Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-12
TIE L|vEL|ESI Day OF
THE PRESENT SESSION.
QUESTIONS OPENED UP
THE DAY.
LIVELY PERSONAL MATTERS
BETWEEN CONGRESSMAN sULZER,
PERRY s. HEATH AND 9TH
ERS INJECTED.

WASHINGTON. February 11-This
was a field day in the House, being by
far the hveliest day during the present
session. A very interesting debate
over the constitutional limitations on
the power of the Senate over revenue
legislation initiated by the House, was
preoipitated when Mr. Payne, the chair
man of the ways and means commit
tee, brought in the resolution of the
committee to disagree to the substitute
proposed by the Senate as an amend
ment to the war revenue reduction act,
and to ask for a conference with the
Senate
MIR. Tawney, of Minnesota, cham
pioned the cause of the House and its
paramount rights over revenue legis-
lation, but was unfortunate IN not
bringing forward resolution to return
the bill to the Senate with the declara-
ton that the Senate had transcribed
its powers in substituting an entirely
new measure for the bill of the House.
The subsequent debate showed that,
had this course been adopted, the prop
osition would have commanded large
vote. Instead, however. he insisted
upon a division Of the resolution and
after the first portion-to disagree
had been adopted, he made a point of
order that the second motion was not
in order because the Senate in its sub
stitute had invaded the constitutional
prerogative of the House. The result
was that the members were not con-
fronted with the direct issue and the
House voted 233 to 80 to ask for a con-
ference.
Later in the day, during the consid-
GRAFTON Of the diplomatic and consular
appropriation bill, an imprisoned pro-
Boer speech by Mr. Sulzer, of New
York, drew from Mr. Mahon, of Penn
sylvania, a recital of the raising of a
fund of about 1,200 for the benefit of
the widows of Boer soldiers at meet
ing held in this city at which Mr.. Sui
ger presided He declared that after
the "Terrapin and cold bottles got in
their work" only SIS was left for the
Boer widows. This stung Mr.. Sulzer to
reply at length. He said he had no
connection with the expenditure of the
fund, to which he had contributed $l75,
and very lively row followed the
climax of which was reached when
MIR. Sulzer had read an anonymous let
ter which made a sensational personal
attack upon Mr.. Perry S. Heath, late
assistant postmaster general, who was
secretary of the Republican, national
committee during the recent campaign,
charging him with being Neelys spon-
scr and then denying it after the ar
rest of Nicely, and also making allega-
lions against Mr.. Heath in connection
with government deposits in a New
York bank. Mr.. SulZer charged Mr.
Heath with being responsible for the
circulation of the stories about his con-
nection with the fund for the Boer
widows. Mr.. Knox (Mass) declared
that it was contemplate" to attack a
gentleman who could not reply,
through the medium of an anonymous
letter and moved that the infraction of
the rules be reported to the House and
stricken from the record.
In the course of the debate upon
this motion, Mr.. Sulzer declared that
although the communication was an
onymouS. he fathered every word of it
and would be responsible for it as a
member of the House and as an indi-
yidual.
The Democrats filibustered against
the motion to eXpunge the letter from
the Congressional Record and finally
forced an adjournment the effect being
to permit publication of the letter in
the Record.