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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONS ATLANTA. GA» TUESDAY MARCH! 8 1887
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CONGRESSIONAL
10 the Sen,to « Disposition ti Shown to Not yield to
AsJ DITon to Hurry Matttro—la tho House
Approprlottont Bill Woo Attaohod—Kr.
Bandoll Spt.ko-Otheo Buolnooo.
The Senate.
Washington, March 1.—Ia the senate,
while the journal of yesterday was being read,
Mr. Edmunds had three occasions of proving
he was still determined to Insilt on the regular
and orderly transaction of busiuds, and not to
yioid to any effort to hurry up the proceedings.
Mr. Hoar, from tho committee on privileges
and elections, reported back the credentials of
Senators Stockbridgc, of Michigan, and Turpie,
ofj Indiana, together with tho protest of the
two houses of the Indiana legislature in the
latter case, and moved that they
ho placed on file and the committee
ditrbarged from further considera
tion. So ordered. Also a resolution authoris
ing the committee to sit during recoss and con
tinue on investigation heretofore ordered into
the alleged ballot bos outrages in Texas. Re-
ferred to Uu> commlttoo on contingent ex.
pcnscs.
Washington, March 4.—In the senate, the
deficiency hill being again taken np, an item,
on motion of Mr. Dawes, was inserted to pay
to the Choctaw Indians $3,858,000, amount of
judgment of the supreme court at the Octobor
term, 1886.
The following bills passed: House bill, with
amendment to provide for tho redemption and
sale of school farm landa at Beaufort, South
Carolina; senate bill appropriating $30,000 fur
expenses of the senate investigations ordered
this session.
Mr. Sherman, with Mr. Saulshury, appointed
as a committee to wait upon the president of
the United States and inquire if he had any
flirther communication to make to congress,
hid performed that duty and had been assured
by the president that ho had no farther com
munication to make.
Mr. Hale had not been able within the seven
teen minutes, to which he wae limited, to have
prepared and present the conferee’s report on
the general deficiency appropriation bill, and
consequently that bill has tailed to become a
law.
The House.
Washington, February 28.—In tho house
Mr. Holman asked unanimous consent that
the reading of the journal be dispensed with,
but Mr. Brady, of Virginia, Interposed objec
tion.
Mr. Holman briefly ran over tho Items of
the increase and decrease recommended in the
bill, snd defended the coarse of the committeo
on appropriations, while hewna plied with
questions from the members of the committee
on foreign aflhirs, whoso diplomatic appropri
ation bill had been so riddled, with points of
order emanating from tho members or the ap
propriations committeo, and who appeared
glad of an opportunity to retaliate in kind.
Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, and Mr. Butter-
worth, of Ohio, attacked the appropriations
eommitteo for its dilatoriness in presenting
tho appropriation bills, and oonanmed some
time In political speeches, Mr. Buttorworth,
In the counoof his remarks, eipecislly con
demned the committee fjr what ho called the
cheese-paring system of economy on which the
bill was formed, and instanced the case of tho
civil service commission, provision for which
bad been cut down beiow tho amonnt abso
lutely indispensable for tho discharge of its
duties.
Mr. Cabell, of Virginia, placed tho blame of
tho backward condition of the pending bill up.
on the house Itself, and declared that the n>.
aponstbillty did not rest on the committee on
appropriations. Criticism of that committee
came with an ill grace from the gentlemtn
from Louisiana (Blanchard.) who was a mem
ber of the eommitteo on rivers and harbors,
whose bill had blocked up the way. It came
with an III grace from the gontleman from
Wind* (Cantlon.)
The committee had been called together on
the twenty-second of Novembor, but the gen
tleman hid been delinquent, and tho work of
the sub-committee having the legislative bill
in charge had been retarded in its work by
reason of that gentleman being absent, looking
after a seat in the senate. It came with an ill
grace from the gentleman from Ohio, Butter-
worth, to criticiso the democratic party for
yielding to tho popular clamor, In view of the
fact that that gentleman, after roundly de
nouncing the Tntcntata commerce bill, had
cast his vote in favor of it. [Laughter.]
HR. RANDALL SPEAKS,
Mr. Randall said it had become the Csehion
to Memo the committee on appropriations for
delaying and interferring with legislation, and
with doing this, that and tho other. It was
always very nice to have some one else to
blame. The eommittee did not merit the criti-
cirms directed agalntt it. The committee had
been called together on November 23d, with e
view to have the appropriation bills ready for
action by the home. All the gentlemen on the
other side had not been prompt In
tbclr attendance. Tho sundry civil bill
Lad been paseed on December 19th, an
nnprecedentfy early date. The senate kept
that bill forty-slx days and sent U back, with
amendments, on February 3d, It was now in
conference, the controversy being in regard to
aomo $40,000,000 added by the senate. The
Certification bill wis in conference, end when
■eported would be made to cover the present
and the next fiscal year. The pension hill had
passed. The District of Colombia appropria
tion bill wai in conference and the conferees
were contending over' an appropria
tion of nearly $500,000, most of it for mak
ing suburban streots and laying out avenues
far the benefit of private property and private
property owners. Tho nratoffice appropriation
bill sna in conference,! the difference being in
regard to the subsidy amendment adopted bo
the senate.
