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t ~ e etrr rlbas ts EFSA BLISH ED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., TUESDAY. MAC3,10.TIE EK8.0AYA A SEVERE CENSURE TO THE SENATORS. WRAr TUB SUS-CoMMIMTEE HIAS AGENP.D ON. ?-np*Ps!on Was 4bandmned uveatn Dem oerato Threatre-nd an lid: f:Att- D bate. The It prexand Will b" Vanottie. Washington, Feb. 27.-The sub committee of the senate committee on privileges and elections which was appointed yesterday to formulate a proposition foT the proper punish ment of Senators Tillman and,Me Laurin, of South Carolma, for their offense to the senate of last Satur day, today practically concluded to recommend that the two senators be severely censured for their o6nduct and to limit the punishment to cen sure. The sub-committee consists of Senators Burrows, Hoar and Foraker, republicans, and Senators Pettus and Bailey, democrats. All were present at the early pat of the meeting but Senator Bailey was compelled by indisp'oition to leave the conference before its close. Today's meeting was a very har monious one and little difference of opinion developed. The Tepublican ..members of the sub committee did not themselves contend for a resolu tion suspending the two senators but represented that there were some republican members of the full com -mitte who adhere to the opinion that hough .suspension only can ade Oate punishment be meted out to - 9e otending members. Senator efridge is understood to be among the,most strennous advocates of this erm of proceeding and Senator Me omas is inclined to agree with him. Dome-'doubt is expressed as .to whether they will unite in a report titing the punishment to censure. n the other hand some of the democratic members made it very plain that they not only would not agree in committee to the reporting -f a resolution of suspension but that su ich a resolution should be pre meated to the senate by a majority df the committee they would resist its -adioption by the senate to the extent itigupon prolonged debate. arepubbeoa me,gbers of the corn - . i#ee, and also many republican llenaators who are ass inge2bers of the -omite~ have given very serious aLthition to this possibility of delay in the senate, and there is no doubt that it is having a pronounced infin emn on the disposal of the question. Tey recognize the fact that if so disposed the minority can obstruct all legislation for an indefinite time * and probably continue the present session of congress far into the sum mer., Some of them also hold the view that censure is a more severe and certain form of punishument than hsg or the reasons which have led the republican 'members of the sub.commnittee to agree to a resolu tion of censure, and nothing is left to compplets 'the proceedings but to seegre th4e assept of their re'publican olleagues who are not members of the siqb-oorpngittee. The matter has bega left open for consultation with $hem, and while the full committee has been called to meet tomorrow at t0:30 o'clock, the sub committee will meet half an hour previous to that tiqm.. This will afford opportunity jg notify the democrats if there should be a change of program. There has been considerable die cussion of the matter of 4 different ia tiop of the punishment of the t%o senators, some of the republican members holding out strongly for a more severe rebuke 'o Senator Till man than to Senator McLaurin, be pause they hold that his offense of striking a fellow senator was great. er than that of his colleague, who gave the provocation to the blow, but this course has been practically abandoned so far as the sub com mittee is concerned, and both will be eqnally reprimauded. It also has been virtuoally decided that no apolo gy shall be exacted from the sena tors, the reason for eliminating and the requirement of that kind being found in the fact that senators gen. erally fear such enforced apologies might not amount to apologies after allt The democratic members of the committee have suggested that the censure sbould be in very severe language, and, if anything, have been inclined to be more caustic than their republican colleagues. It is the desire of all members of the committee to find a course of action that will be acceptable to the entire. senate, and the only difficulty now appears to be to secure the consent of those republicans who believe the occasion calls for more than mere words of rebuke. The resolution will impose on the president of the senate the task of administering the reprimand. PORTEST IN TILLMAN'T BEHALF FILED. SENIOR SENATOR HAS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO SAY. Washington, Feb. 27.