Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1900-08-10

lEnloe was chairman of the com.
mittee on education, which held
no meetings during that session
of congress: that he was men,
Der of the committee on war
claims, a committee that had
great deal to do, as many humid
reds Of private bills for the Dene.
fit of the people of theSouth were
before that committee for consid.
Grafton and report. He stated
that he asked the clerk of the
committee TO examine the minutes
of that committee for the third
session of the Fifty-third congress
and report the number of times
Mr.. Enloe attended the meetings
of the committee during that SEES.
sion, and the number of times he
was absent. and that in response
the clerk of the committee on war
claims addressed the following to
Mr.. Sims:
Committee on War Claims,
House of Representatives, U. S.
Washington, ID. c., May 81, 1900.
Hon. Thetus w. Sims--Dear
sir:-ln response to your verbal
request of this date, | have eXam-
med the minutes of the committee
ON war claims of the House of
Representa- tives, sd Congress Sd
session and they show that Mr..
Enloe was not present az any
meeting of the ,committee of the
Sd session. Very Resp't.,
GEO. w. FRYE, Clerk.
That from said letter, it appear
ed that Mr.. Enloe, although a
member of said committee on war
claims, was not present at "a single
session of the committee during
that session.
Mr.. Sims asked how could q
member OfcOngress promote good
legislation, who was absent from
the sessions of the house half the
time, and from the sessions Of the
committee Of which he was a
member, all the time.
Mr.. Sims showed from the Con.
gressional Record of March oath,
1892, that there was vote on a
bill for the free coinage of silver
after two days debate on a special
rule, on u motion to table the bill
and amendments, when the vote
was las 10 las, being an exact tie,
and that Mr.. Enloe was absent
and not paired; that it took the
vote of Speaker Crisp to make
said vote a tie, and that had Mr.
Enloe been present the motion TO
table would have failed and the
bill would have passed; that Mr.
Enloe claimed that he had been
absent from the house in attend
ance upon special committee, in
vestigatiag the pension office
which had leave to sit during the
sessions of The house, but that the
record showed that majority OF
the members of said special com,
mittee were recorded as voting
on said bill, thus showing that the
committee was not in session al
the time said vote was taken.
Mr.. Sims also showed from the
Congressional Record that in1S9c
on July 9TH, a bill for the free col
mage of gold and silver at the ra
ito of 16 to l, passed by the sen
ate, being senate bill No. 81, was
laid before the house by the spea
ker with the announcement thai
he would refer the bill to the
committee on coinage, weights
and measures, of which r, p
Bland was chairman, being a fret
coinage committee, which commit
tee would have reported the bill
favorably, and thus have secured
a vote on il in the house; that Mr.
Tracy, a gold democrat, of New
York, moved to refer said bill t(
committee on banking and curren
cy, majority of which committed
was opposed to free silver, ant
would not have reported said bill
that there were five yea ana nav
votes on the effort to refer salt
bill TO the committee and bankin,
and currency and thus secure it
defeat. Mr.. Sims presented til,
Congressional Record shown,
that Mr.. Enloe was not presen
and did not vote on any of the fv
yea and nay votes, and that OF
four calls Of the house on tn
same day Mr.. Enloe was recorde,
as being absent.
Mr.. Sims charged that this rec
ord showed conclusively that MI
Enlo was absent on these impoI
tant occasions when the life @
free silver hung in the balance
and challenged Mr.. Enlo's sir
cerity as a free silver man an
cited the above as proof conclr
sive of the charge.
Mr.. Sims further stated that
bill had been pending before cor
/ gross for over 20 years, entitle
/ a bill for the relief of Hira
Johnson aud others, the object {
the bill being to return TO forty