The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-26
Stirring Scenes of Fifty-first Con-
greSS Revived Yesterday.
HARTMAN BEGAN THE ROW
OVERCOME BY CAR REED AND
THE MAJORITY.
Montana Congressman Essayed Po-
litical Speech During the Consid-
Grafton of the Naval Bill-Filibus-
tering Kept Up, and Only Four
Pages of the Bill Read.

Washington. March 25-The stirring
scenes of the Fifty-first congress. when
members of the minority were charging
down the aisles. protesting against the
today in the turbulent protests made by
the minority against the ruling OF the
chair during the consideration OF the
naval appropriation bill. The rullns IN
effect compelled the members to confine
their remarks, under the five-minute rule,
to the subject before the house. and was
made against Mr.. Hartman (Sll. KEEP,
Month who attempted TO make a pO-
liticaI speech The ruling was de-
nounced as a usurpation, and appeal after
appeal was taken. When all else 1aled.
every eXpedient was resorted TO TO olock
progress with the bill. As result. but
four pages were disposed of. Before the
bill was taken up for amendment. Mr.:
Foss (Rep., Ills.), a member of the naval
vocacy of the policy of building uD a
strong and powerful navy.
OLD AND NEW NAVY.
The eyes of the American people. he
said, were fixed upon the American navy.
the defender of the living and guardian OF
the honor of the dead. If an emergency
was upon us. the American navy was
ready TO meet it, With glowing words.
he paid an eloquent tribute TO the bril-
liant achievements of our navy in the
revolutionary war. the war OF lSl2 ana
the war of the rebellion, eulogiZing the
deeds of John Paul Jones. Decatur, Perry,
Porter. Farragut and Dupont. He then
described the decay of the navy after
the war and the rebuilding of the new
navy, which began under Secretaries
Chandler and Whitney.
Mr.. Bartholdt (Rep, Mo- said that
some European papers and their echoes
in this country said that the foreiGn-born
citizens of the country would be men
ace to the United States in case of war
with a foreign country. He resented this
in the strongest possible manner. The
of ba init cd N
its adopted citizens.
HARTMAN'S DIVERSION.
Mr.. Hartman created the diversion
which caused the blocking of business
during the rest of the day. by delivering
a five-mnute speech, satirizinS the Re
publican party, and when, under cover
of a second pro lorna amendment. ne
attempted to proceed. Alr. Boutelle called
him to order He made the point that
Mr. Hartman's remarks were not perth
ncnt to the amendment y lively Darlia-
mentary wrangle followed when the chair
sustained a point of order.
After the debate on the appeal had run
on for an hour. Mr.. Boutelle moved TO
close the debate on the appeal. Instantly
point of order was made against Mr.
Boutelles motion. which was overruled.
Party feeling ran high. The vote was
taken on Mr.. Boutelles motion to close
debate on the appeal, and carried-111
to o5-
The vote then came upon the appeal
from the decision of the chair, and the
chair was sustained-120 70 %.
Mr.. Hartman. after this two-hours
wrangle again got the floor, and was
proceeding with the speech which had
been interrupted, when Mr.. Boutelle
again interposed a point of order. II was
again sustained. and when Mr.. Bailey
again appealed. the point was made that
the appeal was dilatory. and the chair
declined to entertain the appeal.
Mr.. Hartman then changed his tactics
and arose to a question of personal priv
ilege.
Mr.. Dingley made the point that no