The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-19

placed upon appropriation bills and he thought
twas the just and right way Of legislatIng. The
House should not give up this rule. It could not
give 1t up. II saved several millions Of dollars 70
the people and II the House held 70 1t II would
save millions more.
LEonLArIoN AND APPROPRIATION.
Mr.. White withdrew his amendment for the
purpose Of permitting Mr. gpeer, OF Georgia 70
ofer an amendment he had prepared TO the third
clause Of rule 81 (Old rule 1907
Mr.. Speer then offered bis amendment 10 strike
out OF the CLAUSE the provision that allows the
placing OF legislation upon appropriation bills II
in the direction Of retrenohment and D ace In
lieu thereof the following: "But 1t shall be in
order to strike out any sum Of money and insert y
leIs Hum." He proved that he was not In any de.
gree Influenced by partisan feeling. He took no
interest In the inquiry as to who began to Ax leg
islation on appropriation bills. III were possi.
bic at any time to rise above the sordid consider.
atoms of party 1t should be in the discussion Of
rules for the guldancs of the House, Had the
gentleman considered what the failure Of appro
priation bills meGnt1 He did not mean tempo
Iary failure, but he meant refusal on the part
Of the peoples representatives to appropriate
money for carrying on the Government. II meant
anarchy, It meant the paralysis Of the depart.
nent. It meant the reputation Of the Nationa
debit 1t meant the destruction Of the Judiciary; It
meant the virtual abdicaEon Of the Executive; it
meant the disposal of Congress. When appropri.
stlons we're refused, red handed revolution or the
iron grasp Of dissipation would seize upon and
ravage the unprotected heritage Of freedom.
Applause on the Republican side
Mr. Hawley quoted from different State Consti
tutions for the purpose of showing that twenty.
FIVE out of thirty eight States legislation on appro.
priation bills was prohibited,
Mr., Cox supported rule 100, while he would not
give loose construction to that rule. While he
would not place on the Indian Appropriation bill
the whole costs Of legislation, no would neverthe.
less use that rule for the purpose of retrenchmeut
He would use the riders for the purpose of re-
pealing laws that had been enacted by riders, he
would use 1t In negative to strike down bad laws
Let the Democrats stand by that rule.
The gentleman from Maine (Reed) had said
that when the Democratic party went to the peo-.
pie 1t would be beaten. He (Cox) did not know
about that. He did not crow until he was out of
the woods. One thing was sure. there had arisen
economy, there had arisen the 'lily of Democra.
cy" Laughter and applause on the Democratic
side, s.I
Mr.. speer here Withdrew his amendment and
Lowe offered an amendment prohibiting any
amendments OF a partisan character TO be placed
on any appropriation bill and spoke in favor Of
his amendment
Mr.. McLane opposed the Rmendmant.
Mr. speer here again offered his amendment as
o substitute for clause and spoke In support OF
H. n 81 H..
Mr., BlOunt opposed the amendment He want
ed to say that the time never would come when
the Government would perish in the way his col.
league had pictured.
Mr., Mills would vote cheerfully for the amend
ment
POLITICAL RIDHRs THR CAUSE o. oMrIous BLIS.
Mr.. Whtthorn expressed himself 40 In favor Of
ths modification Of rule 40. II W@ BY "riders'
that OMNIBUS bills were made. twas BY omnioua
bills the legislations Of the conntry was corrupt
ed, and 1t was in the interest Of the people that
he opposed giving the Appropriate Committee
the right 10 incorporate legislation on ApproDEa.
tiOn bills
Mr.. Garfield offered an amendment az q suhsti
tute for Mr. sPeer's amendment providing that II
shRlIbe In, order to strike out any sum Of money
appropriated in a bill and insert less sum. He
offered the amendment without the Bllghtest
feeling of any other interes than the good Of the
HOuse and the good OF his party, not only as a
minority but as msI rity the good ofany party
whether in the majority or minority, and for the
purpose Of sealing up, as far as the House could,
the fountains OF bitter wAer Of strife and putting
| in line of fair plain, business woes,
Mr.. McMshor opposed Mr. 6peer's amendment
and thought that 1t ought to make that young
member shake in hts boots when he started a
new proposition 10 find the Republican party
ready to stand sponsor at the bstism.
Mr.. .9peer-I am young but trust ! am of q
number of those whose follieH cease with their
youth Laughter and applause on the Republi.
can sidel
Mr.. McMahon-A very good snswerg He con-
tinued sppealing 10 his parry friends not TO give
up rule 120 1t W. uld be giving up the very stan.
dsrd they had raised It would be almost giving
up the cause in the next Presidential election. for
II the Democratic party struck that rule out It
could not make the fight In the interest Of econ
omy,
He wanted 10 say to the Republican side of the
| House that their unanimlty surprised him and he
could only accept 1t as one OF those confessions
that only come from the Republican party when
OUT OL pO"eI' Ahhb "hoh III PO"eE 10 wac VIC "
the worst parties which ever had control Of the
Government [Derisive laughter on the RPpubli
can side. The rule under discussion provided,
first, that 1t should retrenoe expenses. Republl-
cans say that that was not good rule. [Cries OF
yes on the Republican side He was glad that
his party was not on record as opposed to that
rule He was proud that 1t was not upon record.
He knew u was the record OF the Republican
party, who bad spent every dollar 1t could when
II had been in power and would do it again If it
ever got into power.