The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-07-31
CONGRESS.
The House OF Representatives Said 10 be
Wattlnr ON the Senate. H{

because II had nothing to do, and was Gust
waiting on the Senate" jca .'1
When we come to consider what It has
not done, this action appears decidedly
airy. When The House me. last December
instead OF going TO work and acting upon
the appropriation bills and sending them
10 the Senate in reasonable time, we found
upon examination Of the record that they
reached the Senate MS follows
The Fertilization, January %.
The Postotlice, February 2s. |f
Military Academy, March Q.
Indian, March 3.
Diplomatic, March 6. *.
Agricultural, March 10.
Army, April Q. ..@ t'
District Of Columbia, May II. M
General Deficiency, June 8. 40. n
Legislative, Judicial and Executive, June
Is. f'Gr.l
River and llarbor, June 10.
Pension. June 10. Ha
; Naval, July 9. ,.a ..-,. /.
Sundy Civil, July II.
va tuo .SAd VI vuue tlG I1OubS passed
what Is known as the tax or revenue bill,
and sent it To the Senate for concurrence,
AS this bill involved millions OF dollars an.
nually to the Government, it was but
proper and right that the Senate should
give It due consideration, and Il revenue
laws were to be revised It ought TO be done
with due deliberation and done decently
and in order. 4G
The passage OF the bill by the House was
preceded by resolution to adjourn sine
die on July 10. This was before the House
had passed either the naval or sundry
civil bill, and by reference to the foregoing
dates it will be seen that the latter bill
was not passed by the House until the
18th. or four days after they had resolved
to adjourn, and hence the resolution to ad.
iourn at that time was all buncomb, and
intended for nothing else. But an exam
ination Of the House calendar even now
by no means justities the the claim that
they have nothing to do, and are only
waiting on the Senate.
There are upon the House calender to-
day two-hundred and thir.y.two bills that
have passed the Senate and are awaiting
the concurrence Of the House, besides a
number OF Senate bills that are vet on the
Speakers table, and that have not been
called up and referred. 1t must be borne
in mind that the bills mentioned above do
not include numerous House bills that are
waiting action now. In view OF foregoing
facts, what becomes OF the claim OF moth.
i,gto do.
1t is just possible that the little lunci, re-
{ayraJ ~ in tharS ltc oh l., ,vkk ,,1,.,
have had something to do with it. 1t Is
odd that the House should have adjourned
on private-bill day, after having declined
t6consider private bills, justat the moment
that an elaborate lunch was announced in
the Private Claims Committeeman. OF
course no one object to one member lunch.
ing the rest ol the House, but under the
circumstances, this lunch, apart from the
menu; appears 10 have been in bad taste.
It is unfortunate for the Forty.seventh
Congress that its first session should leave
on the public retina just before adjourn.
ment two such elimpses as those OF yester.
day and the day before.
The Speaker OF the House and the chair
man OF the appropriation committee, him.
self a candidate for the Speakership, sit
ting at an illicit feast on Friday, when they
should have been passing private bills up
stairs, and "Boss" Cameron, the senior
Senator from tine second State in the Union,
filling Southern Democratic Senators with
champagne in his committee room
on Thursday, in order to secure
their votes in favor OF the con.
tirmation OF Stalwart nomination
for New York Postottice now held
by thoroughly efficient man, whose only
fault is that he is not q worker; Keifer at a
committee table from which the claims OF
private citizens had been carefully swept to
make room for the champagne OF public
servants, and Cameron at the side.board Of
a Committee on Naval Affairs, buying votes
with Alonopole extra dry-are edifying
spectacles in this last quarter OF the nine
teenth century.