The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-26
GRosvENOR OUT TO GORE.
The BeIIicOse OhIOan losses Flynn
of Oklahoma ON His Horns.

T Washington. April 25.-The second con-
ference report upon the legislative. ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill was
made TO the House to-day. and agreed TO.
another conference being ordered upon the
few remaining matters in dispute. The
principal subject settled by the report
made to-day was that fixing the salaries
Of United States district attorneys and
marshals. As agreed upon, the total of
salaries of attorneys carried in the bill as
II passed the House, was increased SO. 600
and that of marshals was increased 81. 500
An animated and unexpected incident
was precipitated in connection with this
report. Mr.. GrpsvenOr inquired respect
ing a provision prohibiting the legislature
Of Oklahoma from considering any prop
osition TO relocate the capitol of the ter
rltory. Being informed that il had al
ready been agreed upon by both houses,
Mr.. GrosvenOr declared that 1T ought to
destroy any man a party 10 it
This brought Mr.. Flynn, delegate from
Oklahoma, to his feet, with the state
ment that a similar provision had been
contained in every bill since the first year
OF the territory'S existence, in obedience
to the almost universal demand of the peo-
pie for protection against a REPETITION of
the scandalous scenes enacted at the first
meeting of the legislature. The gentleman
from Ohio, he assumed, must be ranking
under the recollection of other matters,
or he would not have made the onslaught
Mr.. Grosvenor repealed the suggestion
saying ne did not know what the "enor-
mously distinguished gentleman from Ok
lahoma meant by those words" He had
but done his duty, and the bombastes
furioso performance made no impression
upon him.
The House then went into committee of
the whole for the further consideration
OF the general pension bill. 1t was opposed
by Mr.. Bartlett of New York in detail
and in toto
Mr.. Grosvenor criticised the provision
OF the bill by which confederate soldiers
VINO later also served in the union army
may be pensioned. He said the only way
TO get the question out of the heat of
partisan debate was to adopt either the
service pension system outright or the
per diem pension system. He would sup
port the bill however, for the good things
there We're in il.
The bill was advocated by Mr.. Kerr of
OHIO, and was antagOnized by Mr. Miles
OF Maryland. The latter defended Gen.
McClellan's record from the charge made
against it yesterday by Mr.. Connolly of
Illinois, and had read Gen. McClelian's
letter of acceptance of the democratic
nomination for President in 1864 as an
answer to the assertion that he had beck
oned to South Carolina to hold on for
| awhile and he would help it out.
Messrs. Miles and Picker got into a
colloquy over the provision of the bill
authorizing the pensioning of ex-confeder-
ate soldiers who served in the union army.
MI Miles said, as the son of a rebel,
ne was OppOStQ 10 the penSlOn1nE OF these
men who had been true to no flag, but
were perjurers and bounty-jumpers
Mr.. Mines, rep, of Michigan, took part
| in the colloquy to inform Mr.. Picker
! that the difference between this class
| of confederates and those whose pensions
| for service in the Mexican and Indian
wars had been restored to them by con-
gress, lay in the fact that the latter de-
| serted no service and the former had.
| The message of the President vetoing
| the bill granting a pension of $50 a
month to Francis E. Hoover was read
and referred to the committee on invalid
| pensions.
The hour of 2:SO o'clock having arrived
| under a special order, the House sus-
| pended business and listened to eulogies
| upon the late Representative w. H. Crane
| of the Tenth district of Texas. and al
| 4:10 o'clock the House, on motion of Mr.
| Pendleton, passed the usual resolutions
! and as a further mark of respect, tool
! a recess until o'clock.
A dozen members gathered in the cham
| Der at o'clock and heard Messrs. Hardy
rep, of Indiana; Gibson, rep, of Tennes
| see; Wheeler, dem, of Alabama; Curtis
rep, of Kansas; and Mahany, rep, o.
! New York, make general speeches on th'
| matter of pensions.
At 1906 o'clock, no one else desiring t.
| talk on motion of Mr.. Pickler, rep, o.
South Dakota, the House adjourned unit
/ Monday.