Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-12-06
REPRESENTATIVE ROBERTS.
IN HIS Ohm DEFENSE.
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people-a righteous expression OF their
sentiment justly founded, however
much mtsdireeted. He did not say Mr..
/; Roberts was guilty But he indicted!
him upon his own responsibility.
TAYLEiR RESOLUTION ADOPTED
The Vote was then taken. first, on he
substitute. which was defeated--59 to
!247. is;.
The vote then required upon the
roll being called upon the. demand Of
the Republicans.
The, resolutions were adopted So2-S0.
Those who voted in The negative were
as follows: Adamson,t Allen (Niississip-
ply. Bailey, Ball, Brewer, Burleson,.
Carmack, Cooper. Davey. DeGraMen-i
reid, Dinsmore, Fitzpatrick, Fleming.
Kitchen, Lester, Lewis, Mcclellan. Me-.
Culloch. Maddox, Norton (South Caro-
! lina), Rhca. Richardson, Robbins, Stay
! den. Small. Snodgrass. Stephens. Tur-i
|. ner. Democrats; Newlands. of Nevada,
Silverite; Loud, of California, Republi-
| can. IA
THE COMMITTEE.
The Speaker then appointed the fol-
lowing members as the special COM
| mittee under the resolution:
Republicans -Tayler, Ohio. chairman:
Lands. Indiana. Morris, Minnesota,l
Freer. West Virginia; Litueneld,
Maine; Mcpherson. Iowa.
Democrats - DeArmond, Missouri;
Lanham, Texas, and Miers, Of Indiana
The death OF the late Representative
Settle. of Kentucky, was then an-'
nounced. and at 6:oo, ms a further mark
of respect, the House adjourned until
Thursday.
A RUSH OF HILLS.
Washington, ID. c., Dec 5.-The rush
Ia trNtt =. a.
yesterday was the greatest in the
memory of House officials. the total be-
| ing SCI bills, public and private, and
| thirty resolutions
HOUSE COMMITTEES
Washington, D. c.. Dec. Us peaker
| Henderson has not yet definitely deter
mined when the committees of the
House will be announced, whether be.
fore or after the holidays, but the eN-
| pectation is that 1t will be just before
the Adjournment for Christmas. The
! time is required for conferring with
new members and learning their capn-.
| bilitles for different lines OF work. In
the main it Is expected that old menu
bers will retain their former places.
PACIFIC CABLE. 5ss
Washington, D.. c., Dec. 5.-Repre.
sentative Corliss, of Michigan, has in
troduced hill for a. Pacific cable to
be built by The Government to Hawaii,
the Philippines. Japan and China, Mt Il
limit of cost of 'SSO0000O OF which
100000 is to be Immediately available,
INSULAR AFFAIRS.
Washington, Dec, Representative
|. Tawney. of minnesota, to-day intro
duced in the House a resolution for the
creation of a committee of seventeen
members to be known as the Commit
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| diction over affairs concerning insplar
territory, acquired or occupied, under
treaty with Spain on December 10. lS0S,
including the island of Tutuifa, Samoa"
YELLOW FEVER
! Washington, Dec. 5.-Among the bills
introduced In the House to-day was one
/ by Mr.. Elliott (South Carollna) for an
investigation of the cause of yellow
fever.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, Dec. 5.-To-d days session
| of the Senate lasted two hours and
forty minutes, practically the ens..e
time being consumed In the reading of
| the Presidents message.
The reading Of the document was
{ largely perfunctory, few Of the Senn-
i tors according 1t any attention. Some
! Of them retired to their COMMITTEE
rooms to peruse the message at IeasUrG,
while few followed the reading By
| the clerks.
Mr.. Turley (Tennessee) presented
his colleague.' Mr. Bate, at the desk of
the president. and President Frye adj
ministered to Mr.. Bate the oath of
office.
The announcement of the death of
Senator ELECT Monroe l.. Hayward. of
! Nebraska. was received by the Senate
with sincere regret. Although he was
not officially a member Of the body,
he was we'll known to many OF the
Senators, and by them was held in
high esteem.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the message, the Senate sdop.ed reso-
lutions of regret. presented by Senator
Thurston, of Nebraska. and, as mark
of respect, adjourned Immediately.
CAUCAUSSING.
Washington. u. c., Dec. 5-The
caucuses were held in the Senate end
of the Capitol to-day. They were un-
der the auspices, respectively, OF she
Republican, the Democratic and the
Independent Senator'S, the last-named
including the Silver Republicans and
the populists. The business OF each
OF the meetings pertained to the filling
and reorganization Of he committees,
and in each instance the detail work
was referred to special committees.
Senator Allison presided over the Re-
publican caucus, and Senator Jones
(Arkansas) was elected chairman of
the Democratic CO ucus. The Independ-
ents agreed TO net With the Demo-
Gratis in the organization Of the SEN
ate. proposal was made in the Re-
publian caucus for two new committees
on Cuba and the Philippines.