Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-19
CONGRESSIONAL.

6ogL9 OH6foQ a RESOLUTION lmpBae1luk luQmnl
r. Bayard, ex-Secretary Of State, and now
United States Ambassador to the court Of Sc
James, for high crimes and misdemeanors The
grounds advanced were utterances Of Mr.. Bay
ard delivered before the Edinburgh. Scotland.
Philosophical institute November 7. In this
speech Mr.. Bayard spoke OF protection" as a
form Of Estate socialism," and said it had
done more toi' foster class legislation, breed
iniquity," Corrupt public life" Glow
or the tone of national represen-
tation," divorce ethics from politics."
than any other single cause. Such reflections
on the government policy by United States
ambassador before foreign audience, the res
olution recited, were In serious disregard OF
his proprieties and obligations and calculated
to iniure our national reputation. It con-
cluded by instructing the foreign affairs com
mittee, which was empowered to send for per-
sons and papers, to investigate and report "by
impeachment or otherwise" After a three
hours hot political debate the words "by I'M
parchment or otherwise" were stricken out
and the resolution was adOpted-9) to 2O7-
strict party vote.
Dec. 1O-The Senate was in session less than
two hours. The proceedings consisted Of the
introduction Of about an hundred bills and a
speech on the Monroe doctrine by Senator Gull
lom. Mr.. Call Of Florida presented several
memorials from citizens of Florida for the rec
Ognition of the belligerency Of the Cuban insur-
gents. Mr.. Sherman of Ohio, presented the
memorial of the National Wool Growers Asso-
citation, and Mr. PETER, (Populist) Of Kansas
# om the committee to examine the branches Of
the civil service favOrably reported the bill In
troduced by him to prescribe the method Of
conducting CONF ressiOnal funerals. At 1:.O the
Senate adjourned.
Dec 1.-THE session Of the Senate lasted
but one hour, and was mainly devoted TO a dis
cussion Of Senator Dubois proposition ~
amend the rules so as to distribute the apprq'
priatiOn bills among the various committees q
the Senate. Senator Hill reintroduced the
amendments which he proposed to the rules in
the last Congress during the deadlock on the
repeal Of the Sherman silver law, for cloturo
and for counting a quo um, and Mr.. Call
Of Florida gaVe notice that he would TO-
morrow call up his Armenian resolution.
The clerk called the first order on the
calendar, which was the resolution Of Mr.
Allen OF Nebraska to recognize the Cuban rev
olutionists as belligerents Mr.. Allen said he
supposed his resolution would be referred to
the committee on foreign relations, and In
formed the Senate that the POpulist party,
which was sneered at as a party Of domestic
grievances, stood shoulder to shoulder with tho
Republican and Democrl tic parties for the
maintenance of the Monroe doctrine.
Dec. 12.-EI-Speaker Grow (Rep Pa } made
a speech in the house of almost an hour on the
portion of the presidents message referring 10
the tariff in which he compared the old pro-
lection tart with the new customs laws. He
showed that the new law, up to December 1,
had produced q deficiency Of 1881 100000, while
under protection measures from 1880 to 1893,
the revenue had exceeded the expenditures by
81, 310,OO0,00l He attribu ted the depletion OF
the gold reserve to tho Taymeut of current do.
fciencies out Of the reserve, and maintained
that tle greenbacks would not menace the re-
serve if there was sufficient revenue It being
apparent that Secretar Carlisle's report would
not be ready this week, the house adjourned
over until Monday
The proceedings OF the Senate covered the
entire range of legislation from the introduce
ton of petitions bills aud resolutions, to the
passage OF bills and included two formal adj
dresses. A bill extending the Chicago port 81
entry so as to cover the State Of Illinois re-
ceived the final in dorsement OF the Senate.
Having already passed the house, it will DO
probably the first bill of the Fifty-fourth Con-
gross to becomea law Almost an hour Of the
session was devoted to listening to a speech by
Senator PETER in advocacy of his bill curtail-
ing the expenses incurred in Congressional
funerals, and providing that sergeant-atarms
shall take the place Of the committees now
sent out by the two houses as escorts to their
homes Of remains Of deceased members. The Z
Up m. adjourned till Monday,
Dec. 16.-The Senate was in session about two
hours, half Of that time being given to Mr..
Stewart of Nevada, in q vigorous assault on the
gold combine In one respect the Senator
presented a new phase Of the subject with
which his name has been so much identified
in Senate speeches. He urged that the great
depreciation of silver gave to the cheap labor Of
Asia tremendous advantage in competition
with the domestic products OF the American
market Japan in particular, he said, was
profting by this difference of 80 per cont be-
tween our money and that Of Japan, and Jap
anese merchants were to-day underselling our
home products in many lines Of goods Mr..
Stewart used severe language in arraigning the
gold syndicate, declaring that it controlled
national conventions, selected presidents and
directed the affairs of the national admins.
tration.
In the house Delegate Flynn of Oklahoma In
PRODUCED a resolution calling upon the secretary
of the interior for his reasons for not appoint.
ing alloting agents for the Wichita Indian res
ervation as provided for in an agreement made
between the Indians and United States COM
missiOners last spring and also whether any Of
his re atoms were Interested in not having the
allotments made. Mr.. Flynn made long
speech in which he iuriOusly attacked the sec
rotary of the interior and charged that relatives
of Mr.. Smith were receiving big fees for their
influence in delaying the opening Of the reser-
walton to settlement. Several Democrats de.
Tended the secretary. The resolution was
passed without division.