The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
BANKRUPTCY BILL IN HOUSE
CHANGE Of SENTIMENT As TO Me-
CEssITY OF IT'S ENACTMENT.
General Henderson and the Women
sion Enlivened by Mr.. TilIman.
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men are here openly for the purpose of dis
abusing the minds of certain congressman
that only few railroads want the law en-
acted. After the demonstration of yester-
| day and to-day there car be little doubt
that the great majority of solvent railroads
| want to destroy the means of violating the
| interstate-commerce law, which was al
| forded by the existence of irregular ticket
| brokerage offices, otherwise known as
scalpers. If the railroads are able TO keep
| the ticket scaiping and pooling questions
separated in the Senate they may succeed
in having ticket scalping declared illegal.
Otherwise they are likely to fail. 1t is the
/ programme of the ticket scalpers' lobby to
| have these questions discussed i'll common,
feeling that by doing so they can load the
matter down and have it side-tracked. EV-
| erythng depends which side can COM
mand the most skillful generalship when
the issues are joined in the field of discus
| sion.
The bankruptcy bill has been made the
| special order in the House for the next five
days Members from the Northern Ind
Western States, particularly those hailing
| from commercial communities, report that
change in sentiment among their business
| constituents appears to have been going on
with regard to bankruptcy legislation. The
demand for such legislation during the past
! five or six years up to twelve months ago
came almost entirely from the mercantile
| classes in the larger cities, Wholesalers be-
| ing particularly active. Latterly, however,
| the character of the demand seems to have
| radically changed. 1t comes now largely
| from the South and Southwest, and this Gle
ment is urgent for the adoption of the in
voluntary bankruptcy feature. This seems
| to have frightened away the original pro-
moters of the proposition, and they are now
very generally taking the other side, argu-
| ing that there is no present need for an
additional bankruptcy law, and that the
country can well get along without one.
AS a delegation of woman suffragists who
/ had been addressing the House committee
! on judiciary this afternoon was about to
/ leave the committee room, a very pretty
young lady in the party leaned over and
| whispered to General Henderson, of Iowa:
| Il cannot go away without letting you into
| the secret that this is the seventy-eighth
| birthday of our chairman, Susan 3. An
| thony.''
| A twinkle stole into the generals eyes,
and, pretending to misunderstand the lady,
| he called the committee together again and
| said: Gentlemen, this lady wishes me to
| state that this is her seventy-eghth birth
| day, and / take the liberty of suggesting
that before we adjourn we extend to her
| our congratulations
The recipient of this sudden sunburst of
! congressional attention aughingly pro-
| tested that she was not yet quite that old,
and that, any way, it wasn't her birthday.
| but it was some time before the jolly
/ statesman would listen to her explanation
| and let her set herself right
Miss Susan b. Anthony, the president of
! the association, made strong plea to the
| House committee, in which she pointed out
| the full suffrage already granted in three
| British colonies, the Isle of Man, New Zea-
] land and South Australia. She referred to
the many voters less qualified than inteli-
| gent women, spoke of ignoramuses who
held the elective franchise and said the
government which refused women suffrage
was casting the ballot privileges unasked on
foreigners reaching our shores and extend
| ing them the franchise practically unasked.
| The Senate committee on equal suffrage
also granted hearing in the Senate mar
BILE room to ladies' Senators Berry, Wet
| more, Teller, Cannon and McLaurin being
! present The marble room was crowded.
! The addresses were all pleas direct in
/ direct for the granting of the franchise to
women.
/ The executive session of the Senate to-
| day was enivened by vigorous effort of
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, to Sc
/ cure recognition to make point against
/ the contention that the Hawaiian islands
| were of strategic Importance to the United
! States. Senator Gallinger occupied the
chair, and other senators Were seeking to
make reports on nominations, several COM
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| voice was drowned by theirs. and it began
to look as if the Senate would adjourn
without his being heard Apparently real
izing the situation. the South Carolina sem
ator took his position in the middle aisle di-
! rectly in front of the chair and demanded
| to be heard.
| II have stood here on my feet while eight
/ or ten men have been recognized' he said,
in stentorian tones, land want to know if
I am to be heard
IF the senator would speak a little
! louder said Senator Hoar, facetiously The
might be-
This remark did not apparently fall
agreeably on Mr. Tillmans ears, and he re-
| piled by appealing for protection and fair
treatment. Il have been a member of this
| body for three years" he said and have
always tried to deport myself as a gentle
| man, and l think L entitled to fair
treatment"
At this point Senator Galnger, who occal-
/ pied the chair. raped for order He then
explained that the failure to recognize Nj
| Tilman was due entirely to an inadvertence
| and To the fact that his attention had been
directed in another way. To this Mr. Till
man replied that this explanation was en-
| tirely satisfactory, and he then proceeded to
make his point, which was that the STRAIT
| egic Importance of the Hawaiian islands
was overrated. He argued that in case Of
war between Japan and the United States
Japan could bring coal for her war ships
| over in tenders and thus render herself en-
tirely Independent Of the islands.
The Senate committee on education and
/ labor to-day decided by a unanimous vote
/ to report favorably the bill prepared by the
trainsuen Of the country and recently intro
dueed in the Senate by Senator Kyle, pro-
viding FOR the arbitration OF railroad strikes
| by board of arbitrators 10 be chosen by
1 the strikers and the lnterstate-commerce
1 Commission. Before deciding to report the
/ bill, the committee heard arguments from
| Secretary Moseley, OF the lnterstate-com-
merce Commission. and Mcssrs Hines and