Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-02-12
Debate in the House of Representatives
on the Resolution To appropriate eI 500
for the poor of this city.

on the Resolution 10 appropriate el 500
for the poor of this city.
Mr., CAMPBELL, Of Ohio moved the postpone.
ment of election of public printer for the purpose
Of taking up the resolution from the Senate ma
king an appropriation for the poor of this city:
| Mr.. CAMPBELL. have no private reasons to
| give the gentleman. MY reasons for making this
motion are for the public ear and for the public
| eye." We made unsuccessful effort yesterday
| to elect public printer, and | am satisfied that
officer cannot be elected to-day. ayowed my
| purpose to reach the joint resolution passed BY
the Senate, and now lying upon the Speakers ia
BILE. think that gentlemen who oppose that res
olution, under existing circumstance might with
draw their technical objections, and let us vote
directly upon it, each one Of us assuming manfully
his responsibility on both the issues it presents
OF constit,aionalify and erpediency. If they win
do that we can reach the resolution and make a
| final disposition of it within the next forty min
utes. F.0 t ssHfr .ts-
/ Mr.. BOC0CK. viii say to the gentleman from
Ohio, that the joint resolution upon the Speakers
table provides an appropriation which, under the
rules, must 60 to a Committee of the Whole
i House. ..#
| Mr.. CAMPBELL, Mr.. Speaker think un-
derstand the course the resolution must take
Gentlemen come here with constitutional and tech
nical objections, know, but why will they not let
| the House vote directly on the resolution 2 They
| say they have no power under the constitution 70
make appropriations of this sort, Well, sir, ad-
NIT that there difficulties and doubts surround
ing this question but there are precedents touch
ing the principle to few of which will refer:
refer my friends upon the Democratic side of the
House to some items referred to pending the civil
and diplomatic appropriation bill of 1852. wish
| to call the special attention of those gentlemen
who make war upon this resolution on the ground
OF constitutional scruples, to of the items of
bills, to pay which they voted money from the pub
lie Treasury. / read from a speech made by the
distinguished gentleman from Tennessee Mr.
JoNEs] in 1852. These items were read to the
House by that vigilant sentinel over the Treasury
of our people. Among other items are the follow
ing: @
a. The Senators, no doubt correctly, say that the
expenditure of their contingent fnd i matter
with which the House has nothing r. sdoss;I know
that they are responsible for it, but iEx know how
it is spent, the items which compen1 1a87 IT'S
of contingencies in one year fol the &ln14e hold
myself much responsible for that expenditure as
those who voted it out of that fund.- atsr they had
received it, through the appropriation BILL into the
hands of their Secretary.
| "Now, sir, here is bill paid to the Messrs
Brown, hotelkeepers of this city, for Louis Kos
suth and his suite, of 1866 S2. For that never
intend knowingly to vote, directly or indirectly.
"Several Voices Read the items
Mr.. JONES The items are as follows:
| To board for Governor Kossuth and suite, having
ten parlors and twenty-five chambers, thirteen
and half days-twenty-th per-
sons $s,sss 90
sUNDRIEs.
Champagne, sherry, madeira, cigars,
lemonade, bar bill, washing medi-
| cines, post Office stamps, porterage
and messengers, hack-hire paid at
| different times, telegraphs sugar,
brandy, and whiskey in room, porter 5
and ale, envelopes, BARRIERS bill n. m
amounting, in all, to 65s 81
Bill for carriages engaged for Governor
and suite = ~ 319 so