Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-26

I AuiiuCuintc CouelutE8IOU. ue O1ll WAS InSu
taken up and the reading proceeded with the
committees amendments, and were concurred
In with but unimportant exceptions.
Several Senators had amendments to pro-
pose and considerable confusion prevailed.
Motions to adjourn and 10 go into execu.
tive session were alternate for half an hour OF
more, the roll call sometimes disclosing the
absence of quorum,
Finally, al 7.l5 P. NJ it becoming appar-
ent that the bill could not be disposed of
tonight, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The speaker laid before the House, a CON-
munication, recommending an appropriation
of $25 900 for the revenue marine service in
Alaska. Referred.
Mr.. Geddes of Ohio, from the committee
on war claims reported bill making an ap-
preparation for the payment of the 4th of July
| claims. Referred to the committee of the
| whole.
Mr.. Towpshend of Illinois, asked unani-
nous consent to take from the speakers table
for reference to the committee on appro-
priations, the post Office appropriation bill,
with the Senate amendments, but Mr.. Paw.
| son of Illinois, objected.
| Mr.. Burns of Missouri, moved to suspend
the rules, and pass the deficiency appropria-
| eAon chA " III tuC saIiOub EepoTt-
| ed from the committee on appropriations
The following were the importnnt amend
ments reported and incorporated in the bill ;
appropriating S23S, ,44S to pay judgments rem
dered by the court of claims; appropriating
Sl62.340 together with the unexpended bal
ances for the completion of the new cruisers.
and dispatch boat abolishing the Office of the
10th census, and providing that work on the
census shall be completed in the Office of the
secretary of the interior.
| Mr.. Burns of Missouri, called the attention
of the House to the fact that of all the appro-
priatioD bills, the deficiency bill was the
safest to pass under the suspension of rules.
No objection could be made to it for what it
contained. The only objection could come
from these gentlemen who did not think that
it contained enough. There might be some
meritorions claims which were not incorpo-
rated in the bill, but if that were so, the
omission could be supplied in the Senate.
Mr.. Reed of Maine, thought that some
reason should be given why it was proposed
to pass the bill in this extraordinary way. The
| representatives of the people ought not to be
told by the appropriations committee that
! they GO to the Senate to have their claims
passed upon.
Mr.. Randall of Pennsylvania, explained
that there had been no delay on the part of
the committee in reporting the bill.
Mr.. Long of Massachusetts. corroborated
this statement and said that the House would
make no mistake in passing the bill under the
suspension of rules.
The motion to suspend was agreed to.
The House proceeded to the consideration
of business under special rule.
Mr.. Boutelle of Maine called up the bill
appropriating $4,000 for the erection of a
pub ia huil Honlkn, hrt -
objected to.
The House took up the river and harbor
bill. up to the third reading of wlich the pre-
viOus question was operating. and proceeded
to vote on the amendments reported from the
committee of the whole. Two hours was
consumed in voting on the amendments sep
rately, as the question of no quorum was
raised in nearly every instance, necessitating
a tedious vote by tellers.
In each case the amendments were adopted
without yea and nay vote, until the amend
ment was reached striking out the clause ap-
prOprating for the improvement of the Mis-
sssippi river from the head of the passes to
the mouth of the Ohio river, and recommend.
ing the President to appoint Jas. B. Eads as
advisory engineer of the Mississippi river
commission.
The yeas and NAYS were called amid much
mittee.
The vote was declared to be: Yeas 1877,
nays 139.
This rejects the amendment of the commit
tee of the whole and restores the Mississippi
river proposition to the bill.
Mr.. Hunt of Louisiana moved to reconsider
the vote, and moved to lay that motion on
the table; agreed to-l45 to 1874.
Mr.. Willis then asked that the Eads pro-
position be stricken out, but Mr.. White OBJ
jected.
The opponents of the bill then resorted to
fillibustering tactics, and several motions to
adjourn were made and severally voted down.
Then motion was made tor recess, and
no quorum having voted a call of the House
was ordered
The sergeant-at-arms having been dis
patched in quest of the absent members, the
House lapsed into state OF listnessness until
$50, when Mr. White of Kentucky secured
the floor on a motion connected with the call
of the House. His presence was a signal tor
cries of louder" "leave to print" ''vote, -
etc, and general shouts and confusion, while
Mr.. Weaver of Nebraska, in the guise of a
parliamentary inquiry, asked whether the
man with the most mouth was entitled to all
the time of the House.
Amid shouts of approving laughter, Mr..
White called the attention of the House to
the fact that the gentleman who was jeering
at him was violating openly the rules of the
House by smoking on the floor.
This turned the laugh against Mr.. Weaver,
who quickly returned that it was necessary
for man to do something to keep from being
bored to death; but Mr.. White was not to be
diverted from his purpose of making a speech
which he continued to do to the intense en-
joyment of the House at large, but to the
manifest annoyance to the friends of the
river and harbor bill. Jeers, laughter and
shouts greeted him on all sides, and the con-
fusion reigned supreme.
Finally, Mr.. Van Eaton of Missis.
sippi, rising to what he stated
was q question of the highest privilege and
stated that the successor of the gentle
man from Kentscky was pres
ent and he moved that he be now sworn in,
Laughter.
Mr.. White-I will say to the gentleman
that if there had been fair election in his
district his successor would have been here.
Mr.. White then proceeded with his speech
and amid Kisses from the democratic side he
referred to President-elect Cleveland as being
in saloon in Buffalo with the boys.
''Oh," said Mr.. Gibson of w. Va, "this
is disgraceful. The gentleman shall not
utter falsehoods on this floor"
| Mr.. Brown of Indiana demanded that the
| words be taken down.
Several democratic members-"Withdraw