Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-06-26
THE WAY OUT.
THE DEMOCRATIC PLAN OF ACTION.
Agreement of the Caucus-The Vetoed
Bill to be Split in Two and Reframed-
Probability that Hayes viii Not
Call Another Extra Session. t

WASHINGTON, June 25-The Demo-
cratic members of the Senate and House
of Representatives held joint caucus in
the hall of the House this afternoon TO
receive the joint report OF their advisory
committees on the subject of makingfur-
ther provision for next years judicial
expenses. Prior to the caucus, extra
ordinary precautions were taken to
guard against the possibility of caves
dropping, it apparently being supposed
by some of the officers of the caucus that
representatives of the press had OBJ
tanned their accurate reports of the pro-
ceedings of the previous caucus through
keyholes, transoms, ventilation pipes,
or simOlar avenues of communication
with the outer world. Watchmen were
therefore placed on all the corridors sur
rounding the hall, both on the main
floor and in the gallerier, and were
also perched above the glass roof OF the
chamber. These precautions, together
with the closing of the double doors,
were considered sufficient safeguards
for secrecy, and the caucus was called to
order at $3.50 p. NJ. by Representative
House, Chairman of the House caucus,
Senator Thurman being confined to his
residence by sickness, Senator Herman
presided, and explained the commit
tees report. AS foreshadowed yes
terday, the advisory committee this
morning decided 10 recommend the pas
sage by Congress of the two bills in lieu
of the judicial appropriation bill that
has Just been vetoed, but distributing
its provisions in such way as to con-
centrate in one measure all those TO
which the President had made objec-
tons. Mr.. Herman stated that the
committee recommended the passage
Of the bill precisely identical
with the vetoed bill less its item OF
100000 for fees of United States mar
shals and their deputies, its second
sction and the last sentence OF its first
section. This sentence declares that
''no part of the money hereby appro-
priated is appropriated to pay any sal
aries, compensation, fees or expenses
under or in virtue of the title of 26, Of
the Revised Statutes. The second
section of the vetoed bill provided that
no department or officer of the govern
ment should, during the next fiscal
wear, make any contract or incur
any liability under any of the provisions
of title 26, authorizing the appointment
or payment of general or special deputy
marshals for service on election days, in
advance of an appropriation sufficient
to meet such contracts or pay such liza
hility. He also explained the second or
supplementary bill framed by the COM
mittee. 1t consists simply OF a $780,
600 item and the second section above
summarized, together with a clause pre-
scribing the penalty, fine not TO eX-
ceed $1,000 or imprisonment not to ex-
ceed five years, or both fine and inn
prisonment, at the discretion of the
Court, for every violation OF this sec
ton, or of any one OF the
several similar prohibitions now
contained in the Revised Statutes,
which prohibit the making of contracts
in ivance of appropriations, and the di-
version of any appropriation to pur-
pose different from that for which it
was specifically made by Congress, or
the payment of money or assumption
of unauthorized responsibilities by dis
bursting officers of all kinds, OF course
including United States marshals.
Mr.. Herman called attention to the
fact that the larger bill embodied,
without alteration, the important Sec
tions by which the vetoed bill had pro-
yided for, tie essential amendments OF
the present method ofdrawingjuries and
the total abolition ofthe jurors test oath.
In the course of an earnest speech adj
vocating the adoption OF the report, Mr..
Herman said that although there had
been a serious diversity of counsel in
the Joint committee as to the line of ac-
ton that should be pursued, the major
ity were firmly of the opinion that the
plan reported was the best, wisest and
most expedient in every point of view.
Representative Clardy then offered a
resolution, in the nature OF substitute
for the report of the committee, declar-
ing that, in the sense of the caucus, the
recently vetoed bill should be again
passed by the two houses and sent to
the President forthwith.
Representative Stephens, in speech
OF considerable length, opposed this
resolution and advocated the adoption
of the report OF the committee.
Representatives Herbert and GoOde
also advocated its adoption, and were
followed by Sparks and Clymer, who
very emphatically opposed it. The lat
ter (who is member of the advisory
cOmmittee) stated that the report did
not meet his approval in any particular.
At this point in the proceedings Rep
resentatiue Fndley offered a resolution
providing that in the event OF the Presi-
dents rsfusing to approve either OF the
bills above indicated the dominant
party in Congress should adjourn Con-
gresS at once thereafter, without making
further appropriations, and If recon-
vened both houses should again adjourn
without making any appropriations, and
continue to pursue this course indeh-
nitely.
The presiding officer ruled that this
resolution was not in order at this time,
but announced that it would be taken
up for action after the report OF the Ad-
vlsory Committee was disposed of.
The debate on the question of adopt
ing the committees report was continued
by Representative Blackburn and Sena-
tor Wallace against il, and Representa-
tives Young, OF Tennessee, Singleton
and Hunter, and Senators Hill and Nc
Donald, in favor OF it.
The caucus then proceeded to vote on
Representative Clardy's substitute. 1t
was rejected by the following vote:
Senator's, yeas, 3; nays, 20; Representa-
tives, yeas, 35; nays, 80.
A motion offered by Representatives
Scales to adopt the committees re-
port with the proviso that Con-
gress should Immediately adjourn
if the President does not sign tue
bills, was ruled out of order,
and the question was then taken upon
the adoption of the committees report
without amendment, resulting as fol-
lows: Senator'S, yeas 20; nays /, Rep
resentatives, yeas AZ nays So. ..
The question recurring on Represen-
tative Finley's resolution, Representa-