The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1899, Page 1

VOLUME LXX FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS In the House Roberts of Utah Is Refused the Oath of Office—Senate Pays Tribute to the Late Vice President Hobart. ASHINGT( e bvoeoesaes DAVID B. HENDERSON, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. [ were adopted by a resp. Thereupon man of tk the name of Da The ment derson was greetcd und of ap- plause from the Re Hay of | Virginla, chairm: mocratic aucus, nomina chardson Tennessee, d s name dits of the Democratic side Ridgiey of Kansas named John C. Colorado as the Populist c on of 1daho placed Francls G. New- lands of Nevada in nomination as the candidate of the Silver party. Each party baving put forward Its candidate, by ew the XVII-NO AR o Sk S8 S o S S S S PP b et e 0o 0@ | lcu:wm. the oldest member of the House SAN FRANCISCO, TUESDAY., DECEMBER 5, PRICE FIVE CENTS, eProeieioe . 04000 direct f the k the roll was called ted for the candidate street of In- essee were appointed te Newl in ands voted for resulting: 11, 4; to r of the ® wWas swung open and n the arm by the two other toe. of the comn Speaker ascended the rostrum 2 & neat \troduced rsponse o the hearty cheers | g8 » House as follows . tatives: The volce of the He as called | 8 ibllities. or that call | 88 ful, and I am ght of the re- this great , however, by the mber of this body can pe responsibility, either to his people or to his country. All of us are under bonds to do our best. ““The approval of the country, the ap- proval of one’s own conscience, the at- tainment of great results are not secured | by petty co ts on narrow flelds, but | $% | must be sought and won on broad patri- | g otic lines of thought and action. ® “It is my duty, as it will be my aim and | & | pleasure, to impartially administer the |83 | laws adopted for our government, but no | 8 | Speaker can be successful unless he has | g8 the co-operation of the members of (he"g. House 2 “The generous partiality and kindness | $3 that have been shown to me by the en-| 38 tire membership here encourage me to be- | gy lieve that such imperfections as 1 may | have will be modified by the considerate |52 and supporting disposition of those consti- | §8 tuting this great body. P “I am ready to take the oath of office.” In accordance with the time-honored members out of tu aking his my re eligibility transcript of the proceedings of court in Ctah pleaded guilty of the crime of unlawful cohabltation. then he has been persistently gullty of | the same crime, and that ever since then he has been and is now a polygamist. this transcript and | papers tell the truth, the member-elect from Utah is, in my judgment, ineligible sentatives qualification of the Edmunds law and for higher and gra reasons. to what T my possession a certified copy of the en- HEADQUARTERS the Fi of h Congress to-day. n open, and many g room only was to be had . of multi-color owers on the the diplom 5 a this season’s crop of n nlike. 1l Congre: nsas, Oklahc Jostle 21pt member from North Carolina rubs eibows with t. tts or New mpshire. House, out of a total of 353 members, 106, or nearly one-third, are new. total of thirty-four. The new members are from Nurthern Stat. from, year to year and makes fewer clanges 0 L do ¢ peclally were those of ponderous Reed, diminutive and agile 1a, the eccentric an d flashy James Hamilton Lewis: Maine's diminutive statesman; Stone of Pennsylv, Sayers of Texas, the school statesman, who 100 mistaken for him. In th itse membe WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The usual animated scenes marked the The corridors of the Capitol were crowded with visitors long before s ., failed to galn admittance. as usual, predominated, and thelr bright headgear, together sks of the members, added to the animation and brilllancy of tie galleries were the picturesque costumes of all nations. ational There are always all sorts of figures to be their neighbors from fashio Northern St By 11 o'clock the galleries were lawmakers Is scarcely superior een on the floor. le New York: the long- epping Yankee from he brisk, quick- New York State sends eighteen new es for the most part, for the South re- es. The faces and figures Wheelor, the voluble and brillient Henry thecourtly Belknap of Illinols, the son of the ania, the rhysical glant, who is now ked not unlike Henderson, and who, not- f nen