The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-26
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Our Own Eustace Gibson and
Sam Randall have n Till i'm
the House.

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the rules of the House came up the
other day there was debate that
interested the galleries Mr.. Nor
rison, Of Illinois, introduced a bill
favoring distribution Of the appro-
priation bills. Gibson was in favor
of the revision; Randall was not, and
they waxed warm and wordy.
Mr.. Gibson said that under the
present rules nine tenths Of the con
stituency of the country were prac
tieally disfranchised in the House,
while two or three men set them
selves up, or were set up, as the only
men who could be trusted, on ac
count of their capacity or their hon
esty. He favored Il distribution of
the appropriation bills.
Mr.. Gibson said that he remem-
bered that the gentleman from Penn
sylyania came in ON the last day of
the last session of Congress, and
pressed through the House, under
>threat that not to do so would cause
an extra session, an appropriation
bill which contained an appropria-
ton for a public building in Penn.
sylvania or Indiana.
Mr.. Randall said that the gentle
mans memory was defective. He
resisted every addition to the appro-
priation for public buildings on that
sundry civil bill, and his vote in
committee had been consistent with
his public acts. AS we'll as he re
membered, there was no appropria-
ton in that bill for public build
ing in Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Gibson contended that the
appropriation committee had no bus
mess to hold back the appropriation
bills and to stifle the voice Of mem
bers of the House. Why was it that
the gentleman from Pennsylvania
and the gentleman from Indiana
were the only men who could be
trusted with appropriation bills?
Did their record show that they
were more patriotic than the other
members of the House? When these
immense land grants were given to
railroads, when thieving appropria-
tions were made, where was this
great committee to protect the in
terests of the country?
Mr.. Randall.-"I never voted a
dollar nor an acre of land for any
railroad"
Mr.. Gibson.-"I did not ask how
the gentleman voted. 1t is well
known that while he has had charge
of the matters he has controlled leg
islation."
Mr.. Randall Mot in the least.
But am glad to say that the Dem
ocrats voted almost unanimously as
| did"
Mr.. Gibson.--'It is not question
of how the gentleman voted or how
he did not.
Mr.. Randall.-"I thought it was"
Mr.. Gibson.-"It is because the
gentleman thrusts himself in here
and makes himself a personal feature
in the discussion that he is discuss
ed. (Laughter.) We want to
amend the rules fer the public good,
not to help or hurt the gentlemen
from Pennsylvania
Mr. Randall thought that in view
of remarks of the gentleman from
West Virginia as to land grants
and subsidy it was proper for him
to say that since the House has been
under Democratic control there had
not been an acre of land or dollar
of subsidy appropriated. AS to his
thrusting himself forward here,
every member ought to know that he
had done just the reverse. He did
not deal in personalities in the
House, and. if anybody wanted to
deal with him personally he ought
| not to do it here.