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| Benjamin Tillman. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1902.
RESTORED TO THE ROLL.
Names of South Carolina Senators to Be Called.
SENATE TO TAKE SOME ACTION.
Adjournment Taken on Announcement of Mr. Crump's Death—Time Taken For Conference—Said to Be No Precedent—Difficult and Intricate Problem.
Washington, Feb. 26.—The most important development in connection with the Tillman-McLaurin episode of last Saturday was the act of Senator Frye, president pro tem of the senate, in ordering the clerk of the senate to restore the names of the two South Carolina senators to the senate roll. If the present plan is carried out this act will be followed by the adoption by the senate of a resolution before a vote on any other subject is taken, practically endorsing the action of the president pro tem in ordering their names erased and suspending the two senators for some definite time.
The order of Senator Frye for the restoration of the names to the roll was issued almost immediately after the senate convened and was the result of the general conference among the Republican leaders of the senate.
The Democratic senators also spent the day in a general discussion among themselves of the situation. They were unanimous in their characterization of Senator Frye's ruling as arbitrary and announced their purposes to resist by prolonged debate, if necessary, any further efforts to enforce the ruling.
The adjournment of the senate for the day was decided upon at the forenoon conference of the Republican leaders. The announcement of Representative Crump's death had reached the senate Monday, but was withheld. When the Republican senators were informed of this fact they were only too willing to use the announcement to secure an adjournment and their Democratic colleagues were just as willing that it should be so used.
All senators recognized the fact that the senate is under somewhat serious tension and all felt that both time and temper might be saved by stopping for 24 hours for a general conference and exchange of views over the situation.
The Republican members of the committee on privileges and elections were in consultation during the afternoon over the resolution which it was proposed to bring to the attention of the senate through the committee, providing for the suspension of the two South Carolina senators.
None of the senators present at the conference would consent to disclose the details of their proceedings, but it is learned in a general way that considerable doubt was expressed by some of the members as to the regularity of the suggested proceeding, some of the senators holding that the suspension of senators, even by the senate itself, would be subject to criticism.
The feeling was quite general that the problem is a difficult and intricate one.
Society of the Cayugas.
New York, Feb, 26.—The first great jubilee of the Society of the Cayugas on the anniversary of the cession of the lands of the people of the Great Pipe to the state of New York was held last night at the Hotel Manhattan. The members of the society although wearing dress suits and immaculate…shirts after the style of the aborigines, had necklaces of beads, wampum and shells.
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| Prince Heinrich. |
PRINCE HENRY WILL VISIT WALL-ST.
Trip to Grant's Tomb Abandoned for the Present on Account of the Weather.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Prince Henry remained aboard the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern all morning. The inclement weather decided him to abandon the trip to General Grant's tomb for the present. At noon he left the yacht for Sherry's for luncheon with the captain of finance of the country J. Pierpont Morgan and other prominent financiers, and business men arranged the affair. Towards noon the weather cleared a bit and it looked as if the prince would have fairly pleasant afternoon for his sight-seeing trip. Wall-st. will be among the places visited. Bankers and brokers are prepared to give the German prince a hearty welcome.
PAGE FOUR—EDITORIAL.
Tillman and the Senate.
The people of the whole country are disgusted with the doings of Senator Tillman of South Carolina, whose culminating act was the attack on Senator McLaurin of his own state in the senate chamber last week. The press of the United States regardless of politics have denounced him. That the Democratic papers as well as the Republican sheets have no sympathy or patience with him is evident by the following from the Democratic Utica Observer, whose words are a sample of those voiced by other Democratic papers throughout the country. The Observer says:
The time was, and not so long ago that it is not within the memory of most people, when the United States senate was a more dignified deliberative body than it is today. Saturday and Monday the proceedings have been such as to decidedly lower the dignity and qualify the deliberations of the body. The disgraceful fisticuffs between two senators in open session was a scene never before witnessed in the senate chamber. And it is sincerely to be hoped that it will never be repeated.
The scene was nearly repeated Monday when Senator Wellington of Maryland and his colleague Senator McComas became involved over a detail in the debate on the Philippine bill. Wellington and McComas practically called each other liars—the epithet that precipitated hostilities in the Tillman-McLaurin case. Though in this instance the senators did not come to blows, nevertheless there was a breach of parliamentary law in the language used. When Wellington said that McComas had uttered a "cowardly and malicious falsehood," he came close to a transgression of parliamentary law. Nor is Wellington's position in the senate any too secure. He narrowly escaped summary expulsion at the beginning of the present session because of certain discreditable utterances he was alleged to have made at the time of the assassination of President McKinley.
The Wellington-McComas incident may not unreasonably be said to have been the indirect outcome of the Tillman-McLaurin fracas. Such scenes as those of Saturday are not enacted without leaving their impress on the minds of all who witness them. Their effect varies on different minds. With men of temperaments like Tillman's the effect is exciting. With men possessing an adequate comprehension of the dignity of the office of United States senator the effect would be quite the reverse.