Tho democratic tide waa to be commended
by the people for its straightforward, its
clear, it* useful record in connection with legis
lation promoting the interests of the American
^After recesf, Ifr. Hatch, of Mbmuri, pre
sented the conference report on the agrlcul-
torsi appropriation bill. Amid much con*
fasten and many Interruptions, Mr. Hatch ex
plained the changes of tho hilL There were
two important amendments placed npon the
Mil si reported by the conference committee—
one appropriating $50,000 to enable the com
missioner of agriculture to continue experi
ments In the manufacture from sorghum sugar
can*, and the other increasing from f 100,<X»
to $500,000 the appropriation for carrying out
the provisions of tne act establishing a bureau
of animal Industry and authorizing the
commissioner to use any-part of this sum he
may deem neeemaiy or expedient and in such
manner as be may think best U prevent the
spread ef pleura peenatmla, and for this pur-
.. u ha may
or exposed saints)*, whenever in his Judgment | should be made about the appropriation bills,
"J_ fflen ,, *° ptovent the spread of pieuro- I or that tho senate should be coerced from its
pneumonia from one state into another. wise end well ordered rules of business.
There wss much opposition to both of them
amendments, and the turmoil upon the floor,
added to the buzz of conversation in tho gal-
i 1 ** wero Ailed to their utmost capac-
"i 111 interested spectators, became so groat
that it was only by loud and constant tappings
of the gavel and repeated appeals to members
to preserve proprieties, reinforced by the moral
suasion of the sergeant-at-arms and his depu
ties, that the speaker succeeded in restoring
compentive order.
Tho conference report waa then agreed to—
yeas 147, nays 78.
Washington, Mtreh l.-Tho house met at
10 o dock in continuance of Monday's session.
On motion of Mr. Belmont, senate amend,
mentf to the diplomatic and consular appropri
atlona bill wero non-concnrred in ana a con
ference ordered.
On motion of Mr. Townahend, the bill mak
ing appropriations for the payment of Moxlcuu
pensions was taken up ana pasted.
[It appropriates $3,300,000 far the remslnder
of the current fiscal year, and $4,900,000 for
the next fiscal year.]
4 conference report on
the bill restricting to American citizens the
ownership of real estate in the territories, and
It waa agreed to.
Mr. Willis presented a conference report on
the river and harbor appropriation bill, and on
demand of Hr. Anderson, of Kansas, the bill
was read In extenso, consuming over an hour
of time.
The report states that the senate increased
the items in the house bill toa sum aggregating
$2,150,000, this was reduced in conference to
$1,598,580, The senate added twenty-nine new
items, aggregating $1,013,500, which were re
duced in conference to $857,600. The total of
I ho original houso bill was $7,459,250. Tho
total of bill as it passed the senate was $10,-
020,050, and as it comes from the conference,
$9,910,800.
Washington, March 5,-Aij effort has been
made, since the adjournment of congress, to
indnee the president to sign ths river and
harbor bill, and those interested in securing
this action aarert that there is nothing in tho
constitntlon to prevent his doing so now, if he
is so dhposod. Several members of congrez-i.
including Representatives Willis and Dibble,
are of the opinion that bo has the power and
have endeavored to persuade him to sign the
bill. Mr. Willis said today that there was
nothing in too constitution which
provided that tho president should
sign a bill before twelve o'clock
on tho -1th of March, dr that ho should report
the fact of bis signature to tho house. Tho only
provision with relation to bills notsigned before
tho expiration of congress, he said, was that
the ten days limit ahenTd not operate to make
a measure become a law. Ho called on the
presidenttodayand suggested to him that he
sign tho bill now, unless he objected to Its pro
visions. The praeidont informed him that he
could not do so, as he waa fully convinced that
his constitutional power to eign or veto acts of
congrea expired with the adjournment of that
body. Attornoy General Garland agreed en
tirely with the president on this question.
The Fluero-Fnuemonla Bill.
Upon motion of Mr. Miller, the pleuro-pnou-
monla bill was taken up. Upon motion made
by Mr, Dawee to reconaider tho vote mado by
which the Edmunds snbstitnto was last week
adopted, tho vote stood 30 to 22, ao tho
motion to reconsider was carried. The
Edmnnds substitute was then rejected; yoss
21 nays 29, The Edmunds substltate approp
riated the round amonnt (ofonemilUondoilsra)
to he expended nnder tho direction of tho presi
dent in extirpating contagions cattle diseases.
The original bill waa then before the senate.
Mr. Vest offered an amendment requiring the
assent of the state authorities bsfora the money
can he expended. Lost, 24 to 23.
Hr. Butlor commented npon the remarkable
change of vote* on the Edmnnds substitute, it
being adopted last Friday and rejected today.
Be supposed that there most have been*
caucus order on the subject He took it for
granted that the senator from New York, Mil
ler, had not the slightest idea of the bill be
coming a law. This waa a little by play. He
supposed that tho ohJect .was to
catch votes in Jtho northwest. He
had no objection, as the eenate had nothing
else to do, to having tho record mado np, and
as a piece of instructive literature on the sub
ject, ho naked to have tho clerk read the
minority report of Mr. Swinburne in the house
on thoplcuro-pncumonia bill.
Mr. Miller objected.
“Then I will indulge the sonata,” said Mr.
Butler, ‘‘by reading it myself, with somewhat
more of deliberation, perhaps, than tho dork
would have read It"
He thereupon proceeded to read, very slowly
snd deliberately, tho printed report referred to,
his principal object being .apparently tho con
sumption of time.
At half-pest four o’clock he reached tho end
of tho document, and he told tho senators tbst
if they would read it in the Record tomorrow,
they would find it very Interesting, and would
bo well repeid. He bclievod the clamor about
tho bill had been raised far the purpoeeof ex
tracting from the treasury pay far tbeie
cattle.
Mr. VanWyck renewed his amendment, ex
tending the application of the hill to the swine
piagno and cholera, and other contagions dis
eases among swine. Adopted, and the bill was
passed—yeas 32, nays 19.
