Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-23

HoUsE.-After transacting some miscellan-
 eous business the House resumed considera- tlon of the bank reserve bill, the pending question being on seconding the demand for
 the previous question. It was seconded, 100
 to 4S The main question was then ordered
 An hours debate was then commenced on the bill The debate was opened by Mr. Gillette
 of Indiana, in opposition to the funding bill,
 which he characterized as 8 shot from a
 masked battery against every interest of the | people.
 MT. Weaver, Ga., ) followed in the same
 course of argument and replied to the re- | marks made few days ago by Senator Logan | of Illinois, relative to the''Weaver" bill The | country was prepared to hear that a man who
 had voted for the back salary grab and pock-
 eted his part of the swag should be opposed | to doing justice to the soldier. The debate was further continued by Mir Whitthorne, of Tennessee, and Mr. Keller, of Ohio, both of whom opposed the bill the ! former on the ground that it would discrimin- ate against the greenback, the latter on the ground that it would tend to imperil the per- l manency of resumption.
 The House then proceeded to vote upon the bill pending amendments. The only amend ment to be voted was one requiring the banks to keep their coin in their banks. Rejected, 33 to 79.
 The question recurred on the expressing and third reading of the bill. On division the vote stood 93 to 40. and the yeas and nays were ordered. The House refused, yeas 79, nays 158, to order the expressing and third reading of the bill, which vote of course ve- toed the bill.
 The House then went into committee on the revision of the rules.
 Mir. Oscar Turner made speech in favor of giving the levee committee control of all matters relating to the Mississippi river
 MT. Robeson, of New Jersey, followed in advocacy of the report He was opposed to the distribution of appropriations among the different committees, but wanted the rules amended in such way as to deprive the Ap- propriation Committee of the right to rec ommend general legislation.
 Mir. Frye, of Maine, member of the Com mittee on Rules, explained the work of the committee and argued to show that the report ! tended greatly to a simpifcation of legtsla- 1 tion. He said the committee had entirely ie- 1 nored partisanship in considering the rules
 MT. Cox, of New York made a speech | abounding in wit and humor. He advocated | the new rules as a whole and devoted the first | part of his speech to 8 denunciation of the l Commerce Committee for reporting the river and harbor bill and passing it under suspen- | sion of the rules. He then turned his atten- | tion to Representative Hare, of Michigan, in | a humorous speech. The other day Mr. Hare | alluded to Cox's size and the New York mem Der took exception to this. He said Hare's | wit was not genuine because it subserved no | good purpose and was too much in the nature of personal attack. He ridiculed Mr. Hare | unmercifully and compared him to Fallstaff | His wit he said was not the least logical and MT. Cox said he could give him lessons in wit ticisms.
 Mr. Hare obtained the floor and will reply to morrow.
 General debate on the rules was now closed by order of the House, but there will be con siderable discussion under the five minute rule
 The House adjourned at 4:4O D. m