The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-02-01
ITS FRIENDS GIVE NOTICE THAT IT
WILL Be KEPT TO THE FRONT
ITS PASSAGE AT THIS SESSION
To be Forced as an Issue by It's Friends.
To Take Precedence Over Appropria-
tion Bills, Except by a Vote or the
Senafe-Senaeor Batter Moves to Re-
fer Senator simmons Credentials In
Conmfttee-The FIynn-Stephens Per-
sonai Controversy Renewed In House
SENATE.

washington, January Ex-senator
Eyre gave notice in the senate TODAY
tina he intended to keep the shipping
Dill to the front even a against appro-
priation bills. not yielding to them
without q vote Of the n
1t indicates a disposition on the part
of senate leaders to force TO an early
issue the question whether the shipp-
ing bill is going to pass at this session.
Senator Turner, of Washington, spoke
today in severe arraignment of the
Dill. declaring it to be a "lawless. pirat-
ical raid on the public treasury" in the
interest Of a few private beneficiaries.
and committing the government to ex-
penditures aggregating s270, 600, 600.
The committee amendments were in
formally agreed to.
The Indian appropriation bill was
passed.
Senator Butler, after stating that he
was absent yesterday when 1.-The paper
~purporting to be the credentials of
Senator-elect Simmons, of North Car
lima, was presented, offered a resolu-
ton for the reference of that document
to the senate committee on privileges
and elections. He said he recognized
that the question was one requiring the
attention Of the neX congress-, but that
he introduced this resolution as a no
tice' and he asked that it lie upon the
table.
After a brief executive session the
senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The house spent the day upon the
agricultural appropriation bill. 1t was
1lS66 a c a Uahinla fnr tho ntr0l,,nf;1
of several general speeches.. Mr..
Thayer, of Massachusetts, discussed
the shipsubsidy bill; White, North Car
DINA, the colored member, who goes
out of congress March 4th, delivered
his vaiedictory upon the general sub
ject of the aspirations of his race; Mr..
Gaines, of Tennessee, discussed the
limitations of the constitution in con-
nection with u inSular possessions
and Mr.. Corliss, of Michigan, made a
vicious onslaught upon the bureau of
animal industry of the agricultural
department.
The earlier portion of the session was
enlivened by a sequel to the exchange
between Mr.. Flynn, of Oklahoma, and
Mr.. Stephens, of Texas, yesterday,
when the lie was almost passed. Mr..
stephens again denied, and Mr.. Flynn
reiterated his charges in connection
with the passage Of the bill to ratify
the Kiowa n Comanche agreement
passed at the last session.
Under a question of privilege Mr..
Stephens read the language used by
Mr. Flynn.
Mr.. Stephens said it was unfortunate
for Mr.. Flynn that he himself had in
troduced a bill in January 1900, which
contained the identical language which
he now charged was surrepitiously in
serted in the bill. He Indignantly re-
na11a6 tho incinrofi0n f xl;oL A.
Flynn had given u~tteranceS.
Mr.. Flynn arose and declared I'M
p~hatieally that When the bill passed no
one on the floor except Mr.. Stephens
knew the section was in the bill.
Would we have allowed a section to
go in," he asked, which permitted
whites to take without compensation
lands we were allotting to the In
dians?"
Didn't you introduce a bill contain
ing similar language?" asked Mr.. Ste
phens.
Il had sufficient confidence in the
gentleman at hat time" retorted Mr.
Flynn. What led to the investigation
which unearthed the facts" he contin-
ued, was that the the bill
passed the gentleman from Texas tele-
praphed his friends to go into the lands
and locate claims"
did you not telegraph your friends -
interposed Mr.. Stephens.
Yes, hat the bill had passed, blu
I insist that thl investigation develop
ed the fact that h gentleman from
Texas was the only member of either
house to know the mining clause was
in the bill"
That statement" cried Mr.. Stephens
raising his arm threateningly, "is ut.
terly ~unfounded and I believe it Is
knowingly and maliciously made"
Nh EIUnn rofnrfn1 that ha ~noasyya-
this information on a visit to the reser.
walton.
Then the incident f1attened out. Mr.
Stephens called upon Mr.. Curtis, OF
Kansas, of the committee on Indiar
affairs, and Mr.. Little, of Arkansas
who, he said, new the section was In
the bill, to bear testimony to that ef.
feet, Mr.. Little finally said he knew
the section was in the bill.
The house then adjourned.
Keen Yourself Strong