Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-15
The House.

WASHINGTON, May 14.-Thursdays session
was resumed at IL A. NJ. and the House went
into committee of the WHOLE Mr., Cox in the
chair on the legislative executive and judicial
appropriation bill. Mr.. Warner offered an
amendment requiring the secretary OF the
treasury to make detailed statement of the
manner in which the moneys appropriated for
incidental expenses of the treasury department
are expended. Adopted, rs to g.
The committee then rose and the session OF
Friday commenced.
Mr.. Gibson reported resolution for final
adjournment of Congress May 81, and stated
he would call it up for action when the pending
appropriation bill was disposed of.
Mr. Mills gave notice when the resolution
was called he would move to recommit with
instructions to the committee of ways and
means not to refer it back till it had first re-
ported a bill fer the free importation of salt
and printing paper.
Mr.. Townsend, of Illinois, give notice. he
woald move to amend Mills motion SO as to
require the committee to report back bills Nos.
6l, 66, 73 and s. 5.265 relative to the tariff.
The bill making appropriations for support
of the agricultural department was reported.
ordered printed and lecommitted. 1t recon-
mends an appropriation of $2l3,000, being
Sl3,600 less than the estimate.
The House then went into committee of the
whole, MIR. Cox in the chair, on the legislative
executive and judicial appropriation bill. Con-
sideration was concluded, the committee rose
and reported the bill to the House. The first
amendment, on which > separate vote was de-
manded, was that providing that salaries OF
storekeepeTs and gaugers at all distilleries that
mash less than sixty bushels per day shall not
exceed $50 per month, while the distilleries
are in operation, and $35 while the distilleries
are not in operation, and that all other
storekeepers and gaugers shall not receive ex-
ceeding $50 per month when the distilleries are
not in operation. The vote resulted yeas, 102
nays, l00. n ftrics rsrty vote with the excep-
tion of the following Democrats, who voted in
the negative Aiken, Deuster, Evans, Frost
Phelps, and Tillman. White changed his vote
to the affirmative for the purpose of moving a
reconsideration, and the yeas and nays were
ordered on the motion to lay the motion to re-
consider on the table.s
The motion to reconsider was tabled; yeas,
108; nays, 100.
voted upon separately, and the bill was passed
as amended; yeas, 1S9; nays, IL
After the passage of the bill the floor was
claimed by number of members, each deslr-
ing to call up some particular measure for con-
sideration. The speaker recognized Mr.. Glib
son to call up the adjournment resolution.
Mr. Tucker raised the question of consider
alton, stating he desired to move the House go
into committee of the whole on tariff bills AT
ter discussion amid considerable confusion, the
House decided, yeas, 1873; nays, rs, to con-
sider the adjournment resolution, and Gibson
demanded the previous question on it.
Mr.. Miles moved to recommit the resolution
to the committee of ways and means with In.
structions to report the bill for the free i'm
ortation of salt and printing paper before the
adjournment resolution. Defeated. Yeas, go
naya, 116; all the Minnesotians among the
nays.
Mr. Blackburn then resorted the dilstory
motions in order to admit motion for re-
cess, which was finally agreed to. Yeas, 193
nays, rs. Dunnell and Washburn in the af-
firmative. Poeler not voting. The House &C
cordingly took recess, the evening session to
be for consideration of the municipal code OF
the district.