Omaha daily bee., 1885-02-27
HOUSE.

WASHINGTON, February 26.-Forney sub
mitted n conference report on the army appro-
priation bill. Adopted. An agreement was
tive to the hours during which courts martial
may hold their sessions. A further conference
was ordered.
A concurrent resolution was agreed to, ten
dering the thanks of congress TO Col. Casey
and his assistants and workmen for the admir-
able manner in which he and they performed
their respective duties in the completion of
the Washington monument.
Thomas moved to reconsider the vote by
which the resolution was adopted In order
to oppose the resolution, he called attention
to the fact that its effect would be to extend
the period of Col. Casey's active service ten
years. He did not wish to detract from the
achievements of Col. Casey, but did not want
the thanks of congress madeG too cheap. He
did not think it rightthat Casey's term should
be extended three years for achieving a simple
civil enterprise while no honor was given the
officers fighting on the frontier.
The motion to reconsider was agreed to
| and the resolution laid on the table.
Cobb,moved to suspend the rules and a
from the speakers table for reference to the
committee on public lands the house bill re-
pealing the pre-emption, timber culture and
| desert land avs with senate amendments
thereto. In supporting the motion Cobb said
no greater evil had been done to the future OF
the country than had been done through fraud
and perjury under the laws which 1t was pro.
posed to repeal.
Converse asserted that more fraud had been
committed under the homestead than under
the presumption laws, and lnstanced the case
of Estes Park, Colorado, which had all been
taken up by Lord Durham under the home
stead law.
Payson controverted this statement, and
| oAoIoJ Eatao DorI, mao talyap n uphar the
presumption law.
Valentine thought he voiced the sentiment
of the people of the west IN protesting against
the repeal of these laws. The demand for
repeal came from two sources railroad cor
porations and cattle kings. The former, be-
cause they could not raise the price OF their
lands when the homestead laws were in force,
and the latter wanted the timber culture act
repealed in order that their herds might roam
over the prairies undisturbed by settlers.
Perkins, Converse, Maginnis and Holman
spoke in the same strain.
In the senate the legislative appropriation
bill was passed and the silver bill taken no.
Uobb's motion was lost-yeas 166, nays %
not being the necessary two.thirds in thu
affirmative.
The postofice appropriation bill, with th'
senate amendments, was taken from the tabli
of the committee of the whole.
Randall moved to suspend the rules, so tina
tine SunQry CIVIL Appropriation OIL mlRnC ID
considered for -four hours, which time shall b
occupied in debate on the clauses relating t.
the suspension of silver coinage and tn
worlds industrial and cotton exposition, thre
hours to bs devoted to debate on the frs
named item and one hour on the latter. TIL
bill shall be subject to amendment, to strik
out or amend clauses, after which the previou
question shall be considered as ordered.
Bland demanded o second to the motion.
The motion was seconded-105 to 80.
The half hours debate under the rules wa
not asked for, and the house proceeded imme
diately to vote on the motion.
Randall's motion to suspend the rules fo
! the consideration of the sundry civil bill wa
lost-yeas l18, nays l49. The result was re
ceiyed with applause.
Randall then moved to suspend the rule
30 as to take up the sundry civil bill and cor
slider for one hour the clause relating to tn
New Orleans exposition.
This was objected to as not specially elimir
ating the silver question, and thereupon Ran
dali asked unanimous consent to strike frol
! the bill the silver coinage clause, but Hepburn
objected.
Then Randall modified his motion go as I
move to suspend the rules and pass the sun
dry civil bill, with the silver clause stricke
out.
After two hours debate on the New Oh
: leans proposition, with the opportunity bein
offered to amend the same, after quite