of ti last s who were returned to this, it may be said that the Republicans have the 1 z nt of numbers. On their side are such Republicans as Grosvenor, Boutelle, Cannon, Hopkins, Dalzell, g r ins, Hull, Henderson, Hepburn Payn v. Bingham, Loud, eele, Landis (Indiana), Hitt and s 1 uch leaders as MeMillin, Docke Sayers, Wheeler, M , to say nothing of James Hamil n, who, thou Populist, allled himself with the Democratic side, but the minority sti men as Bal Cummings, Sibley (Pennsy who was formerly a n, De Armond, Harmer of Pennsyl- | the oath the nounced to try under which the claimant to this seat was naturalized, and that eminent coun- sel assert that if this be the record in the | case this claimant is not a citizen of the | United States. I offer and express no | opinion upon that proposition. Mr. Speaker, if it were possible to em- the gravity of these charges and the responsibility that is at this imposed upon this House, w » called the; ibout 1s, were sworn in 1 all persons were will find me, when the State | that emphasis in the memorials, a small Roberts’ name were | part of which could be physically cared a hush fell upon the | for in this hall, but all of which T now of Ohio was on his [ present to this House from over 7.000,000 r recognition. The Speaker | American men and women, protesting zainst the entrance of this Representa- tive-elect from Utah.” At the conclu McRae (D.) of Arl d his concurren 1 the protest lor. If the charges hanging o the head of the Representative-elect were true, he sald his being sworn in would be an assault upon every American home. If true, he sald, Roberts was guilty of a violation of the laws of the United States and of Utah, and the ¢ ges should be Investigated. If they were proven true, he said emphatically in conclusion, there should not be a vote in the House In fa- vor of allowing him a seat in this body. Meantime Roberts had advanced to the head of the aisle and stood there irreso- lutely. “In view of the objection,” said the Speaker, addressing him, *“the gentleman will step aside. “I do s0,” replied Roberts, “with the understanding that by my action I waive none of my rights “None of the gentleman’'s rights will be lost,” said the Speaker, and Roberts thereupon retired quietly to his seat. in of the Rep- to his At ah and ylor in a clear, tinet voic , Mr. Speaker, on responsibility as a member of this and because specific, serious and ¢ well-ground arges of in- are made against him. A briefly that he, claim- dences the fact s 18%9 convicted, in or that he Affidavits and other papers ion indicate that ever since my posses It these affidavits and be a member of this House of Repre- both because of the statute ver and quite as sound T ought also to say, in addition ve just said, that T have in . nRBNURUNLNS IMPORTANT SUBJECTS FOR : LEGISLATION THIS SESSION C California mineral lands. 8 C LR R 3 R L R R R A L L R L L R L moment | fon of Mr. Taylor's re. | nRuNnLLLuLLuLNLAuNRLRLNNn ALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLINGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—No Congress in re- cent years has been confronted with more important duties than those which will devolve upon the fifty-sixth Congress. Among the most important matters that will come up will be: The ques- tion of whether Mr. Quay’s appointment as a Senator from Pennsylvania is comstitutional; exclusion of Brigham H. Roberts of Utah from the House on the ground that the election of a polygamist to Congress from that State is a violation of the agreement entered into when the State was admitted; a constitu- tional amendment for submission to the States abolishing polygamy in the United States forever and mak- ing those who practice it ineligible for office and disqualified from voting; permanent governments for Hawaii, Porto Rico and Alaska; construction of submarine cables to the new possessions of the United States; abolition of the Western Union Cuban cable monopoly; the bill to enact present gold standard into law with provisions for the ultimate redemption of all United States currency in gold; increass in bank circulation and possibly the refunding of the national debt; the bill to subsidize the merchant marine of the United States; various propositions to amend the interstate commerce law toprevent freight and passenger rate discriminations; proposed constitutional amendments and bills to regulate or exter- minate