Washington, February 28.—Tho pleuro
pneumonia bill passed by the senate today
authorize* and requires tho preiident to ap
point a board of three csttlo commissioners, to
be designated the United States cattle commis
sioners. Tho salary of tho commissioners is
to be $1,000 a year. Tho commissioners are
authorized, In person or by agents, to enter
any premises, including atockc yards,
cars and vessels in which
they have reason to believe that any contagious
disease exists, and make investigation in re
gard to tho same. Upon discovery of such
diseases, they are to give notice by publication
in the nowspapon of its exlttoncc, and of tho
locality; and to notify tho ofildals or agents of
the transportation companies doing business in
the infected locality; and they are to establiah
and maintain a quarantine of animals, places
and localities, and to cause the animals to bo
destroyed, and pay to the owners of thoeo
that were diseased three-fourths of their
appraised value, and to tho owners of
those only exposed todr full appraised value
the amonnt not to exceed $250 in case of pedi
greed inlmal, nor $00 in case of an animal not
pedigreed. If the appraisement of an exporad
animal is not satisfactory to tho oaraer, ho
most milntain strict quarantine. The oom-
miss loners are required to make out and publish
such rules and regulations, subject to the
approval of tho president, sa may be deemed
requisite to the fall and duo exeiution of the
act. I’cnaltlee are provided against attempts
to evade or obstruct ite execution. The
secretary to the board, with a salary of $3,000,
ia to be appointed by the preeident. Annual
and other reports are to be made to the com
missioner of agriculture. Authority Is given
for the employment of skilled veterinarians and
other sgents and employes, and for the pay
ment of their compensation, and of actual and
necessary traveling expenses of the commis
sioners and employes. An appropriation of
one million dollan ia made, and It* disburse-
mint is to be mede by the secretary, on
vouchers approved by the commiarioners.
, Ho
asked that the committee on appropriation:!
should make a statement as to the condition
ofbtuiness.
The senate at 1 o’clock proceeded to tho con
sideration of tho naval appropriation bill
Under the head of "increase of tho navy” tho
committee recommended tbo striking out the
house provision for two swift double-bottomed
steel cruisers and far four gunboats, al
to coat, exclusive of armament, nol
more $4,960,000 and the substitu
tion of two new sections providing
for six protected steel crnlsera with a apeed of
not leu than twenty knots, to cost, exclusive
of armament, not more than $9,000,000. and
appropriating that amount; also appropriating
for the armament of such vessels. $3,330,000;
also appropriating $0,000,000 far hoavily
armored vessels, or floating batteries or rams
lor the coast and hat hot defense; also appro
priating $720,000 for light draught gunboats;
alto appropriating $6,000,000 for torpedo boats
and $600,000 for torpedoes and $1,800,000 for
the armament of these vessels,
Mr. Gray questioned the policy of the provis
ion requiring one of tho six steel cruisers to bo
built on or near the coast of the Pacific ocean,
and two of them on or near the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico. This was only trammelling
the secretary of the navy, and Interfering with
the general object proposed.
Mr. Hale (who hae charge of the btll.) stated-
that when the ten cruise! bill was up some
weeks ago, a similar provision had been adopt
ed, after full discussion, on motion of the sena
tor from Alabama, (Mr. Morgan.)
Mr. Morgan argued the nocessttv of the gov
ernment having one ornioreconstructionyards
on tho gulf coast, to which war vessels might
J o far nectnu7 repairs. He believed that far
100,000a construction yard could bo established
on the Alabama river, or the Mississippi, or at
Pensacola, as good as John Roach’s yard at
Chester. If a ship builder having a contract
for one or two of these vessels should conclude
to build them, for instance, at Mount Vernon,
Ala, he would find there iron, coal and tlmbor.
There was no place in the United States where
these three great elements of cost In the con
struction of ships could bo assembled cheaper
than at Mount Vernon arsenal.
Mr. Beck said that so ouo would accuso him
of having anyprotectlonUt tendencies, and yet
ho favored the proposition. He bclievod, that
with the developments going on In that section,
bids for two of these vessels would coino from
tho south next fall.
Mr. Blair spoke of the fact that the chief
burden which mankind htd to hear was the
result ofa tendency to war. If tho millenni
um w» not an absolute myth, tho American
nation might set to tho world (for the first
time In history), nn example of an offoit to
settle controversies between nations wlthont
resort to the destructive art of butchery. It
was, therefore, with gnat reluctauco that ho
voted for hills calling for enormous expendi
tures purely In contemplation of future con
flicts. Ho believed that this nation was groat
enough and strong enough to defy tho possi
bility of any conflict, by appealing to
the world’a senso of justice; and that
refusing from this day forth to ongag* in war
fare, the principle might be initiated which it
it would not produce absolute peace, would re
sult In the elimination of wan from among civ
ilised nation* While on this subject he would
make nie of some remarks which he had pre
pared for another occasion.
Mr. Hale—I am very desirous of listening to
tbo remarks which the senator ays he lias
prepared for another occasion; but will not tho
senator give way and let the senote pus thil
bill, so as to get it through and have It sent to
tho president? Of coarse the senator can go
on with blsrtmark* Ido not attomptto take
him from tho floor, unices with his own good
Will and consent.
Mr. Blair—Under these circumstances,
think you will not press your requoit.
Mr. Hale—I am at tho mercy of tho senator
In this nutter,
Mr. Blair—I think tho sonator ia. I will
The Naval Appropriation Bill.
At the request of tho presiding officer, Mr.
Brown yielded the floor temporarily for the
navel appropriation bill, which had Just been
received from the house, and it was read the
first time. , .
Its second reading was objected to by Ed
munds, who stated his reasons for doing so.
