Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-18
silver certificates on deposit of standard sil-

l yer dollaH.
 By Mir. Harris-To prevent the introdue
 tion of infectious diseases.
 | The Presidential succession bill passed to l day, provides that in case of vacancies il
 the offices of both President and Vice Presi l dent the Cabinet officers shall succeed to tn
 Presidency in the following order:
 1 Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treas
 ury, Secretary of War, Attorney General
 Postmaster General, Secreeary of the Navy
 and Secretary of the Interior. The Cabine
 officer thus acting as President is to hold of
 fee until the disability of the President ol l Vice President is removed or until new ! President is elected to succeed him at the l end of the term of the President ! or Vice President whom he succeeds l The bill also authorizes the acting President to call an extra session of Congress within l twenty days from the time he assumes the duties of his offiue should the regular meet | ing of Congress not occur within that time. After the passage of the presidential success. 1 sion bill the Senate at 3:20 went into execu- | tive session.
 The recess nominations sent in by the 1 President were referred to the appropriate | committees. At $40 the doors were re- l opened and the Senate adjourned.
 l HoUsE.-Mr. Dibble De1n j. of South Car l oIina, asked leave to introduce joint reso- l iution proposing a constitutional amend ment. It provides that ill case of the remov- ! dl lEOl OuIC0 Dy OeaUn, reS1gnatlOn or con- | st1tut1onal inability, both of the President and Vice President of the United States, the office of President shall devolve upon the l second Vice President, who shall be voted | for in distinct ballots at the same time and l i'll like manner and for the same term as the l President and Vice President of the United 1 States by electors appointed by the several l States. The second Vice President shall | preside over the Senate in the absence of the 1 Vice President or in case the office of Presi- | dent shall devolve upon the Vice President. | MT. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said that he l had like measure which he wonld like to l go with the proposition of the gentleman from South Carolina.
 Mir. Tucker, of Virginia, saw no reason why the measures should have any prece- l dence, and he objected to their introduc- l tion.
 | The subject of the rules then came up fol l discussion, Mir. Morrison, of Illinois. stating l that he would try to close the general debate l at o'clock today.
 MT. Long, of Massachus etts, agreed with l the gentlemen who demanded the largest l parliamentary freedom for the representa- | tives of the people here, but he had been l taught that liberty was of no value except as | regulated by law, and that parliamen tary ] rights were of no value except as regulated | by parliamentary rules. There was only one | way in which the House could have abso- ! lute liberty; that to abolish all rules and all committees and all restrictions on debate, and to remand itself to the condition of Q debating society. Nobody pro posed to do that The simple question before the House was whether, having agreed that reform measures were necessary to cure the evils under which it was suffering, it should go further and take from the Appro- priation committee the bills heretofore in its charge, and distribute them among eight or nine other committees. The result would be al and It seemed to him that the House went far enough when it secured the rights of the majority, and simply left the ap- propriation bills with the Appropriation committee; not because it's members were more competent, but because responsibility should be fixed somewhere. In flying from evils it knew, the House would probably fly to evils 1t knew not of, but let it not fly to evils which stared it in the faceS It was a very good thing to fill the reform bucket but not to fill it so full that it would slop over.
 Mr. McAdoo. Jew Jersey, defended the ap- propriation's committee, asserting that to that committee which had stood before the doors of the treasury and resisted raids upon it was due the fact that the Democratic party was now in power. The Democratic House, Mr. McAdo said, were asked under the leadership of NJ. Reed, of Maine, to break down the appropriation committee. He
 
 and he was supremely suspicious when he saw gentlemen who had sat mute when they were in power converted to an assault upon the comittee when the Democrats were in power.
 Mir. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said patience and long-suffefing had taught him that no rule the majority could adopt could be worse than those it was proposed to amend. Leg islation ought to be the result of delibera- ton. The business of the House -~os tr"rAe acted by very few men, and the mass or the members could learn what had been done and why it had been done after it had been done This ill had been borne until it had ,is to Sns countryTto elnancIpare itself. | Mr. Phelps, of New York, thought that the objections made to the proposition to dis tribute the appropriation bills were irresist- ible. The principal objection to it was that it took out of the legislative system anybody which had for it's duty the responsibility for the appropriations as 8 whole, where thsrs was no board, that would know or care for the whole sum of the Approprla- tions. There was no board which could equalize the relations which should be maintained between the different appro- priations and between the different appro- priations and the whole of the income. The house was launching on a sea of danger and was likely to find that the result, when there WAS no central responsibility, would be that the expenditures would exceed the income of the government Every tendency MT. Phelps said ill the new arrangement was tendency towards eXtravagance.
 MT. Randall, in closing the debate in op- position to the majority report, said that if the members of the House who had hereto fore held seats on the Appropriations com mittee were to consult their ease, he did not doubt but that they would yield up the duties which 1t was proposed to take from them without a murmer, but there was 8 nd fsr-raarhinp effect the proposition as presented here than the mere convenience of member CT his ability to perform labor. He knew and members who had served upon the Ap- propriation committee knew that in the ef- fort to resist undue appropriations they had been engaged in thankless task; but he had never known that there would be those in public station who would rise and condemn a man or a set of men who were engaged 1n the laudable purpose of saving the expendl- ture of the public money. The com rnittee had met condemnation what had been meted out here in large degree, but he trusted that the representative of the people would rise above any thought of bias He WAS aware that the pet measures of many members had been interfered with by the rigid necessity of passing appropriation bills before an adjournment could take place. He had been criticised for asking the House at the last session to pass the sundry civil bill under a suspension of the rules, but the issue at that time was whether the bill should be passed or whether an extra session of Con- gress should be held. He had often been provoked to say things which upon mature deliberation he would not have said, but he knew he had never uttered word that would reflect directly or indirectly on the motives or integrity of any body, and yet he affirmed with equal positiveness that to distribute these bills was to take away that unity and harmony of action which was essential to every party in power, that is might come up to the requirements of the pledges that had placed it in power. Mir. Morrison, of Illinois, said that the as sumption of the gentleman from Pennslyva- nia that anybody found fault with the ap- propriation committee or any member of it because it had helped to reduce e1pendi- lures was in large part gratuitous. The chaplain without eyes had not followed his God more blindly than he (dorrison) had the Committee on Appropriations in every re- duction it had proposed; and the assump- ton or inference intended to be drawn from the rules that nybody who has partic- ipated in making thisreported bill had for his purpose an increase of expenditures or that the adoption of this report would increase