Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-07

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 6.-The morning
hour was dispensed with and the House went
into committee of the whole, Mr.. Covert, of
New York, in the chair, upon the funding
bill.
w. d. Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Weaver, Nc
Lane and Springer spoke in opposition to the
it, During Chittenden's speech he humorous
ly explained how he lost reelection, saying:
On the Friday before election a newspaper
in my district charged me with being free
trader Iaughter.) The newspaper said ex-
plicitly, 'Mr. Chittenden is free trader and
voted on the Goth of May, 1883, with 127
Democrats. There you see what man gets
Gin favor of the Wood tariff bill. / told
the editor of that paper that | opposed the
bill and only voted to take it up in order to
get chance to oppose it; that my friend (His-
cock) here, copper fastened protectionist.
voted with me- | told him if he referred to
my record he would see l simply voted to fix
day for consideration of a revenue measure,
and he might us honestly have charged me
with having shot Abraham Lincoln as having
voted in favor of that bill. 1 left it to him
to correct or not, and he never corrected it so
far as l know. (Laughter) The newspaper
article, Chittenden stated, charged him not
only with standing with the South on the tariff
question but with standing with it when he
had voted against the civil rights bill. He
had voted against it and was glad of it. 'The
solid South" the article continued, approves
his vote on the civil rights
bill, and Great Britain applauds his
speeches and votes on the tariff question"
lLaughter) "Let us send to Congress man
who all his life'' Che hoped that the next
speaker would pay attention to this and know
upon what committees to put his successor)
''has done manful service in the cause of hui
man rights; who represents the American
doctrine of protection to American interests.
That means lin very small type) 81. Hyatt
Smith," (n very large type.) (Laughter.)
This was ridiculous termination of a speech
which he had begun in serious earnestness.
He hoped his successor would be a good repre-
sentative. He had been in the habit Of preach
ing fifty times year from the pulpit and had
recently said the House of Representatives
would hereafter be part of his pulpit.
(Laughter.)
State banks the privilege of circulation on
depositing per cent. bonds with the United
States treasurer. Ordered printed.
Mr.. Chittenden stated that he would, at the
proper time, offer an amendment repeating all
acts imposing a tax on the capital and deposits
of savings banks, national banks, State banks,
and private banks, providing that the tax on
circulating notes OF national banks issued on
bonds authorized by this act shall not exceed
one-h half of per cent, and providing further
that the total amount of silver dollars of 4123
grains, authorized under the act of February
%, 1878, shall not exceed S100,000,000.
The committee then rose.
Mr.. Tucker, stating tomorrow being pri-
vate bill day, he would Saturday move to go
into committee to consider the funding bill
by sections.
The speaker again laid before the House the
reply of the postmaster general to the House
resolutions in reference to the abuse of the
franking privilege.
Mr. Browne demanded reading, pending
which motion was made to adjourn. Mr..
Brown asked that the document be printed in
the record. Mr.. Springer objected, and the
House adjourned