Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-19
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House.
, WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Mr. Davis sub
: mitted the conference report on the hii
granting the fremont, Elkhorn and Mis-
souri, Valley Railroad company the RICH
of way across tt e Nj )brara military reser
walton in Nebraska. Agreed to.
Mr.. Hammond made q speech ridiculinG
the declaration made some days ago By
Mr.. Chase that the agricultural product:
OF the country were protected
to the extent of S72,OOO,OUO
In the list of these products
printed in the gentleman's speech he founC
plum pudding, macaroni, venison, Chinese
nut oil and frogs. If there was farm
which produced such articles he would like
to buy it.
Mr.. Dunnel. a member of the ways and
means committee, expressed his surprise
at the undated interest in the pending
bill in the light of the fact that here was 10
earthly hope OF its passage. Members
| had been debating the provision of the
| bill and at the same time admitted here
and elsewhere it was not to be passed.
Mr.. McKinley-I deny that so far as
am concerned.
Mr.. Dunnell-The next few days will
verify the truth of my statements. Re-
ferring to his appointment on the tariff
committee, he said he had opposed his ap-
pointmert, because he saw just what was
to be a fact in the history of the Forty
seventh congress. What congress ought
to have done, had not been done, but had
been turned over to a commission. Now
within a few days of final adjournment,
with one-third of an enormous bill passed
over, everybody was pressed with the con-
viction that the bill could never pass 1t
was utterly beyond his ex-
pectations, as most sanguine
supporter, that the bill would pass. The
house had been deluding itself, deiuding
the country and unsettling the great bust
ness interests of the country with the
secret fiat gone forth and cherished that
the bill should not pass this congress.
Already steps have been taken to pass
through the house next Monday, the in
ternal revenue bill, taking off from capital
what labor demanded should be taken off,
therefore" Mr.. Dunnell concluded, I'VE
are here debating bill dishonoring
ourselves on this side, as the dominant
party, and dishonoring congress in its
treatment of the people" Applause on
the Democratic side.
This speech of DunnelPs revived inter
est in the debate, and a knot of members
who had surrounded him during the deliv-
cry, moved up the aisle to listen more at
tentively to Mr.. Kasson, who rose to reply.
eff the house," he said, chad confined it
self to the proper consideration of this
business questions embraced in the bill,
the measure would have been passed before
this. 1t was not on the Republican side of
the house that this responsibility rested.
Derisive laughter and cries Of "Oh!'
from the Democratic side. He had advo-
Gated the tariff commission i'll order to
bring the house in contact with the peo-
pie, and not leave lobbyists and their agents
to give information to the committee of
ways and means that commission was
appointed and its report made. The ways
and means committee took it as basis of
action, nademodifcations IN it as promptly
as possible, and brsught the house bill,
and the gentleman from Minnesota dun
nelly had not been present with the COM
mittee as he ought to
have been. helping to facilitate
its examination. Applause on the Re-
publican side. He wanted the debate
closed. He wanted the bill passed, ''but
YOU" he concluded, pointing to the Demo
cratic side, ''stand here obstructing t."
Immediately the hall was in great con-
fusion, Morrison, Carlisle and Tucker be-
ing on their feet in emphatic denial of
Kasson's assertion and Mr., Haskell de-
manded to be recognized to make priv
LEGGED motion.
Comparative quiet having been restored,
NY Haskell moved that the committee rise
and report the bill to the house.
Suggested Mr.. Kasson: The gentleman
knows that is not privileged motion.
Mr.. Haskelrs motion having been agreed
to, the speaker resumed the chair and Mr..
Haskell moved that the house again go in
to committee of the whole, and pending
that moved all debate on the pending cues
ton be closed in one hour.
Not comprehending the wide scope of
this motion, which would cut off debate on
the pending schedule and all pending
schedules, Mr.. Carlisle exclaimed, we Will
accept that; but upon Mr.. Haskelrs ex-
planning what he intended should be his
motion, Mr.. Carlisle raised the point Of
order, that the motion was not in order.
"If you give rs bill making 2Gper cent.
reduction" exclaimed Morrison, I'VE will
pass it before night" Cries of vote,
| VOTE" on the Republican side,
Mr.. Carlisle then took the floor in adyo-
cacy of his point of order. Mr.. Carlisle
said this was proposition to do what had
never yet been done IL the house since the
organization of the government, so far as
he knew, and if the gentleman from Kan
sas conld cite single instance where such
a motion had been entertained he would
have nothing to say.
Mr.. Haskell, in opposition to the point
of order, planted himself on the fair face
of the rules of the house. He knew perfect
ly we'll it had been the habit OF
the house to close the debate on the para
graphs as they we're reached in committee
of the whole, but he also know il had the
power to close the debate in a section a:
be proposed it should be done. Five min
ute debates had begun on the pending sec
ton of the pending bill, which was all re
quired by the rules, and the house haC
power to consider the bill by sections.
had the power TO consider by paragraphs
but over and above al by the plain law
which any common man might read as ht
ran, had the power after the five minute de
bate begun on the section to close the debat
on that section | understand this motion il
not one that is made every day, but grea
pI1ercr,47l cias flnzy resi- on this house Whicl