-As soon as the serale had been called to order today Mr. Frye, t'e president pro tem., said that by his direction on last Monday the clerk had not called the names of the two senators from South Carolina, they being in con tempt of the body. On Tuesday, he said, he had directed the clerk to restore the names to the roll in the event of a roll call. He had done, tis, not because he doubted the propriety of his action on Monday, but because a very grave question was involved which he desired to submit to the senate itself. Mr. Frye said that the senator from Washington, Mr. Turner, had taken an appeal from the decision of the chair on Monday, but that amid the cloud of points of order and objections, he had overlooked the appeal and had proceeded with other business. The chair, Mr. Frye con tinued, forgot the appeal for the moment, and for his forgetfulness he begged the pardon of the senator from Washington. Had he done such a thing wilfully, he said, he could never have forgiven himself. The chair, he said, had received a letter from the senior senator from South Carolina (Mr. Tillman) re questiDg that he be heard on the question of highest privilege. The chair- could not entertain such a re quest in the circumstances without the unanimou~s consent of the senate, but at the proper time--perhaps to morrow--such request might be en tertained. Mr. Turner called attention to the fact that he had asked that the pro est of the senior senator from Sonth Carolina be spread upon the min utes. He had desired, he said, to insist upon this request of Monday, but had been cut off by points of or der and by a motion that the senate go int executive session. Since that time, two adjournments had in terfered with the perfornvance of his duty. Mrr Turner niaintamned that the fling officially of such protests was in accordance with the custom of the British parliament and with the best parliamentary practice of this coun try upon any question involving a constitutional privilege. "The senator is right,"' said the chair, "and the protest will be spread upon the minutes without objection." It was so ordered. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, chair man of the comnmittee on privileges and elections, said that at the proper time an opportunity might be af forded the senior senator from South Carolina to make his statement of privilege, but just now he felt con strained to object. Mr. Hoar snggested that the pro test spread on the minutes be re ferred to the committee on privileges and elections. "I have no objections," said Mr. Turner, Mr. Bacon, of Georgia, said it oc curred to him that the protest was not a matter of further action by the senate. It certainly was a question of too great importance to dispose of hastily. Mr. Hoar contended that the pro test was in the nature of a petition and ought, therefore, to be referred to a committee. Such action was entirely respectful. He did not in sist upon his suggestion, however, in view of the doubt in Mr. Bacon's mind. The senate then adiourned. W ashington, Feb. 27.-Following is the text of the letter written b' Senator Tillman to President Pr< Tem. Frye, which the latter referre( to in the senate today: "As soon as you shall have an nounced officially that my name ha been restored to the senate roll, l desire to rise to a question of th( highest privilege, and as I do no know whether you would recognizi me, under the existing circumstances I take this means of asking you t< submit my request to the senate foi permission to do this, and to give m< an opportunity to state my reasont for doing so." SKETCHES OF ARMY LIFE. Interesting Incidents of the 01vil War Re lated by "X Con. Fed," A Member of Third S. 0 Regiment. We marched towards Chattanoogi the next day. The dust was stifling Dust in the woods, dust in the road and dust everywhere. We took ul amp at a house about half way be ween Lookout Monntain and Mis ionary Ridge. We built breast. works and did picket duty towardf hattanooga. Here I had a scral with one of the boys. I had growr ince I had been in the army, and ws too heavy for the.young man. I had to whip him twice before he wae satisfied. Then I was arrested. W( went on picket that evening and ] was ordered on post. I refused. un less released from arrest. I was re leased and took my place on the ad vance line. After the dust we had rain, and it was fourteen days beforc we saw the sun. While at this placc a Texas soldier put in some good work. He was on a scout belov Dhattanooga and saw a horse .oat ii 1he river. He opened fire and drove ohe enemy below; then he ordered 2e man to come up and bring th( boat to lan 1. This was done, and h( made them come up one by one un il he had 21 prisoners. He broughl ~bem across Lookout Mountain int< samp. Just about the time Gen. Grant was fixing to commence his advancE n us, Gen. Longstreet was ordered o take his troops and go and attaci Inoxville. We marched to Tiney'i station and got on the train. WE iad sent to Ohattanooga station -foi rations. The detail came back with >ut them. A citizen was selling gin ger cakes to the boys; he had a..argE ack full; when he found that we would not get any rations he raisec .he price of each cake $1.00. A lons rm Texan seized his sack and waw ~aught up on the .shouilders of thi oys and distributed the cakes to the oys without money and withoui price. There was a small depot here, ani yne soldier went to the door and toli s there were rations in there. He was soon joined by others, the oor was broken open amid the sheering of hundreds of soldiers ue enough there were rations ther4 and Gen. Kershaw had his men giv sn a day or two's rations. Then oun rains moved off-one following an ther. There were no water tanki and we had to carry water to thi ~ender in buckets, and get out ani ut fence rails for wood. One trair ran into another. No one was seri osly hurt, but after the crash was over, Gen. Kershaw was