Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-16

ton, as soon as the wsrk was placed ON the cal
| endar Congress would turn its back on it and
| cowardly 60 home. He had day or two ago
| presented one hundred and five petitions de-
handing relief from the Oppressive salt tax.
| He had been forced to send them through the
| petition boxes and had not been allowed to
present the grievances of the people in the open
| House. The issue could not be Stunned or
evaded. vote In favor of the resolution
meant that there would be no action on any
measure except an appropriation bill.
| Mr.. Dunnell stated that had he been present
| in the committee of ways and means when the
| pending resolution had been considered he
would have voted against it. He was unwil-
| ling to vote for adjournment in presence of the
amount of business which should be attended
to. He could not go back to his constituents
| and Justify his vote in favor of adjournment
| when in his judgment there were important
measures pending which should receive the
sanction of Congress. The river and harbor
bill, for one, would be defeated.
Mr. O'Neill-The river and harbor bill will
be taken up and passed Monday.
MIR. Dunnell wished to see whether the House
had not the courage, patriotism and fidelity to
meet any and every measure which was present.
ed to it for its consideration.
Mr. Garfield supported the resolution. One
point made by the opponents of the resolution
struck him with great deal of force. That was
the counting of the Presidential vote. If the
gentlemen on the other side will set any day or
any week, and give US reasonable assurance
that at the end Of that day or week or month
we can pass law to save and avoid contro-
versy on that question, I will stay far beyond
the dog days to do it. Several Democrats: ::
l,'sWe will do it." Mr.. Garfield: But you have
had four years since the awful imminent dan
ger arising from that question which threatened
this country, and you have waited until this
last session, and the last few weeks of the ses-
| sion, and all at once it is an important topic.
! The summer is past and the harvest ended and
that soul is not saved, and there is no hope that
| it can be saved by this Congress. know there
| are seventeen hundred bills pending, and am
sure that many of them ought to become laws,
but 1 am equally sure that if we stay until
| September there will be twenty-seven hundred,
with large proportion that ought to become
| laws. Every argument used to-day can be next
| September with exactly the same force and
effect. This Congress has been here six
months, and we are outstaying the welcome of
| the American people.
| MIR. McMillan-Speak for yourself.
Mr.. Garfield speak for myself and the
| body that thinks as do. The Sd of June next
| the Presidential cyclone will strike the people,
and in the course of few weeks it will in
volve both political parties and forty-fve
millions of people, and if we stay IN the scope
of that cyclone, we will convert this body into
a vast political debating club, and would not
give one days legislation now for two months
of such legislation as that period would bring
upon the country. I wish to ask the gentle
men if they are willing to stay here into that
cyclone and past it, and convert this whole
body, in presence of the whole country, into
political camps making political speeches.
Mr.. Stevenson called attention to the fact
that the committee on electoral count had re-
ported bill regulating the counting of the
vote, and that the bill was now on the cal
! endar.
| At the close of the debate the House adopted,
| by vote of 72 to II, the concurrent resolution
| to end the session on the 31st inst.
A caucus of Democratic Representatives held
in the afternoon, resolved that this vote should
| be reconsidered.