The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-27
SENATE.

Penroee requested the chair to lay be-
fore the senate the Quay resolution as
a question of the highest privilege.
The chair asked if there was objec-
ton to present consideration of the
resolution.
Il do not wish to be considered as
one senator" said Senator Hale, las
agreeing that this resolution snail
crowd out the Hawaiian government
bill or the measure for which we are
almost criminally culpable, the bill for
the government of Porto Rico, or the
financial bill or other great questions
before this senate. L have very decid-
ed views on the subject"
Senator Penrose said ne disagreed
with the intimated ruling of the chair
that d question of the highest privilege
must be taken up by unanimOS consent
or by vote of the n This ques-
ton, said he, takes place over every
One-over the unfinished business. L
am prepared to go on with a discus
sion of the parliamentary questions
and have many ~precedents here. L
to press this question to an
early solution. l do not care to impede
the unfinished business but l p
that the question shall have its full
recognition"
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, and Sena-
tor AIdrich, of Rhode Island, said they
supposed there was an understanding
hat the case would be taken up mere
y TO enable the Senator from Virginia
to speak
Senator Penrose-I dislaim any such
understanding SO far as | am concern
ed. The question must be considered
without limitations.
Senator Hale-Then l object.
Senator Penrose then moved that the
caSe be taken up.
The motion was not debated The
yeas and nays were ordered. The
motion to take up the resolution pre-
VaiIed-34 to %.
The majority was SO decisive as to
cause some surprise.
1t is known that some senators who
will vote, if the opportunity is offered,
to seat Mr.. Quay today voted against
consideration of the case, while on the
contrary others who voted for cOnSid-
Grafton probably will vote against
seating him. The vote therefore can
not be regarded as quite a test of MI.
Quay'S absolute strength in the senate.
The resolution was laid before he
senate and Senate Daniel, of Virginia,
addressed the senate in support of Mr..
Quay'S right to a seat. He said he had
always maintained and he more he
studied it, the more he was convinced
that a senator appointed by a govern
or was entitled to his seat, as clearly
as ne himself was entitled to one. SEN
atOr Daniel reviewed the Quay case
and many similar cases which had
come before tn" senate holding that
the weight of precedent was largely in
Quay's faVor.
At ? o'cock Senator Culiom called
up the unfinished business, not with a
desire to take natO Daniel from the
floor. but to preserve his bill as the
unfinished business.
Senator Penrose said that without
~COnCedinE the right of the unfinished
business TO displace a question Of
highest privilege, he would enter no
objection to q resumption OF the con-
sideratior OF the Hawaiian bill after
Cenator Daniel had concluded his
speech.
The unfinished business was laid
aside temporarily by unanimous con-
sent and Senator Daniel concluded his
speech on the Quay case.
The Hawaiian government bill was
then taken up and Senator Morgan re-
Sumed his speech
Senator Morgan not having conclud-
ed, yielded the floor at 1926 o'clock p.
m, to Senator Aldrich, who presented
the report of the conference on the II
nancial bill.
An arrangement was effected where
by some members of n conference
committee would on next Wednesday
make a statement concerning the
changes made by the conferees and
that the next day the report will be
taken up for consideration.
The Hawaiian bill was again taken
up and senator Vest, of Missouri, az
dressed the senate. He a been in
tensely opposed, he said, TO the M
alton of Hawaiian, but that was now
a dead issue. L shall vote for the
BILL" said he. 1T is bow and be-
yond constitutional objection and does
not raise any of the issues that are
raised in relation to Porto Rico anC
the Philippines"
Senate Vests application of The
bred Scott case was that the supreme
court was unanimous in declaring il
that decision that the constitution GOV
cred the territories. He held witt
Chic Justice Marshal that the tern
United States meant the empire o
the United StateS"-stateS territorie
and all other possessions. He Stampet
the new doctrine as utterly abhorren
and violative of a republican govern
ment.
Senator Foraker, of Ohio, repliec
briefly to Senator Vests remarkabl
argument. He asserted that the au
thor of the declaration of independents
entertained no such views as those ad
vanced by Senator Vest and he sketch
ed the kind of government Thoma
Jefferson himself was engaged in set
ting up. He drew a distinction betweel
territory belonging to the Unite
States and territory which was a par
of the United States. There is" h
said, the United States proper 70
which the constitution is the organi
law and there is he territory outsid
of the United States which belongs t
United States but is not a part of tn
United States
The senate at 500 p. m. adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
An agreement was reached in tn
house today that the vote on the Pol
to Rican tariff bill will be taken at
O'Clock p. nj. Tuesday. General deba'
will close Monday and short speeche
under the 5 minute rule will folio
I'D to the time of the vote. A repuol
can conference will be held at 8 ocloc
n. m. tomorrow. The d contlnt
to express the belief that the Dill vi
pass. but the impression IS grown
that a motion to recommit the Dill
the committee on ways and meal
will command strong support any ma
prevail.
Mr.. Underwood. the democrat
whip. today sent out kilograms