Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-19

ings are such that missions-home mis-
sions-are necessary in order to bring
the people to the proper knowledge of
what Is right and true"
AT this point the vice president asked
Mr.. Vest to suspend his speech until a
message should be received from the
president.
Mr.. West stopped and the message was
delivered, general laughter being excited
at the incident, and being continued Mr..
Vest remarked with assumed gravity
that he would be glad If the presiding Of
ficer would examine the message and see
If 1t was in response to anything which
had occurred in the senate today.
The Dupont election case was then
taken up, and Mr.. Thurston addressed
the senate in an argument supporting
Mr.. Dupont's claim to the seat. He al
luded in his opening sentences to the de-
lightful harmony which was shown by
the debate this morning to exist in the
ranks of the democratic party. Mr..
Thurston closed his speech at . o'clock,
when Mr.. Chandler took the floor to
speak on the same side of the question.
After passing numerous bills unobject-
ed to the senate at 5:55 adjourned until
tomorrow.
The House.
The announcement that the resolutions
reported from the committee on foreign
affairs cenSurlng Ambassador Bayard
would be the special order for today s
session of the house failed to attract to
the hall any unusual attendance. Ihe
hour fixed for the consideration of the
resolutions was 1870, but the miscellane-
Gus business of the morning was not sur
fcient in volume to occupy all OF the
time after assembling until then, so that
recess of fifteen minutes preceded the
beginning of the debate. When Mr.. Hit
called up the Bayard resolutions about
half of the members of the house were IN
.,t., h hn
were only comfortably filled. In the
diplomatic gallery were Baron Won ket-
tier secretary of the German embassy;
Senior DomingueZ charge d ahaireS OF
the Argentine republic, and Mrs Domin-
guez; Nine. Romero, wife of the Mexican
minister; Mrs. ]. w. Foster and Mrs. Van
Renssaler Cruger Cullen Gordon). The
members gallery contained the wives
and members of the families of numer-
Gus representatives. Mr.. Hit was not
in good condition physically, and after a
few minutes his voice gave out and he
was compelled to close. He expressed
the hope that the resolutions would be
adopted saying that such speeches as
those made by Mr.. Bayard destroyed the
respect which an ambassador ought TO
command, diminished his usefulness and
was a wrong to the people he repre-
sented.
Mr.. McCreary and Mr. Dinsmore, in
speeches of more than an hours length
each, defended Mr.. Bayard and opposed
the passage of the resolutions.
Mr. Draper, a member of the commit
tee on foreign affairs, deplored the sever
ity of the language in the resolutions of
censure, and in accordance with his
views of the duty of the house gave no
tice that he would ask separate votes
upon the two resolutions.
Mr. Cousins speech advocated the
adoption of the committees report. IL
was the feature of the occasion. 1t was
by turns eloquent and sarcastic, filled
with criticisms of Mr.. Bayard and glow
ing with pictures of the greatness ana
glory of the country and of the indivld-
ual under the system of protection which
the ambassador had denounced. He
spoke for nearly an hour, commanding
Throughout the attention of all hearers to
a marked degree and at the close was
given an ovation that lasted several min
utes.
At. the conclusion of Mr.. Dinsmore's
address, at 5:25, the house adjourned un-
til tOmOrrOw