St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-16
CONSIDERING THE RULES.
The House Indulges i'm an Acrim ON
ions Debate.

1OuS Debate.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Mr. Morrison
of Illinois offered a concurrent resolution
providing for a holiday recess from Tues
day, Dec. %, until Tuesday, Jan. 5. Mr..
Morrison then called up the report of the
committee on rules, which was presented
yesterday, and the proposed new code of
rules was read at length. AT Mr.. Morri-
sons suggestion the reading of the report
itself was dispensed with, and the general
debate was opened by him with short eX-
PLANTATION of the proposed revision. There
was nothing new, he said, in his PROPOSE
ton. He had merely grouped such of the
propositions as had been submitted to the
house from time TO time as were believed
to be essential to the speedy organization OF
the house, to the proper distribution of its
wortk and to more conservative and eco
nomical legislation. He denied the claim of
the minority of the committee that the
change would result in increased appropri-
ationS. In some departments appropria-
tons had increased. but the country was
growing and more money was needed. He
declared the revision would be in the in
terest of considerate and speedy legislation.
Mr.. Randall said he realized fully that
his past relations to the committee on ap-
preparations would seem to indicate in the
minds of some men that he was welded to
particular control in this respect. but he
was not sure that those who knew him best
would give him the credit in this matter of
acting from proper sense of duty. as it
related to the public's good. The gentle
man from Illinois had seen fit to allude to
his views as expressed in the minority re-
port. In that report there was
NOT A WORD
which reflected on human being. He had
studiOusly, in and out of this bill, en-
deavored to discuss and argue this question
from higher level than an individual level.
He had said with deliberation that the ten
dency of division of the work of the COM
mittee on appropriations was to increase
the public expenditures of the government,
and he believed that he was in possession
of facts which would substantiate what he
had said. He instanced the river and har-
Dor bill, saying he had always voted against
it and had always been returned to congress
by his constituents.
Mr.. Hammond of Georgia argued against
distributing the appropriation bills. In
the course of his remarks he referred Incl
dentally to the committee on ways and
means, and, touching upon the tariff ques.
ton, he declared that every attempt made
by the Democratic party to revise the tariff
had been followed by Democratic victory
at the polls.
Morrison he exclaimed, twas chairman
of the ways and means committee wher
Tilden was elected president, and chairman
of the ways and means committee wher
Cleveland was elected president. Laugtel
and applause. For a quarter of a century
the Republican party had been in power
The Democratic party had just come into
ascendancy and was on trial. He was afraid
to try this experiment, when the Democratic
party had been
POSING FOR YEARS
as the party of reform, as the party Of econ
omy.''
Posing is good" suggested a Republican
member.
Yes exclaimed Mr.. Hammond, 81 sai6
posing, and the country has been looking at
our posture and learning to admire US unit
it has driven you out of power" Laughter
and applause.
Singleton. Reagan, Willis. Scott anG
Gibson favored the revision, the latter urg
ing that Mr.. Holman and Mr.. Randall
never objected to appropriations for theh
own states.
Mr.. Randall-The gentleman is mistaken as
far as I am concerned.
jections have been so slight and so infreQuent
that they have not made him as prominent as
his other actions. Continuing, Mr.. Gibson
said that he remembered that the gentleman
from Pennsylvania came in the last of the
last session of congress and pressed through
the house, under threat that not to do sc
would cause an extra session, an appropria
tion bill which contained an appropriation
for public building in Pennsylvania, or il
Indiana.
Mr. Randall thought the gentlemans mem
ory was defective. He had resisted every ad
dition to the appropriation for public build
ings on that sundry civil bill and his vote il
committee had been consistent with his pub
lie acts. As well as he remembered there
was no appropriation in that bill for public
building in Pennsylvania
Mr.. Gibson-Why was it that the gentleman
from Pennsylvania and the gentleman from
Indiana were the only men who could be
trusted with the appropriation bills? Die
their record show that they were more patri
otic than the other members of the house
When these immense land grants were give1
to railroads, when thieVing appropriation!
were made, where was the great committee
to protect the interests of the country? These
gentlemen claim they had objected? WHY
were these
OBJECTIONS NOT AS POTENT
then as now. They were potent now to stol
legislation for free transportation, but the
had had no power when confronted with tn,
railroad steal.
Mr.. Randall never voted a dollar nor al
| acre of land for any railroad.
Mr. GihsAn-T did not ssk hn- tha sant1a