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rushing violently upon him, struck
MIN In the face, makes the case one of
/ such exceptional misbehavior that a
| majority of the committee are of the
! opinion that this offense was of much
| greater gravity than that of Mr. Me-
! Laurin.
The penalty of a censure by the Sem
| ate In the nature of things must vary
in actual severity in proportion to the
public sense of the gravity of the of
| tense of which the offender has been
adJudged guilty. Tn e efore, notwith-
standing the fact that in the opinion
| or a majority of the committee there
is difference in the gravity of the Of
| lenses under consideration your COM
| mittee are of opinion that public good
and the dignity of the Senate will be
alike best promoted and protected, so
tar as this particular case is concerned,
! by imposing upon each senator by for
NAL vote the censure of the Senate for
! the offense by him committed and
! therefore recommend the adoption of
| the resolution"
Bailey Dissents in Part.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the majority report Mr.. Bailey of Texas
offered the following statement as rep
resenting the views of himself and four
| other senator's:
I'VE dissent from so much of the re-
port of the committee as asserts 1.-The
power of the Senate to suspend a sena-
tor and thus deprive a state of it's vote
! ana so much as describes the offenses
of the senators as of different gravity;
| but we approve the resolution report
ed
The report of the minority of the
| committee was then read.
] II, lit -.
ing it say that while they accept the
statement of the case as made in he
principal report they do not agree with
! the majority of the committee as to the
punishment proposed by the majority.
| They then say:
Two Different ORenses.
! THE junior senator from South Car
| DINA is guilty of unparliamentary Ian
! guage. The senior senator from South
! Carolina is guilty of physical violence.
| Neither in the statutes of any state.
nor in the common opinion of mankind
! are these two offenses the same. The
! slightest form of punishment is a repri-
mand or censure. 1t is the latter
which the majority proposes to in
| flict for two offenses differing in char
acted and gravity The minority of
the committee are of the opinion that
this punishment is inadequate, and
| to ignore the difference between the
! offenSes is unjust. The minority of
the committee is of the opinion that
| suspension of the two offending sem
ators from their senatorial privileges
heretofore inflicted should now be
formally adjudged and continued for
different periods of time"
| The report concludes by recommend
ing that Senator McLaurin be suspend
ed from his functions as a senator for
| five days and that Senator Tillman be
! suspended for twenty days.
Mr.. Pritchards addition to the above
statement is in the following language
Il concur in all the foregoing views
except as to the punishment of the
! Junior senator from South Carolina 1t
! is my opinion that the punishment he
| has already suffered is adequate to his
! offense. l make no recommendation as
| to the punishment to be imposed on the
senior senator from South Carolina"
Mr.. Bacon Notes Omissions.
Mr. Bacon called attention to what
he considered an important omission
in the narrative of the majority of the
occurrences of last Saturday. There
was no official record of the proceed
| ings in the secret legislative session,
| but some of the salient facts ought to
be brought out. He said that the senior
senator from South Carolina (Mr. Till
NAM had expressed his desire through
the senator from Kentucky (Mr.
! blackburn to make public acknowl-
| edgment of his error and to apologize
to the Senate. The junior senator from
| South Carolina (Mr McLaurin) had
| expressed the same desire through him
(Mr. Bacon). He deemed it importan.
that these facts should be made a part
| of the record.
Two McLaurin's Did Not Vote.
When the name of Mr. McLaurin of
Mississippi was reached in the roll call,
he said:
Being related by kinship to one of
the senators involved | ask to be ex-
cused from voting"
The request was granted.
Mr.. McLaurin of South Carolina, one
of the offending senators, said in re-
spouse to his name, which had been
| restored to the roll:
Il refrain from voting, for obvious
reasons"
When Mr.. Tillman's name was called
he rose deliberately. Every eye in the
chamber was fixed upon him. His face
was stern and set. and he was pale.
Evidently he was laborng under great
emotion.
Among gentlemen" said he. slow
y
in the uttermost parts of the chamber,
IAN apology for an offense committed
under the heat of blood is usually con-
sidered sufficient"
Then he resumed his seat amid gasps
of astonishment among senators and
spectators.
Mr.. Burrows fastened to the desk of
the official stenographers and directed
that Mr.. Tillmans words be written
out at once.
At the conclusion of the roll call but
before the announcement Of the vote
Mr. Kean of New Jersey, who had Vot-
ed for the resolution, addressing the
president pro tenn, changed his vote
in the following statement:
Having heard the senator from
South Carolina (Mr. Tillman) again in
suit the Senate, l change my vote from
aye to no."
The resolution was adopted, "a to u,
the detailed vote being as follows:
Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Bacon, Bailey,
Bard. Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Burrows,
Carmack, Clark of Montana, Clay,
Cockrell Culberson, Cullom, Depew,
Dillingham;, Dolliver, Dubois, Elkins,
Fairbanks. Foraker, Foster of Louis
lana, Frye. Gallinger. Gibson, Hans
brough, Harris, Hawley, Hoar, E~arns,
Lodge, McCumber, McEnery, McMil-
Ian, Mallory, Martin, Mitchell. Money,
Nelson, Patterson, Perkins Pettus,
Platt of Connecticut, Quarles. Raw
Inns. Simmons, Stewart Taliaferro, Tai
Ter, Turner Vest. Warren, Wetmore-
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