National Republican., 1878-05-03
THE NATIONAL REPUBIicAN FRIDAY MORNING 1878
FORTY-F1FTH CONGRESS.
fchntinnfd from FIrt Tdee.

he potiiicd and have hearing. ..,
Mr.. VANCE offered n further amendment
increasing the salaries Of examiners OF the
Patent. Office, so rs to make them what they
were heretofore, the Committee on Appropria-
tiOns having reduced them.
The amendment was adopted.
Mr.. LATllROP offered further amend.
ment increasing the amount for extra labor on
indexes abstracts, &C., to $4,000, aud also re.
quiring persons to whom patents arc granted
to pay for printing the patents, in addition to
the fees now authorized by law.
Mr. LATllROP argued that this amendment
WAS necessary. and was really a tendency to
the reduction Of expenses. The Commissioner
of Patents also had recommended this In his
annual report.
Mr.. ATKINS opposed the amendment, bo-
cause II was another increase OF expense to the
Government, and he regretted the disposition
that was manifested to increase expenditures,
and II was not confined to theRcpubican side;
but he regretted to see that gentlemen on the
Democratic side were also voting to increase
the expenditures. The Committee on Appro-
priations had prepared this bill with great
care, and the House was attempting to undo
their work. lie had been overwhelmed so Of
ten that he believed that he would stop max
ing suggestions.
Mr.. CONGER said that the House had heard
often from the gentleman from Tennessee thai
he understood perfectly how the business OF this
country should be managed and conducted :
aud he seemed to have come to the conclusion
that no other member had right to offer any
proposition for the consideration OF the House.
Mr.. ATKINS denied that he had ever as
suined such dctatorial attitude toward the
House. The statement was not true, aud he
did not propose to submit longer to these In
situations Of the gentleman. He must keep
in the limo OF parliamentary remarks.
Mr.. CONGER said tho gentlemen had AS
sumed, not only for himself hut for all other
members Of tho committee, including the Re-
publican members, that their committee hav-
ing passed Judgment upon an appropriation
bill, no other member of the House had any
right to offer an amendment. And when the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. LATHRor), who
had made n study of the patent questions land
if the gentleman from Tennessee had some Of
the knowledge of the gentleman from Illinois
it would not hurt himl, the gentleman from
Tennessee rises IN his place and uttcrs TRADE
against the whole House, aud in his TRADE he
said, among other things. that each man here
must stand upon his own record.
Each man here is willing to stand by his
record, but by what right docs the gentleman
lecture this House upon that roint and upon
the subject Of extavaganceH This sam, n lmcnt
did not provide for anything other thnn an
expenditure of the inventors own money.
The gentleman from Illinois had even added
an amendment which he could not approve,
and that was the clause which required in
vcntors to pay for abstracts. Is the gentleman
Mr.. ATKINS familiar with the Patent. Office
and with the Patent-O Office lawsT Does he
know that there are hundreds of thousands OF
dollars sleeping in the Treasury to the credit
of the Patent. Oflice-noney paid in by iu-
ventorsp
If he does not know 1t, let him not talk
about the matter, and utter his Trades against
his own party and against this side of the
House. Why does the gentleman tell the
House that he will decline to protest further
Docs he mean to inform the House that il will
lose his valuable services as chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations If members dare
to offer amendments to his billr
Mr.. ATK ms said IL he had uttered one un-
kind allusiOn to the gentleman he was not
aware of it. If he had been disrcspcctful ia
the House he would beg its pardon; but he
doubted whether any one thought 20 except the
| gentleman from Michigan. Ills remarks and
manner were Extensively personal in the
highest degree, and what he lATKINs) said was
uttered in the warmth of debate.
The gentleman was not his censor, and he
did not propose that he should lecture him
He never had said an unkind word to the gen.
tleman, except perhaps In the heat Of debate
| and bill OF this description was not the place
for discussion of personal matters. lie hoped
that the House would Ret tlOng on these bills
without feeling and without passion. but upon
the merits of each question. But he did no
propose that the gentleman from Michigan
should lecture him.
Mr. BAfNE said he rose the other day to
meet some structures made by the speaker on
the Republican sido of the House, but he
failed to get the floor. As the chairman of
tho Committee on Appropriations had seen ht
to lecture the House to-day, he thought this u
good opportunity to reply. He then went on
to charge that the Democratic side had not
done its duty. They talk Of economy and at
the Slno time propose to take the duty of of
whisky and tobacco, which they know will
decrease the revenues millions of dollars.
When the Republican side Is lcctured by tho
Speaker and Others il should be done from the
standpoint that the Democrats while crying
Economy are really by their conduct incrcas-
ing the expenses of the Government.
Mr.. LATHRoP's amendment was then re-
jected.
A number of other amendments were
adopted, including the following: Reducing
the appropriation for the PhoiolithOgraphy, the
official gazette of the Patent Office, s., ,0OO mai
ing the clerk of the Assistant Attorney Gen
eril Of the Post Office iOurth-class clerk ; Ie.
ducing the number of II 600 clerks in the
office Of the Second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral to five arranging the clerks in the Office
Of the Third Assistant PUstmastcr-GCnCrl As
at present, and increasing the appropriation
for tho 0Gcidi Postal Grid, TO 10000.
Ten pages of the bill having been completed,
the committee rose. The bill thus far has been
increased S75,250.
Mr.. MILLS introduced a Joint resolution
granting the use Of artillery, tents &c, TO the
National soldiers aud Sailors Reunion, to be
held ut Cincinnati, Ohio. Referred.
The House, then, ut five o'clock, took re.
cess until half-past seven y. III.
EVENING SESSION.
The House met again tonight for debate
only, aud Mr.. DAVIS (N. e. presided rs
Speaker pro tcm.
Mr.. WRIGHT addressed the House on tho
subject of his bill providing for IA loan of S5OC
to the head of each family having personal
property less than 800 who would settle on
the public lands under the homestead net. Be
foro entering upon his argument he said ht
would have preferred to deliver
his speech in full House; but
it seemed that the House had no time to attend
to the legitimate business of the country. II
would waste whole days over personal cxplana.
tions and whole weeks over u DOorkceper's
squabbe, but it could find no time to consider
such bill as that for which Mr.. CHALMERs
had spoken, or bill for the relief OF the starv.
ing poor Of the country.
In the course Of his remarks Mr.. WRIGHT
called attention to the fact that petitions had
been sent here signed by 100000 work ingmcn
setting forth their ueCessities, and asking for
relief. Who, he asked, had read the petition =
| Who had given them moments thought