Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-02
T|LLMAN'S FIERY SPEECH He Again Paid His Respects to
 the Administration. HE WAS ANSWERED BY HILL Who Was Dignifed, Temperate and Suggest
 i've, but Sarcastic. HE, TOO, CRITICISED MIR. CARLISLE Senator Germans Motion to Build Two In- stead of Four Battleships Was Car
 ried-A Negro Seated Over MT.
 Elliot of South Carolina.
HE, TOO, CRITICISED MIR. CARLISLE

Washington, May 1.--Mr. Codding, re- publican, of Pennsylvania. submitted to the house the unanimous report of elec- tions committee No. 3 in the case of Josh ua E. Wilson, republican, vs. John L. Me Laurin. democrat, from the Sixth Con- gressional district of South Carolina, that MeLaurin was entitled to his seat. The report was agreed to.
 MT. Overstreet, republican, of Indiana, from the same committee, reported the case of George w. Murray, republican, vs William Elliott, democrat, from the First district of South Carolina, the com mittee finding that Murray, colored, who represented the district in the last con gress, was entitled to the seat now. The minority of the committee was given leave to file their views and the case went to the calendar.
 Most of the session of the house was occupied in discussing, under the five minute rule and in committee of the whole, the section in the bankruptcy bill reciting the causes for which proceedings may be begun against debtor. Two amendments were proposed one by w. A. Stone, republican. of Pennsylvania. abolishing altogether the involuntary
 
 1ican, of Kansas, limiting to three causes, all criminal or fraudulent in their na- ture, for proceeding against debtors.
 In the course of the debate MT. Hen- derson, republican, of Iowa, quoted Ex- President Harrison in favor of the bill, reading from a letter received today: T think the impression that some of our western boards of trade had upon the bankruptcy question was that, by reason of the nearness of our merchants to their customers, they had an advantage with the failing debtor over the distant cred itor, and that this would be surrendered under bankruptcy bill. It seems to me to be short-sighted view of the ques- tion."
 The propositions were pending when the house at o'clock, under the rules. took recess until o'clock, the evening session to be devoted to the consideration of private pension bills.
 By a vote of 39 to 32 the committee re- fused to take corporations out of the op- eration of the bill
 The bill to give Alaska a delegate in congress was discussed briefly, and by vote of 60 to A the house voted against the engrossment of the measure-a prac- tical defeat.
 A bill was passed to admit free of duty articles of foreign manufacture intended for exhibition at the Nashville exhibition in 1897, and to admit persons engaged to care for the exhibits.
 The Senate.
 The session of the senate today was en- livened by two characteristic speeches. a fiery and impetuous one from Mir Till man, democrat, of South Carolina, and a temperate and suggestive one from MT, Hill, democrat, of New York.
 MT. Tillman, wearing in his neck the emblem of his last speech in the senate a miniature gold pitchfork-strode up tv. tho <kf l. z1r on the democratic side of the chamber gesticulating forcibly and inveighing against the president, the secretary of the treasury and the bankers and money lenders of Wall street. and threatening the withdrawal of his state from the vention should not declare in favor of silver at 16 to l.
 MT. Hilrs reply to him was dignifed, but sarcastic. He, too, spoke of the Chi cago convention, declaring that he did not believe that MT. Cleveland was candidate for the nomination. He said he was not pledged to him or to any member of his cabinet. He eulogized MT. Carlisle for his public services but crit icised him for his interference against the reelection of Senator Blackburn, and closed a long speech by declaring that the policy of the democratic party should be "in essentials unity, in non- essentials liberty, in all things charity"
 Before the speechmakiEg began a vote was taken on Mir. Germans motion to reduce the number of battleships pro- vided for in the bill from four to two Ca reduction of $7.500,000 in expenditure), and it was agreed to---yeas 31, nays 27.
 Another vote was taken on motion by Mr. Allen, populist, of Nebraska, to strike out the appropriations for these two battleships, but there were only thirteen senators in favor of that propo- stion.
 An amendment was offered by MT. Chandler, republican, of New Hampshire, appropriating $4,000,000 for twenty tor pedo and two torpedo boat destroyers, but vote was not reached upon it.
 It was agreed, however. that the final vote on the naval appropriation bill shall be taken before adiourning tomorrow, and the senate at 5:45 o'clock adjourned until tomorrow.
 Before the naval bill was taken up MT. Butler. populist of North Carolina, in- troduced bill to make the Mexican sil- yer dollar, the Japanese yen and the trade dollar equal in value to the stand ard dollar of the United States and full legal tender to any amount for all debts and demands, public or private; and he made an argument in support of it. The gold standard he characterized as the "standard of Sbylock." He argued that under the clause of the constitution which forbids the states to make any thing but gold and silver a legal tender they had right to make gold and silver coins a legal tender; and he expressed the hope that if the United States did not do so the individual states would. He would certainly strive to have the state of North Carolina do so.
 The bill was referred to the finance committee.
 The TiIlman-Hill debate came about while MT. Chandler's torpedo boat amendment was under discussion. De- voting only a few sentences to the amendment, then leaving the question of ships, Mir. Tillman said he would fol- low the precedents set in the discussion and talk of the financial question, fin answer to various speeches made st va rious times and places by various men, some senators and some not" He pro- ceeded to criticise one of the speeches