Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-14
new SENATORS
ARE SWORN IN
Among Them Was Reed Smoot
TO Whom No Objection
Was Made
MR.. HOAR'S EXPLANATION
Points Out That II Would Be Danger
Gus to Hang Up Senators-eleet on
Mere charaes-Tillman Re-
plies to Joe Cannon.

Washington, March promptly al
noon President Pro TEN Frye called the
| senate TO order in extra session. Ems
| oath of Office was administered &c
twenty-six senators as follows:
Decentralization of Iowa, Clay OF
Georgia, Dillingham; of Vermont, tair-
banks Of Indiana, Foraker of Ohla
A~ansborough OF North Dakota, Kit
tredge OF South Dakota. McEnery oi
Louisiana, Mallory of Florida. Penrose
| of Pennsylvania, Perkins Of California
! Pettus of Alabama, Plat Of Connectl-
cut. Plat Of New York, Spooner oil
wisconsin, Teller of Colorado.
New senators-Fulton of Oregon
German Of Maryland, Hepburn Oh Ida-
| no, Hopkins of Illinois, Latlmer Oh
South Carolina, LoLg OF Kansas Nc
Creary Of Kentucky, w Oh NE
vada, Overman Of North CaroLha'
Smoot Of Utah.
No Objection to Smoot'
No objection was made when Shoots
name was called.
Ankeny of Washington, Clarke OF Ar
| kansas, Gallinger of New
and Stone of Missouri were not sworn
In.
During the swearing Of new senators
the proceedings were frequently inter
rupted by applause in the galleries.
German received an oVatloh wheL
his name was called. Smoot )
name was greeted with some applause
After q committee had been appoint
ed TO wait upon the president, Tlllnah
arose to a question of personal prlVll-
ege. He was about to speak on Wnat
| he called a "a remarkable speech which
appeared In the Congressional lteCoIu
of yesterday" when Pettus suggested
IL customary to wait until the pfesl-
lent had munlca Win the sei"'e
before proceeding.
TiIlman moved q recess for half an
hour. which was agreed to, n at 2:4O
the senate took a recess.
Before the senators took the oath,
Hoar OF Massachusetts, speaking lot
Burrows of the committee on privileges
and elections, referred to the consutu-
tional procedure Of administering oaths
TO new senator's, and said If there were
any other procedure, the result would
be that a third Of the senate might be
| kent out of their seats for an INDEFINITE
time on presenting Of objections with
out responsibility, and never eStap-
lished before the senate by n 1udlclal
inquiry. The result of that might be,
he said, that a change in the polltlcal
power OF this government, when the
people desire to accomplish, might De
indefinitely postponed. Hoar stated
InHI uueSllOllo W
be postponed and acted upon by the
senate afterwards.
Upon reassembling, the PRESIDENT
| message was delivered by Mr.. barnes
1t wa not read, Mr.. Hoar announc-
ing he intended to move an
| session. Tillman arose to his question
Of personal privilege and announced
he wished to speak upon cannon $
speech In the house yesterday. After
=. lt,- thn 10 ftar ha denounced IL as
"indefensible, indecent and an out
rage" The dignity Of the senate ana
his own individual honesty were IN
Volved.
He read from Jerferson's manual re-
| garding the comfy that must obtain
between two branches of q legislature
| and asked whether ii had not been
grossly violated in this case. Power
he said, had made some Of these men
drunk
He then gave a history Of South Caro-
una's claim. Answering Mr.. Cannon's
| criticism with respect to legislating by
unanimous consent, Senator Tlllman
said hat nothing In the house of rep
resentatives seems to go except by
unanimous consent of q few lead
ers.
Senator Tillman said he had
great respect for Mr.. Cannon
VINO HIS lIe NdNNllNO6 N'N
treasury had saved the country
millions Of dollars. Mr.. Cannon had
| objected to the matter, said Senator
Tiilman, simply because he called legis-
| lation on an appropriation Dill. SEN
ator Tillman drew a picture of the
| scene in the conference room while the
| committee was discussing his item, and
| said: THE watchdog Of the treasury
came in, shut his massive jaws down
81. ..l =, ii iNThnYnNTnrs Nvn1
all get ready to rub that out wake me
| up"
He said he was only speaking meta,
phorically.
Senator Tillman her spoke Of the de
termination arrived at by him. ~
simply shut my jaws down on the
proposition" said he, that l would
have hat money or nave an extra SEES
sion, and I was in a position under the
rules Of the senate to force It,
Hale Also Displeased.
Senator Hale Of Maine said he would
let the matter pass into oblivion, dis
| agreeable as 1t was, but 1t affected hin
because he had charge of the deficiency
bill. Speaking very deliberately, Sena'
Tor Hale said there could be no legisla'
| tive blackmail, and there was no neces
| sity, none whatever" said he. speak
ing with emphasis, for that conference
to be brought into the speech of Mr.
Cannon.
Senate Hale said that II never haC
been thought hat one house of con
gress should arraign the other. 1t neve
had beer thought of or said before tina
| the processes of one house are process
es OF blackmail and that they have be
| come so insufferable that one house will
preach a crusade against the othe
with the threat that the people will
stand behind the house that makes tn
proposition. He said he had read tn
speech of Mr.. Cannon with the great
est amazement and sorrow, all the NOR
because it was not the impassioned o
un~considered utterances of som
new member, but came from a very dis
tinguished and remarkably able mar
who has earned every advancement