The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-17
ENDORSED THE PRESIDENT
WHEN 4 TOTE WAS TAKEN TH Y NOES
 WERE FEW AND FAINT.


 Popuiist Pierce Opposed tho Resolution
 and Said That Some Republicans Did
 Not Care to Approve tho Acts of the Administration,
 Washington. July i6.-In the house to-day Mir. McCreary offered the follow Ing resolution,
 Resolved. That tho house of repre- sentatives endorses the prompt and vigorous efforts ofthe president and his administration to suppress lnwlcssness, restore order and prevent improper in- terforence with the enforcement of the laws Of the United States and with the transportation of tho malls of the United States and with interstate oom- merce. and pledges the president hearty support, and dsems tho success which has already attended his efforts As cause for public and general congratulation. Mir. Pence, pop. Colorado. said the ros- olution went further than he thought the republican side of the house, ,at least, were desirous of going in approval of the ad- ministration. It might be that the time would come when there would be such a conflict between striking laborers and their employers that It would be neces- sary to call out the strongest arm of the government to restore order. But the people would never agree that the man who called out the injunctions, who ordered tho indictment of the strikers and who directed the military should be Q director and stookholder In the cor porations affected. This resolution went further than indorsing the president; 1t approved everything done by all the members of the administration.
 Mir. Pence asked If there was demo- crat on the floor who approved the ac- tion of the attorney general, who, when he found 1t necessary to employ special assistant attorney in Chicago, selected the attorney of the railroads for that position. But If there were such there were members on the floor who did not believe that the attorney of trusts should occupy the position of attorney general, as was the oase at present.
 Mir Bland, dem.. of Missouri, said that he had no sympathy with the men who violated law. destroyed property or en- gagged in riot, but he did not believe in the calling out of the military under a pretended exercise of authority. He stood as a democrat in favor of the rights of all the people. He protested against the setting aside of the power and forces of the state by federal troops; he protested against the issue of blanket injunotions by federal courts. If the country was to be maintained 1t was to be maintained by the recognition of the rights of fhe states md the fed eral government alike.
 The resolution was advocated by Messrs McCreary and Catchings, dem., of Mississippi. The latter said there was no place in the broad country where the federal troops might not go in the performance of their duty to en- force the laws of the land No one had pointed out in any respect wherein the president in his recent action had con travened any statute on the books, and speaking not only as a representative but also as a lawyer, he said the preei- dent had commended himself to every lover of his country.
 MT. Pence and MT. Hopkins. rep., of Illinois, made efforts to secure an ex- tension of thetime for debate, but unan- imous consent was refused. Efforts were also made on the passage of the resolution to secure 8 vote by yeas and nays, but they were refused. On the adoption of the resolution there was virtually ai unanimous yea, the noes being few and faint.