found witi his hands on the brakes holding foi dear life. The Yankees could no scare him, but in a railroad crash he was demoralized. To show how fas1 we travelled, one of our boys got lef at one station and got on our traii again at the next station. We got o.ff the train near Sweet water, Tenn. Here we spent a fev days and had some fine sport rabbi hunting. We would form a line al if we were on the skirmish; each sol dier armed with a stick; Col. Rutber ford would command the line, an< Gen. Kershaw and his staff would b on the flauks, and cavalry. W would advance and very few of th rabbits would escape. Lieut. Dwigh was a superb rider and got his shar of the rabbits. X. Con. Eed. Raw or Inflamed Lungs Yield rapidly to the woaderful cura tive and healing qualities of Foley' Honey and Tar It prevents pneumo nia and consumption from a hard col< settled on the lno. Gilder & Weeks CUS~URED BY THEl SEXATE TILLMAN AND M'LAURIN GIVEN SAME 8 DOSE. Brave Ben Tries to Buck-Makes an Insult Ing Comment When His Name is Called to Vote-But Quickly Denies Puipose to Offend--Majority Report De clared Senior Senator to be the Greater Transgressor. Washington, Feb. 28.-Senators McLaurin and Tillman of South Carolina today were severely censured by the United States senate. The s administration of the censure grew r out of a sensational personal encoun. ter between the two senators on the C floor of the senate last Saturday dur ing the consideration of the Philip pine tariff bill. The adoption of the resolution to censure probably closes the incident, so far as official action of the senate is concerned. 13 Immediately after the senate con vened today Mr. Burrows, chairman of the committee on privileges and F elections, to which the McLaurin Tillman controversy had been re ferred, reported the resolution cen e sure framed by a majority of the com mittee. Accompanying the resolu tion waa a report narrating the events which led up to the fight between the two senators and setting out the con- r clusioris of the majority. c A brief statement was presented a by Senators Bailey,Blackburn,Pettus, C Foster and Dubois, Democratic mem I bers of the committee, dissenting 9 from some of the conclusions of the t majority. They agreed, however, to I the resolution offered. c A minority report was presented e by Senators McComas, Beveridge a and Pritchard, Republicans, who a maintained that the adoption of a I resolution of censure was not suffi cient punishment. 8 1 Practically there was no debate on r the resolution, although Mi. Gallin- a ger and Mr. Platt of Cornecticut, e made it evident in brief statements f that the resolution was not quite sat- t isfactory to them. The resolution e was adopted by a vote of 54 to 12. c .When Mr. Tillman's name was a called he added a new sensation to e Ithe proceedings by rising and saying e with ill concealed emotion: "Among j gentlemen an apology for an offense r committed under heat of blood is f - usually considered sufficient." t .At the request of Mr. Burrows the .statement of Tillman was read by the clerk. Instantly the South Caro lina senator disclaimed any intention ~ of being offensive to the senate and ' said that if they were so considered ~ he would withdraw them. The chair (Mr. Frye) said that by unanimous consent they might be withdrawn, but Mr. Dietrich of Nebraska, ob- C jected. The incident was closed Iwithout further comment. t EXPECTANT CROWDS IN GALLERIES. SWhen the senate was called to or der today'a notably large attendance of senators was on the floor and the t galleries were thronged. Both Sen ators McLaurin and Tillman of South ~ - Carolina were in their seats. Great Sinterest was manifested by senators - on the floor and by spectators in the ; galleries in the reading of the jour a nal which contained the protest of I Mr. Tillman against not being per- rj i mitted to vote while under the ban of -the senate's order of contempt. 3 Mr. Burrows of Michigan, chair i man of the committee on privileges r and elections, presented the follow ing resolution which had been form- r a ulated by that committee. t b "That it is the judgment of the E senate tbat the senators from South i i Carolina, Benjamin R. Tillman and t John L. McLaurin, for disorderly be- f - havior and flagrant violation of the i i rules of the sena-e during the open session of the senate on the 22nd day < of February, inst., deserve the cen - sure of the senate and they are here- E - by censured for their breach of the < I privileges and dignity of this body; i and from and after the adoption of i this resolution the order adjudging < them in contempt of the senate shall i be no longer in force and effect." Mr. Burrows presented the request of the majority of the committee which was read.