The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-05-24
SENSATIONAL RESOLUTION
Representative Howard Offer
One to impeach the President.
he Offers His Resolution With Eleven
Counts But is Promptly Suppressed ~
the House-Fiiled Cheese and tho b dt-
Ter Bill to Prohibit Bond Issues Take
Up the Time of the House.

most wholly to consideration OF confer
ence reports. The final report Of the
river and harbor bill, carrying she com.
promise proposition relative to tho
rival Santa Monica and San Pedro harI
bors' CAL, WAS adopted without division.
The bill now goes to the President. As
passed 1t carries S12. $4,000 in direct
appropriations, and authorizes contracts
to the extent of $50. $4,000
The final report on the executive, leg
1slstlve and judicial bill WAS also
adopted The bill as 1t goes to the Presi-
dent carries sal, $40, 600. The sundry
civil and Indian appropriation bills were
sent back to conference. By vote of
l54 to 22 the House insisted on its pro-
vision in the latter bill relating to Sec
tartan schools. Eleven Repu blicsns,
ten Democrats and one Populiat voted
against insisting.
|, Inc session Was opened with sen.
sational attempt by Mr.. Howard, (Pop),
to secure resolution to impeach Presi-,
dent Cleveland on eight counts, but he
was promptly suppressed by an almost
unanimous vote of the House.
AS aoon as the journal had been read,
Mr. Howard whose seat Is in q remote
corner OF the hall, arose dram atically
In the centre aisle and flourishing
paper in his hand demanded to be heard
on the resolution which he sent to the
CLERKS desk. The resolution was as
follows:
II do impeach Grover Cleye.
land, President OF the United States, OF
high crimes and misdemeanors on the
following grounds:
II. That he has sold or directed the
sale of bonds without authority of law.
"2. That he sold or aided In the sale
OF bonds ct less than their market
value.
"3. That he directed the misaporo-
priation Of the proceeds of said bond
sales.
"a. That he directed the Secretary Of
the Treasury to disregard the law,
which makes United States notes and
Treasury notes redeemable In coin.
IS. That he has ignored and refused
20 have enforced the antitrust law.
"6. That he has sent United States
troops to the State of Illinois without
authority Of law and In violation Of the
constitution.
81. That he has corrupted politics
through the interference of federal
office olders.
power to influence legislation detrimen-
tai to the welfare OF the people,: There
fore be 1t
Resolved by the House of Represen-
tatives, That the committee on the iu-
dietary be directed to ascertain whether
these charges are true. and II 30 to re.
port to the House such action by Inn
parchment or otherwise as shall be
proper in the premises. And said com.
mittee shall have authority TO send for
persons and papers,
When the clerk CEASED reading Mr..
Howard. who had arisen to address the
House, was suddenly taken off the floor
by Mr.. DiDgley, the floor leader of the
majority. who raised the question of
consideration against the resolution.
The question WAS promptly put by the
Speaker and By practically unanimous
vote she House declined to give Mr..
Howard hearing.
Senate Proceedings.
To-day in the Senate was consumed
by the "flled cheese" bill and the Sec
ond installment of the speech Of Mr..
Allen on the Butler bill to prohibit the
issue OF bonds without the authority OF
Congress. On the ground that the "filled
cheese" bill was revenue measure.
oOVoA ~ omOuumoutb u tAlS6 revenue
were offered but all failed.
One by Mr.. Mills to impose q Der
cent. internal revenue tax on all pro-
ducts, in excess of $4,000 per annum,
from Embellishments manufacturing
from iron, steel, copper, nickel. brass,
lead, zinc, cotton. wool, hemp, silk or
flax, was laid on the table by q vote Of
AZ to Is.
Amendments by Mr.. Allen for an I'D.
ditional internsl revenue tax OF one dol
lar barrel on beer, ale and porter, and
by Mr.. Gray for an import duty of ten
cents pound on tea were lost by SINH
lar votes, and the filled cheese bill was
then obliged to give way to the bond
bill.
Mr.. Allen devoted himself to the
silver ques lion and the platform OF the
Populist party. He was much harassed
by Messrs. Gray, Hill, Chandler. Baker
and other Senators who aought to make
sport OF the Populist tenets, SO that the
speech became g decidedly informal
dialogue.
The Senate passed forty private PEN
sion bills In as many minutes without
objection, thus clearing the csle ndar.
and authorized the publication as o
public document of Gov. Al.geld's re-
ply to Secretary Csrlisle's recent
Chicago financial speech, because the
latter had been printed.
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