He complained of the great and unwarranted
dc-lsy on pert of the house in sending to tbo
senate the great appropriation bill*, and an
nounced bis settled determination not to have
them railroaded through tho senate. The
senate should have the neceesary time to give
fail consideration to them, and to should the
president. The bill in reference to the fishery
troubles had net yet been peered finally, and
if congrea* wero to adjourn without having
mad* some provision es> the subject it would
be the doty of the preeideet to call the new
rreae in extra esasion. The interstate com-
had, far
gaaaaasaa rssEaSdSaaa
pertinent now, and will be pertinent on other
occasions. It will do tho senator no harm to
hsv0 them in bis mind*
Mr. Hale—I wish tho senator would wait,
and let mo hear his remark! after adjourn
ment on tho 4th of March.
Consideration of tbo naval appropriation
bill was resumed at half-past eight o'clock, the
qneation being on Mr. Plumb's amendment to
•Hiking-out of tho amendment of ths oom<
mittco the item of aix millions for heavily ar
mored vessel* or armored floating battorie* or
rams, to bo rued for coast and harbor defense.
Tho amendment was rejected without di
vision.
Mr. Plumb moved to amend the amendment
by making tho last paragraph read that the
material used in all naval structures provided
far in the act, and the armament fat the samo
shall ho, so far as practicable, of Amorlcan
induction and shall be famished and mauu-
acturod in the United States. Agreed to.
A veto was then taken on the committee's
amendment—sections 2 and 3—and it was do-
ded in tho affirmative. Vets, 42; nays, u.
The Retaliation RUI*
The house resumed consideration of the con
ference report on tbo fisheries retaliatory bill-
Mr. Clements, from Georgls, mado an sarn-
cat appeal to the house to stand by the house
conferees. The question had become a national
one, and had risen above tho piano of a local
fish question. If the United State* seas going
to retaliate, it should not confine that retalia
tion to an inhibition against tho importation
offish.
Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, said that a majority
of tho house stood on a broad American posi
tion and he bad hoped that Instead of being
criticised and censured by gentlemen from
New England, theso gentlemen woald be grat
ified to find that there was not a man that
would net make New England’s cause his
cauae'and lift the question out of the attitude
of a local sqnabblo. Tho position which the
gentleman from Massachusetts, Hr. like, took
was one which mado this affair a squabble be
tween New England and Canada.
Waa It true that the “almighty dol
lar” had such a hold npon the heart* and sou!*
of men who managed tho railroads that they
were not willing to make the cause or America
their cause, lest they might lose a little money.
Was it true that the power of corporations had
become so great that they oould call a halt to
the American congress when it wanted. The
whole people of the United State* ought to take
tho cense of the New England fishermen into
their hands snd settle it by showing Great
Britain and Canada that wo are not to be
trifled with.
Mr. Daniel hoped that the houso would stand
by its hill and not yield onejot or tittle. If
the United States senate chore to take the re
sponsibility of saying that the government
would not protect New England lest each pro
tection might interfere with railroad traffic,
let it take that position and it woald be held np
to the scorn of every Independent American
citizen. [applause.] He appealed to the house
and to every democrat to stead by the chief
magistrate, net because he oral a democrat, hot
because he was a repretentative of the nation
and deserved and ought to receive ths unstint
ed confidence in this contra-
lie smcrdmenl* to the senate bill. Agreed to
—yeas 149, nays 131.
Mr. Miller, of Texas, changed his vote from
tho negative to the affimative iu order to enter
a motion to reconsider, but this motion was
laid npon the table—yeas 143, nays 132. The
tfl'ect of this action la to pass tho bill exactly
aa It passed the senate.
A conference report upon aprlrate claim bill
save rise to a sharp personal debate between
Messrs. Tillman of South Carolina, and Long
of Massachusetts, Reed of Maine, nnd
Dougherty of Florida. An issne of veracity
wae raised by Mr. Tillman against Messrs.
Reed and Long, and Ur. Dougherty in rajeindor
to Mr. Tillman’i criticisms upon the committee
on claims for lasinesa and being under lobby
influence, intimated in parliamentary terra t.
that Tillman's fluency upon the sultjoot of
lobbyists wss due to hEs familiar acquaintance
with them. While as to laziness, if ho
(Dougherty) bad not served hie constituents
bitter than Tillman had, why, then, God holp
his constituents.
Boar's Bad ast*.
Ur. Hoar mid that he desired to oall the at
tention of the senate to what seemed to him a
very grave evil—one that threatened, In sub
stance, f revolutionary change in the constita
ttonal methods of the government. What, he
asked, was the effect of the holding hack of ap
propriation hills until the last seven, or ten, or
fifteen days of the session of oougress 7 The
remit wss that unless tho honse and senate
both submitted to the dictation of some three
or four men, who happened to be memben of
the committee on appropriations in the honse
of representatives, on the maiority aide, the
great appropriation bills fail, and an extra
seaslon became necessary. It not merely com
pels the senate and house to submit, under
penalty of an extra session, to the dictate of
these three or four men, but-it throws ont of
tho other house the consideration of all other
important measures, which do not oomo within
the control of this committee on appropriations.
