The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-01

snail have lost either an
arm at or above the elbow
or a leg at or above the knee. or shall have
been otherwise so disabled as 10 be inca
pacitaied for performing any manual labor,
bnt so much as to require regular personal
aid and attendance, shall receive pension
of $50 per month; provided, that nothiI
contained in this act shall be construed
TO repeal section it95, OF the Revised Stat
utes, or to change the rate OF SIS per month
therein mentioned 10 he proportlsnately
divided for any degree OF disability estab'
lished, for which section 1895 makes no pro-
vision"
Mr.. Allison reported the sundry civil bill,
and said he would call it up tomorrow.
After an executive session, the senate
adjourned.
The house went INTO committee OF the
whole on the state of the Union, and at er
a briet contest with regard to the respective
claims Tor precedence of the deficiency and
the river and harbor bills, consideration Of
| the latter measure was resumed.
Before it was finally taken up Springer
made the point OF order that the tariff bill
was first in order. The friends of that
measure, it seems, had left it in committee
to die, but he thought its consideration
should be proceeded with.
| The chair, however, voted otherwise, and
the river and harbor bill was taken up.
! McLane spoke in support OF the bill.
Commenting on last years veto bill,
Mclean expressed his opinion that it was
ineScusable in the high executive officer to
speak in terms OF disrespeCt OF the legisla-
ture which he was advising. The impro-
priety became much mere offensive when
accompanied with a great display of igno-
rance. He had never known the executive
to be so grossly misled and mistaken. Not
only was great Injustice done legislation,
but every little peny-a.line writer had high
authority for denouncing it. He cared not
what newspapers said about this bill, They
had fallen into loose style, and editors
daily called each other liars and thieves and
vagabonds, but he was not indifferent TO
what was said on this floor, and he would
never permit man to dCnounCe II vote OF
his as unworthy OF respect without calling
upon him to prove it, and he thanked God
he could brand such man, if not MS a cal
umniator, as a man Ignorant of the facts.
Burrows, of Michigan, chairman of the
select committee on Improvement Of the
Mississippi river, quoted from the report OF
the committee, and defended il.
Robinson, of Massachusetts, thought the
bill should be guarded so that the commits.
sion could not eypend another dollar for
the repair of levees.
Thomas, OF Illinois, member OF the select
committee, asserted that the Mississippi
commission had in no wise exceeded il S au-
thority, and placed himself on record here
and now in favor of the plan of the commits
slor, and that, too, including levees. Eight
mem bers of the house, after floating down
the Mississippi by night and in a fog, in
freight boat laden with empty kerr
osene barrels and agricultural impe-
oil
the experience of the best scientists, and
said, you snail not use money for this or
that purpose, because, torsooth, we have
been down the Mississippi river, and know
more about 1t than you or the commits
sion" The friends of the pooling COM
panes of railroads proposed to limit this
great national work and stranggle it to
death.
Butterworth expressed his idea that the
waters of the Mississippi could be confined
by mud walls, without compromise with
musk-rats or truce with moes. He had
no hostility to the levee system, but he
did not think there should be any large ex-
penditures of money for the construction of
levees until further experiments were made.
lie defended the general plan of appropri-
alton Tor river and harbor improvement,
and asserted the man from the west who
voted against such appropriations would
have so few votes at the next election that
it would not pay him to count them. Let
not New York, which had sucked oranges,
and now wanted to chew pulp, forget that
westward the star of empire took its course,
and in the course OF that empire, necessary
improvements would follow
Ellis spoke in favor Of the levee system,
while no opposed the passage OF the river
and harbor bill this session
The bill then passed by paragraph, tor
amendments.
Amendments Increasing the appropria-
ton Tor Charleston, South Carolina, harbor
were lost.
AT this point the committee rose inform.
ally, and after the appointment by the
speaker of Speer. Of Georgia, rs couieree
on the tax bill, to fill the vacancy cccasioncd
by Randalls defamation, resumed its ses-
sion.
On motion of Aldrich, an item was in
SO ted appropriating $35 900 for the in
provement of tie Calumet river.
Davis, OF Illinois, moved TO increase the
appropriation for the harbor OF Chicago
from $50 900 to $4,000. Lost.
NanNoorhees offered proyiso covering
into the treasury oil unexpended monies
appropriated by former river and hirbor
bills. Lost.
Burrows, of Michigan, offered an am end
ment approprlating Sl0,WO for the st.
Joseph, Michigan, harbor and the channel
leading to Benton harbor. Lost.
The committee then rose, and Page said
he would ask the house to sit the bill out
tonight.
bingham, chairman Of the committee on
post-otliCes and post-roads, reported bill
TO adjust the salaries of postmasters.
Placed on the house calendar.
Recess.
On motion of Morey an amendment was
adopted providing that no more than $40,-
900 OF the amount appropriated for the i'm
pro'ement of the Ohio river shall be ex-
pended on Davis Island dam.
At this point the committee found itself
without aquorum, and rose, and the house
adjourned,