Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-07
PASSED WITH AMENDMENT
Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial Appropriation Bill.
OFFICES, NOW ON SALARY
The Re = tions Censurng Mr.. Bayard viii
Soon Be Called Up.
AN TERVlEW WITH THE PRESIDENT
9
He Says He Was Never Interviewed by
the Associated Press as to His Posi-
ton on the Cuban Question-It
Was Newspaper Guess.
- tons Censuring Mr.. Bayard Will
5 Soon Be Called Up.
TERVlEW WITH THE PRESIDENT

| was O newspaper Guess.
Washington, March 6.-After seven
days consideration, four of which were
devoted to the fee and salary amend
ment, the house today passed the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appropria-
tion bill Before dispCsing of the fee and
salary amendment it was changed so as
to forbid the beginning of prosecution
under the internal revenue law upon the
complaint of a private citizen, except by
the written approval of the district attor-
ney, and further to forbid the appoint
ment of any federal court officer, includ-
ing United States commissioners as re-
ceivers in any case before federal court.
Messrs. Bartlett and Quigg made an un-
successful attempt to secure the exemp-
tfon of the Southern district of New York
from the operation of that section of the
law which vests in the judges of the dis
trict courts the appointment of United
states commissioners, all the present
commissioners being legislated out of
office on the Goth of June. Mr.. Bartlett
said that the bill was seriously defective
in that it failed to make provision for
validating or continuing the proceedings
which will be pending before the hun
dreds of commissioners when they go out
of office
The postoffice appropriation bill was
taken up and discussed until the hour
of recess. Besides discussing these two
bills the house passed the house bill re-
quiring pension agents to make all pay
ments by checks. and agreed to senate
amendments to the house bill making
seven years continued and unexplained
absence sufficient proof of soldiers
death in cases of applications for pen-
SionS.
The resolutions censurng Ambassador
Bayard for his Boston, England and
Edinburgh speeches will not, 1t Is said,
be allowed to slumber indefinitely on the
house calendar. Speaker Reed is UNDER
stood to have given assurances that they
shall be called up after several other ap-
preparation bills shall have been passed.
They are expected to provoke a spirited
! but not necessarily an acrimonious, de-
| bate The democrats, under the leader
ship of Mr. McCreary, will vigorously OPP
pose their adoption, but it is claimed that
they will receive the united support of
the republican majority.
The house tonight, in committee of the
whole, Mr.. Grosvenor of Ohio in the chair,
considered and laid aside ten private
pension bills with favorable recon-
mendation that they pass. At 1920
o'clock the house adjourned until tomor-
row.
| A Newspaper Guess.
On March last the Chicago Associated
Press sent out under a Washington date
| line an elaborate statement which, it was
| asserted, accurately represented the
| views of the president and his cabinet"
| on the Cuban question, in which 1t was
| asserted that the president and his cabi-
| net were strongly opposed to the pres
| ent recognition of the belligerency of The
| Cuban insurgents and to any declaration
| Of their independence as embodied in the
| recent congre sSional resolutions"
Speaking of this dispatch President
| Cleveland today said to a representative
| of the Southern Associated Press: II see
| that 1t Is assumed in certain quarters
! that delverance published few days
| ago on the Cuban question may be taken
as defining the attitude Of the administra-
ton ON that subject. l wish you would
say that | never saw the statement nor
heard Of it until | read it in the newspa-
pers, and even then neglected to read all
of it, supposing that it represented moth
ing more than newspaper guess. L do
not know how it originated nor by whom
it is constructed or inspired, but | do
know that am in no manner responsible
| for it nor In any way related to it,
II only desire to say in addition that 1
| do not know whether the publication re-
| ferred to represents the views of the ad-
ministration on the Cuban question or
| not and that l have never found any
! difficulty in communicating with the peo-
| pie in a manner which leaves no doubt
| as TO tne dulnentlclly OF any statement
| purporting to represent my views"
| The statement thus repudiated by the
| president was largely made up of clip
! pings from senate debates, but 1t was al
| legged to have been furnished to the
Chicago Associated Press as D special
! favor by Secretary Olney.
Another denial Is in order
Madrid paper published yesterday
that Senior Dupuy Delome had telegraph
ed to the government that President
Cleveland would refuse as long as he is
president either to recognize the rebels
or intervene in the Cuban question.
This was cabled to the United States,
but it was wholly without foundation.
All other statements attributing to the
Spanish minister here any statement as
to President Clevelands Intentions one
way or another in the international epi-
sode are equally destitute of foundation.
Senior Delome has constantly observed
the strictest letter of diplomatic proprie-
ty 1t Is therefore inconceivable that he
should have authorized any interview or
sent TO any newspaper any message ex-
pressing an opinion In regard to the ac-
lion of the president of the United States
on matter which has not yet been Off
cially authorized by Mr.. Cleveland.
After a suspension of such functions
for nearly two years. President Cleve-
land has decided to resume his regular
tri-weekly public receptions. beginning
on Monday next. The receptions will be
held in the east room and will be in
formally social in character