Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-03-26
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Mar. &c.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session to-day

WA5H1NGTON, MAI. ~.
SENATE.
The Senate was not in session today.
HOUSE.
A special notice was sent to all the
republican members of the House this
morning to be in their places at noon
to-day. The leaders had decided to
bring in special rule to bring the nav
al appropriation bill to vote if the fill
clustering of yesterday was TO be re-
sumed, but as the democrats gave as
surances that the obstructive tactics
would not be continued, the plan of
bringing in rule was abandoned.
Before the journal was approved Mr..
Bailey called attention to what be
thought was an abuse of a privilege TO
print personal explanation given to
Mr.. Pearson. Mr.. Pearson mad, he
said, been accused of abusing the frank
ing privilege of the House, and under
leave to print had made the very mat
ter frankable which he had been &C
cused Of improperly frankiDg.
Mr.. Pearson maintained that he had
not abused the privilege granted him.
He called attention to the fact that
some of the matter printed was from a
paper in which w. J. Bryan was inter-
ested.
"Do you object to what William Jen-
nings Bryan says?" he asked smiling.
81 am inclined to indorse anything
Mr.. Bryan says at this time" demo.
cratic applause). MIR. Bailey then
moved to strike the publication to
which he objected from the record.
Mr.. Handy denounced Mr.. Pearson's
action as q fragrant violation of the
House. The correspondence which he
was given leave to print, he declared,
could not have related to the publica-
ton which Mr.. Pearson had printed
because the correspondence began up.
on the day before the publication origin
ally appeared.
MIR. Bailey said he would not have
pressed this matter except to emphasize
the rigid manner in which the majority
in times past had held democrats to
words literally spoken in debate. He
also referred to the fact that only yes
terday the majority had refused to al
low Mr.. Hartman to get some political
matter in the Record.
Mr.. Pearson interrupted Mr.. Bailey
to say that he intended to second his
(Mr. Bailey's) motion.
"Then the gentleman from North
Carolina" replied Mr.. Bailey, sis in.
fuitely fairer than his associates on
that side." Democratic applause.)
Mr.. Pearson then took the floor and
made his explanation. 1t involved, he
said, questions of propriety and deli
cacy. He explained that the matter
about which he had written had APP
peared five days before in North
Carolina paper. He had recognized
Immediately that five seats from North
Carolina in this House depended upon
their attitude toward the publication,
which consisted in fact of resolutions
adopted by the populists at Raleigh
endorsing the fusion of the silver
forces.
The article from the other paper
which he printed in the Record bore on
the same subject. In conclusion Mr..
Pearson said that he would rather sit
in the House with democratic gentle
man than q populiat traitor. At his
request Mr.. Bailey then withdrew his
motion and by unanimous consent the
article to which objection was made
was stricken from the record.
The consideration of the naval bill
was then resumed under the Gvemin-
ute rule.
Mr.. Elliott moved an amendment to
provide the naval militia with clothing.
The navy department, he said, en-
dorsed this proposition.
Mr.. Boutelle pointed out that the
government had never been called upon
to supply clothing to the naval militia
and he did not believe the scope OF the
government appropriations had been
broadened
The amendment Was Lost.
Another amendment wss offered by
Mr. Foote to increase the appropria
ton for arms, accoutrements, etc., OF
naval reserves from $60,000 to 100000.
Mr.. Boutelle in supporting the
amendment, argued that it was the
duty of the United States to intervene
in Cuba. His remarks aroused several
outbursts of applause but he was re.
peatedly called to order under the
ruling of yesterday limiting the debate
to the section under consideration.
Mr.. Lewis also argued in favor of in
tervention. War, he said, WAS already
upon US. We were fools to disguise it,
1t was not patriotic to delude ourselves
further. The Spanish torpedo tlotilla
was sailing toward our shores. He as
serted that it was the duty of the gov
ernment to intercept that feet and blow
it from the seas. When he quoted
John Randolph's utterance delivered
in the House in 1922, "As We would not
be bullied by the British lion 80 we re.
fuse to be frightened by the Spanish
jackal," the House broke into cheers.