Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-10
Clears Himself of a Charge Made
 by ". Randall Creamer,
A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT
The Hawaiian Cable Appro- priation Passed by the Sem
 Memorial Services.

ness of general interest or importance.
 Some progress was made with the cousid-
 eration of the executive, Legislative and
 judicial appropriation bills.
 The amendment of MT. Bartlett, demo-
 crat, of New York, to make personal clerks
 of members of the house annual employees
 instead of sessicnal, which was the pend-
 ing question, was agreed to in committee
 of the whole by a vote of 124 to 53.
 MT. McMillin, demo csat, of Tennessee,
 gave notice that he would demand vote
 by yeas and nays in the house upon the adoption of the amendment.
 A joint resolution reported from the com
 mittee of ways and means by Mir, Wilson,
 democrat, of West Virginia, was agreed to,
 extending for this year only the time within
 which returns may be made under the in-
 come tax law from March to April l5.
 MT. Van Voorhs, republican, of New
 York, made personal statement that at-
 trac;ed the interest aud attention of nearly
 every member relating to the vlslt or the
 Hon. w. K. Creamer, member of parlla-
 ment, of England, to the house committee
 on foreign affairs. He said:
 MR. SPEAKER: rise to question or
 privilege. It is well known that this coun-
 try has been visited by missionary. Ills
 name is the Hon. w. Randall Creamer,
 and his mission was mission of peace.
 
 peace-ioving, how averse to territorial en- croach inents, how modest and moderate Is her pretensions, and how easy to get along with in her relations with foreign powers Great Britain Is. The mission of this gen. tleman was to establish an international treaty of arbitration between the Upited States and Great Britain. It was limited 10 these two powers. He came over in the TeutoDic and reached our shores on the 5 h of January last. He soon thereafter came IT.. ion f.,f h0 ident and gress signed by 354 members of the British parliament. He solicited permission to appear before the commit tee on foreign affairs of the house of presentatives. As every member of that committee l believe is against war, if it can be avoided, and is in favor of settling all disputes between
 nations by arbitration, and resorting to the arbitrament of war only when no other honorable course is left open, the re- quest of the Hon. Mir. Creamer was unani-
 lnonsly granted and he appeared before the committee. He invited the members of the committee to put questions to him. This was done. joined in the question. ing. The cross examination was not lengthy or severe. It seems, however, that the temper of this missionary became ruf ed and, after he left the committee, he charged in high quarters that l had in- suited him. Of course, this charge was unfounded. l had no thought of insulting l1m. only put Q very itW oiIcCb 4hrntiouo to him, and if he could not answer them to his own satisfaction, cannot see how the fault was mine. did not learn that he had made the charge until after MT. Creamer had sailed for England. Toinsult distinguished Englshman when address ing a committee of this house would, in my judgment, be a breach of the privileges of this house. In order that the house may know that the charge made
 by this missionary of peace hes
 no foundation to so.. rest % upon, copy of a letter have sent to:Mr. Creamer, which states the case, from my point of observation, exactly as it is. With that dismiss the subject.
 At 8 o'clock the business of the house was suspended and the members listened to eulogies on the late Myron B. Wright, rep resentative from the Fifteenth district of Pennsylvania. Messrs. Scranton. c. w. stone, w. A. Stone, Wagner, Hicks and Grow of Pennsylvania made addresses.. Messrs. Smith of Arizona and Covert of | New York also spoke.
 At their termination the house adioarned | until Monday. IN THE SENATE.
 The senate decided today by vote of 36 l to 25 that the amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill for the | construction and maintt nance of tele- graphic cable between the United States and the Hawaiian islands was in order un. | der the rules, and immediately afterwards, | by similar vote, 1t adopted the amend ment and then passed the bill. The affirm ative vote was given by the republican and Mir. Pettigrew, republican, of South Da.
 kota, voting nay, and six democratic sena- tors also voted yea--Messrs. Butler of South Carolina, Call of Florida, German of
 Maryland, Hill of New York, Morgan of Alabama and White of California. All the ueuatsva yOfpa were piyen bV demOcratS. Following is the vote in detail:
 Yeas-Messrs. Aldrich, Allison, Bur-
 rows. Butler, Call, Carey, Clark, Chand-
 Ter. Cullom, Davis, Dubois, Frye Cor Cor
 gins, Hill, Hoar, Kyle, Lodge, Mander-
 son, Mitchell of Oregon, Morgan, Merrill,
 Peffer, Perkins, Platt, Proctor, Sherman,
 Squire, Stewart, Teller, Washburn. Whits and Wolcott-3S.
 Nays-Meas.s. Berry, Blackburn, Brice,
 Caffery, Cockrell, George, Gray, Harris,
 Hunton, Jones oi Arkansas, Lindsay, Mca
 Laurin, Martin, Mitchell of Wisconsin,
 Murphy, Palmer, Pasco, Pettigrsw, Rau-
 som. Roach, Smith, Tu:pie, Vest. Villas and Waish-25.
 Following ia the text Of the ame ndment:
 "1he president is hereby authorized tc contract for the entire work of laying teiegraphic cable between the United States and the Hawaiian islands enc to direct the prosecution of such wcrk whenever such a contract shall be made, and as part of the cost of such cable the sum O! $500, COG is hereby appropriated
 In the course of the discussion Mir. Man. derson, republican, of Nebraska, took the ground that even If the rules did stand in the way of such an important proposition the rules ought to be brushed aside-a proposition which MT. Gray, democrat, of Delaware, described as s'anarchy.' MT. Manderson was equally outspoken ip his utterauces that tue time lad come for the great republic to extend its limits and to become the rival of England in obtaining I the islands of tke ocean. He advocated the taking not only of the Sandwich islands, but of some islands of the Carib- bean sea. Mir. Lodge, republican, of Mas sachusetts, expressed similar views, and frankly admitted that the main object of the anne m dment waA 10 take the first step towards proper protection of the United States in the region lying around her ctaata.