Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-19
A Pcpulist Objection to the House
Venezuelan Commission Act.
MANY PATRIOTIC SPEECHES. MADE
The Presidents Position Supported
by Both Parties.
NJ A Y BE NO REC CESS

manifested today in the crowds which
thronged the galleries of the Senate. The
diplomatic gallery alone was empty. Rev.
Milburn, the blind chaplain, in his invoca-
ton, referred fesngly to the death yester-
day of Capt. Bassett, the venerable and
veteran assistant doorke eper of the Senate,
who had been an employe of the upper
house of Congress for over three score
years
The House Commission Bill.
AS soon as the journal had been read and
approved the clerk of the House announced
the passage by the House of the bill ap-
propriating 100000 for the expenses of the
committee to investigate the boundary be-
tween British Guiana and Venezuela, which
was recommended by the Pres dent, and the
Vice President Immediately laid it before
the Senate. Senator Sherman Ohio moved
its reference to the committee on foreign
relations, but in the abserce of Mr.. Morgan.
chairman of the foreign relations commit
tee, Mr.. Cockrell (Mo) requested Mr.. Sher-
man to withdraw his motion until the ar
rival of the Senator from Alabama. This
was done.
NJ. Cockrell thereupon presented with
favorable report the House resolution for a
holiday recess beginning tomorrow, but Mr..
Chandler On. H asked that it lie on the
table.
The Sinews of War.
Mr.. Allen CNeb.) caused a broad smile to
go around the chamber when he asked for
the immediate considera tion of lengthy
resolution recit!ng that in view of the pos
sible contingency of war with Great Britain
as a result of the conflict over the Vene-
zuelan boundary dispute, and that the first
essential in time of war was money, that
the committee on finance be instructed to
inquire into the advsabl.ty of opening the
mints to the free coinage of silver. After
some good-natured splrr:ng Mr.. German
(Md.) objected TO its consideration.
Mr.. Morgan's Motion.
The Presidents message transmitting the
Armenian correspondence was laid before
the Senate. Meantime Mr.. Morgan, the
chairman of the foreign relations commit
tee, had entered the chamber. Several OF
the republican Senators held a hurried COLI
sultation with him. When the House bill
was again laid before the Senate, Mr.. Nor
gan imm mediately moved to refer the bill to
the committee en- foreign relations, ana took
the floor in support OF his motion. The Sen
ate was all attention, and the galleries us
tened eagerly. Mr.. Morgan spoke carefully.
The Senate should not be hasty, he said.
The bill should be, in his opinion, de.ibsrated
upon as long a 5 necessary to secure an alb
soiutely correct judgment, and he concurrad
with Senator Sherman in the belief that il
should first nave its considerat ton in the
committee. But-and here he plused-he
wanted it distinctly understood that he
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made with the distinct understanding that
Congress should rot take the holiday recess
Until it was reported back. While the SEN
ate should hasten slowly and with all possi-
bic speed, delay, he said, would perhaps lead
to the formation Of an incorrect opinion
here, in Venezuela and in Great Britain. 1t
was of the highest importance that the po-
sition of this country should not be misun-
derstood. The real purpose of the deliberate
consideration of the bill by the committee
on foreign relations was to give that COM
m.ttee an opportunity to decide whether il
was wise now for Congress to extend il so
as TO include definite expression of cur
policy, or to leave that matter to the full
and unemharrassed action of the President
In the exercise of his constitutional power,
he could form and shape that policy In
whatever manner he chose.
Tho Hawaiian ,6,;r R.roro, NJ
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tration OF what he meant In the Hawaiian
affair Mr. Cleveland in the exercise of his
mower had sent 10 Hawaii a commissioners
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that action without the advice and consent
of the Senate, and when Mr.. Blounts re-
port was made the debate upon il was
largely devoted to the question of the Pres
ident's powers. purposes. etc. In other
words e Mr. Blount had been appointed in
virtue OF an act of Congress. Congress and
not the executive would have been re-
sporsible and there could have been no
possible issue between the legislative and
executive branches of the government.
The question now presented therefore was
the noIicy Of the United states or leave II
in the Presidents hands as still in the field
of diplomacy. He did not want ii under
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