The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-03-18
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
First Session.
TUESDAY, March II, 1886.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.,


be dispensed with.
Mr.. DRoMGooLE wished the journal to be
read that might be seen what kind Of entries were
made Of the proceedings of last night.
The SPEAKER put the question on the mo-
ton that the further reading Of the journal be
dispensed with.
And il was decided in the negative.
SO the House refused 10 dispense with the further
reading.
The reading Of the journal was then concluded,
and it was approved.
Mr.. TILDEN rose to inquire whether he was
returned on the journal having been arrestedp
The Clerk (replying through the Speaker) said
no; none Of the members returned. The
words on the journal were these: Reported TO the
House present"
Mr. DRoMG0oLE rose, he said, to a couecti on
of the journal. He understood that the names OF
those members who appeared after the doors were
closed reported having been arrested by the
Sergeant-at-Arms.
The Clerk (again replying through the Speaker
said no; the entry was that the Sergeant-stArms
reported to the Speaker that members who did not
answer TO their names, and were not excused, were
present, &c.
Mr.. DRoMGooLE. My object is to make a
distinction between those members who were wait
ing at the door, and had voluntarily arrived, and
those who came under process served by the Ser
geant-atArms 30 that he may not get pay for those
who were waiting here ready to enter when the
doors were opened.
Mr.. GEORGE S. HOUSTON So far as the
journal goes, IL seems TO me that there can be no
difference between those members who were stand
ing at the door and those whom the Sergeant at
Arms brought in. II the gentleman did not desire
that these ees should be paid out Of the contingent
fund, he should have thought Of it last night.
Mr. TlBBATrS moved that the House resolve
itself into Committee of the Whole on the state OF
the Union.
Mr. ATKINSON. Mr.. Speaker, wish the
journal To be corrected 1t speaks falsely.
Mr.. TlBBATTS scarcely heard from the deep
recesses Of his abode on the right Of the Speaker
was understood to suggest that these corrections
could be made after the question before the House
had been disposed of.
Mr.. ATKINSON. The correction will not take
a moment
The SPEAKER. 1t is privileged question
The gentleman will proceed.
Mr.. ATKINSON suppose that no gentleman
desires that thing should appear on the journal
which is not true or wishes to prevent me from
making the correction. The journal shows that
was in the custody Of the Sergeant-at-Arms Now,
did not the Sergeant-at-Arms at all yesterday
The entry on the journal was read
Mr.. ATKINSON. aver that was not out OF
my house after sunset; the record is not true.
The SPEAKER. The journal will be corrected
accordingly.
Mr.. TlLDEN. | also wish a correction made as
regards myself. The Sergeant.at-Arm had no right
10 take cognlzance OF my being present. | was moi
present under his authority.
Mr. q. 5. HOUSTON. Since the journals are
being corrected, wish it may be corrected in rela-
ton TO the gentleman from Ohio, [Mr. BANKER,
HoFF,l who sits IN front OF me, and who is not al
this moment in his seat know that he came into
the hall last night, and asked me what course he
should persue He said that he was out OF the hall
but that he had got in without the knowledge OF
the yet he is reported among those
brought up by that officer.
wish TO put an inquiry to the Speaker. Has il
ever been decided by the House, or by the Speaker
that an adjournment Of the House, after arrests
made on call Of the House, discharges members
arrested
The SPEAKER The chair so decides. All the
presidents have so decided.
Mr.. G. S. HOUSTON. Does the chair find thai
the effort has ever been madei
The SPEAKER, (doubtfully heard, was un
derstood to say The universal practice of the House
had been in accordance with the decision he had
made.
Mr. TILDEN move that the journal be cor
rected as regards myself.
The SPEAKER said, the journal would be cor
rected accordingly.
Mr.. SCHENCk was understood to say that his
name appeared on the list of those brought into the
House by the Sergeant. at Arms. Such was not the
fact. He had not seen that officer, and had come
to the House without warning or summons.
hltI u uIlcl COHNcTSdIlOn between MI. X. y.
SCHENCk and the SPEAKER, leading to no ac-
The SPEAKER laid before the House the fol-
loving executive communications:
A letter from the Secretary of War transmitting,
IN answer to a resolution of the House Of the 18th
ultimo, reports Of surveys Of the Tennessee river
which letter and reports were laid upon the table
RIVERS AND HARBoRs.
The question on the motion of Mr. TIBBATTS
hay VIM haa t.lyn ...I Ill Al
the House resolved itself into Committee of the
Whole on the state Of the Union, mir. THOMAS
SMITH, of Indiana, in the chair) and resumed the
consideration of the bill making appropriations for
the Improvement Of certain hprbors and rivers.
Mr. WOODWARD was entitled to the floor, and
addressed the committee during the hour. After
dlsclamlng any unfriendly feeling towards the West
and expressing the disposition that he felt to CRAFTY
MS western friends in anything which was consist
ent with his sense of duty, he proceeded TO speak
the bill before the House 1t would have been most
grateful to his feelings he said if he could have re-
sarGed i with reference to the question Of expedien-
cy, but he had strong for looking rather to
the question of power. He thought the House
ought to be encouraged to look at that question. In
some respects it at this time question de nopo
He considered the bill operating to revive an ex
ploded and abandoned system; abandoned not only
for its inexpedency and its manifest I'M Justice, bu
for the want of constitutional authority in this body
And he trusted that his friends would make battle
and hight this question of power once more; although
he admitted 1t was question on which little could
be said that was interesting to the taste or to the
imagnations of gentlemen.
Dry as this constitutional question was, however
he should discuss it upon the broadcast principles Of
common sense, and endeavor to put it in such
shape as, he believed, the most iterate man could
not misapprehend. Mr.. W., objecting first to thi,
bill, that whether regarded in reference to the CUES
ton of constitutional power or Of expedency, it wal
not systematic, and remsrking that this alone pre-
scented an insuperable objection to it, proceeded tc
examine and anayze the various provisions of tn,
constitution under which the power was claimed
and to show that it not legitimatey embraced
in any Of them.
- Devotng the greater portion of bis time to th
branch of the argument, Mr.. w. adverted briefly
towards its close, TO the question Of expediency
There was enough known to satisfy the House tina
however unquestonabe the power itself might be
il ought not to be exercised. The practical opera
ton Of the principle would be in short time to con
vert this body into a rendezvous Of demagoguei
coming here actuated by no higher motives than t
L e Al. go,