The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-15
HOUSE.

Bills introduced Regulating coin certificates;
preventing the sale Of aims to Indians; prohibit.
ing the Indians from going 10 TezsE; to pay to
Mrs, Meeker and others money of the Ute Annu.
ity Fur d; establishing the Territory Of Pembins;
restricting Chinese Emigration; duciDg the dB-
ties on imported merchandise; reducing the duty
on steel rails oi ht leCoipsge Of the tIst dollar
Washington, January S.-1he debate on the re.
port of the Committee on Rules was opened to.
day by Mr., Reagan, Chairman of the Committee
on Commerce, who procet dc ID at once to oppose
that part Of the reIoIt which provides tIatthe
bill known as the River and HaIbOr bill, after
being matuTed and reported by the Committee on
Commerce, shall be referred to the Committee on
Ap preparations Mr. Reagan, as well as those Of
his colleagues of the con mittee who spoke to.
day, seemed to regard the IIOIoted rule as a per.
sonal a1ront, and openly charged lhat the design
was not so much to Perfect the River and HaIbor
bill as 1t was 10 srengle or restrict all measures
for internal Improvement. They claimed, with
some force that it was not wise to subject bill
which took the Committee on Commerce months
to prepare to the supervision of a con mitee al.
ready oveIGowded with work. ard which at
hest could only give 1t brief and summary cen-
sideration. The discussion assumed such wide
range and became so acrimonious that General
Garfield, after wild and impressive speech sug-
gested that instead Of general debate on the re.
port the House proceed to consider the proposed
rules seriatim. He declared that the Committee
had proposed only such innovation as had re.
Ceived unanimous approval, and that rstherl han
delay or embanass The report he would be will.
irg 10 drop the Of nOxiousrule entirely. This ap,
pareptly fair proposinOn was miscQnstrued
though, and the debate continued. Finally
Speaker Randall took the floor. He s:gued
sttorgly in favor of the proposition to give the
Appropriation Committee supervisory jurisdic.
zion over the bill, He charged that the River
and Hsibor bill was steadily on the ir crease, ard
read an tfical statement to show that It had In.
creased fro mtwo millions in 1870 to nearly eigh-
teen millions last year, As a compromise he
was in favor Of fixing limit Of say FIVE millions
annually. Remembering that Mr.. Randall had
some time ago opposed On extTsvagant appropri'
alton for improving the schuylkill River, Mr.,
0'Neil, Republican member Of Philadelphia,
.inteuupte him, and in a1apid and somewhat
excited tone lectuIed him severely for hisRlleged
econo my. Alivey setto entued in which Penn.
sylvania politics were brought in, but beyond
exciting general merTimtnt although utterly de.
void of wit, 1t was little profitable to the dispu.
tantB as to the boisteTous crowd OF listeners in the
aisles near them. Finally Mr., Kenna, Of West
Virginia, secured the floor to say with great ora
torical flourish that he was in favor Of making a
regular appropriation each year Of 100000 900 for
the Improvement Of rivers and haIboTs The de-
bate came very near turning into the channel Of
finance, when Mr.. Randall, In justifyipg Demo.
cratic &c onomy said that without 1t resumption
could have never succeeded. But for the late
hour this sort Of talk would have drifted into q
financial discussion. Mr.. Cbittend6n Is hurrylng
up his financial speech and there Is nothing to
prevent him from delivering 1t while the general
debate over the rules lasts, provided he can get
the floor The discussion over the rules will con-
tinue tomorrow. I..
Washington, January "a bill introduced by
Mr.. Ryan Of Kansas, admitting free Of duty
clothing and other articles destined for the relief
Of colored emigranp, was referred.
MT Hayes OF Illinois, Introduced bill grant
ing pension to each survivor Of tbe Mexican
War and who were not engaged in the late rebel
lion or who did not abet the same. This was al
so referred
AT the expiration Of the morning hour the
House went into the Committee Of the Whole
(Mr Cox In the Chair on the private calendar.
In advocating one Of the bills on the calendar
for the relief of Calvin Brown Of Ohio, Mr., Tuck
Ell referred to Mr.. Garfield as his distinguished
friend who had received not so much what he
wished as what he merlted, which remark was
received with applause on the Republican side.
The committee rose ard reported the follow
ing bills to the House For the relief Of Samuel
Lord, jr. for the reliet Of Thos Carpenter OF
Mi higsn; for the relief Of Calvin Brown Of Ohio,
The bills were then passed. Adjourned till Mon
dav /.