( REPORT OF THE MAJORITY. -The report recited the history of f the altercation in the senate and i noted the language then used by be offenders. All agreed to this Latement. The report then continued as fol )WS: "The majority of the committee are f opinion that the legal effect of ad idging these senators in contempt f the senate was to suspend their inctions as senators and. that such unishment for disorderly behavior clearly within the power of the anate but the conclusion they have 3ached makes it unnecessary to dis ass this question. The offenses mmitted by the two senators were ot, in the opinion of a majority of :e committee, of ,equal gravity. Mr. McLaurin did not commence ie encounter but only stood in his lace at his desk, where he was speak ig and resisted the attack that was iade upon him. In other words his ffense was confined to the use of un arliamentary language, for which e had unusual provocation. Never ieless, his offense was a violation of ae rules of the senate of so serious a baracter that in the opinion of the mmittee it should be condemned. THE GREATER OFFENSE. "In the case of Mr. Tillman, the Dcord shows that the altercation was ommenced by the charge he made gainst Mr. McLaurin. Such a barge is inexcusable, except in con ection with a resolution to investi ate. Mr. Tillman not only made he charge without any avowal of a urpose to investigate, but also dis laiming knowledge of evidence to stablish the offense and this he said fter the charge had been specifically nd unqualifiedly denied by Mr. Mc jaurin. "Such a charge under any circum tances, would be resented by any ian worthy to be a senator;but, made s it was in,this instance, its offen iveness was greatly intensified. This ature of his offense, coupled with he fact that he also commenced the %counter by quitting his seat same istance away from Mr. McLaurin, d rushing violently upon him, truck him in the face, makes the ause one of such exceptional misbe aviour that a majority of the corn ittee are of the opinion that his of nse was of such greater gravity ban that of Mr. McLaurin. CANNOT GRADE THE CENSURE. "The penalty of a censure by the enate in the nature of things must ary in actual severity in proportion the public sense of the gravity of be offense of which the offender has een adjudged guilty. Therefore, otwithstanding the fact that in the pinion of a majority of the commit~ e there is a difference in the gray y of the offenses under considera ion your committee are of the opin n that public good and the dig ity of the senate will be alike best romoted and protected, so far as bs particular case is concerned, by rposing upon each senator by for ial vote the censure of the senate or the offense by him commit'ted nd therefore, recommend the adop ion of the resolution." At the conclusion of the reading f the majority report Mr. Bailey of ~exas, offered the following state ent as representing the views of imself and four other senators: MILD DEMOCRATiC :DIssENT. "We dissent from so much of the eport of the committee as asserts he power of the senate to suspend a enator and thus deprive a State of ts vote, and so much as describes he offenses of the senators as of dif erent gravity; but we apprrove the esolution reported." The report of the minority of the ommittee then was read. In this statement the senators igning it say that while they ac ept the statement of the case as ade in the principal report they do Lt agree with the majority of the ommittee as to the punishment pro osed by the majority. They then REPUBLICAN 3MINORITY NOT SATISFIED. "The junior senator from South aroma is guilty of unparliament xy language. The senior senator ron South Carolina is guilty of phys. 1l vilence. Neither in the stat ar, Kearns, Lodge, McCumber, Enry, McMillan, Mallory, Martin, tchell, Money, Nelson, Patterson, rkins, Pettus, Platt of Connecticuti arles, Rawlins, Sirmons, Stewart' laiferro, Teller, Turner, Vest, War , Wetmore.-54. qays.-Beveridge, Clark of Wyo. ag, Deboe, Dietrich, Foster of Lshington, Kean, Kittridge, Me mas,- Millard, Pritchard, Proctor, )tt.-12. BEN COOLS QUICKLY. is soon as the vote was announced Burrows demanded that the tement of Mr. Tillman made ring the roll call be read to the iate. Scarcely had the clerk con ded the reading when~Mr. Till n, addressing the president, said: The words uttered by me were intended to be offensive and if were so considered I very glad withdraw them." &s Mr. Burrows was about to ad ss the senate Mr. Teller said: "The senator from South Carolina s not called to order by anybody. hink we had better proceed." Mr.Barrows explained. that he I had no opportunity during the call to direct the senate's attention Mr. Tillman's words. The chair [r. Frye) said: "The senator has withdrawn the narks . Is there objection on the rt of the /senate to their with %wal?" IT GOES ON THE BECOBD. "I object, Air. President," insisted -. Dietrich (Rep.) of Nebraska. The effect of the objection is to worporate Mr. Tillman's statement the record of the proceedings. SENATOR TILLMAN'S XESTAKE. His Remarkable and Hastily Prepared peech Before the Senate he "Slipped Up" on CoL William Washington's Birthplace and Occupation. [News and Courier.] Barnwell, February 18.-Tillman's eech in the Senate recently, in dch he gave his fellow Senators a dseye view of South Carolina story, was remarkable as being the odt, of a night's incubrations. it like most productions of the sty pudding order, was not history ogether. Where he said that CoL m. Washington was not a relative George Washington; that he was outh Carolina farmer, just like , (Tillman,) he made three mis Ltements in a very narrow corn ss. In the first place, Col. Win. ashington was not, at that time, a uth Carolinian, but a Virginian; the second place, he was not a rmer, or, if a farmer, he was not a rmer 'just like me," as was said the Senator; and in the third ie, he was~ a kinsman of Washing 2, pater patrie, for "he himself th said it." (See Washington's urnal of his tour through South rolina.) The Senator's authority is doubtless of kindred complexion th the romances of Weems, from iom a' number of romantic and un inded Revolutionary stories were ected for the amusement of chil en in juvenile readers. CORPSE COMigs TO LIFE. i Jersey Farmer Has Narrow Egcape From Being Buried Aliye. New York, Feb. 24.