The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-03-13

mons use of the words Legislative
blackmail." Senator Hale declared, were
unfortunate, improper and a breach OF
the privileges, which if they are not in
the written law, practically stand in the
Judgment of all good men as the comfy
between the two houses.
Senate Hale said he believed hat
when Mr.. Cannon read his remarks the
next morning he regretted Them.
Let the subject be forgotten" said
Senator Hale. 1T will pass to the OBJ
livion to which it ought to be con-
signed. The man who made 1t will go
on to a higher place, and in his life he
will hav a hundred things to turn to
in pride, but he will never hav any
thing more to regret thar having spoken
these words"
Senator Allison Is Indignant.
Senator Allison, also a member of the
conference committee, said he COM
mended n approved every word Sen
ator Hale had said respecting the re-
markable speech made In the other
house at the close of the last session"
The conference, he declared, had been
conducted in good temper. The SEN
ate committee never had sought to go
back on the appropriation bill present.
ed by the house and inquire whether
any item in it was passed by the other
house in violation of it's rules. Neither
house, he said, is to be lectured by the
be. Utterances Of that character are
not in accord with the comfy between
the two houses.
Speaking with emphasis and with
considerable Indignation, Senator Alli-
son said: Il think it is fitting that we
should say not once, but always, that
the rules of procedure of this body will
1>o catt1~J l-, H. l~l-v s{-1Jf -, -
ance with it's own best Judgment"
He declared that if the deficiency
bill had failed it would not have been
due to the rules of the senate, but to
the situation which was presented in
the house.
Therefore, whatever Of d%ictatio.l,
whatever there was as respects this
item, it was because the house for rea-
sons of its own could MT take the or
derby and usual proceed 4ng n meth
cd Of legislation by taking these items
into the house and into the senate and
having the judgment Of h two houses
upon them"
He. said he was panied to see what
seemed to him to be a violation of the
rules of the house itself. Mr.. Cannon'a
speech had been ~applauded, he said.
why? Because the senate had been
held upon the gibbet of public opinion
s' ~ - An SoliiPaASA = JC 1olCo
of the house, so sanity in their nature
and character"
The house conferees had sought to
put the lame on the senate rules.
which had existed for a hundred years,
and If any changes are made in those
rules, added Senator Allison, 1t will be
by the senate and mot by any outside
body"
Senator Teller of Colorado, the dem
ocratic member of the conference com
mittee, said that Mr.. Cannon's remarks
were inappropriate and out of place."
. The Presidents Message.
President Roosevelt sent the follow
ing message to the senate:
To the Senate have called the sem
ate in extraordinary session to consider
treaties concerning which 1t proved i'm
possible to take action during the session
of congress just ended. I ask your special
attention to the treaty with the republic
the right to build an isthmian canal, and
to the treaty with the republic of Cuba
for securing a measure of commercial
reciprocity between the two countries:
The great and fa~r-reaching Importance Of
these two treaties to the welfare of the
United States, and the urgent need for
their adoption, requires me to impose up
on you the inconvenience of meeting at
this time. Theodore Roosevelt.
At 3:l5 the senate adjourned till
Monday.
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the position of baker female) in the
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Of $500 per annum, and on April Z for
h position Of nurse (female) in the
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be obtained by addressing the civil
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