The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-07-22
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1913.
The journal having been read


THE SAVANNAH RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
The SPEAKER represented the question of order upon
Mr.. STUART of Michigans motion to reconsider the
vote of Tuesday last corrected and reversed by the
casting of the Speaker upon correction OF Inc
record of Mr. STEPHENss vote yesterday morning, by
which the appropriation OF $4,000 for the removal OF
distractions in the Savannah river and the naval anchor
age Fort Pulaski, retained in the civil and d.
plomatc appropriation bill He cited decision OF the
Speaker pro tenl which sustained by the House,
wherein held that motion to reconsider tie vote
could not be entertained either side. This decision,
however made and sustained under peculiar circum
stances, during the tendency OF the heated question
about the New Jersey election the 18th of December
of the session of 1899 and ls4O The Speaker did not
concur in this decision, but held that motion to recon
slider should be entertained and that the motion OF the
gentleman from Michigan MIR. STUART was in order,
provided he voted on the prevailing side.
Mr.. CLARK of Maine said he voted on the prevailing
side, and would move the reconsideration.
Mr.. POLLOCK moved to lay that motion on the table;
and theeupon, Intellectual effort was made to call the
House; which was decided by yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were then demanded and ordered
the motion to lay on the table, and being taken the
question decided In the negatve-yeas 90, nays o.
The question then required the engrossment of the
BILL which, under the force of the previous question: was
put and carried.
The bill was then ordered to be read third time to-
day. and under the force OF the previous question: the
House refused to read third tmeby yeas rs, nays 100
Mr.. TURNER moved TO reconsider the vote by which
this bill was just rejected, and desired that motion to be
laid the table but he afterwards withdrew the motion
to reconsider.
Mr.. COBB of Georgia renewed the motion to recon
slider Mr. c. said he made this motion in good faith for
the purpose OF referring the bill again to the Committee
of Ways and Means, that il might be put in shape salts
factory the maorty for it seemed that gentlemen were
unwilling pass the BILL until they had put it in shape
suit themselves He trusted that another opportunity
would be afforded them for the trial
Mr. PETIT moved that the motion to reconsider be
laid upon the table
On this motion the yeas and nays ordered, and,
being taken, resulted-yeas 20, nays ISL.
So the House refused to lay the motion to reconsider
on the table.
exception OF few provisions for improvements in the
District of Columbia for custom house at Charleston
and for the removal of distractions in the Savannah,
every item of the bill was recommended by the Execu-
| Mr. GENTRY interposed to say a word in reply to
Mr. COBB, of Georgia. and to state that the responsible
Of The ssd the o Ss whou'
Mr. COBB lMr v still giving way reminded the gen.
tleman from Tennessee M GENTRY that this response
by could not be shifted from the party with which that
gentleman acted That party was in the majority and
upon them must rest the responsibility OF carrying the
government Mr.. C. voted against the third reading OF
the BILL because of the Objectionable provisions placed
in it by the gentleman from Tennessee and his friends
| Mr. VINTON then resumed and proceeded to say
that they the other side of the House thought the
government could get on without carrying out the TX,
fere. The government was in their hands For HIM
SELF as member Of the Committee of Ways and Means,
he was not disposed strike out the item in question.
He only regretted that the Ohio Improvement was not
also IN the bill
| Mr. MCKAY said the chairman OF the Committee of
Ways and Means had stated most extraordinary propo
stion for gentleman placed at the head of committee
whose duty to report all the bills Tor the support
of government The object Of the bill under consde
ton was TO make appropriations tor the civil list lncu
ding not only the executive, upon which the gentleman
lay much Stress but all other branches of the
govenmentthe judiciary and even for ourselves. This
bill is not only for the maintenance of the Executive
the administration propebut for all the salaries of all
the Judges, marshas attorneys, jurors officers OF the
departments the clerks of Congress- the little pages and
4 he fr1,,n
rises in his place., with great gravity, and announces,
that if we are satsfed-f the Executive has enough
left of the unexpended balance in the reasury-why,
forsooth, he says for his party We are content
that this bill should be lost This has been. said
by the accredited organ of the majority OF the House
Of Represenativessuch was the authority with which
this announcement given forth to the
| try. But did not the same gentleman tell us, but a
days ago, when he made his appeal to the House for
prompt action upon this very bill that without it there
money to carry on the operations OF government;
that he was in the receipt of letters from the marsas of
different States, appealing to the House for speedy action
upon the bill and stating that the courts could not be
holden until it became law? Yet he tells us that
he is content that the bill should be lost and would
avoid all responsibility for the consequences.
Mr. Mex. called upon the older members of the House.
upon the chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means
himself, who had been perhaps twenty years member,
to say whether in all his long term of service here there
has ever been passed single civil and diplomatic pill
the Savannah obstruclions9 And this matter the
only item he believed, which formed any serious obsa
| Gle to the passage OF tne asked LOT
precedent TO Justify the thing and he affirmed that there
was none. The item had been engrafted into the bill in
violation Of the rules of the House, which expressly pro-
vide that propositions of this character shall be brought
forward in different bill. Legislation here not as
in the British Parliament where every appropriation for
the support of government may be put into bill But
here we have the army bill for the military; the
navy bill for that department. the Indian bill; the
pension bill; the Notification bill and the West Point
Academy bill;-each embracing appropriations of its
own class. There were also the harbor and river
bill and the internal Improvement bill and if it
the fixed and honest purpose OF the majority pass
an appropriation for the Savannah river improvement
why not place it of these latter bills instead of
that making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic
expenses OF the government
The gentleman from Ohio had told us that every item
of the BILL except some of those for District Of CO.
umba that for the Charleston custom house. and this
for the Savannah river had been recommended by the
executive departments. That statement might be very
true Neither he (Mr McK.) nor his friends had inter
posed any nsuperabe objections to the BILL except this
| Savannah Improvement However Objectionable might
be the character of other paragraphs OF the BILL he pro-
posed TO waive them all and vote for the whole if this
one item were removed out Of the way. He proposed
distinctly that the House proceed to reconsider the
nv which the bill had been rejected, and refer it back
tbe Committee of the Whole the state of the Union
with Instructions strike ont this provision; and that
he woud then vote for the bill, with every other item
which the majority had thought proper to insert
| MIR Nick concluded his remark ks by adverting again
to the extraordinary manner OF the adoption of this
Savannah em after il was excluded IN Committee OF
the Whole on the state of the Union by very large
majority and by announcing his determination at the
proper time, make the motion which ne had Just ndl-
Gated.
Mr. HUDSON followed in support OF the appropriation,
and declaring that even those who stood upon the Balt