The age-herald., 1898-02-05
SENATOR LINDSAY
 MAKES HIS REPLY To the Demand For His Resignation
 By the Legislature. THEY WANT VACANCY MADE So Some Political Friend of the Authors
 Can Slide In. PENSION BILL DAY IN THE HOUSE Kansas Pacific Railroad Matter Injected Into This Discussion = Democrats Accused the
 Republicans of FiIibusteringto
 Defer Private Bills.
PENSION BILL DAY IN THE HOUSE

Washington, Feb At the opening of the senate today it was decided that when the senate adjourn today. it be until Mon- day next
 A bill providing for the erection of public building at Beaumont, Tex, at a cost not to exceed s1OOoo was passed
 MT. Platt, of New York. offered a reso- iution which was referred to the commit tee on military affairs. directing the sec retary of war to return to the Seventh regiment artillery. (formerly the 113th New York V. D. the flags of the regiment.
 A bill authorizing the construction of river, a navigable stream. in Dale coun- ty, Alabama, was passed.
 Lindsay's Personal Statement
 MT. Lindsay then took the floor to speak on the resolution of the Kentucky legis- lature asking him to resign:
 "I hold in my hands paper purporting to be an official copy of a resolution re- gently adopted by the two houses of the Kentucky general assembly. and which it is due to myself and the senate, shall be fully understood"
 He then had the resolutions read at the clerks desk and continued: While this professes to request my resignation, 1t is couched in language which regards the ordinary amenities of life, and is in effect a demand that shall surrender my place in order to create a vacancy and thus make room here for some one holding political views in harmony with the au- thor and promoters of the resolution I fn tl,s, of ungranted power, and fnasmuch as the resolution has been made a matter of re- cord on the journals of the two houses of the state legislature to which I have no access, I propose to give it place on the records of the senate and in that connec- tion to make such comments as I deem necessary and proper under the circum- stances.
 Had Disobeyed Their win Tt is to be observed that in the arraign- ment which precedes the resolution there is no charge that I ever disobeyed the ex- pressed will of the people of Kentucky. There is no charge that any act of mine as senator is subject to complaint: no intima- tion that have ever given a vote which did not reflect the views of the majority of my constituents or that have at any time failed to look after their interests, or have been wanting in any duty owing to them or to the country, or that I am now opposing legislation which a majority of the people of Kentucky regard as essential to the public welfare, or that my personal conduct at any time or in any respect has been to the slightest degree. incom- patible with the high position of an Ameri- can senator.
 By the silence of the arraignment in these regards, the resolution affirmatively implies that my conduct senator is free from all blame and open to no criticism, even by those who are evidently moved by the spirit of bitter political prescription and intolerance.
 1.-The substance of the complaint is that I am opposed to the free and unlimited coiange of silver at the ratio of IS to | and that opposed the election of the nominees of the hate Chicago convention and by so doing betrayed the trust reposeti in me by my constituency. My constituency is made up of the peo- pie of Kentucky and that peoples votes against those nominees and twelve out of &airteen of the electoral votes of Kentucky were registered against them." At 12:35 o'clock on motion of MT. Davis of Minnesota chairman of the foreign re- lations committee, the senate went into executive session.
 At $40 D. m. the senate adjourned mti Monday