I read the other day in the newspapers a letter
from a gentleman who was said to be the
•peaker of the house of representatives—I will
not undertake to my whether ho holds that
office now er not. It wee addressed to a gen
tleman who was mid to hold tho office of chair
man of committeo on the appropriations in tho
honso of rcprcsentatlvce and to two other gen
tlemen of wide national reputation holding
high position in the councils of tho
democratic party- These three gentlomen
wrote to the speaker and complained
that they had not been reoognized by him far
the pnrpote of moving* measure for tho re
vision of the tariff—a measure which tho
American people desire and which a maiority of
the members of that body also desire. And tho
tpcsker replied stating at hit reasons far re
fusing to recognise on the floor of the body
over which he presided, th* gontleman to make
that motion, waa that ho did not approvo of
the meaaure which that gentleman propoeeed
to move, and that, therefore, ho woald not
recognize him far that purpose. Bnt he mid
that if these gentlemen woald carry their pro*
posed revision of the tariff into a democratic
caucus, and would submit to what should turn
out to he the view* of that caucus on tho sub
ject, whether they were views of tho
house of representatives or not,
he then, in his discretion, would permit that
motion to be made. Now I my that up to any
time within tho but twenty years, suoh an at
tempted tuu nation of power woald have cre
ated a storm In this country that would have
either driven the usurper out of his seat or
wonld have occasioned* revolution in the gov
ernment itself. Under the constitution a ma
jorityof the representatives of states and*
majority of tho representatives of the people,
have the right to mak*or to changojawo under
which the people are to live—tnbjeet of courso
to the veto power of the executive; bat here is
[ confidence In this controversy.
Mr. Dougherty, of Florida, hoped that the
honse wonld not recede from ite amendment.
He hoped that the senate would insist npon its
dingreement and hoped that this legislation
wonld die In the committee of conference. It
bad not been discovered that any American
citisen bad been deprived of his rights. The
investigation wonld show that every veesel
molested In Canadian waters had been molested
in pursuance of law and without any violation
of the existing treaty. This legislation was a
virtual declaration of sear against a friendly
government. He took no stock ia this war
talk. The people of the country had war
enough, and he relied npon the nod sense of
the people of America and England to aettle
this matter peaceably.
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentnckr, said that the
existing situation simply waa that the senate
had the honse by the threat, end that if th*
bouse did not do what th* eenate wished th*
honse was responsible. In the name of
th* people whom the house of representatives
fmmidiately represented; in the name of th*
power and dignity of the ponder branch of
gOTeTnmenkbo protested against this indignity
Hr. Bice moved that th* house recede from
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a claim tdvauced inthe face of tho Amorlcan
poople, alike, overthrowing the constitutional
power of tho senate and the oonititattonal
power of tho bouse, and degrading every slnglo
member of that great assembly, tho honso
of ropresontetlve* which ought to be the moot
dignified legislative body on the face of the
earth, who doee not know that nnder the ex
isting condition of things, legislation is con
ducted in this country nnder an arrangement
by which, if every man bnt two or throo in ono
ortho legislative bodice of tho country hap
pen to desire a thing to bo done, it cannot be
done unleaa theso two or threo men happen
alio to give it tholr approbation.
Mr. Banlabary hero raised a point that o
was not in order far a member of the eenate tit
arraign the honse of representative* or any
member of the hones of representative* in a
political speech in tho senate.
Mr. Hoar maintained that ho hid kept
within tho rnlet. Inasmuch ns hn had not men
tioned anybody by nafre, and Mr. Ingalls (In
tho chair) sustained Hr. Hoar.
Mr. Hoar then proceeded with bis speech.
Henry Clay, he said, who was a man of
strong will, would never have dared to act as
the present speaker had done, and Mr. Blaine,
who was another man with strong will, and
who bad tho majority to back him of three-
fourths or fanr-mth* of the house, had acted
towardsthe minority In a spirit of oonsplou-
oue fairness, and would not bavo thought of
taking the step for which be (Hr. Hoar) now
arraigned tho present speaker. Now, he said,
it has seemed beat to tho majority of tho sen
ate to submit to having a law, which was
passed by the senate almost unanimously, and
which was never eubmlttod to the other
honse at all eviscerated end emasculated by
the process which has been hero described.
We have not thought it desirable in the state
of public feeling, In the condition of public
busfnrsa, in tho prevailing sonUtnent of tho
American peoples to insist npon an extra sas-
slon of congress; but I wish, for one, to give
notice that, in my Judgment, this la tbo last
time that that usurpation will be submitted to.
Mr. Beck—I wae called out of the chamber
far awhile, and was only in time to hear what
seems to me a most remarkable tirade against
the speaker of the honse of representatives.
That gentleman needs no defense at my hands,
and had I snppesed that in the senate of the
United State* under the mice and proprieties
of the occasion, oommont npon the action of
the tpeaker would not be Indulged in. I have
only this to say, that there ia no man in Mass-
aebusetts, or outelde of Massachusetts, who
will attack either the integrity, honesty or
sbility of the speaker of tho present honse of
presentailvee, with Impunity, In hispros-
icc. It would be more manly for torn* gen
tleman In that hoots to rise there and any
whatever it might be thought proper to eay
in regard to hie action a* speak
er, than far a member of
this honse, where he cannot bo heard and
where he baa no right to speak, to attack him.
There are 150 partisans of tha senator from
Massachusetts on toe floor of the other home,
all of whom hare tho right to moke whatever
attack they please, and if they do they will re
ceive a response befitting the attack.
Mr. Beck added that it was not ftIr[ u nor
manly,” Intel]acted Mr. Harris) to attack him
behind his hack when no man dare* to attack
him before his face.
Mr. Beck held that Hr. Carlisle hal violated
no rule of the house, nor of courtesy, nor hon
or, or that be bad done any act, either revolu
tionary or wrong, since ho has presided over
that great body; and that no man will dire to
tell him thftt be hae.
Messrs Blackburn and Harris also dsfsndsd
Mr. Guild* whom thoy said, needed no de
fense, and condemned Mr. Hoar’s assault aa
unparliamentary, unfair and unjust.
Mr. Blackburn flattered himself that even in
th* state of Massachusetts, where tho senator
ls>nown, snd seems to be appreciated. It will
not work a great deal of harm.
Mr. Hoar asked what assault Mr. Blackburn
referred to.
