Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-06
58th CONGRESS.
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was proceeding to say that in the
Record, yesterday. morning. there was
a Very remarkable speech when Pettus.
| Ala, suggested that it vas the custom
OF the Senate and rule of courtesy 20
! transact no business under the special
| committee had returned from its visit
to the President
| Tillman at 1240 p. NJ. moved re-
cess for half an hour, which motion
4, prevailed. At 1.05 the Senate took IA
! further recess for 10 minutes.
| Hoar and Cockrell. the special COM
mittee appointed to wait upon the
| President. reported that they had per-
formed this duty and that the President
had stated he would at once make Il
communication in writing.
immediately Barnes, assistant secre-
+ary to the President, appeared in the
senate with a message from the Presi-
dent. The message was not read.
T;llman then resumed his. remarks.
tTe quoted from Cannon's speech in the
House early. yesterday. III which he
rave tho reasons for the House con-
farees rcceding from their position with
rrsncct to the claims of South Carolina
f,r s47 900 growing out of the war of
lGl2-1S15.
| There were two issues, he said, in
voIved in that speech, pne affecting the
| dignity of the Senate and the other
| affecting his own official integrity, re-
sponsibility and personal character.
| The speech, he said, WAS wholly in
decent and an outrage" He read from
Jefferson's manual regarding the
comfy that must obtain between two
| branches of a Legislature. and asked
whether it had not been grossly Eio-
| lated in this case. Power" he said,
had made some of those men drunk. y
He then gave a history of South
Cardinals claim. Tillman quoted the
law authorizing the payment of in
terest on South Cardinals claim and
said it was that which led the COM
mittee on appropriations to act simply
because it meant to do Il long delayed
act of Justice to South Carolina and
undo the wrong which had been done.
That is the cause of this cry of
| 'blackmail' said he land which
caused the charge that the Senate
forced the House to make Il gift to
South Carolina of $4,000 s
Tillman drew a picture of the scene
in the conference room While the COM
mittee was discussing his item and
said the watch dog of the treasury
came in. shut his massive jaws down on
this, claim and said whenever YOU all
getz ready 10 rub that out, wake me
up" He said he was only speaking
metaphorically.
Tillman then spoke of the determina-
ton arrived at by him. Il simply shut
my jaws down on the proposition"
bn thar
or have an extra session, and l was
in position. under the rules of the
Senate, to force it
Hale. Me- said he would let the mat
| ter pass into oblivion. disagreeable as
il was. but it affected him because he
| had charge of the deficiency bill.
| Speaking Very deliberately, Hale said
there had been no Legislative black
mail and that there was no necessity
more Whatever said he speaking
with emphasis. for that conference to
be brought into the speech of Cannon"
Hale to set Tillman right. declared
! that he had never visited the confer=
ence room and that he did not obtrude
himself on the committee. The appro-
priations committee, he said, had act
ed on the claim as a matter of fair
and even handed justice.
Hale said it had never been thought
that one house of Congress should ar
raign the other. 1t has never been
; thought or said before that the pro-
| cesses of one House are processes of
| blackmall and that they have become
so insHtferable that one House will
preach a crusade against the other
| with the threat that the people Will
| stand behind the House that makes the
proposition. He said he had read the
speech of Cannon with the greatest
! anaZement and sorrow. all the more
! because it was not the impassiOnate or
| uncon<idercd utterance of some new
| man. but was said by a very diStn-
guished and remarkably able man, who
had earned every advancement that
| has attended his career. Cannon'S use
of the words Legislative blackmail,'
| Hale declared. were unfortunate, inn
proper 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 be-
| tween the two houses. Hale said he
believed that when Cannon read his
| remarks the next mornins he regret
ted them.
The speech will be forgotten said
he. 1t viii pass to the oblivion to
| which it should be consigned. The man
who made ii will go on to a higher
| place and IN his life he will have Il
hundred things to turn TO in pride. but
he will never have anything more to
regret than having spoken these words.
Speech is not everything said Hale,
| mot by any means. Incorporate
| speech is the least of all.
He was followed by Allison, also Il
| member of the conference committee.
who said he commended and approved
| every word Hale had said, respecting
| the remarkable speeches made in the
| other house at the close of the last
session" The conference he declared,
had been conducted in good temper.
| The Senate committee never had
sought TO go back of the appropriation
bill presented by the House and in
| CURED whether any item in it was
| passed by the other House in violation
of its rules. Neither house, he said, is
to he lectured by the other as to what
its rules are or should be. Utterances