Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-23
The House.

Thomas Turner the bill passed, 80 amending
the sixth subdivision of section 1924, revised
statutes, as to provide that dealers in leaf to-
bacco who do not sell or consign for sale leaf
tobacco to an amount exceeding $4,000
pounds in any one special tax year, shall pay
a license of but $50.
resolution was adopted for printing OF
SIX thousand copies of the yellow fever
commission reports, and six thousand copies
of the report of the board of health.
On motion of Mr.. Townsend, of Ohio, the
bill passed for the government and control of
Refuge harbor sand beach, Lake Huron.
There was good deal of opposition shown
to considering bills for the erection of public
buildings and Mr.. Bragg made several dilatory
motions, but with not a sufficiently strong sup
port to order the yeas and nays. However, when
the motion to % into committee was made the
opposition refused to vote and raised the point
of no quorum.
Finally by yea and nay vote of 146 to
forty, the House determined to go into COM
mittee, whereon Bragg moved to reconsidered
the vote, which motion was laid on the table,
and then the House went into committee, Mr..
Burrows in the chair, upon bills reported from
the committee on public buildings and grounds.
The chairman of that committee said the
House has referred to his committee ninety
bills for public buildings, involving appro-
priations of thirteen million dollars. of which
three members of the committee had reported
back forty-three. involving about six million
dollars.
MIR. Bragg inquired if it took six million
dollars to begin the buildings, how much
would be needed to complete them.
Mr.. Cook replied that that depended upon
who controlled the government. The bills
themselves made no appropriation, leaving that
entirely to the House. The government was
paying an annual rental of $l,12S,OO0 for
buildings occupied as postofices, ETC., and the
question was whether 1t was not more econom-
ioal for the government to adopt the system of
erecting its public buildings than continue
paying such large rental.
Before the first bill on the calendar had been
read MIR. Bragg moved that the committee rise,
and on this motion no quorum voted.
discussion arose as to whether the motion,
having been defeated, the point of no quorum
could be raised, Messrs. Sparks and Clymer
maintaining the Affirmative of the question,
and AIR. Blackburn the negative. The chair
agreed with Blackburn, and ruled that the point
of mo quorum" could not be raised upon the
vote on the motion to rise.
MIR. Bragg appealed from the decision of the
chair and the decision was sustained, yeas 102,
nays l. But the point of no question was
again raised and a call of the roll showed 212
the question recurring on the decision of the
chair that no quorum voted, and it bearing
evidence that no business could be transacted,
the committee rose. Ec
Motion was then made that the House ad-
journ.
Mr.. Young (Democrat) suggested that though
the House might be unwilling to consider the
bills relative to public buildings, it might be
willing to dispose of other business But
his suggestion was met with cries of ''reg-
ular order.''
MIR. Garfield suggested that the House
might, by unanimous CONSENT go into COM
mittee on the sundry civil appropriation bills.
Anderson and Hooker objected, the latter de-
claring his intention to object to everything
that required unanimous consent.
The resolution to adjourn was defeated, but
subsequent molten was agreed to and the
House adjourned.
Among the Republicans who on Wednesday
voted to go into committee of the whole on the
tariff bills should have been mentioned Mr.
! Deeringi.