The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-18
And AppIauded by Hundreds of People
I'm the Galleries, Despite the Pres
fdent Pro Tempore's Warning.
HAzING DENOUNCED AGAIN
ITS PRACTICE VIGOROUSLY CON-
DEMNED ny SENATOR MONEY.
Preventive Legislation to BE Enacted
bib to Revise and Codify Pos
tai Laws Discussed I'm House.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 17.-As a demon
stration In honor of the seating of a sin
gle Senator. and as an elaborate and beau
tiful floral spectacle. the return of Matthew
Stanley Quay. of Pennsylvania, to the Sem
ate to-day was unique in the history of the
body. Within the memory of the oldest
Senators nothing approximating to-day's
scene was ever witnessed in the Senate on
a similar occasion. Mr.. Quay's friends
from Pennsylvania came to Washington
by the hundreds to witness his induction
into Office and they brought with them
floral offerings literally by the car load.
While Mr. Quays desk and the desks of
other Senator's adjoining his were banked
with costly and beautiful floral pieces.
scarcely an sppreciable quantity of the
profusion of flowers his friends had pro-
vided could be displayed in the Senate
chamber. Mr.. Quay had been assigned. to
the second seat in the back row OF the
Republican side, the desk formerly occu-
pied by Mr.. Hanna. of Ohio.
An hour before the Senate convened
elaborate and beautiful floral pieces began
to be piled on and around the Senator's
desk BY the time the Senate was called
to order, the messengers had found 1t i'm
possible to place TO advantage any more
OF the floral offerings. One of the hand
soonest pieces was a huge keystone arch
OF white imortelles. the keystone being
OF deep red imortelies. 1t was several feet
I'm height The flowers came TO the capt.
tol literally by the wagon load. and 1t was
found impossible TO display all of them
In the Senate chamber. Many of them
were allowed to remain In the Senate cor
fidors.
The demonstration accorded to Mr.. Quay
when he entered the chamber amounted to
an ovation. While he was receiving the
congratulations of friends on the floor the
hundreds Of persons who thronged the
galleries rose as one and applauded him
tumultuously. That Mr.. Quay appreciated
this distinctly personal tribute was quite
evident. He glanced smilingly around the
galleries. nodding familiary to friends
whom he recognized here and there. The
brief time OF administering to him the oath
OF Office passed without special feature.
the president pro. tenn. having warned
those I'm the galleries that 1t was against
the rules of the Senate for spectators to
express either approval or disapproval.
During the days session the army re-
organization bill was discussed at length
by Messrs. Money. McComas and Bate.
The Mississippi senator devoted some at
tcntion to the practice of hazing at West
Point. which he bitterly denounced. Mr..
Money declared 1t must be stopped or
the institution must be abolished He said
nobody could induce him TO believe that
the way to make a good soldier was to
''set a great big bully upon a small man
to beat him. He did not refer. he said to
borse-play and practical jokes. but to
mob violence and cowardly brutality II
cannot understand said Mr.. Money. "the
motives of a lot of young men. all of them
scholars of charity. who are paid for TAX
ing their education. who get together and
mob any young man whose only crime is
that ne arrived at West Point two or three
years later than they" He declared that
the man who hazed others at the Military
Academy would be a tyrant and a despot
with the men of his command after he re-
ceived his commission. He did not believe
the cadets realized the contempt in which
their actions were held by the American
people. The practices there he declared
must be abated-
'.I think the senator will be satisfied" in
terjected Mr. Proctor one OF the members
OF the military affairs committee, when
he sees the West Point report. which will
be submitted in a day or two"
Mr.. Money, continuing, said: And I do
not want n stop at the boys. any officer or
instructor at West Point who countenances
or winks at this practice OF hazing ought
To be dishonorably discharged from the
rervice."
The Senate committee on military affairs
to-day discussed the question OF hazing at
the West Point Military Academy and
there was unanimous expression OF ouin
Tom in reprobation OF the practice and 10
the effect that those guilty OF II should he
summarily dealt with. The question came
up in connection with the Military Acad-
cmy bill and II was decided 10 incorporate
the following provision in that bill as an
amendment: Under the direction of the
secretary OF war, the superintendent of the
Cnjtci States Military Academy shall make
and enforce such rules ana regulations as
will prevent the practice of Eszing and any
ca'ist found guilty Of participating in such
practice shsI be expelled from the acad-
ersy and shall not b. reappointed to the
corps Of cadets therein. nor 10 the army of
the United States"
fion OF Senator Warren and vigorously
pressed BY him. a. well as by Senators