Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-27
The House.

WASHINGTON. May 26.-On motion of Mr..
Carlisle the Senate amendment to the House
bill amending the internal revenue law in re-
gard to distilled spirits were concurred on.
On motion of Mr.. Thompson the bill for the
8 soldiers reunion in Muscatine, Iowa, was
passed.
The bill granting condemned cannons for
monumental purposes in various towns and
States was taken up. So great number of
towns were added to the list ard the scramble
became SO great to get move, that the bill
and amendments were referred back to the
military committee.
Speaker pro tenn. Blackburn laid before the
House message from the President urging on
Congress the necessity of action on the Ute
agreement. Referred. The President recon-
mended action by Congress.
Consideration of the sundry appropriation
bill WAS resumed in committee of the whole,
the pending question being in the appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the national board OF
health, and it was agreed to, amendments In
creasipg the amount being rejected. MIR.
Downey, of Wyoming Territory, moved to IN
sert provision authorizing the secretary Cf
the treasury, in order that he may have &C
commodation for storage of coin. to pay sums
appropriated by the bill in lawful silver coin.
Adopted amid applause and laughter, 80
to 122.
Mr.. Warner moved to strike out the $l5O,OO0
for continuing work on the Washington monu-
ment, and proceeded to state the reasons Tor
his motion amid shouts and jeers of laughter.
The ages of pyramids, towers and spires were,
he said, ages of barbarism, Ignorance and su-
perstition. Men whose memories were worthy
of perpetuation had them perpetuated in their
own works, not In the works of others. Ii this
monument were completed it would perpetu-
ate, not the memory of Washington but the
folly of the age that built it. The Solons, the
Lycurguses the Confuciuses and lthel lZoroastes,
had come down to the present time,
not in monument of brass or granite. The
tombs Of Achilles and Patroclus had not been
revealed, but the song of Homer had made 1t
practicable to discoverthe site of Troy and the
tombs of Agamemnon and Menelaus. (Derlslve
laughter and shouts of: sNote, Dote."
Needless of the interruptions, Warner went
on with his speech as follows: The names OF
the kings who built the pyramids through TIE
labor of millions of enslaved subjects have
been long forgotten, but the almgiver, who
was slave of one of these kings, has stamped
his impression on every continent and every isle
of the sea where the language of civilized man Is
spoken, and SO will the name of Washington
live, not in this unsightly monument, but IN
that noble monument of his own erectlon-a
free republic on new continent, and IL Will
live when the last stone of this other monument
l 1S Q68Q. (LauIQl6I duo ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OA
ridicule, which became intensified when Warner
added that he had not intended, on rising, to
make speech.)
| Mr.. Hayes attempted to respond to War
ner, and succeeded amid storm of impatient
signals in expressing the idea, ironically, that
while his (Warner's) works would render a
monument needless, such an insignificant in
dividual as Washington might need one.
After iisposing of six pages of the bill thus
finishing about one-half of it), the committee
rose.
Mr.. Townsend, OF Ohio, presented the ad-
verse report on the bill to authorize railroad
bridge across the Detroit river. Ordered print
ed.l
Mr. Forney made a conference report on the
| military academy appropriation bill. Agreed
| to.
Leave of absence was asked for by many
members, Frye putting his application on the
ground of his desire to attend the Chicago con-
vention, but Hutchins objected, except coupled
| with the condition that those members with
whom absentees are paired. may vote to make
! a quorum. So leave was not granted.
| motion for recess, the evening session to
| be for consideration of the bill, was antago-
nized by Hooker, who made the point of mo
quorum" A vote was taken by tellers and
resulted 95 ayes to noes. There being no
quorum call of the House was ordered, but
| only 13i members answered to their names.
Still the House refused to adjourn, but finally
at 5:45 adjourned by vote of 66 to 53.