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le tlon OF the money hereby appropriate
D. shall be expended at any other points tina
9s those herein specified.
The committee then rose.
J. The speaker announced the appointment
Of Steele, Townsend and Sparks, as mem
:: bers OF the board OF visitors 10 West Point
and of Horntr, Updegraf and Mills a
q members OF similar board 10 Annapolis
, Moore offered q resolution calling on thu
/ secretary of the interior for information Il:
to the amount of Indian, trust finds in
r vested in Tennessee bonds, and whether
Tennessee has made any proposition look
Q ing to their settlement. Referred.
Recess.
, EVENING SESSION.
1 Hiscock, of New York, moved TO suspend
the rules and pass the deficiency appropria.
ton bill, The motion was agreed to, and
the bi passed without any amendment OF
D any Importance, except one authorizing
the appraisal of all naval vessels stricken
: from the navy register, under the provis-
ions of the last naval appropriation bill,
, and also authorizing the secretary of the
navy, if he shall deem IL for the best inter
} ests OF the United States TO sell such ves-
sells, and to advertise for proposals Tor the
purchase of the same.
The house then resumed, in committee
OF the whole, consideration Of the river and
harbor bill.
Van Vorhees moved to strike out the
item for the improvement OF the Sacra-
mento river. He claimed that if the chair
man of the committee had not been from
California no such item would have been
put in it. ut is so outrageous" he coll
tinued, 80 damnabls that nobody but a
gambler and cut-throat would think of
tacking, such thing as thatto such bill
as this"
Horr demanded that the words should be
taken down.
Page-"Oh, hope not"
McLane-"lt is an insult-an insult to
the house,
The words were read ut the clerks desk
and reported to the house.
McLane Immediately offered q resolution
ofexpulsion.
Hiscock-"I know the gentleman will
yield to me for moment. l believe, as
other members do, that the words were
spoken in heat, provoked, as he thought he
was, by something that had transpired..
believe he has been guilty of an infraction
, of the privileges of the house, and yet | be-
lieve the measure presented is too severe,
; and l trust he may be allowed to make an
explanation"
McCook-"I am sure the gentleman from
Maryland will not insist on this summary
: method without my colleague being heard
| admit that the language OF my colleague
cannot be defended. ! concede that unless
he apologies in the most full and complete
J manner, not only to the house, but to the
, gentlamen who reported this bill, he ought
to be expelled, but it's only fair and just
!; to hear him, and hear whether he Will
apologize ere we put this notion"
I Robinson, of Massachusetts-"No one
can more heartily condemn such Language
than myself. 1t is an infraction Of the rules
D and decorum of the house; but what my
: friend (Hiscock) says is true: that in justice
TO his colleague, we should pause upon it.
y ia thn Af n a
! tives, it is true, and yet,
day after day, scenes transpire
= here that are not credible in O nations
: house of representatives. Applause That
is no excuse for the gentleman from New
York (Van Vorhees.) 1t is time this
should be stopped; but say " IS just 20
ourselves we should pause h fHe se take
the summary proceeding thhr is pr vi'',d
for in the constifnion We sGur't
give the offending niemo'r 'hr
opportunity to max. c0Iaplr,,
apology to the house. Ii le cec'ilt,, # L.
AYERS, if he attempts to iu 'if' him eli,
.IN will 60 to the other extreme" " ttp'
:. 44 aid he asked that the words should
ua taken down, because that was the only
method il which the dignity -if2d good
. breeding Ca. the members could be Min
Cainsd He had done it without any feel
in; coward the gentleman from New York,
hut he wanted TO say that the Ian.
glage was used without the slightest
Drovocation from the chairman of the COM
mittee, that the gentleman had not so much
as utt red syllable or q word in any way
or shape to exasperate tie gentleman from
New York. 1t was an unprovoked attack
which the house, out of respect to its dig
nifty, ought not to submit TO. While he
was willing to give the gentleman an OPP
! portunity TO apologize, the house could not
afford to allow its rules OF common decency
to be violated unless the man using such
language resracted it. He should meet the
most summary punishment.
McLane said it had never entered his
mind that the vote should be taken on his
resolution before the gentleman iron New
York should have the amplest opportunity
to make explanation.
Rooinson-"And something more. He
| should make more than an explanation
under these circumstances"
McLane-"But it never entered
any mind that anything he could say can
excuse him before the country and before
| the house. The meanest and the common
est criminal in the land has u right to be
heard, but when come to ask the house TO
! pass Oh this resolution, !, taking The
responsibility of moving it, have
duty TO perform and / recall to
the house that the gentleman from
! New York, previous to the words which
i were TAKEN uOWu, lut EtuAit-
man from California, as chairman OF the
committee. He knew perfectly well TO
whom he addressed his language, and it is
fresh IN the minds Of every men,
| Der of the house that last night
we were discredited and disgraced by
| this same member from New York.
| He then addressed the chairman of the
commerce committee in language that,
though il could give no disgrace to the gem
! tleman from California, gave infinite dis
grace 20 this house, and TO the gentleman
J from New York, who uttered the language
! last night. He made some
reference 20 the gentleman's early life, and
spoke OF him as a mule-driver and stage
driver. IL would have been quite in line
Of current retort IL the gentleman from
California had said 10 the gentleman that
| il he had been born y mule-driyer OF stage
driver he would have remained such prob
ably 10 the present hour. Laughter and
applause.l
~ call the gentleman himself to order"
interrupted Hiscock.
McIane-"I am quite in order"
The Speaker-"Tne chair must caution
the gentleman that IL is not in order to
make personal remarks"
Take his remarks down, suggested
some members, while Mills and Athe-ton
in an excited manner held an indignant
coiloquy with McLEne, who, folding his
arms, defantlF said. Il know what have
said-taEe nv words dOvnr-but the de-
msnd was Withdrawn, and MeLane. con
tinuing. said be only referred
70 the language used BY Van NOr-
hees last night In Order %
show the animus which had impelled him
this evening. He fMcLane) was satisfied
that the hOuse had not only reached point
where an ersmple was necessary, but be
regretted 20 say u bad found toe individual
who ought b be made that example. Ap-
plause
Mills vehemeutly protested against the
man being tined without hearing. and
sonle aurareuflT sharp words passed be-
tween him aud iduI4ste, which could uui
ne beard On uccJuut % The great c0uflsiOn