Mr. Blackburn—I will answer tho senator
and tell him. When he denominates tho
speaker ef the American eengnm a “usurper,”
I deny it; bray that it ia not tree, and that
nothing in th* record will sustain inch an as
sertion. When ha rays that tbo speaker of
the America* congrea rafased to submit—or
stated that b* wonld not submit—to th* pro
posed revision of tha tariff, or of the taxation
system of th* country, I deny that snd ray
that it is sot true. Now, I treat that th* sen
ator is answered. Tbo senator wanted th*
Iran* made; be ha* the lane now.
Mr. Hosr-Haa the ranator read th* latter t*
which I refer?
Mr’BUckburo.-I have not, bat I bar*
hearnof it; snd I call th* attention of the aao-
ator from MaaeachnsetU to the fleet that It is
soe, at least, of the many mistakes which he
has made in the attaek; that he wat not die.
cuttingtbe letter which he read, but wasdii.
cussing, in violation of tho roles and an utter
disregard of decency, the members of another
house and the speaker and presiding officer of
that home. There is no necessity far an elab
orate defenso here. I simply rose to express
the hope that the day would come wheu tho
state which furnished to tbs state chamber of
the country such meu as Daniel Webster and
Ruths Choate, wonld at last fiud an opportu
nity to honor itself, and to do an easentiai sir-
vice to the American people by sending here n
son who will bo at least, the peer of the proa-
ent speaker of the house of representatives id
all that gee* to constitute fair dealing, high
character and ablo patriotism.
The private pension veto was called upjmd
the houso sustained the vote.
Mr. Cox. of North Carolina, moved to ana-
pend the rnlce snd pass the senate bill repeal
ing tho tenure of office act. Agreed to and ths
hill was passed-—yeas 172, nays 07.
Tho houso, then, at 02)0, took a recoil unti
o’clock.
Mr. Tenney, of Michigan, who described
himself as one of five Michigan brothers, all
democrats, of wham one was killed fighting far
the union; another lay eighteen months in a
confederate prison and two others wore scars
ef the honorable conflict, protested against ths
principle of the bill. He raw no reason why
pensions like the one proposed should be given
to tha widows of officers, merely because their
husbands had been officers, while the families
of private soldiers wore left to shift for thorn-
selves or granted the merest pittance.
Mr. Allen, of Mississippi, referring to inti
mations that ox-confederates would vote
againat the bill on account of the ill will they
boro against thoso who had been victorious
over them, declared that he represented the
sentiment ef every confederate when he raid
Ihnt there was not lingering in the tenth ono
single scintilla of hatred er prejudice or ill will
•gainst sny man because he was opposed to it
lu that nnfartunata conflict.
“Yon forgive us, do you?” queried Mr. John
ston, of Indiana, amid laughter.
“Wo forglvo,” retorted Mr. Allen, "soldiers;
bnt wo do not forgive demagogues who are
trying to make capital out of the soldier*”
[I-aughter and applause.]
Mr. Randal] raid that he bed voted to give the
widows of Generals Thomas and Haucock $2,-
000 a year. They had been exceptional eases,
and ho was ready here tonight to mako an ex
ception on behalf of the widow of John A. Lu.
can. [Applause.] He could detect no lino of
difference in the heart bests or nervo pulses of
the three men aa they etood in the armies of
ths United States on behalf of the union ex-
ccpt in this, that two of them had been in the
regular army and that there
wero precedents for granting
pensions to tholr widosrs. He proposed to
mskoa precedent in behalf of the volunteer
army or the United States. [Anplanao.] Ho
spoke the sentiments of the people he repre-
Tho motion to suspend the rule* and pin
th* bill waa Ioet—yeas 145, nay's 113—not tho
necessary two-tblrdsln the affirmative.
Hr. Henderson, of loses, movod to suspend
the role* and para tho senate bill granting a
pension of $2,0; 0 a year to Mary 8. Logan,
widow of tho late John A. Loren, nnd address-
td the house in support of the uill.
reduco free on-domestic money -orders far
tents lets then $5; to reimburse -the National
Soldicis’Homo for money lost, through Ahe
Norfolk Exchange National .bank; to provide
far tho elding up the bulinessof the court of
Alabama dsjras; to establish additional Ufa
tavina stations; far tho construction of s
What Congress Bus Done.
Washington, March 4.—Ths congress
which elided Its existence at noon today hagg
afforded * striking Illustration of ths constant
increase in tho volume of legislation demand
ing the attention of congrea which hnaboen
going on for the last three or more congresses.
Mere hills were introdnesd in both houses;
more eommittee report*, more bills pasted,
more became laws, and more were vetoed than
ever before. Most of then measures were of
comparative unimportant* suoh aa bills grant
ing private pension and apodal relief:
aulhorizing the erection of bridges; granting
right-of-way and the like; but many, not only
of the bills and reports presented, but of laws
enacted, were of general interest and import
ance. A number of hills enacted Into laws
wero old snd familiar claimant? for legislative
favor. In this category belong tho presiden
tial succession bill; tho clcctorial count bill;
interstate commerco bill apd tho bUl for tbo
relief of Fits John Forter.
Tho forty-ninth congress commenced Its
sion on tho 4th day of Deocmbor, 1685, and
wu In session until tho 0th of Angiist, when it
adjourned nntil December nth, and oontlnued
In seaelon until its clow today, covoilng a total
period of ten months snd twenty-six days. Of
this time the senate was In ssssIon221 dayinnd
the honso 251 days.
There were Introduced in the house daring
this ttmo 11,268 bills and 203 Joint resolutions,
on which over 8,000 report* were mado, being
several I hoc sand more bill* and over* thou
sand more reporta than were made in ths fatty-
eighth congress, which had In ite torn beaten
the record.
