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speech, but he still insisted that the pas
sage of this bill would be the beginning of
a reversal of the acts of the authorities
during the war.
Mr.. Allison moved to proceed I'd TIE
consideration of executive business Lost:
ayes "a, nays 80.
Mr.. Oonger asked for the reading o. the
report of the committee on the Porter
case, and the secretary began to read it.
MI. Sewell said 1t was eyide' 1t that NJ
Conger was determined tor ,revent a uo+o
on the bill this evening, a I'd thereto, re he
moved to adjourn. ne, 10 iie
Agreed to, and adic armed
sfowsc.
"AsAiNdI IN, Jan. S.--atr. Hatch. of Mis-
souri, pre- sente1 telegram of the st. Louis
lnefo9 -Atile exchange, asking the 1mmedi-
@'o passage of the Sherman extension bill.
deferred,
Mr.. Sherman, of Illinois, presented a
memorial from the American Social Sci
ence association asking congress to dis
| tribute money among the several states
for educational purposes. Referred.
The house went into committee of the
| whole on the army appropriation bills, Mr..
! Townsend, of Ohio, in the chair. Mr..
| Brownies amendment providing for the
gradual abolition of the pay corps of the
army, was adopted.
Mr.. Epson spoke in favor of keeping
| up a disciplined army. He thought
the communistic and socialistic mutter-
ings of human slaughter, spoliation and
outlawry, under the guise of labor strikes,
encouraged by loud mouthed demagogues,
were unmistakable warnings of internal
danger to the peace and good order of the
country. In conclusion, Mr.. Epson made
allusion to the high degree of efficiency of
the English army, which brought Mr.. Rob-
| inson, of New York, to his feet, with the
| remark that he could not tell whether
| Upson's speech was eulogistic of the Am
erican or English army. He admired the
American army, but disliked its
officers trotting around after representa-
tiyes of monarchy. He wanted to blot out
the abominable feeling that was getting
into the heads of snobs and funkeys to
initiate monarchy without having the
brains that surrounded it. Laughter
Mr.. Calkins' amendment providing that
it shall not be construed to retire any Of
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| the army at tbs date of retirement was
adopted.
Additional amendments having been Of
fered and debated, all were Withdrawn and
| the original proviso in the bill struck out
by viva voce vote.
Mr. Hewitt, of New York, called at
tention to the fact that in various items
there was reduction in the appropria-
tions, and inquired if the reduction was
for the purpose of making good show
ing.
Mr.. Butterworth, of Ohio, replied that
the appropriations we're sufficient He
| assured the gentleman that the Republican
party would not turn over to the next
| congress as many opportunities for max
ing up deficiencies as it had encountered
| when it came into power.
Mr.. Hiscock, of New York, denied that
| there existed any preconceived plan to
create deficiencies to be provided for by
the next congress, though the committee
| on appropriations of the Forty sixth con-
gress had Intentionally thrown a large
amount of deficiency upon the Forty
| seventh congress.
Mr.. Blount, of Georgia-Give us items
Sea- Mr.. Hiscock replied that the gentleman.
would find the items if he referred to a
speech delivered by him, Hiscock, at the
last session in which it was shown that the
deficiencies to be provided for amounted
to $27,0O0,000. Mr.. Atkins of Tennessee,
chairman Of the appropriation committee
of the Forty-sixth congress, asked the
gentleman from New York to give some
thing besides his bare statement, his bare
| assertion, in support of so serious charges
as he had made against the political and
| representative integrity of that committee.
Mr.. Hiscock-I will give evidence here
and now. The committee on appropria-
| lions over which the gentleman had the
honor to preside failed to make appropri-
atoms in the sum of $24,OO0,0OO. Now,
say to him, I say to the committed say to
the country, that fact as startling as that
either proves the incompetency of that
committee on appropriations or It's dis
honesty. Either that or for a political
purpose it struck down the appropriation,
or else it did not give to the service which
1t was appropriating that investigation
which that service demanded on two occa-
sions.
Mr.. Atkins do not yield further to
empty platitudes of the senator from New
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gentleman should stand in his place and
make such an arrangement as he made of
the committee on appropriations Of the
Forty-si1th congress, Of which he himself
was a member. When this is tine first
notice he has ever given 20 the country
that he entertaias such opinions as he has
had the hardihood to express, it is mat
ter of surprise to me, and ought to be to
him. He charges that the committee was
either dishonest or incom petent. That is
wholesale charge that the gentleman
made before the country. That committee
will average with the honorable gentleman
for intelligence, and I imagine there is
nothing in its record that would disparage
it in the matter of honesty when compared
with the honorable gentleman. / imagine
members of that committee are ready to
compare their records with his in either
particular. and / have further to say that
hurl the charge back to the gentleman as
SANDER.
Mr.. Blount, of Georgia. said he hardly
knew how to answer politely the speech
of the gentleman from New York. That
gentleman could account for deficiencies
only on the idea of dishonesty or the igno-
rance of the gentlemen on the appropria-
ton committee of the Forty sixth congress.
He had sat silent until the result of last