-Found frozen a snowdrift and apparently dead ber Friday's storm, William Ferry, farmer, near Anthony, N. J., lay r ten hours on the cooling board of undertaker's shop surrounded by ifins and the paraphernalia of death. Ferry was found lying in the snow. Le body was cold and the supposed rpse was taken to an undertaking tablishment. Half a dozen neigh >rs gathered to watch over the body. e absence of the undertaker pre nted further action. When he ar ved the party gathered in another om. Upon their return to the cool g room they were horrified to find Le supposed corpse missing. An arm was sent out and a messenger arried to Ferry's home. When he trived Ferry was disposing of a 3arty meal. He said he suddenly acame conscious and observing his irroundings, fled through a side o. and hurried home. utes of any State or in the common Rc opinion of mankind are these two M< offenses the same. The slightest Mi form of punishment is a reprimand Pe or censure. It is the latter which Qu the majority proposes to inflict for Ta two offe'ses differing in character rei and gravity. The minority of the committee are of the opinion that mi this punishment is adequate, and Wi that to ignore the difference between Co the offenses is unjust. The minor- So ity of the committee is of the opin ion that suspension of the two offend ing senators from their senatorial privileges heretofore inflicted should ste now be formally adjudged and con- du tinued for different periods of time." set The report concludes by recom- clc mending that Senator McLaurin be suspended from his functions as a senator for five days and that Sena- no' tor Tillman be suspended for twenty thi days. ly Mr. Prichard's adoption to the above statemeat is in the following dri language: "I concur in, all the foregoing we views except as to the punishment of it the j nior senator from South Caro lina. It is my opinion that the punish- ha ment he has already suffered is ad- rol equate to his offense. I make no re- to commendation as to the punishment to be imposed on the senior senator from South Carolina. rei IMPORTANT FOR THE RECORD. pa Mr. Bacon called attention to d what he considered an important omission in the narrative of the maj ority concurrences of last Saturday. g& There was no official record of the proceedings in the secret legislative in, session, he said, but some of the in salient facts ought to be brought out. He said that the senior sena tor from South Caralina (Mr. Till- 1 man) had expressed his desire i through the senator from Kentucky (Mr. Blackburn) to make public acknowledgment of his error and to apologize to the senate. The junior senator from South Carolina (Mr. s McLaurin) had expressed the same desire through him (Mr. Bacon). bia He deemed it important that these hii facts should be made a part of the pr record. B THE MCLAURIN' SWOULDN'T voTE, he When the name of Mr. McLaurin all of Mississippi was reached in the roll W call, he said: o "Being related by kinship to one a of the senators involved, I ask to be hi excused from voting." sti The requ.est was granted. pe Mr. McLaurin of South Carolina, W one of the offending senators, said Sc in response to his name, which had i been restored to the roll: "I refrain f from voting for obvious reasons." fa by TILLMAN'S NEW OFFENSE. p When Mr. Tillman's5 name was called he rose deliberately. Every he eye in the chamber was fixed upon him. His face was stern and set andC he was pale as a sheet. Evidently he was laboring under great emotion. w "Among gentlemen," said he, slow- w ly, and his words were heard dis tinctly in the uttermost part of the f chamber, "an apology for an offense d committed under the heat of blood d is usually considered sufficient." Then, he resumed his seat amid grasps of astonishment among sena. NE tors and spectators. Mr. Burrows hastened to the desk of the official stenographers and di- in rected that Mr. Tillmnan's words be af written out at once- a At the conclusion of the roll call fo but before the announcement of the vote, Mr. Kean, of New Jersey, who s had voted for the resolution, address ing the president pro tem changed T his vote in the feliowing statement: cc KEAN CHANGES HIs VOTE. e "Having heard the senator from b( South Carolina (Mr. Tillman) again T insult the senate, I change my vote ve from aye to no." ri The resolutioni* was adopted 54 to rc 12, the detailed vote being as follows: ill Yeas-Aldrich, Allison, Bacon, Bai- tt ley, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Bar- a] rows, Carmack, Clark of Montana, h Clay, Cockrell, Culberson, Cullom, a Dpew, Dillingham, Dolliver, Dubois, h Elkins, Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster b of Louisiana, Frye, Gallinger, Gib- si on, H-ansborongh. Harris, Hawley, -d