trusts, to none of which the party leaders have yet given their indorsement; improvement in army organization and increase in the ships and men of the navy. Attempts will also be made to pass a Nica- ragua canal bill; a bill for the irrigation and reclamation of arid lands; bill to segregate and classify » the familiar (New Jersey), Mantle (Mon ), Mitchell “Turpie (Indi; r (West Virginia), (Utah), Thurston (Neb Allen Wilson (Washington), Morrill (Vermont) and ¢ n (Maryland) will be missed, and in their stead Depew, Mc s () yland), k (Montana), Scett (West Virginia), Quarles (Wisconsin) 3¢ » (Florida), Beverid (Indiana). Jonathan Ross (Vermont), an old-fashioned Y. Morrill. The terms of Cockrell, Hale, Burrows, Aldrich, Hawley, Lodge, Bate and Clark ( but ere re-elected. The successor of Roger Q. Mills has not yet been chosen. Hay ! len, is Jying at the point of death, and his successor will he named by the Governor of * representative in the Senate from the Golden State. | There was no demonstration either on the floors or in the gaileries. The re- maining members were then sworn in, after which Taylor offered his resolution to refer the case of Roberts to a special committee. The resolution was as fol- low “Whereas, Tt is charged that Brigham H. Roberts, a Representative-elect to the | Fifty-sixth Congress from the State of Utah, Is ineligible to a seat in the House of Representatives, and “Whereas, Such a charge is made through a member of the House on his re- | sponsibility as such member, and on the erte, of public records, af- and papers evidencing such ineli- “Resolved, That the question of the prima facie right of Brigham H. Roberts to be sworn in as a Representative be re- ferred to a special committee of nine | members of the House to be appointed by | the Speaker, and until | mitted to occupy a seat in this House; witnesses on oath in relation to the sub- Jject matter of this resolution.” An agreement was then reached by which consideration of the resolution should be postponed until to-morrow after the reading of the President’'s message. The excitement thereupon immediately subsided and many of the spectators left the galleries. The officers of the House selected by the aansazms:xzm:zamsssa Republican caucus last Saturday were | then elected. Alexander McDowell of Pennsylvania, clerk; Henry Casson of | 828282Qflfifl&fififififl&&gflflflfifififififi? | @ C0006060100000040600-00-00-000 L4 and sald committee shall have power to | organization of the House. A committe send for persons and papers and examine | of three, consisting of | ‘; WILLIAM P. FRYE, PRESIDING OFFICER OF SENATE B R e e e S SRR ) [ R such committee | Wisconsin, sergeant-at-arms; W. J. Glenn | shall report upon and the House decide | of New York, doorkeeper, and J. ¢ | such question and right the sald Brigham | Elroy of Ohlo, postmaster. H. Roberts shall not be sworn In or per- | the usual resolutions were adopted to in- Mc- after which form the President and the Senate of the nois, Payne (R.) of New York and Rich ardson (D.) of Tennessee, was appointed to join a similar committee from the Ser ate to wait upon the President and inform | him that Congress was In session and ready to receive any communication he might have to make. Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania, one of the Republican floor leaders, then precipitated a short but lively debate by offering resolution for the adoption of the rules of the last Congre: They were the rules of three Congresses, he d, and their operation had proved their value. Balley (D.) of Texas protested against forcing the rules of the last House per- manently upon the present House with- out warning or consideration, but he ex- pressed a willingness to see them adopted temporarily until others could be framed Richardson (D.) of Tennessee indorsed what his colleague had said, but from what the public press had said he realized how hopeless resistance would be. Never- theless he protested in the name of the minority. He good-naturedly chided Hep- burn (R.) of Iowa, who frequently com- plained of the rules in the last Congress, | for not leading his partisans in a fight for | Had he done so, Rich- | their reformation. ardson said, the minority would have been glad to join him. Balley followed with some specific criti- cism of the rules and their operation. Hepburn, replying to Richardson, mitted that he had favored some-modi- fications, but