The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-14

necessary legislation would be com.
pleted in the remaining hour and
half except the Army bill, but the pri.
waite reports from the third Confer.
ence COMMITTEES on that bill were not
Of an encouraging character. "a few.
minutes later Atkins. the chief man
ager on the part of the House, report.
ed the disagreement, and, in q short
speech, asserted that the Committee
was unable to make a compromise over.
so small matter as reducing the sal
airy Of the General of the Army. On
the question of a reduction of the
force, and of the omission of
THE FIFTH SECTION s......
of the bill (relating to the use of
troops in sustaining State Govern.
ments), he said that the two Houses
were absolutely unable to find. any ba-
sis Of agreement. For himself he would
not yield one iota. He would insist
that the army should be reduced be-
low 20, 900, and that the fifth section
should remain in the bill, and If the
Senate would not agree to that, they
might defeat the bill and make an ex.
ira session necessary if they dared. II
Charles Foster a Republican member
of the Conference, Committee, said
that he believed that a compromise
could be made on every question in.
volved in the Army bill except that of
the fifth section. Without speaking by
authority, or undertaking to represent
anybody, he wished to call the atten-
ton of the House to the many eviden-
ces now existing that the policy of the
future Administration would be ex.
actly in the line of this fifth section,
and declared that the Democrats need
have no earthly apprehension that
President Hayes would use the troops
in any manner to which they objected.
He appealed to the House to accept
these assurances and allow the bill to
pass. Atkins was unwilling to &C.
cept any compromise, and moved that
the house insist, and his. motion was
carried by strictly party vote, no
division being taken. A new Confer
ence Committee was appointed, and
Immediately retired.
THE HOUR BETWEEN 1920 AND l1:30
was spent in the transaction of unim-
portant business. A few private bills
were passed, and twenty or twenty
five minutes consumed in calling the
roll upon one of them. At 1875 the
fourth Conference Committee return
ed and Morrison reported the final
failure to reach an agreement. In a
brief written statement, which he
sent to the Clerks desk to be read, he
said that all points could be comprom.
Used except in regard to the fifth sec.
tion of the bill, and that,
AS A LAST RESORT,
the Democrats had proposed that that
section should be so modified as sim.
ply to prevent the use of troops in es.
tablishing and maintaining IN power
the Packard Government in Louisiana
and the Chamberlain Government in
South Carolina. He demanded the
House insist and ask for no further
conference. Foster offered resolu-
ton which, was read for information,
providing that there should be appro.
priated for the use of the
army for the first six months
of the fiscal year one half Of the sum
appropriated for the current fiscal
year, and that all other questions be
left to be decided at the next session
Of Congress. The Democrats cried out
against this, and, even when he modi-
fed it so as to provide for the support
Of the army for only three months,
they were unwilling even to accept
this. The ayes and noes were called
on Morrison's motion to insist, and,
IN THE MIDST OF GREAT CONFUSION,
the roll was called as far as the letter
H, the Democrats all voting on the one
side, and the Republicans, without ex-
ception, on the other. At five min
utes before IL Speaker Randall inter-
rupt ed the call, saying that it was a
physical impossihility that it should
be completed before the expiration of
the Congress, and, having announced
his signature to several enrolled bills,
read his farewell address to the
House.
Hoping to gain full sway before a
quorum was present, the jobbers had
their plan of campaign marked out in
detail, to have Holman sent to the
Senate on a conference committee,
when they would be unmolested.
Barely had Holman left the chamber
when a rush of bills went down, but
a Z disagreeable surprise was in
store for the so sanguine jobbers.
Eden, of Illinois, arose and informed
the crestfallen group that he had
promised Mr.. Holman ..to object" to
everything until he returned, and the
lobby was routed as effectively as last
night. By II o'clock
A TREMENDOUS CROWD
filled every conceivable space of the
chamber. It became impossible for
even members to move about, and in
vain for the sneaker tO direct them tn