In senate there wero Introduced 3,357 hills
snd 118 Joint resolutions, on which 1,988 writ
ten report* were mado, being upwards of 590
more hills and over 400 more reports than In
tbs 48th congress.
The total number of laws enacted was (ap
proximately) 1,301, of which 1,091 originated
In the honse and 338 In the eenate. Twohnn-
dred and sixty-four of thaw became laws by
tho expiration of the constitutional ten day*
limitation. Fitly bill* failed to beoome laws
tionai lighthouses; extending tho ftqfifldivAry
system to towns of 10,000 inhabitants; far tbo
construction ofa lighthouse supply- steamer far
the Atlantic and gulf coast; t j provide ter tho
appointment end compensation ofa diitrict
judge far the southern district of Alabama;
to amend the statutes so as
to require brewers to giro bonds
for threo times their mouthly tax; for tho al
lowance of “4th of Joly" claims reportOdLhy
accounting officers of the treasury department
(one bill for each of.the two sesdons,), to au
thorize terms of tho United State* courts to bo
held at Wilmington. N.ti ; to authorize deliv
ery to the owners of valued boxes deposited (a
the trnsury by thokeerotary of war; far Itbe
Iwue of postal notes In sums less than $5; far a
light ship off tha entrance to Cherapwko.bay;
to provide for the inspection of- tobacco, cigars
and snuff, and to repeal section 3,151 revised
•tatntes; to prohibit government employet
from hiring or contracting one
labor of United Statee prisoners; to
amend the dutiable goods act ao as to allow
merchandise to he transported In bondon.pas-
•eager trsfusin safes; to amend tho act prohib
iting tho importation and immigration of
foreigners under labor contracts;
fixing cloto bounds for mackerel fishing;
to restrict tbo ownership of real estate inthe
territories to American citizens; far the erec
tion of a public building at Charleston, & C.;
to increase the limit of cost of a pnblio build-
ng at ChatUnoog a.
Following is* list of the more Important
senate bills plaocd ou the statute book* by tho
present congrcw:
The presidential (accession bill, devolving
heirship to the presidency npon members of
the Cabinet in tho event of vacancies In'tbe
offices of president and vice-president;
the Cullom-Resgau bill to regnlatelntoreteto
commerce; for the retirement and reooinagr of
the trade dollar (the redemption not to soma
ont of the monthly bullion purebaw); tho
electoral count bill; far the allotment of landa
in severalty to Indians and extending protec
tion of the Jaws to Indiana on the various re
servations; to repeal tho tenor of offleo act; to
increaw the annual appropriation for tha
militia; to eatablish agricultural experiment
stations; for the study of the effect* of narcotics
and intoxicants in pnblio schools; to
legsllzo the Incorporation of trades
anlom; authorizing the tnnsraiwion of
westber reports through tho nulls free of
postage; to Indemnify the Chinese far lostes sus
tained by the Rock Springs) Wyoming, riot*;
them ati tho clow of the
There were 132 Mils vetoed by
tbo president, or twenty-ono more
Instances of tho exercise of the presidential
prerogative of th* veto than bad occurred from
the foundation of the government down to the
beginning of this oougress. Of the vetoed
hills nlnety-three originated in the boom nnd
thirty-nine in th* wnate. Bnt ono private
Mil, namely that granting a pension to Joroph
Romlser, snd one pnblio bill, nsmoly, that pro
viding far tho erection of a government build
ing at Dayton, Ohio, succeeded in passing both
bouses over tbo president's veto, although wv-
eral others obtained th* requisite two-thirds
rot* in the wnate only to fall in the house.
Two features of the closing hours of tbo
forty-ninth congrcw are conspicuously note
worthy. Wbil* more than tha usual degree of
asperity wss developed by the clash of op-
posing interest* during the protracted and
wearying sessions of the past few days, the
general deportment of tbo members of both
bonus and of tha throngs which oame to wit
ness the proceedings was never mere exempla
ry or orderly. On the other band, never ainec
congrea had an existence has there boon inch
uncertainty, such hurly-burly, such a
general disregard of parliament*-
ly safeguards in tha transaction
of important business a* bavo characterized
the proceedings of yesterday, test night and
fe T& death roll of this conrross was an extra-
ordistry one, compriting tho nnprccalontod
number ef 13 name* of tho honse and senate.
They bring three of Vie* President Ibndrloka
president of the senate; Donators MUIer of
California, Pike, of Now Haatnriiin; Logan, of
Illinois; and Representatives Hahn, ef Louis
ians; A root, Beach, and Dowdney, of Now
York; Price, of Wisconsin; Colo, of Msrytend;
Elwood, of Illinois; Donesn, of Penn
sylvania, and Parker, of Wisconsin.
Bnt on* election saw was
derided by th* honse igalnst a anting member
and congress was characterized by the abjonco
of tbst acrimonious discussion which furh poo*
tests usually awaken.
Th* following is a list of most important
house bills which hare become loirs:
To forfeit th* Atlantis snd Parifie bland
grant; to abolish certain fee* for official services
o American vranii and toamend the shipping
tews (ths Dingtey shipping bill); to amend the
Thurman act; [It requires Pacific railroads to
r»y the cost* or surveying and conveying their
aid grants and subjects the lands to taxation
so soon as the coropaniw are entitled to them,
notwithstanding tho bet that they mar delay
•election]; to increase tha naval establishment,
[It was passed on th* drat session of them*
ent cotgnra and provided fas too construction
brat aril an* dynamite gnn cruiser and far tho
completion of monitors purchased]; to penaten
he Mexican war veterans; too oteomargsrino
11; declaring the forfeiture of eertabs grants
of tend msde to states to aid in the coostroc-
ef railroads-, for too construction
a congressional library; to
for toe erection of (military telegraph lino be
tween Sanford and Point Jupiter, Florida; to
moke Tampa, Florida, a port of ontry; to pro
vide for tbo execution of article 2 or ths Chi
nese treaty of November 17, 1880, (it prohibits
the Importation of opium into our country by
ritlzono of another.) For tho erection of pub
lic buildings aa fallows: Augusta, Georgia;
Huntsvlllo, Alabama; Jacksonville, Florida.