Should not Tillman be expelled from the senate? We believe he should be, and for several reasons. It was he who was the first to charge his colleague with having made a corrupt bargain with President McKinley, his vote being given in return for the patronage of South Carolina. It was he who struck the first blow. This is not the first time Tillman has disgraced the United States senate. But it is, or should be, the culmination of a long series of offenses. His scurrilous attack on President Cleveland from the floor of the senate disgusted the decent people, regardless of politics, and disgraced the state of South Carolina represented by such a blatherskite.
We doubt the expediency of expelling Senator McLaurin, as to do so would be to leave South Carolina entirely unrepresented in the upper branch of congress. Not only was McLaurin's offense less grave, but he has not the unsavory record that Tillman brought to the senate with him and has succeeded in making more unsavory during the almost seven years he has served. The expulsion of Tillman would have a sobering effect on the members of the senate and would proclaim to the whole country that the senate has not degenerated to the level of debate where the lie and knock-down are recognized arguments.
NEW YORK IS SLOW
As Compared with Cortland in the Voltage of Its Trolleys.
On account of the high voltage carried by the Traction company's wires, no little difficulty has been experienced in connecting with the electric polisher used on the floor of the new Lackawanna depot. The wires carry a current of 500 volts, and the machine is adjusted for a current of only 230 volts. Consequently a water resistance was put in by Electrician J. F. Costello, cutting the current down to the proper voltage, and now the machine is working well.
Foreman Thomas Davis was greatly surprised when the polisher was attached to the street car line current to see the machine dance a gig around on the mosaic floor. The 500 volts made it hum, and it tried to imitate a decapitated hen in its wild antics. The foreman states that anywhere in New York the polisher can be hitched onto the trolley wires and the voltage is just right for running it. He was very much surprised, therefore, when he found that the voltage of the Cortland wires was so high, and that in some respects Cortland is swifter than is New York.
[This newspaper article may make present day electricians hum with laughter, as Ohms law is confused, and the 500 volts lacked a descriptive A. C. or D. C. It was direct current.—CC ed.]
LONG WALK IN SNOW.
Dr. Butterfield Meets with Mishaps Driving to Ithaca, N. Y.
The Ithaca Journal of Tuesday says: Dr. E. F. Butterfield, the well known clairvoyant physician of Syracuse, who visits Ithaca every five weeks to meet his many patients, had an unusual experience during his last trip to this city. He is in the habit of coming as far as Cortland on the train, then hiring a team and driving the remaining distance to this city. Last Sunday he came to Cortland as usual; hired a team and driver and started for Ithaca, expecting to enjoy a very pleasant drive. The trip proved not quite so enjoyable as usual, because of the drifted [snow] condition of the roads, and before half the distance from Cortland to McLean had been covered the cutter began to show the effects of the severe straining it had received by driving through the heavy pitch holes. Suddenly they plunged into one much deeper and more steep than any of the others, and with a final creak, the vehicle went to pieces, leaving the two men on a country road, five or six miles from any village without means of conveyance.
Dr. Butterfield despite his 76 years and although the path was very poor and the traveling at its worst, decided to leave the driver to fix the sleigh and walk to McLean, a distance of over 5 miles. At about 12 o'clock, after what seemed to him a life time of tramping, he arrived at that village and made his way immediately to the house of Dr. Robinson, one of his old friends who, on finding his old colleague in such a predicament gave him a hearty welcome and immediately took steps to prevent his suffering ill results from his exposure while his wife prepared a dinner for him, which Dr. Butterfield claimed was the best he had ever tasted.
That afternoon the driver arrived with a stauncher sleigh and they continued their way to this city which they reached at about 5 o'clock, without further accident. After spending Sunday night and Monday at the Ithaca hotel, doing his regular work, he returned to Syracuse. He said that he hardly felt the effects of his long walk through the deep snow.
MRS. FRED A. BEARDSLEY
Died In East Worcester Monday—Formerly Lived in Cortland.
Mrs. Fred A. Beardsley died at her home in East Worcester Monday afternoon from consumption. She was the wife of Mr. Fred A. Beardsley, who graduated from the Normal [School] in 1898. While in Cortland Mr. and Mrs. Beardsley lived at 8 Miller-st., and were well and favorably known to many. Since completing his course at the Normal Mr. Beardsley has been principal of the East Worcester Union school. Mrs. Beardsley's maiden name was Russell, and her girlhood home was at Trumansburg. Beside her husband, she leaves two small children.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of the L. O. T. M. will be held tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock.
—The Amherst Senior Dramatic Co. will give an entertainment in the Cortland Opera House Tuesday evening, April 1.
—The folding doors at the entrance from the street to the stairway leading to the surrogate's office were set today so that they would swing both inward and outward.
—The Mothers' meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. A. A. Sprague, 134 Port Watson-st. Thursday afternoon, Feb. 27 at 8 o'clock. All mothers and friends are especially invited.
—New display advertisements today are—E. M. Mansur, Hickory nuts, etc., page 4; F. E. Brogden, Quinine hair tonic, page 4; Warren, Tanner & Co., Crayon portraits, page 6; Purity Candy Co., Candies, page 6; Cortland Fish & Oyster Co., Fish, etc., page 6; C. F. Thompson, Lettuce, etc., page 5; Opera House, Waite Comedy Co., page 5.
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