The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-23

| IN Interesting debate iOllnNcdt ~ lne
course NJ which Senators brown hnd MOT
| gan, among others, spoke against ing W
| turning hoard feature Of the bill, which
| gave Commissioners power to disfranclisc
| all p0lygamisis, which term they miglt
| constitute to cover all MOrmOns, innsmucll
rs pOlygamy IL tenet Of Mormon inith'
! HOUSE.
| Cox. from the committee TO audit eN.
| penses aCCrung out Of the death anu Dllrlhl
Of the late president, reported bill grant
! ing pension Of $1,000 yoarto Mrs. Lncre-
! tia X. Garfield.
Atkins, of Tennessee, said he would not
agree TO the bill. lie thought that similar
measures should be adopted to pension the
widow of any other president.
! The bill was passed. -.-,-,
Ellis, of Louisiana, By request, introduced
| a bill TO provide for the establishment OF
fast ocean steamers for United States mail
service between the United States ana
Great Britain, and to secure to the govern,
mcnt the use of vessels Tor postal, haNal anu
| other purposes. Referred.
| Flower. of New York, presented petit
! ton of 2,IOO merchants and other citizens
of New York city, for the abolition OF the
tax on bank deposits and OF the stamp tax
on bank checks.
Cox presented similar petition, bearing
| 800 signatures, and McLane, OF Maryland,
similar petition from 900 citizens OF Bal-
| timore They were all referred to the com
mittee on ways and means.
Under the call of committees, the follow
| ing bills were reported:
Bv Burrows, of Michigan, from the
committee on territories) -For the admission
of Dakota into the union as state. Placed
on the house calendar.
Bills were reported from the committee
on public buildings and grounds, and re-
| furred to the committee of the whole, pro-
viding for the erection Of public buildings
at Shreveport. Louisiana, Macon, Georgia,
and San Antonio, Texas.
BY Dunnell, of Maine, from the commit
tee on ways and means)-tlXlng the term
of office of collectors OF internal revenue aI
four years Placed on the house calendar
BY Hoar, of Michigan, adversely, from
the committee on civil service)-To reduce
the salaries OF heads of departments and
members of congress.
Butterworth, of Ohio, asked that the re-
port of the committee be read.
Randall objected. A little fun, he said oc-
casionally was not Objectionable but be was
! ayerse to the house being IuTneu llIo an
| amusement body. go,
Warner, of Tennessee asked that the bill
and report be referred to the committee OF
! the whole. 80,
Consideration of the apportionment bill
was resumed at 40. ,.
Prescott offered a resolution providing
that whenever the house shall determine
upon any number of members, the same
shall be apportioned among the states on
the same basis of division used in the 4Gth
congress, and now known as the OLD
method.
Bayne moved to amend so as to provide
that the apportionment shall be based upon
the Seaton method.
Converse moved 10 adopt this plan, or to
adopt the plan previously presented and
favored by him. ..,
Hooker, of Mississippi, submitted an
amendment to the bill selecting 326 as the
total number of representatives.
At 8 o'clock the previous question was
seconded, and vote was taken on the
amendment offered by Converse to.the reso-
luton submitted by Prescott, and it was re-
jected.
A vote was then taken on Bayne's amend
i ment but it only received nine affirmative
votes, while las members were recorded as
being opposed to the adoption the Seaton
method of apportionment.
Bayne endeavored to obtain the yeas and
nays, but was not successful i'll his eli
fort.
Prescott's resolution, basing representa-
ton upon the old system of apportionment
was then agreed to without division.
The last hour of debate opened with
a short speech by Hoar,, of Michigan,
who advocated the basis of 325, followed
by Tyler, of Vermont, who spoke in favor
of fixing the number at 20f.
Springer stated that he would vote Tor
319, though he preferred the present num-
Der, 293 The number $40 had been deter
mined upon as one of mathematical and po-
litical equality by the last congress, and he
therefore supported it. 1t would be more
fair than 1913, as it gave additional repre-
sentatives to Iowa, Missouri and Kansas
surely republican states, and to South Car,
olina and Texas certainly democratic, and
to New York, which was likely to be repub'
lican, unless the democrats behaved them
selves better.
and said the New York legislature might
fail 10 redistrict the state, and his colleagues
evidently take pride in the rights and posi-,
ton which New York maintained
among the states of the union. He
only viewed her interest from the stand
point of politics. As Prescott concluded his
speech, loud cries OF vote Vote ~ came
from all parts of the house, 9ui
Cox in an indignant tone demanded
his right to be heard, and the speaker stated
that the time for debate had terminated
Cox appealed TO the house to allow him q
few moments TO reply to the imputations OF
his colleague.
Page, Of California, objected, unless he
could be allowed to reply to some remarks
| maze DN lTcsCOll " w NliS Noii9ei'"Ni'i' W
California.
cox then requested that he be
allowed to move to reconsider the vote by
which the previous question was seconded
Prescott objected. g,
Cox. among cries of "0rder" and Vote,
sad it was a cOwardiy proceeding 1,
.ttncl< n man at the last moment without
, giving him a chance TO reply TO the mos'
cowardly insinuations.
The speaker stated that the first vote would
! be taken on the amendment Offered
bv Cox, fixing the representation al
3i7. and ruled that Cox could not modify II
b. by changing that number to 3l9.
Coz thereupon withdrew the amendment
The next vote was taken upon the amend
ment offered by Anderson, of Kansas, hN
ing the number at S25, and agreed to
ayes, lG5; nays, lOi.
White. of Kentucky, was the only rrpuh
lican who voted in the negative, but the iol
= lowing democrats, voted in the affirmatiVe
with the republicans: Aiken, B dy,acn
Curtin. Densley, Wells, Evans, Finley
Holbletzell. Jones, of Texas, Mills, Mclean
Reagan, Richardson, Of South Carolina
Schelly, Spear, Tillman, Epson ana wen
born.
The representatives are distributed amonl
the several states as follows: Alabama, :
, Arkansas. 5. California, q, Colorado, ]; Con
necticut. 4. Delaware, 1; Florida, :
Georgia. 10; illinois, p; Indiana, l3i Iowa
= N: Kansas. Z; Kentucky, n; Louisiana, =
I Maine. 4: Maryland, 6; Massachusetts, y
. Michigan, II; Minnesota, 5; Mississippi, Z
+ Missouri, "a; Nebraska, 3; Nevada, ]
, New Hampshire, ?; New Jersey, g Ne'
|. York. I'd: North Carolina, 9; Ohio, p, Ore
r con, /; Pennsylvania, q; Rhode Island, f.
!, S0uth Carolina, Z; Tennessee 10. Texas, u
D | Vermont, 2. Nirginia, 10, West Virginia, !
| Wisconsin, "a.
q The next vote was taken up on IN
] amendment offered 70 the third section z
: ,i,e mi nv Beltzhoover, Of Pennsylvanif
o lie object Of which IL % make IL unlaHiu
10 divide any parish or count
i in forming any representative distrlc
Is vrhirh will consisted one county or parish