The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-02-09


Santiago Bay.
The insults heaped on General Miles,
whose counsel was ignored in the ex-
pensive plumbers of the land campign
at Santiago.
MR.. LANGLEY. Mr.. Chairman, l
desire to inquire whether if the COM
mittee does not desire to listen to the
remarks of the gentleman from New
York it has any remedy under the
rules of the House, whether the House
can stop him if the Chair does not rule
him out of order?
The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentle
man from New York yield to the gen.
tleman from Kentucky?
Mr.. WILLETT. 1 decline to yield.
MR.. LANGLEY. Mr.. Chairman, 1
did not ask the gentleman to yield. l
was making a parliamentary inquiry.
The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman
will please state it. But so long as
the gentleman proceeds within the
rules and practice of the House he is
in order and may proceed.
MR.. LANGLEY. But suppose we do
not think his speech is in order.
The CHAIRMAN. Then the gentle
man from Kentucky may raise the
point of order and the Chair will con-
slider it.
MR.. LANGLEY. All right.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will
say to the gentleman from Kentucky
that the Chair is listening with pa
thence, but the Chair is unable to hear
everything the gentleman says.
Mr.. MADDEN. Mr.. Chairman
The CHAIRMAN. viii the gentle
man from New York (Mr. WilletD yield
to the gentleman from Illinois?
MIR. WILLETT. 1 decline to yield
MR.. MADDEN. 1 move, Mr.. Chair
man. that the gentleman be compelled
to proceed in order.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair feels
that the motion of the gentleman from
| Illinois (Mr. Madden) is not in order
at this time, because the language used
by the gentleman from New York has
not yet been decided to be out of order,
J no point having been raised, applause
on the Democratic side.)
MR.. GARDNER of Massachusetts.
Mr.. Chairman, l rise to point of or
der.
The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentle
man from New York yield?
MR.. WILLETT. l will not yield.
MR.. GARDNER of Massachusetts,
The gentleman must yield to a point of
order.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair did not
understand that the gentleman rose to
point of order Will the gentleman
| please state it?
MR.. GARDNER of Massachusetts.
make the point or order that the gen.
tleman's discourse is out of order and
in violation of the rule which says per-
sonalities must be avoided.
The CHAIRMAN. Which part of
the gentlemans speech does the gem
tleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Gard
ner) refer to-?
MR.. GARDNER of Massachusetts. To
the part in which he speaks of per-
sistent defamation of Admiral Schley.
The CHAIRMAN. Will the gentle
man from New (Mr Willett) please
suspend for a moment and be kind
enough to quote the language to which
the gentleman from Massachusetts,
takes exception, so that the Chair may
distinctly understand it?
MIR. WILLBTT. The gentleman
from Massachusetts objects to my Ian
guage He must know what l said.
Let him report what he objects to.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will be
better satisfied to have the language re-
peated by the gentleman from New
York (Mr WilletD, for the reason that
the gentleman from Massachusetts,
may not quote him distinctly and cor
rectly.
MIR. WlLLETT. The lines in rela-
ton to Admiral Schley read:
The persistent defamation of Admira
Schley, who really fought the battle
of Santiago Bay.
The CHAIRMAN. The Chair will
rule. The Chair is decidedly of the
opinion that that remark is out of or
der. applause on the Republican
side,) In few of the other remarks tina
the gentleman has made, and in thu
, general tenor of his remarks respecting
the President Of the United States, tn,
chair has already expressed an opin