Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-06-03
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June 3.
SENATE.
SENATE.

L.
Mr.. Vest, of Missouri, offered reso
luton recitipg that the skeleton;
OF American soldiers killed 81
Buens Vista in 1871 were low e1humec
and asking the State Department TO in
vestigate the subject and report the
facts TO Congress. a letter was read
in this connection from Consul Genera
Crittenden saying the matter should
receive the attention of the authorities
at Washington. A clipping was en-
closed stating that the bones OF Ameri'
can soldiers were bleaching in the sun.
TIE resolution was then agreed TO.
Senator Tillman moved that the COM
mittee on contingent expenses be dis
charged from tie consideration Of the
resolution for investigation OF the
charges 10 regard TO sugar speculation
and bring the resolution before the
Senate.
Senator Gallinger, member OF the
committee, objected and added that
the committee in its own good time
would make report after carefully
considering the matter.
Senator Vest quoted from speech
Of Senator Thurman regarding de-
mand made at one time by g Louisiana
Senator for al investigation. Thur
man said that a Senator Of the United
States had recourse to the courts the
same &c any other citizen and that no
investigation was ordered.
Mr.. Tillman said ne WAS not concern
ed as TO the charges against himself, and
he proposed TO have the charges inves-
tigated because "a attempt had been
made to attract attention from the FIRE
ne was building 10 front. He cav no
reason why any Senator should not
want charges investigated. What he
wanted was TO find out whether the
Senate or any Senator belonged 20 the
sugar trust.
Mr.. Gallinger said the question was
whether the word of Senators Aldricn
and Smith was to be taken by the Sen
ate. He said the charges against the
committee On finance aud Senator Smith
were vague aud indefinite.
Mr.. Tillman said what he wanted
was 70 bring the newspaper men before
the bar of the Senate and put the ques-
tions to them and if they refused to an
aver put them in Jail. Ifthey had lied
about the Senate or Senators they
} should be punished for contempt.
Mr.. Gallnger said there WAS no ne
cessity Of railroading the resolution
through.
Mr.. Tillman replied that railroading
wac necessary az Congress would adj
journ as soon as the tariff bill passed.
MIR. Gallinger referred to the last
augar investigation and considered it
:, an outrage that he and other Senators
were dragged before the committee Of
investigation to swear that they were
honest men.
Mr.. Tillman said the necessity for
swearing Senators was because wit
meas bad exculpated one Senator and
then refused to answer az to others,
leaving the balance under an imputs-
ton. The witness had been sent TO
jail for refusing to answer and now he
would be compelled to answer. Mr..
Tillman said he would not ask the
Senate to discharge the committee if
Mr.. Jones, the chairman, had not told
him he had not been able to get the
other members to meet with him.
Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas-The chair
man OF the committee could not have
made such statement because it was
not true.
Mr.. Tillman-He told me he had
tried 10 get meeting and could not.
Mr.. Jones, of Arkansas-The chair
man of the committee will not 80 state
in his place in the Senate, as there had
been meeting of the committee to
consider the resolution.
Mr.. Tlllman withdrew his motion to
discharge the committee, saying he did
not wish to cast any imputaton on the
committee.
At the close of the debate on the
Tilman resolution the tariff bill was
taken up and Senator Jones of Arkan
sas spoke upon various features of the
metal schedule.
Mr.. Turpie attacked the policy of
putting high rates on low priced arti-
Giles. He said the bill was practically
bill 10 pension the cutlery manufac
turers, 10 pension the "great army of
prosperity" of the last campaign.
The substitute for the cutlery para
graph fixing 70 per cent. as the maxi
mum WAS lost, 90 to 81.
An amendment fixing the maximum
rate on cutlery at 60 per cent. was lost,
II to 90. The committee amendments
were then agreed to. A motion to re-
duce the rate on table cutlery was
lost, % to 81.
HOUSE.