The Portland daily press., 1897-05-14
The Senate adjourned to Monday.

The Senate adjourned to Monday
Washington, May 13.-The Senate
agreed at the outset of the session today
that the adjournment be until next Mon
day.
The Allen resolution relative to bring.
ing Elverton R. Chapman to the bar of
the Senate was taken up as soon as the
routine business was out of the way.
Mr.. Allen said the Senate should, in JUS
tice to himself, take this matter in hand
and deal with it promptly. He could
not stand the anxiety of Chapman to
shield those around him from the conse-
quences of the sentence ''But as the re-
presentatives of seventy millions people,
proceeded Mr.. Allen, we cannot afford
to permit Mr.. Chapman, the representa-
tive of powerful organization which, it
has been charged, exercises great inf1u-
ence over this body, to go unWhipped
The discussion assumed for awhile a
legal and technical phase, then Mr. Hoar
moved to refer the resolution to the
committee on privileges and elections.
Answering a question of Mr.. Allen, Mr..
White said the right of the Nebraska
senator to urge this resolution was not
questioned, but it was question Of pro-
priety whether the Senate should trench
upon executive power.
Mr.. Pettus, Democrat of Alabama,
urged that the investigation be opened
afresh, requiring witnesses to appear and
testify instead of furnishing them for
past demeanors. Eb
Mr.. Chandler of New Hampshire said
that If there was any senators who had
engaged in speculation of sugar stock
which God forbid, is the case-then four
years have obliterated the evidence. The
old investigation had failed; the tree
had fallen and it ought to lie. 1t would
after the tribulations by the committee of
the courts and of the newspapers press
that the witness Chapman should be par
doned.
Mr.. Tillman was then recognized for
speech and caused distinct sensation
on the floor and in the galleries.
|'It seems to me-, said Mr. Tillman,
THAT we are not after Chapman; or the
original investigation was not intended
to punish Chapman, butUto discover
whether any senator on this floor had
been guilty of using his official position
to make money by speculating in stocks
which were influenced by his action as
senator on the committee which reported
the tariff bill
There are two correspondents who
have over their own signatures charg ed
that senators have speculated within the
last week and made money We do not
want Chapman. We want Haverneyer.
We want the man who bought your men
If they were bought"
Mr.. Gray said he agreed with the Sena-
tor from the South Carolina, (Tillman),
that what the Senate was concerned in
was not the contempt of Chapman, but
the ascertainment of facts relative to
speculation in sugar stocks
The Morgan Cuban resolution came up
at 2 O'Clock, but went over until Mon.
day at the request of Mr.. Morgan. At
the request of Mr.. Allen, Mr. Hoar
changed his motion so as to have the reso-
luton referred to the committee on judic-
iary instead of the committee on privi-
leges and elections The motion was
agreed to.
Mr.. Gallinger introduced resolution
for the appropriation of $50, 200 for the
relief of suffering Americans in Cuba.
The resolution went to the committee on
foreign relations.
AT 2.25 the Senate went into executive
session. The open session was resumed
at o'clock. Mr.. Aldrich, Republican
of Rhode Island, of the finance commit
tee, stated that he hoped to call the tariff
bill upon Thursday for preliminary
statement.
Mr.. Gallinger started the Senate on q
debate by calling attention to the enor-
NOUS imports on wool in anticipation of
the new tariff law.
The discussion then became collouuial
and drifted to the days of Buchanan's s
administration against long tariff speech
eS.
Mr.. Pettus, Democrat of Alabama,
moved an adjournment to Monday, which
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