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tlemen who have run for Congress who
have spent $4,000 in their election. |
wish to have test made in this case. l

wish to have test made in this case. /
now move TO reconsider the vote by which
the main question was ordered, and it will
be for u to say on the yeas and nays
whether it will include Senators and
members in this bill.
a mem ber-And candidates for Con
gress.
Mr.. Blaine-No. that is too indefinite.
The ayes and nays ver1 ordered on the
motion to reconsider.
Mr.. Caulfeld offered TO admit the
amendment, but the offer was received
with triumphant shouts OF Regular or
derl regular order!' from the Republi-
can side of the House.
The vote was reconsidered; yeas zoo;
nays 4.
Without proceeding further on the
subject Mr.. New rose to
A Question of Privilege
and stated that himself, Messrs'
Glover and Smith, of Pennsylvania,
three of the Select Committee on the Real
Estate Pool had been subpenaed to ap-
pear to-day before the Grand Jury Of
the District and they desired to submit
the matter for the instruction OF the
House.
Mr.. Tucker offered resolution al
thorizing Messrs. New, Glover and
Smith TO appear and testify under such
summons. Agreed to.
Mr.. Blaine then offered a proposed
amendment 20 the bill prohibiting elec.
tion contributions from Government
clerks. The amendment is to include
Senators, Representative and Delegates
ia Congress, and to add the words, 'and
the contribution of money or other val
liable thing as herein prohibited by any
Senator, Representative Or Delegate IN
Congress, while ne was a candidate for
Congress, shall in addition to the penal
ties herein prescribed, operate as dis.
qualification to his holding his seat.
Amendments we're also offered by
Messrs. Resgon, Hewitt OF Alabama,
and Brown OF Kentucky, which are to DO
considered when the bill next comes up.
Mr.. Reebe offered a resolution calling
for statement OF the accounts of the
Navy Department, with its fiscal agents
at London tJr every year since 1868.
Adopted.
The House then went into Committee
Of tic Whole, Mr. Cox in the chair, on
the legislative and judicial appropriation
bill.
Speeches were made by Mr.. Hubbell
against the Morrison tariff bill, and by
Mr.. Foster, OF Ohio, y member of the Ap-
preparation Committee, i'll criticism
of the reduction proposed in the
legislative appropriations bill claiming
that they are OF SO sweeping a character
as to seriously impair tho elective
working of the various departments Of
the Government.
sir. Holman, another member OF the
Committee, defended the bill, and de
clared ths! the committee. in preparing
it, had nut ono object in view, and that
was to make all the proper AMI necessary
reductions consistent with efficiency, and
thai no personal or partisan considera-
tion had been displayed in the action Of
the committee
In the course of Mr.. Holman's re-
marks, the question turned on the
New Rule Adopted this session
allowing appropriations To be reported ut
lcss rates than fixed by lav.
MIR. Blaine gavo It rs his opinion that
tina: new rule would provo to be- the
"Tfoisn horse" on which under the de-
vice OF retrenchmen,t all sorts Of matters
foreign TO the subject of the bill could be
engraltcd on the appropriation bill and
subjected to the action OF the Senate and
o. ihe conference committees. 1t would
be found to be more grievous rule than
the one which had prevailed before,
namely that the salaries might be in
creased but not diminished in the sppro
priqtion bills. rule which had been es-
tsbIisned twenty years ago by Demo
cratic House, and which he Blaine |
had been forced TO administer when
speaker. He also alluded TO the tact
that grades of department clerks had
been established in 1854 at 81 200, ; 400
81 500 and 81 800 and never had been in
creased since, while the pay Of the
members of Congress. which was at the
same time fixed at $4,000 had since gone
up to $1,000, an increase OF 60 per cent
aud now he said the Democratic msjOrlty
in the House tried TO mislead The country
bv representing that they wero willing
- submit their own sn.sriss to the same
-haring and discount u which other
salaries were subjected They took 10
per cent of of theii own salaries, which
bad been advanced 60 per cent, and they
took 10 per cen! OF of the clerks, who
had not had any advance since 1854.
II they were sincere they should put
the salaries OF member. Of Congress
where i. was in 1854, and then put the
pianing machine Of 10 per cent. on that
aad 90 before the country honestly. APP
plause in the galleries.
Mr. Holman said that ke agreed very
fully with tho gentleman from Maine On
that subject, bu. he Holman could not
be diverted 10y that speech, although Il
very good one, from the question OF rule
which he had been discussing. lie con-
tended tina. the. old rule WAS in the in
terest at
Those Who wished to Bleed the
while the new one was IN tho interest
of retrenchment,
Air Blaine reported TIA. the old rule
apphed oniy to salaries but the new one
applied to any subject OF legislation 10
maue- how foreign 20 the bill, lie
prophesied that the new rule would tring
all The evils OF the Old ore and
tho oussnd more tina; we're never
d-eame ed - under The old ruie.
Mr. Holman continued to defeEd the
action Of the committee in recommending
a reduction, and parted with much de-
fisnce and T. the great amusement OF The
House the thrusts aimed at him by
Messrs. Blaine, Foster and other Repub-
licsus.
Mr. Blaine gave the history Of the
rule referred to, lcnsDged at this session.
which was adopted forty years ago,
while Polk was speaker, and has
been administered ever since, and YET he
Blainel had been sought to be held re-
sponsible tor administering that same
time. .honored and time-worn Democratic
RUE. He thought that the gentleman
from, Indiana h,d done him ur;uteu-