Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-03-20
FIFTY-FoURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, March 20.
SENATE.

SENATE.
There was no time lost in getting at
the conference report on the CUBAN
resolutions this morning. The reading
of yesterdays journal was dispensed
with, and there was little or no morn
ing business to be disposed OF. MIR.
Sherman promptly moved that the con-
ference report be taken up; but as soon
as that motion was agreed to and the
report laid before the Senate, Mr.. Allen
requested that he might address the
Senate for half an hour on the Dupont
election case. Mr.. Sherman recoeniz-
ing, as he said, that the Dupont case
was privileged question, yielded the
point gracefully, and Mr.. Allen ad
dressed the Senate in opposition to the
claim of Mr.. Dupont to seat IN the
Senate from the State of Delaware.
In the course of his speech Mr.. Allen
was frequently interrupted by que .
tions and statements on the part
Senators Mitchell and Chandler. Mr..
Mitchell twit:ed him with setting up
his own views as against we'll estab'
lished presidents, and spoke of him,
ironically, as the wisest man in the
Senate. Mr.. Allen retorted that he
was not to be brow-beaten, and driven
from his position, by ouch taunts. Al
though he might like, privately, to &C
cept the compliment of being wiser
than other Senators, he would not do
so publicly.
He had no more respect for many OF
the precedents established in the SEN
ate than he had for the acts of highway
men-independently of that respect
which he was required to have for the
ordinary conduct of business in the
chamber.
One of Mr.. Aliens points being that
no Senator should be admitted without
q gubernatorial certificate, or without
an applicati n for mandamus for such
certificate, Mr.. Chandler suggested that
that rule would have excluded the
Senator from Florida (Mr. CalD ard
would have deprived the Senate of the
many eloquent arguments on various
subjects which that Senator had made.
Mr.. Allen wound up his speech BY
declaring emphatically that he would
vote against Mr.. Dupont being recog-
nized as Senator.
A motion to adjourn over until Mon
day was made by Mr.. German and was,
| in the absence of Mr.. Sherman, object
ed to by Mr.. Lodge. who desired to
| have action on the Cuban resolutions.
A call of the Senate was had, in order
to give time for Rr. Sherman to return
to the chamber, and sixty Senators re-
sponded.
In the meantime Mr.. Sherman re.
turned, and he expressed the hope that
, the motion to adjourn over would mol
be agreed to unless there was first an
Agreements reached as to time for TAX
ing the vote on the Cuban resolutions.
To that proposition strong objection
was made by Mr.. Hale on the ground
that two thirds of the time occupied in
the Cuban discussion had been occupied
By the members ofthe committee on for
egn relations, or of those who sympa-
thized with their report, and that
there were many Senators who desired
to be heard on the other side OF the
question.
The vote was taken on Mr. Germans
motion, and it was agreed to-years AZ,
| nays %.
Mr.. Mitchell, of Oregon, chairman of
the committee on privileges and elec
lions, reported joint resolution for the
Q ection of US. Senators by the people
and gave notice that, as soon as posi-
BILE, he would move to have it taken
up and considered.
Gas one of the minority of the COM
mittee," Mr.. Chandler said, II give o.
tice that the motion of the Senator
from Oregon will be, vigorously OPP
posed"
Mr.. Gray, another member of the
committee, said that the views OF the
minority would be prepared and sub.
mittted to the Senate.
The conference report on the Cuban
resolutions was then taken up, and MIR
Gallery continued the speech begun by
him yesterday in opposition to the re-
port and contending that the exercise
of the power OF recognizing belligerent
rights was exclusively in the executive
branch of the government.
10 whispered remark of MIR. Platt.
who sat near him, Mr.. Gallery said 81
am asked whether we ought to be de-
nouncing, on the floor of the Senate,
the manner in which foreign nations
conduct their own affairs, l say, en-
phatically, no; and I protest against at
lacks made here on the character OF
foreign country; I protest against those
epithets that have been hurled, right
and left, at Spain during the debate in
this chamber. I take no part or lot in
such denunciaticp; and l characterize
them as entirely out of place, and as
not be6tting the dignity of the Senate
of the United States"
EoUsE.
The House to-day again proceeded
Immediately after the reading Of the
journal, to consider the resolutions GEN.
surfing Mr.. Bayard, Ambassador at
London, for his speeches at Boston and
Edinburgh. Mr.. Adams was the first
speaker of the last days debate, which
was to close at 2 o'clock, supporting the
report of the committee on foreign af-
fairs recommending the passage of the
resolutions. He paid high tribute to
the personal character of Mr.. Bayard,
and mentioned that he was the first
American to bear the title of Ambsssa-
dor. The duties of that position had
been defined by the conference at Der
lin 10 1914; it said Ambassadors were
and should be considered as the per-
sonal representative of his sovereign.
Therefore, said Mr.. Adams, when Bay
ard was appointed Ambassador by Mr..