Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-04-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

Utter our repOrt closed

SENATE-After our report closed
. Ihe Dill extending the time for the compile
ZION Oh the Northern Pacific railroad was
amended in several particulars, and passed
without division.
HOUSE.--After our report closed
=, Speaker Randall ordered the protest against
barbnT h 70 q tne passage Of the river and
r, Inc reading Of the protest having been CON-
"h NET se 1t presented question of privilege.
ton OF privilege, and quoted rules and pre-
cedents against il being so considered, He
urged that he was merely defending the honor
OF his committee and the integrity of the
House. and asked whether it was expected
that he should sit with his mouth closed and
allow deliberate written assaults to be made
on hlmSelf and the committee on commerce.?
Mr.. Cox disclaimed any intention to reflect
Oh the integrity OF the members of the com
mlttee on commerce, but he claimed the right
if possible, of reforming this bad practice Of
legislation. He found in the bill proposition
Tor the survey of rivers where there was not
water enough to make mill race. On some
OF them, as has been said, a man could not find
dam by the mill site, and could not find a
mill by a damned sight. daughter Most
OF the rivers provided for in the bill were not
worth dam. [Laughter.l He found in the
bill PROVISION for river in Kentucky. and he
was told by Kentucky member that the only
way to make that river thoroughfare was to
macadamize it. tLaughterl
test because he had not had a chance to study
the bill: The bill took out of the Treasury
S,WO0OO by process of combination from the
hard earned money of the people.
"A long coloquy enSued between MesSrs
White and Wright, Representatives from Penn
Sylvania, in reference to a couple of small
streams in the western part of that state pro-
vlded Tor In the appropriation, the latter con
tending that they were utterly insignificant
and unworthy of survey.
Mr.. White fiourished a book containing an
engineers report on the subject of these
streams, and when in answer to Mr.. Wright's
oftrepeated question, MIR. White spread out a
map on which the streams were indicated, Mr..
wright pointed at the map with an air of con-
temptuous triumph and said that (the width
OF the sheet of paper) was the width of these
streams. He seized and waved the map in
ME- Mr: Whites Whites face (fSr they had then come
as II he would throw the volume at Mr..
WrlghtS head, and all through the ludicrous
scene las throughout the whole days SESSION.
there were shouts of laughter, uprOar, confu-
sion and unbOunded disorder.
Finally, after AZ hours consumed in this
manner, the Speaker enforced order, and pro
arrived on the point as to whether the protest
to precedents in the 3D. ast6 5st sS Set and
2n CONGRESSES IN which protests had been
protests had been entered on the journal He
animated his own opinion that no harm could
come from letting a. protest be entered on the
journal; but following the Manual, which gov
eined him, he recognized that the question
related to the privileges of the House, and he
would therefore submit it directly to the
House.
The question was therefore put to the House
whether the paper in itself presented queS.
tion of privilege.
The question was put and it was decided in
the negative-yeaS 50, nays $780,
MIR: Mills then moved as a matter of cour
tesy to those who signed the protest it be en-
tered on the journal. Rejected.
MIR. Durham, from the conference commit
tee on the deficiency bill for temporary clerks
in the Treasury department, reported that the
the disputed points. The report was agreed
to.
Mr.. Sparks, from the appropriation commit.
1.-THE amount appropriated is siTi2.575.I
Mr.. HuntOn Introduced a bill to remove DO
litical disabilities of Thos. L. Moore, of Vir.
ginia. Passed.
The House then. at Is adjourned.