The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-19
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even clean morally, Afirr that ppriuIIii-
ance, suppose he were Ia chaTacteriXe
the senator nom Alaska after debate
had closed as the "t'riah lleep" ol
the Senate, and suppose he were tn
saw he was the "IOs,'ph SuriHrp" Oi
American politics; that lac was suiVol-
ling political "l'rcksHiit," who hal been
uil all slides Of every political question
who had belonged Ia every pO-
liilcal party in his lifetime, and
belonged Ia none that ho had
not helraNcdi would that ho
within the privileges uf debate or i'm ac-
I cOrtiancc with the prnprlciics of lcgisla-
| tive pnorcedmgss These observations,
/ Mr., Ingalls, said, he used rs illus,
I trali0ns, They had no personal
application, ~ to the impuiitions of
| the senator from Georgia upon his
tMr' Ingalls, personal courage and ap-
pcarancc, lao begged tO say to the soma
tor nom Georgia that lac. tAir. Ingalls,
here distinctly aVowed all that he had
! hitherto said in amy sense that Mr..
| Brown saw III t0 attribute Ia IL, and
| he mir, Ingalls, did not
shield himself behind the prl-
Vilegcs of the Senate Chamber
I The usual breathing pause following the
delivery of this sentence was character
lied hy dead silence IN the chamber
and In the crowded galleries, when In
gals added; This IL all | desire Ia say,
sir, In response Ia the gentleman. \
general buzz was heard and the galleries
were instantly half omptlod.
HOUSE,
WASHINGTON, June SloCum pre-
scented the conference report on the iitI
John Porter hill. The effect Is To strike
out nj the Till the words, together with
all the rights, titles and privileges" and
Ia inscr, the words, "pruVidcd That said
FitI John Porter shall receive no pay,
compensation ar allowance whatever,
prior Ia his appointment under this act"
instead of the following words In the bill,
"hut this net shall mol be- construed rs
authorizing pay, compensation or allow
anccs prior To his appointment under
it,"
The conference report was agreed to
lis to ~.
Pnyson, from the committee ON public
lands, reported back the hill to restore
all lands held In indemnity limits for
railway and wagon road purposes.
Placed onthe House calendar.
The House then went into committee
of the whole, Dunn in the chair, ON the
deficiency bill.
Several amendments were offered and
rejected.
When the end of the bill was reached,
Randall moved rs an additional section
his proposition against political assess
ments.
Cannon made the point that the
amendment was not in order under the
rules.
Randall, admitting that the amend
ment was open to point or
order, expressed regret that the
point had been made, adding that
The judgement of the people was that
political assessments had been carried
ON To AN outrageous extent.
a
was obiectional,. not only as
being against the rule, but but
MS being against good policy.
If farmer sold II hundred bushels of
oats to an army commissioners he could
not use any of the money
for disseminating political informa-
ton or for printing tick
desiring reelection would not be
permitted to spend any of his own
money for the ordinary purposes of his
election while his competitor mot being
n member) might eXpend any amount
he chose.
The chairman expressing the regret
that such wholesome proposition,
lie morals, was out Of order, felt
constrained to sustain the point of order.
The proposition was therefore not adj
mitted.
The committee then rose and the house
agreed in the bulk to all amendments re-
ported n sNSfRt os An i, ,be str cong
pensation of fourth-class postmasters.
The vote on striking it out was taken by
yeas and nays, and resulted--yeas, l5l;
NAYS, Sl-the result being in the interest
of postmasters. The bill then passed.
Hewitt, of New York, from the Com
mittee OH Ways and Means, reported
"A bill to, carry into effect the
convention between ), the ,o, Gni ut states
1883, with Il favorable report. The re-
port was ordered printed and the bill
placed on the calendar.
The bill to prohibit the importation of
labor under contract being the special
order for to-day, was postponed till
Thursday, and that day set apart for its
consideration.
The House then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the bill reported from
the Committee on Pacific Rail |
roads to amend several Pacific
railroad acts, and it required the com
panies to file within ninety days from the
passage of this act, or within sixty days
after the completion surveys OF list of
sections of land claimed by them, and
lecting and conveying the same.
The first question was taken on
the amendment by Payson to
the one offered by Hanback,.
was that all lands
in the notice to be given by
the Secretary of the Interior to the rail
road company to take out it's patents,
shall be subject to State, Territorial and
municipal taxation, and after sixty days
from the date of notice. Paysons was,
that the lien of the United States for
cost and expenses of surveying shall
not be effected by the sale of lands.
Payson's amendment was adopted,
and then Hanback's, as so amended was
also adopted, on Il vote by tellers.
Crisp demanded the yeas and nays on
the amendment, declaring it was an
Of the security which the
government now had in these lands:
The vote by yeas and nays resulted in:
Yeas, 92; nays, IS. So the amendment
was agreed to.
A vote was then taken on PaySon's
substitute for the bill, and amended.
1t provides that if railway companies
shall not comply within sixty days
from the receipt Of notice to pay costs of
land, then their right to such
land shall cease and the lands shall be
restored to the public domain for settle
ment under the homestead laws.
The substitute was agreed to and the
bill in that shape passed.
The House then took up the bill to
amend the Thurman act, but without
action.
Adjourned.
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