The Washington times., 1894-06-08
CLOAK ROOM AND GALLERY.

Senator Chandler has worked out the fol-
lowing most interesting "might have BEEN
on the attempt to strike out the one-eighth
per cent. increased duty on refined sugar in
the debate on that schedule the other day:
On Senator Pettigrew's motion to strike
out-yeas so, nays SO:
Mr.. Aldrich, accidentally abscst and not
paired, would have made the yeas 81.
Senator Hill voted yea; and Irby would
have voted yea II present, but was paired
with Quay against the amendment.
II Quay had voted yea, and Irby had been
| paired In favor OF the amendment, the
vote would have been, yeas 80, nays 80.
| Senator Stewart absent impaired; his vote
for the amendment would have made tho
vote, yeas 89, nays 80, and the motion would
have been carried.
| This shows how very narrow the refiners'
path to victory was. The result "raight have
been' otherwise.
One of the amusing things In the Senate
when message Is received either from the
President or the House Of Representatives is
to see Captain Bassett come forward, plant
| himself at tho door Of the Senate, and an
nounce in his measured voics, with an accent
on every other syllable "a message from the
House Of Representatives"
l. Them while the messenger from the other
/ house reads the title OF the bill, up goes the
captains hand to his watchchain, which he
twirls until the reading is finished
You may watch the proceeding as often as
you please, you will always notice the same
formula gone through.
1t was an interesting debate that Senators
Hoar and Blackburn had in the morning hour
OF the Senate yesterday on the question Of
the resolution Of the Massachusetts Senator
to appoint q committee to look into the ad-
visibility Of examining into the alleged gov
ernment claim against the estate Of Leland
Stanford in connection with the Central Pa
cifc railway debt. Mr.. Hoar extolled Mr..
Stanfords character.
Mr.. Stanford loved his country and desired
every American citizen to enjoy the comforts
OF life and an education. He Mr. Stanford,
had expressed the hope that partly through
the agency of the Stanford University, which
he had founded, every child on the Pacific
coast who desired. would receive good ed
ucation,
Hthe government had claim OF s15, 900, 900,
that was only 20 cents apiece Tor the inhabi-
tahts of the United States, to whom Mr.. Stan
ford had consecrated his large estate, and it
ought not to embarrass the closing years Of
his widow, and cripple and perhaps destroy
the great gift he had made for the benefit of
the poor by seeking to press it. If there was
any socialism that was noble, Mr.. Hoar went
on feelingly, 1t was the socialism that dedi-
Gated the wealth Of the rich to the education
Of the poor. He maintained that the govern
ment Of the United States should immedi-
ately put at rest this claim without in any
way affecting claims against others, in order
that Mr.. Stanford's benetaction might not be
embarrassed.
This manner OF moralizing did not please
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shoulder. The resolution, he said, authorized
a committee to examine into claim and then
relinquish it. No one, Mr.. Blackburn said,
felt more deeply than he the public spirit
manifested by his late associate in devoting
so much to educational purposes. But tine
real question was. did he own the estate or
had he sought to divert to this high purpose
an estate that belonged to the United States.
With an allusion to suits against the liv-
ing and the dead the discussion closed.