Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-03-26
WORK OF CONGRESS
FrocccdiEsrs In the senate aud House
of Repre- tatiycs.

N~iSuitStoH. AidTtl ~. - ne mouse
entered upon the consideration Of tue
resolutions consuming Mr.. Bayard for
I speeches delivered by him before the
grammar school at Boston. England.
aud before the Edinburg, Scotland,
philosophical institution last fall. The
galleries were crowded to overlooking.
Even the diplomatic gallery, which Is
usually empty, contained n number of
the members of the diplomatic corps
and their wives. With the exception
of the speech of Mr.. CouZins of Iowa,
however, the oratory of the occasion
was disappointing. Mr.. Hit. chair
man of the foreign affairs committee.
and Mr.. McCreary. who was chairman
OF the committee in the last congress,
opened respectively for and against
the resolutions. Mr.. Draper (Rep.,
Mass announced his inability to bring
himself To vote for the resolutions of
cenSure. If the u~tterances were map
propriate, the punishment was too
harsh. Mr.. Couzins' speech in support
OF tho resolutions was the feature of
the proceedings. lie won for himself
to-day high distinction as an orator.
His bursts of eloquence. set off by q
keen and penetrating wit, aroused the
house and the galleries to unbounded
1 ththhSittsuI. MI. bIllSliioIS tDtii.r
Ark. who was minister to Corea dur
ing the former Cleveland administra-
| ton. in closing the debate for the day,
defended the utterances of Mr.. Bayard
as to the effect Of protection, and to
the great delight of the Democrats
read extracts from Senator Chambers
Interview alleging that the Mckinley
boomers were levying on the protected
| industries.
During the consideration in the SEN
ate of the resolution to open the Ucom-
| phagre reservation in Utah, Secretary
Hoke Smith was criticised by Sena-
| tors Cannon of Utah, Walcott of Colo
RADIO and Vest OF Missouri. and the
last named said there had been a time
when Il cabinet officer who deliberate
ly disobcyed the law would be brought
before the bar of the senate, but now
it was quite common for such officers
to refuse to carry u the law.
Washington. March 81. Cuba had
the entire attention of the senate,
speeshes being made by Senators
Gray. Chiffon and Caffery, the debate
being enlivened by many spirited Incl
dents. Mr.. Gray's plea for Cuba
brought a running cross-tire of com
nent and inquiry from Mr.. Hale. The
Delaware senator caused much amuse
mont by referring 10 Mr.. Hale as 1.-The
senator from Spain" After this a
| vigorous contribution TO the debate
came from Mr.. Chiffon of Texas, who
| seldom addresses the senate. He
urged that there was abundant work
at home to occupy the attention of
congress instead of enlisting in hui
manitarian crusades abroad with their
possibilities of war. Mr.. Caffery also
/ opposed the Cuban resolutions. Sen
atOrs Palmer, Mills, Platt and some
others are yet to be heard on the reso-
lutions. and no time for a vote has
been fixed.
Under an agreement reached Just
prior TO the adjournment of the house
the vote on the resolutions TO censure
Mr.. Bayard will be taken after an
other days debate. The debate on the
resolutions to-day at times drifted into
n discussion of the merits of protection
as al economic policy. Mr.. Tucker
Dem.. Na.D who made the principal
speech in opposition defended Mr.. Bay
ards utterances. and Senator Chand-
ler's interview was again brought for
ward as a vindication of Mr.. Bayard's
statement that protection tended to
corrupt public life. The Republicans
We'd with each other in u%pholding and
eulogizing protection. Mr.. Pearson of
North Carolina announced that the
candidate who would be nominated at
st. Louis would be the one who
measured up most nearly to the ideal
standard, the living impersonation of
the doctrine of protection" Mr.. Bar
rett of Massachusetts and Mr.. eros
yenor of Ohio also spoke. The debate
concluded with an amusing alteration
between Mr.. Sulzer of New York and
Mr.. Gibson of Tennessee.
Washington. March 22.-The house
after three days Of debate, adopted a
resolution censuring Thomas Il. Bay
ard, eX-secretary of state and now I'M
baSSador TO the court of St. James,
for utterances delivered in an address
To the Boston grammar school and in
an address before the Edinburgh phil
csophical institution last fall.
The first resolution, being that CEN
surfing Bayard, was passed by the
house by "A vote of $50 to II, six Dem
ocrats voting in favor and five Re-
publicans against it. The second reso-