The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-26
THE CENTENNIAL JOB.
It is carried Through the House by a
Small Majority.

It is carried Through the House by a
Small Majority.
The debate on the centennial grab was
continued in the house OF representa-
tives at Washington on Tuesday afternoon,
and in the course of the speech of Mr..
Lamar, of Mississippi. he asked whether. in
view of the Presidents power to invite
foreign nations here to the centennial it
was not clearly and unaualifedly the duty
of congress to appropriate monies for that
purpose. He favored the celebration 10
order that the people of the north should
become satisfied of the longing desire of
the southern people to live in perpetual
union, and before that feeling all others
sank into insignifcance. He deprecated
an allusion made by Mr.. Townsend, of
New York, last week, to the president or
Mr.. Brooks. and intimated that the in
evitable effect of the allusioD was to excite
passion to inHame animosity and to awake
the hatred of sectionalism. He advocated
the scheme because it carried out the
spirit of peace and reconciliation. 1t was
something like the image of the feeling Of
the people who demanded that the aliena-
ton and distrust which had heretofore ex-
listed between the two sections of the union
should not longer obstruct the glories Of
the republic, or the prosperity and hap
piness of the American people. AS God
was his Judge he did not believe that that
alienation existed any longer. Never
since Jefferson was first inaugurated. had
the entire mass of American people been
animated by purer, intenser, broader,
more universal patriotism, looking to uni
versal brotherhood and affection. He
knew that the sentiment had not found its
full expression here; that 1t had been
kept down ndssmothered in the meshes of
an intolerant political organization and that
its voice had not been heard amid the
ciamors and appeals of imprisoned par
tisans. But in the political as we'll as in
the natural world the agencies that were
most powerful were not the most noisy.
Violence. passion. fanaticism and animosi-
ty could always find voice and fill the air
with their factious clamors, while the
deep end earnest feelings of great pee
pie lay unspoken in their hearts. The
currents of passion and feeling might flow
hither and thither, dashed by extraneouS
agencies, but there was in the great sea
of unsounded depth common humanity,
a common interest and q common patriot
ism wEich lay unspoken, Applause,
Mr.. Lamar spoke under the rule which
lin tied the time to ten minutes. but as
soon as the time expired Mr.. Garfield
offered him his time.
4 general discussion ensued, when Mr..
Holman moved as test vote, to strike
| ~ "a, ID >
to i0i.
After several amendments were offered
and rejected the committee rose and re,
ported the bill to the house with the
recommendation that it pass.
Mes>rs Young and Randall then spoke
in favor of the BILL
An amendment was then offered by Mr.
Springer, Dem of Illinois requiring the
full payment to the treasury of any bal
ance that may be be left in the hands oil
the finance committee before any dividend
or per centage of profits shall be paid to
the stockholders. was agreed to-
The house then proceeded to vote on the
passage of the bill. The bill was passed
yeas lac, nays 1876,
The announcement was greeted with ap
pause.
The house then adjourned.
The telegraphic report of the yeas and
nays is SO imperfect that we wait for re
ports by mail-but we have run over th,
list and found Illinois reported as follows
Yeas-Farwcll. Harrison, Hnrlbut AMI
WHITING
| Nays.-Anderson, Bagby. Burchard
Campbell, Cannon, Caulfeld, Eden, Fort
Hartzeli, Henderson, Morrison, Springer
StevensoH-l3.
The names of Messrs Wike and Spark
do not appear on the list.
: 1t is an outrageous subsidy job an,
ought not to have been passed. Nh
Spring ger did the best he could to secure
return of the money-but no one need eve
expect cent of it will BE- returned to tn
United States treasury. 1t is gift O
81 100000 to private show company, 70
which there is 20 warrant of authority il
the constitution to pass.