Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-19
WHOLE NO. 1886.
House of Representatives.

| WASHINGTON, December 1Sth.-Consider-
alton of the report of the Committee on
Rules was resumed, the pending amend
ment being that offered by Springer of
Illinois to abolish the various committees
OF expenditures in the different Depart
ments and TO concentrate their duties in
one committee, consisting of fifteen mem
| bers. In advocating the amendment,
| Springer stated that during the past ten
years the clerks of these committees had
| been paid $3.50, 900, while as far as he could
remember but two of the committees had
made reports-the Committee on Expen-
dltures in the War Department in the
forty-tourth Congress and the Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of Jus
tice In the Forty-eighth Congress.
Morrison thought much good had re-
suited from the work done by these two
committees. During the late campaign
he had heard 1t proclaimed everywhere in
Democratic speeches that the Democratic
party wanted to see the books. Now that
1t had an opportunity he hoped it wouldn't
| close its eyes.
Hope you won't, remarked Brown of
Indiana, you will have some books of
your own in few years"
Herbert of Alabama opposed the amend
ment, asserting that the House should al
ways stand ready to investigate the abuse
which had grown up in the administration
OF the Government. He did not think
that Republican members could afford 10
vote to abolish the committees.
Houk of Tennessee stated that the Re-
publicans would not vote to abolish them.
1t was true that when the Republicans We're
IN power there was little necessity for
them, but the prospect was that they would
be very useful in the future. Laughter
After further debate the amendment was
rejected.
Hammond of Georgia offered as amend
ment that no appropriation bill, for any
expenditure not previously authorized by
law, unless in continuation of appropria-
tions for such public works and objects as
are already in progress, be entertained.
Hammond said his object was to discover
whether the House would retain the power
to keep riders on appropriation bills
The House rejected a motion of Ham,
mond TO strike ont the clause of the pro-
posed new code of rules, distributing the
appropriation bills among the several COM
mittees of the House, by vote of 60 ayes
to 227 noes.
The amendment was rejected without
Cannon moved to strike out the para
graph which limited the appropriations
over which the Appropriations Committee
had jurisdiction
The motion was lost.
Adams of Illinois offered an amend
ment, virtually prohibiting riders"
1t was substantially the same as the one
which before the test vote on distributing
appropriation bills had been offered by
Hammond and had been rejected by the
House.
The amendment was now adopted, and
the remainder of the report was agreed to
without objection
Then the report was adopted in toto, so
the rules of the Forty-eighth Congress, as
amended by the report of Committee on
Rules, are e-enacted as the rules of the
Forty-ninth Congress.
Morrison of Illinois then called up the
resolution for a holiday recess, after hay
ing amended it so that the recess shall be-
glE ON Monday next and end on Janu-
ary 1st
Beach of New York opposed the idea,
which he considered childish one, of tax
ing holiday recess. AT this time it was
attended with danger, and he appealed to
the Democratic House to 90 as far as the
Republican Senate had done in taking the
same action on the Presidential succession
bill.
The resolution was then passed.
On motion of Matson of Indiana, the
Senate bill granting a pension to the widow
VI 0CllCltil OldilL was l1he1 up ana passed.
Price of Wisconsin voted in the negative
Adjourned.
Miscellaneous.
WASHINGTON, December 15th.-Western
Senators are receiving letters in great num-
bers urging them to oppose the confirma-
ton of Land Commissioner Sparks, because
of his recent rulings.
To-day's Congressional Record contains
twenty-five pages of nominations sent to
the Senate since the beginning of the pres
ent session. They number about loo
cases.