Tho regular appropriation bills which
failed of enactment were tho fortification* bill
far both congresses, tho rlvor and harbor
bill of tho present session (which wss not
signed by tho president), and tho deficiency
bill, on which n conference report was not sub
mitted in time far action. The failure of tbo
fortifications bill wu duo to* decided differ
ence of opinion botween tho conferee of tho
tWOhOOMB.
Several bills or minor important^ fallod of
enrollment in too haste Incident to tbo cloitee
of congress, and, therefore, failed of enact
ment. Nearly a dozen bills relating to tho
same subjects were passed by both honsee,
but fallod kocftnra of difference* between tho
two bouse* Tho Northern Pariflo- forfeiture
bill snd tho bill to repeal tbs pre-emption on
homestead, tlmbor culture and dooort land
laws, wore in conforenco for a long white but
tho difference! proved irroooncllablo. Thoblll
to tax fractional parte of gallon of spirits wu
killed by tho refusal of tho honso to accept too
conference report. The bill to oreato a depart- -
moot of asricnllure and labor was killed by
too inability of tbo friends to scud it to tho
conforenco eommitteo.
About 750 bills passed by too sennto failed of
nssrsgo la too honso. Ths Blair oducational
bill after passing too senate wu bnffetod shoot
from one committee to anothor and wu novor
allowed to oomo befaro ths honso, although ite
frienda riaimta a derided majority in Its favor
on a tost veto. Tho Gamoron-Halo twin hills.'
appropriating $35,000,000 far tho Increaso or
too navy, wore rant to tha naval commlttoo
and died th(ro, although provision
for additional voooote wu lntortod
in the naval appropriation MIL Tho twin fur-
tldoatlons bill wu allowed to sloop In tbo homo
appropriations commlttoo rooms, ThoMoAdoo
fortification Mil reported by tho houiomllitnry
committee novor resolved action by tho honse.
Tha Harrison bill fa? a division of Dakota nnd
too admission of too lower hslfu a state, wu
passed by a party vote In too senate, but wu
adversely reported from tbo commlttoo in too
honso. A snbstitnto In the nature of an enab
ling set far tho wlmlo territory wu reported,
bnt it still slnmbwa on too overburdened
homo calendar.
by tooiiitheMignMlaabtmtl
total is exclusive of sums appropriated by too
rlrer snd barber and deficiency appropriation
* "■ which fklled of enactment. The appro-
;lona far tho current floral year aggregate
. ,000,000, which appropriations bavo boon
equaled by tho appropriations voted by the But
congress had two bills mentioned booomo laws.
Borne Me* of too manner la which tho forty-
I* work ms;
Mi „ number of
cxpuleneo, that the Record revealed tbo filet
that cne-qnartor of too legislation of tho soo-
slon had boon enacted In tho last faw legisla
tive days. An enrolling dork of twelve years’
experience, said that never In that length of
tlmo had ho witnessed tho haste exhibited in
too last twenty-four hours of tho congress
which hujust expired.
Ths following meunroa of national import
ance failed of action or an affirmative nature
In oithcr honso:
Tho Morrison and other tariff bills, which
the boost on a test vote refused to conrider; vari
ous bills on the silver question (both brunches
of congress ixtefiiively and exhaustively
disenreea this topic). No action wu taken in
the senate. Tho honso pasted no measure on
tho tnbjeet, hot contented Itself with voting
down propositions for free silver coinage anil
for a snapcnslon of too silver dollar coinage;
too Pariflo railroad loading question (bills ex
tending tbo period of payment Were favorably
reported from committees of each houso that
never reached a point of utlon la either): to
oslsbilsb n uniform bankruptcy law
(Us bletonr In each honso wu al-
moot Identical with that of the Pacific
funding bill). Tho Hennepin canal bill. Okla
homa MU, and ths Dunn free sMp bill wore
'** -- *—•* houtorrmmfWtfMt f -**
senate by adverse toot vote*
Tbo resolution favoring open executive ses
sions wu do fraud In thegenato.
Tho effect of the failure of tbo general doff-
ricncy Mil will bo more Softool thin is gener
ally believed, inasmuch as it oontalncd pro
visions for supplying tbo pressing demand* tire
a. , j*s5sL"5k
machinery of the governmant will also ho
materially disarranged daring th* remainder
of tbo fiscal year u no monay will h* avail
able for Jurors, witnesses or manhsl’s fact, and
many prisoner* not able to b* confined at Fort
Barth, Ark., cannot bo triad for mioths to
cos* A number of soldiers’ o?sfosa agsrsrat.
ing $100,000, which hu been oortifiodby tha
treunry, will fail also of settlement.
The Closing Scones of Conn res-.
Washington, March 4.—[Special.]—Tho
closing scenes of ths forty-ninth congrats wore
unusually dull. As a rule, the ending of coo
ls very frisky, but tho thouwnds of
II* mjf Dtenji UUb IUB uivuauiiA* v*
IPP who congregated at the capital loot
night and this morning wore dlrappriated*
Both home* wero compelled to apply thorn-
ttlvcc strictly to Imzlimt, in order to complete
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