The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-23
LIEUT.. GOV. jim TILLMAN.
ADDS TO HIS FAME IN STATE AND
NATIONAL CIRCLES.

Having Come Ont at the Small End
of the Horn i'm the Jenkins sword
Controversy He Gets Ont His Lit
tie Gun for President Pro Tenn
Frye and Speaker HendersOn-He
Is Charged with disappearing
These Gentlemen on a Question OF
Parliamentary Law-Mr. TiIIman
Wants to BE Governor.
Washington, March 22.-Lieut. Gov
"Jim" Tillman, of South Carolina, as
an active member of the Trouble
Club" is now involved in a contro-
versy with Senator Frye, presiding Of
ficer of the Senate. and Speaker Hen
derson, of the House of Representa-
tives. Having failed to attract the at
tention of President Roosevelt, in con-
nection with the jenkins sword incl
dent, Mr.. Tillman proceeds to level
his political pop gun at the two next
ranking officers of the government.
AS President of the South Carolina
a motion to postpone indefinitely was
not debatable." His ruling was ques-
toned and he referred the parliament
airy problem to Senator Frye and
Speaker .IThey both decided
that he was in error. Senator Frye in
his reply stated that although Jeffer-
sons manual is silent on the subject,
the motion is debatable, under the
rules of the Senate
Instead of accepting the decision of
the two referees as conclusive, Mi.
Tillman announced to his friends that
Senator Frye and Speaker Henderson
had sustained his ruling holding that
the motion was not debatable. Those
in South Carolina who differed with
Mr.. Tillman on the subject wrote to
Senator Frye and Speaker Henderson
on the subject and expressed a doubt
that they mad decided as Mr.. Tillman
had claimed.
In replying to this communication
Senator Frye reasserted that the mo-
ton was debatable, and added that
Mr.. Tillman must have misconstrued
the response to his inquiry. AS Mr..
Tillman had not given out the original
correspondence. which showed the
contrary to what he had stated, Sen
ator Frye has authorized the publica-
ton of the entire correspondence, and
it is now up to Mr.. Tillman to explain
why he did not give out their decision
correctly in the first instance
Mr.. Tillman is out cunning for the
governorship of the Palmetto State,
and if his ammunition holds out, he
may return from the expedition with
something substantial in his political
game bag. Thus far he has not mad
much progress in trying to bring down
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try at President Roosevelt in the
sword incident was a failure. His aim
at Senator Frye and Speaker Hender-
son appears to have been somewhat
unsteady and without satisfactory re-
suits. He should not despair for there
are hundreds of other national char
acters including eight cabinet officers,
SO United States senators and 357
members of the House of Representa-
tlves sun running at large in the polit-
zeal field.
Why Mr.. Cushman Is Silent.
Representative Cushman, of Wash
ington, has been conspicuous by his ST.
lence, during the recent consideration
of the river and harbor bill in the
house. At the last session of Con-
gress Mr.. Cushman achieved consider
able notoriety by humorous and at
the same time scathing attack upon
the river and harbor bill. 1t was al
legged that the reason of his opposi-
ton then was because the state of
Washington had received but slim
treatment at the hands of the COM
mittee framing the measure
This session it is different. Mr.. Cush-
mans state has been cared for liber-
ally. hence his silence. One of his
Republican associates playfully re-
minded him of his great speech against
the bill last session and expressed
some surprise at his sudden conversion
to the proposed system of river and
harbor legislation. The inquiry did
not phase the ever-ready Cushman.