Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-13
The House.
DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL.

DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATION BILL.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE bill author
izing the secretary of the interior to deposit
certain Indian trust funds in the United
States treasury in lieu of investment, passed.
The morning hour was dispe nsed with. Mr..
Mcmahon reported back tho deficiency ap-
preparation bill from the appropriation COM
mittee. The committee, recommend an
amendment appropriate 300. 600 for the
payment of fees and lenses of United
States marshals and T. ar general deputies
for the present fiscal Year, thus making the
total amount appropriated by tho bill ST.
265, $50. Mr.. McMahon inquired whether
four hours debate would be sufficient.
Mr.. Conger replied if no political riders
were placed upon the bill, the lime would be
sufficient. Mr.. McMahon stated he knew of
no rider, but be understood tho printing
committee proposed to offer an amendment
relative to the election of government printer.
The bill was referred to the committee of
the whole, and without coming to any I'M
Outstanding relative to the time of debate,
Mr.. McMahon moved to 60 into such COM
mittee, pending which motion the speaker
laid before the House message from tho
President, transmitting dispatches recently
received from the consul general at Shangai
on the subject of slavery in China. Referred.
McMahon's motion was then agreed to,
and the House went into committee of the
whole, Carlisle IN the chair.
DEPUTY MARsHALs.
Mr.. McMahon called attention of the
House to the fact that no whore in the bill
was there any appropriation for special
depaty marshals. He doubted whether the
Democratic party ever would appropriate
any money for special deputy marshals 80
long as the law stood in the present shape.
The last session of Congress had adjourned
without making any appropriations for
special deputy marshals, and it was improper
for any officer to appoint special deputy
marshals when no appropriation had been
made.
PUBLIC PRINTING.
Mr.. Mcmahon passed on to consideration
of the appropriation made for the public
printing office. He quoted from the public
printed reports for the last five years to
show that the expenses of tho Office for the
present year we're far in excess of those for
any year since 1875. What was the cause of
tlc luClOooSS
Mr.. Conger-The extra session.
Mr.. McMahon contended that the extra
session was not responsible for the enor-
nous increase. It had been brought about
in part by extravagant purchases of material
and in part by the fact that there was no
limit to the number of persons who might
be employed in the printing Office.
| Mr.. Hiscock-The gentleman from Ohio
~ oh -, 20 ny,o l>ry
ton that the man at the head of the printing
Office has been squandering the public
funds. If there had been stealing in that
printing Office it had been in the purchase of
material and in nothing else, and those pur-
of the joint committee on printing. He be-
had been managed economically and honest
ly. He did not believe there was
single person employed in the
the gentleman from Ohio to name any such
person. Passing on to the appropriation TO,
marshals, he expressed his surprise that his
on this floor that the Democratic party did
not propose to make any appropriation fol
special deputy marshals, and did not propose
to obey the decision of the supreme court
He had spoken for the Democratic party. Al
the last Congress that same party had de-
clared that the nation should be starved il
the federal election law was not repealed
| Yhs same issue had again been rendered al
/ the meeting of the next Congress. The
two parties had met on that issue
and had gone to the country
upon it, and the country had been heard
from. A leader of the Republican side
and leader of the Democratic side had
gone before their State on that issue, and
Foster had been elected to the gubernatoria
chair and Ewing had been relocated to Con
gress. Another Ohio man from this hall
andianother Ohio man from the Senate had
met in their State, and Garfield had beer