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that the proclamations were "improvidently made," "ridiculous in the 

 extreme, oppressive," and indicative of a "dense ignorance of the 

 actualities of the situation." Turner of Washington called the procla- 

 mations "an outrage on the interests and the rights and the feelings 

 of the people of the states that are affected by it." "I say the Senators 

 from those states are not to be made to kick their shins around the 

 lobbies of the executive department or around the lobbies of the Inte- 

 rior Department," he proclaimed. "The self-respecting course for the 

 Senators of those States to pursue is to come to the legislative branch 

 of the Government and ask that branch of the Government to correct 

 the evils which have been inflicted upon them by executive action."^* 

 Rawlins of Utah declared that Cleveland's action was "as gross an 

 outrage almost as was committed by William the Conqueror, who, for 

 the purpose of making a hunting reserve, drove out and destroyed the 

 means of livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people." "Whence 

 come the objections to the enactment of this measure of fairness and 

 justice.?" he asked. "They come from some senator away off in Massa- 

 chusetts. . . . The speech of the Senator from Delaware [Gray] is 



VOTE ON SENATOR GORMAN'S POINT 

 OF ORDER 



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Cong. Rec, May 6, 1897, 924 

 Cong. Bee, May 5, 1897, 901 ; May 6, 909, 912, 914, 916. 