he frankly stated that his colleagues in the Republican caucus had been opposed to him, and that he had yielded to their wisdom. Dalzell (R.) of Pennsylvania then moved the previous question, which was ordered, and the vote was taken by ayes and noes upon the adoption of the rules of the last Con- ress. While the roll was being called a large floral gavel from the Union Veterans Union of Dubuque, Iowa, and a beautiful Continued on Second P;‘q nnon (R.) of Illi- | IN SESSION ASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Appro- priate tribute to the memory of the late Vice President Ho- bart paid by the Senate to- day at its first session of the Fifty-sixth Congress. The e minutes, and formal and necessary busi- s Was transac After the adoption of the usual routine resolutions and the administration to the new members of the oath of office, Senator Sewell of New Jersey presented fitting resolutions upon ath of the Vice President. The res- ons were ordered to be communicated to the House of Representatives, and the session, on motion of Kean of New Jer- s8¢y, was suspended | As usual in opent Congress, the ct nservatory. sion lasted only thir of a session of s a veritable a Senator was vish floral display, and forgotten in the particularly noticeable was the offering of flowers to the new members. The desks to which they h yeen assigned were loaded with the cholcest selections from the publ ate conservatories of the city. Attention was no emblem Vice Pre: » the fact that ppeared on the apparent statement eries were fil guished audi In the diplom: eral | prominent members of the lomatie corps, among whom was Lord Paunce- the British Embassador, and Lady Pauncefote. Promptly at noon Senator Maine, president pro tem ate to order Milburn, pronounce a forceful and tou: leath of Mr. Hobart con of Georgia was th to be recognized by the chair sented on behalf of Mallory of who was detained from the Senate ness, the credent of Se | teferro of Florida. They Penrose of Pennsylvan credentials of Matthew Star pointed Senator from Pennsylvania by | Governor. On motion of Cockrell of Miss credentials of Qu Committee on Pr In this connection Hampshire Introduced a resolution first member w 11 Pennsylvania.” This resolution also we lm the Committee on Privileges and Elec- tions, D e e a2 e e ATA . i ei e - sieiei o @i Remonstrances and memorials against the seating of Quay were presented by Burrows of Michigan and Jones (D.) of Arkansas. The credentials of Hayward of Ne- braska were presented, and subsequently the announcement was made by Thurston of Nebraska that, owing to critical fli- ness, Hayward was unable to be present. By direction of the chair the new Sen- tors were then presented at the secre- tary's desk, where the oath of office was administered to them by the President | pro tem. Accompanied each by his col- | league, the new Senators In coterfes of | four were presented to the presiding officer and received the oath which made them formally members of the body. Those who took the oath were: Senators Aldrich (R.) of Rhode Island, ge of Indian urrows of Michi- k of Mon Clark of Wyom- Cockrell of Missouri, Culberson of as, Danfel of Virginia, Davis of Min- A, nesota, Depew of New York, Foster of Washington, Hale of Maine, Hanna of Ohio, Hawley of Connecticut, Kean of New Jersey, Lodge of Massachusetts, | McComas of Maryland, McCumber of North Dakota, Money of Mississippt, | | Proctor of Vermont, Quarles of Wiscon- | sin, Scott of West Virginia, Stewart cf | Nevada and Talieferro of Florida. | After the administration of the oath a | roll-call showed the presence of seventy- eight members. | Cullom of Tllinols offered the usual | resolution that the secretary of the Sen- | ate inform the House of Representatives | that it was ready to proceed to business. | Carter of Montana prese a me- morial and protest against the seating of | Senatorrelect Clark of Montana and also a petition from the Governor and other | prominent citizens of Montana asking for | an early hearing of the protest against Clark. The entire matter was referred to tes the Committee on Privileges and Slec- | tions. . | Sewell of New Jersey then announced | the death of Vice President Hobart snda | offered the following resolutions “Resolved, That the te has re- ceived with deepest regret information of the death of Garret Augustus Hobart, late Vice President of the United States,