consti-
tuition.
Speaker Jones-I am only the mouth
piece of this body. This body has acted. |
Mr. Duncan persisted in the matter, |
insisting that the constitution gave him /
rights in the matter which the body could |