Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-05

The resolutions introduced hy Tillman.
making inquiry of the secretary OF the
treasury concerning the appointment OF
| w. d. Crum as collector at Charleston,
! S. c.. and directing the Senate committee
! on the Judiciary to make an inquiry as to
what constitutes Il recess appointment to
office. were taken up and Tii,man took
the iioor to speak.
Hale, who was anxious to have She Sen
ate proceed with the urgent deficiency
| bill. suggested to Til!man that the resolu-
| tons might be passed without debate, but
the South Carolina senator declared that
he did not want to send his baby out
into tie world without any clothes and
proceeded with his speech. He gave way
Temporarily. however, to permit the read
| ing of a statement from Root concerning
recess appointments which was presented
by Proctor. Roots decision says:
The recess may he called 'construC
| tive, but it is no more constructive than
at the end of a session which is assumed
| 10 happen. A constructive end involves
constructive recess. A real end involves
Il real recess.
Tillman also gave way TO Hoar, who
suggested that the resolution directing an
inquiry by the committee on the judiciary
| be amended so as not to be offensive to
| the executive department.
'i'illman disclaimed an! intention OF dis
respect and said if he believed the Prcsi
dent had been guilty of unlawful conduct
he would see no reason why he should
| not say so.
T'illman claimed that the records show
that on Dec. last. Crum was both nom
mated and appointed. and declared that
such a course had been without previous
parallel Tilman declared there was no
interim between the two sessions.
| Lodge called attention to the fact that
after adjourning the extra session the
President Pro TEN had left the chair ana
descended to the floor returning after
ward with the chaplain. who had offered
prayer for the beginning of the first sit
ting of the Congress.
| Platt said that it is the intention of
the constitution where sessions come to-
Gcther as the last extra session and the
present regular session did. that recess
appointments should hold over to the reg
uar session in order that vacancies i'll
offices might not be created.
Tillman claimed that in the CrGn case
the statute had been violated and in the
case of Gen. Wood the constitution had
been opposed. Tillman further said that
Crum was not fit man for the position
| and that the community had made many
protests against his selection. on Hale :
suggestion. the judiciary committee rcso-
luton was amended so as to relieve that
Of npcpSsifN ~ al bedding
whether commissions are held as Il result
Of UNLAWFUL authority by the executive.
| The resolution as amended was then
Iasreed to- 1t instructs the committee to
report 10 the Senate what constitutes a
recess of the Senate and what are the
powers and limitations of the executive
in making appointments in such cases"
| Tho other resolution was postponed in
definitely.
The urgent deficiency bill was taken
up ard Newlands, New. denied
Spooner's charge that in his speech
at Omaha he had repudiated the anti
Imperialistic issue.
Lodge then replied to Germans
speech of yesterday. He contended
that instead Of being Il failure Repub-
lican financiering had been q great
| success. IN the last three years taxes
had been reduced to the extent Of one
hundred million dollars and he added
that TO such reduction had been made
under the administration of Mr.. Cleve-
land.
Corning to the question of the pro-
! posed loan to the St. Louis Exposition
Lodge said he did not agree with Mr.
Morgan that the exposition should be
preferred to the Panama canal. The
latter enterprise. he considered the
most important in which the United
States could possibly engage.
He also defended the Republican ad-
ministration against the charge of neg
Letting other affairs in the interest OF
the army and navy.
While he had not intended to oper
mn Marty notifies if Such q (fIIpstiOt