The Portland daily press., 1877-02-03
Forty Fourth Congressional Session.
SENATE.

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punishment of persons making or having in
possession dies, moulds &c. for manufacture
ing counterfeit coin, passed.
Senate after some discussion, passed bill re-
ported by Committee on Finance relating to
accounts which provides all claims against the
United States which accounting officers of the
Treasury or heads of any departments or bu-
reau are authorized to examine and decide shall
be barred unless presented within six years
from the time the same occurred.
At the expiration of the morning hour bill to
amend Pacific Railroad acts, so as to create a
sinking fund for the liquidation of the indebt-
edness due the government by the Pacific road,
was passed over informally owing to Mr.. Thur
man absence.
Several bills on the calendar were then called
I'D and passed.
After passing several private bill Is the Senate
at 3 10 p. M took re less till 10 o'clock tomor-
row.
HOUSE.
The House was called to order at 10 o'clock
and took further recess until 1l.15 a. NJ.
The House was again called to order at IL. 49,
Mr.. Wilson o. Iowa, from the Committee on
Rules, reported bill amendatory of the act
providing for the counting of the electoral vote.
It provides that when either house is engaged
in legislative business it can order an adjourn
ment until l0 o'clock the following day. After
discussion the bill was recommitted to the
Committee on Rules
Mr. Wood introduced bill repeating al.
House at II. 35 went into committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation bill. The
bill appropriates $14.266, $3.50. Reading of
| the bill being dispensed with, the committee
proceeded to its consideration by sections
Mr. Foster moved to amend by striking out
| the first section of the paragraph which fixes
the compensation of Senators at $4,000. Agreed
| to, 1873 to 81.
MIR. Holman gave notice he would cali for a
separate vote in the House to see if it would
the yTcta Of fha
tee.
A sharp encounter occurred between Messrs.
Waddell of North Carolina and Holman of In
| diana. Mr. Waddell said the gentleman from
Indiana had served long enough to fatigue his
constituents, while he himself mad been elected
| by largely increased majority The gentleman
from Indiana had been pleased to say that he
| (WaddelD had expressed himself opposed to
| reform, and he had replied that the gentleman
| had misrepressnted him and that he knew it.
| He repeated that now. and had no apology to
| make for what he said
Mr.. Holman replied that the two cent econo.
| my which was so derided had reduced the ex-
penses of the government $25,000,000, and that
| it had been the boast and pride of his side of
the House that it had been through its endeav-
| or that that had been done. 1t was to that
| economy that the Democratic party owed its
| majority 10 the next Congress, and yet it was
from the Democratic side that the humiiating
| confession came that that economy had been a
| false protest
| MIR. Kelley of Pennsylvania charged that this
Congress was the most expensive one that the
country had ever had. Its economy had been
wastetul and extravaganza 1t refused to make
| the necessary appropriations for public build
lngs, and was paying large rents for offices in
| the different cities. In Chicago the govern
ment was paying 10000 rent for Offices while
a public building on which $4,000 600 had been
expended was not completed for want of the
necessary appropriation. 1t was the same in
| Philadelphia, where the government was pay
ing nearly $45,0 600 year for offices, while
building on which So, DOC 600 had been expend-
| ed was left unfinished. The whole of this So
| called economical legislation was a blow at
| labor and the productive interests of the coun-
try, for loss on public buildings was So per cent
labor and per cent. capital.
MIR. Townsend of Pennsylvania enforced his
colleagues assertion that the economy of the
spoke of its effect in reducing the efficiency of
various departments in Washington.
| Mr. Kelley again got the floor and said that
IN the last political campaign the Democrats
mad gone to the country on their professions of
| economy, but he thanked God the American
people had some intelligence. The Democratic
majority in the present House was about two
| thirds. In the next House it would be ques-
tionable majority of two or four, and the gen
tleman from Indiana (Holmsn) would stand
| out IN the cold. (Laughter.) The gentleman s
own constituents had gone behind his rhetori-
| cal phrase of economy and looked at the con-
summate extravaganza to which he had urged
the House, and they had voted accordingly.
MI Carr OF Indiana said that what the PEG
| pie meant by reform was that the wasteful ex-
penditure of public money should be stopped
| He thought salary of $4,000 for members of
| Congress was little enough.
Mr.. Holman commented upon Mr. Keliey's
expressions about his (Holman's) being left out
| in the cold. Thai gentleman never represented
| a constituency which did not coincide with
him in political sentiment, while he (Holman)
now represented the larges, Republican district
| In Indiana
| Mr.. Kelly-I bag leave 10 say that I have
| represented such coGsLl uency.
| Mr. Holnan-The gentleman would he glad
TO let the whole people of the country suffer by
| taxation in order that vast sums of money may
be spent in Philadelphia. He had managed to
| Keep in Congress year after year by getting
very handsome appropriations to be expended
under his eye, and he will not expect to remain
| out In the cold so long as he has the public
treasury to go to for the benefit of his consttu-
ents, and so long as he can boast that through
| bis tally and Influence these vast ex-
| penditures were thrown among his own constitu-
| ents, and yet that gentleman whines about the
| depression of labor and business among his
own constituents.
Mr.. Clymer of Pennsylvania, paid high
| compliment to Mr.. Holman, and said that al
| though that gentleman might be derided here
| now for his economy, he would among the
masses OF the people be long held in grateful
| remelnOrance TOT MS celDg the Watchguard for
the Treasury during his long public service.
Mr.. Kelley also desired to say few words
| alphabetically to the gentleman FROM Indiana.
No one had higher esteem than himself of
the integrity and industry of the gentleman,
but the objection to that gentleman was that
he had so long contemplated dimes and three
| pences that in financial matters his vision had
become microscopical, aud so he had misled his
party. He had not meant to reflect upon that
| gentleman Individually for having been cleft
| out in the cold" He had only meant to class
him with all the dead men, on the other side
In passing by that side of the House ore felt
as if passing through morgue, and when the
atmosphere was little uncertain one saw as it
were the sheeted and shvering ghosts of dead
members of Congress floating about. Laugh
ter He therefore hoped the gentleman from
| Indiana would notapply his remarks as person.
| al TO himself, but as applied TO that unwise and
| inhuman economy which had come so near to
| extinguishing the majority. tLaughter.)
| Finally the discussion was closed and like
amendment was made for salaries of members
| of the House.
After disposing of twelve pages of the bill
\ the committee rose and the House at AS took
| a recess till 10 o'clock tomorrow.