Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-06-10
FIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 10.
SENATE.

SENATE.
A partial conference report on the
sundry civil appropriation bill was pre-
sented and aged to; and further con-
ference ordered.
Mr.. Allison, in making the report,
said that the only remaining disagree
ments between the two houses was as to
public buildings; that on one OF them
the House had receded and that ne
thought there would be no trouble in
dealing with the remainder.
House bill to adopt regulations TOR
preventing collisions at sea WIS passed.
Mr.. Hill move to proceed with the
consideration of the bill as to contempt
of court.
The contempt of court bill was then
! taken up and Mr.. PETER addressed the
Senate upon it, expressing his satisfac'
ton with the bill.
Mr.. Butler, who followed in support
of the bill, arraigned the growing power
of the Supreme Court to influence legls-
lation. After speaking of the instances
in which the Supreme Court had upset
legislation demanded by the people, re-
ferring especially to the income tax,
he described the Supreme Court as the
third legislative house, elected by no.
body, representing nobody, account
able to nobody, inconsistency AFRO
eating to itself the authority and
power to decide that Congress didn't
know what it was doing, and which
had decided that the income tax was
bad legislation as we'll as unconstitu-
tional. 1t must have been an over
sight in the bill, he said, which in
creased the power of the courts beyond
that conferred by the constitution. He
referred to the summary treatment OF
Debs, the labor leader, who was sent
to prison for contempt of court.
Mr.. Platt protested against the con-
sideration of such an important bill dur
ing the last days of Congress.
HOUSE.
Mr.. KEN was absent from his post OF
duty when the House met at ten o'clock
this morning in further continuation OF
| the legislative day of Saturday, and al
though there were less than 90 men,
bers present, several measures were
disposed of without objection.
A resolution was adopted authoriz-
| ing elections committee No. l to take
further evidence in the contested cleo
ton case of Hopkins VS.. Kendall, from
the 10th Kentucky district, as to the
election in Clark county.
| On motion of Mr.. Mondell Senate
concurrent resolution was agreed to d.
recting the Secretary of the Interior to
resume the work of issuing patents to
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
| for lands sold by it to bona fde pur-
chasers, according to the lists supplied
by the company.
Upon a resolution reported providing
| for the printing of 5000 copies of the
bankruptcy bill, Mr.. Allen made his
usual humorous speech at the close OF
Congress. He said there had been
considerable comment in the newspa-
pers respecting the somewhat unusual
silence which had characterized him in
this session. "But, Mr.. Speaker" he
continued, "there has been little in this
session of Congress to inspire Christ
Ian man to be loquacious. Naughter.)
But I am not the only one who has
been silent in these days. There are
many of the leaders who are not talk
ing much lately. (Laughter.) An cleo
ton took place down in my State in
the earlier part of this session which
greatly displeased me, filling me with
an apprehension that the people were
not doing their best in the selection OF
their public officers, and almost max
ing me despair of the perpetuity of the
institutions OF our country" (Laughter.)
Mr.. Allen said the condition of things
politically in the House and country
was discouraging. The question had
been asked in the gallery the other
day, (Which is the democratic side?"
and the answer had to be made, There
| is no democratic side v; only lite strip
on one side" He said he was COM
PEELED to enter upon this explanation
by the receipt of letter from an old
constituent who wrote: John, you've
led the party to defeat, and the people
demand new leader"
Mr.. Allen denied the assertion made
by his correspondent. "The party new
or went to defeat while it was following
me-" he asserted amid laughter. "That
came when some of the party left of
following me and went off after my
friend Tracy, of New York, two or three
years ago, when the party ceased de-
nouncing the crime of '73 as crime.
That was when the trouble began on
my side of the House. But, Mr.. Speak
err" Mr.. Allen graciously continued,
81 am ready to again take the lead
cloud laughter). offer my best SER
vices to the party, under return to
those principles by the advocacy OF
which we used to occupy all the seats
on this side and to lap over among the
republicans.
MIR. Allen proceeded to discuss with
an approach to gravity some of the
questions before the public, in which
connection he asserted that the most
sensible proposition which had come
before Congress was that of General
Wheeler 10 cut down all official salaries.
1t should be remembered, Mr.. Allen
said, that the country is proceeding un-
der gold standard, whereby one dol
lar buys as much as two dollars used to
buy, and to secure dollar, required q
man to give twice as much of his labor
as before. Instead of accepting this
proposition, however, said Mr.. Allen,
the Congress had gone on making large
ly increased appropriations for itself,
and for other objects, between which
and the people me and the President
have tried to stand" Uaughter.)
Referring again to the subject of his 81