The age-herald., 1898-01-23
Bill Passed to Suspend Sale of Spirit
 uous Liquors to indians.
THE REEp-BAILEY CONTROVERSY
Again Brought Up by the Texan Who Quoted From the Record to Show That an Agreement Was Made to Recom-
 init Appropriation Bill.

Washington, Jan. 22.-In the house today some odds and ends of legislation were cleaned up by unanimous consent
 MT. Hit, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, submitted a privileged report from his committee, recommending the passage of a resolution of inquiry, request ing the state department, if not incompat- ible with the public interest, to transmit to the house all information in its posses sion relative to the military execution of Col. Ruiz, Spanish envoy to the insur- gent camp of Aranguren The resolution was adopted without division.
 MT. Hit also reported back, with an un- favorable recommendation, the Lewis res olution calling on the state department for draft of the Hawaiian annexation treaty and for information as to what con stitutional authority the president had to contract for the payment of a Hawaiian debt of A,000 900 out of the treasury.
 MT. Hit explained that the resolution had been offered at the last session, and as the treaty had been made public there was no necessity for it's passage.
 MT. Bailey, (dem) of Ts as, thought that the latter part of the resolution broaehed question of importance and one that could be inquired into with pro- priety.
 MT. Hit cut off further debate with a demand for the previous question:
 The Demand Sustained.
 The demand was sustained MT. Dins- more, (dem.) of Arkansas, the senior mil nority member of the committee, stated that the report of the committee was unanimous, as it appeared to them that the main purpose of the resolution was to procure a copy of the treaty. which had already been printed. He would vote to sustain the committee.
 MT. Bailey declared that he was unwilling to vote to lay on the table resolution which sought to obtain the presidents au- thority for contracting to pay out S4, ,OO0, 900 of the public funds.
 The resolution was laid on tle table- 12f to no.
 Mir. Alexander Gep.) of New York se- cured the passage of a bill to suspend ths federal laws against the sale of spurious liquors to Indians so far as they relate .e the Indians of New York state, and sub stitute therefor the laws of the state He explained that the purpose of the bili was to break up practice by which for years Indians had conspired to obtain witness fees and mileage to Albany, where shsz were tried for such offenses.
 At this point MT. Bailey, the democratic leader of the house, created something of a furry by rising to question of personal privilege in connection with his controversy with. Speaker Reed at the close of the Gu ban debate last Thursday.
 MT. Bailey said an examination of the record showed that there was an agree nent that there should be Q yea and nay vote on the motion to recommit so explicit and distinct that he felt it his duty to call 1t to the attention of the country. He then read at length the colloquy which took place between Mr. Williams (dem.) of Mis- sissippi, Mir Hit and others as to the closing of the Cuban debate When he finished by quoting Mr. Hitts last re- marks, land 1t is understood, Mir. Chair man, that at 4 o'clock tomorrow there shall be but one yea and nay vote, that a motion to recommt." the democrats broke forth in applause.
 Misunderstanding Misstatement.
 ''That was precisely my statement" con tinued Mir. Bailey T do not desire to impute motives other than honorable ones to any one for I slow to charge falsc- hood or unfair dealing. but do affirm that there has been either a misunderstanding O. a misstatement'
 A lengthy colloquy ensued on the paria- mentary points involved in the disputed question and at it's conclusion the house went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation bill with the under standing that the general debate should close at o'clock. During the general de- bate Mr. Cumings (dem) of New York, made an eloquent pro-Cuban speech, Mr. IEdy (rep.) of Minnesota. spoke on the free homes question, MT. Lewis (deni) of Geor- gia, submitted some remarks in reply to MT. Dngleys statements on Thursday re- garding the cause Of the depression in the cotton industry in New England and MT. Gaines (dem.) of Tennessee, on the armor plate question. The other speakers were Messrs Little (dem) of Arkansas; Kle-