Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-14
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL.
REGULAR APPROPRIATION BILLS.
THE PENSION FOR MRS. THOMAS.
The Senate.

reported to the Senate and now on the calendar
sna, snail, on on the conclusion Of morning business
oaliy, De taken up ser1atum and their consid-
Grafton continued within the morning hour
until disposed of. The original resolution was,
however, modified, on motion of Mr.. Allison,
SO that 1t shall not interfere with the business
now pending in the morning hour, being the
PHI 70 quiet title OF the Des .Moines river set
ate.
Mr.. Lapham then took the floor and contin-
ued his speech against the bill.
AT one O'clock the matter went over till Mon
Gay, MI. Aapham still having the floor.
INDIAN APPROPRIATION BILL.
The Indian appropriation bill was then taken
UP.
House Of Representatives..
When the House met at 10 o'clock in continu-
alton of Fridays session Mr.. Willis CKy.) moved
that the House go into committee of the whole
ON the river and harbor bill, and pending that
moved that all debate on the pending section
be limited to one hour and a half.
MI. Turner (Ga )rising to point Of order, said
tnat when the gentleman made the latter mo
I1On yesterday the point was made that this
was not In order the point had been Overruled,
an appeal taken. and q motion made to lay the
been made that On this motion the yeas had it;
whereas IT appeared from the Record this morn
ing h tnat a the vote stood-yeas, @ g.; nays, lo$
that the Record was In error. Thejournai, which
was the official organ of the House, showed that
the appeal had been laid on the table by a vote
On motion Of Mr. Holman, dnd9 a session
was ordered for tonight for the consideration
OF the legislative appropriation bill.
The regular order having been demanded,
the Speaker announced the regular order to be
the consideration of the pension bills coming
over ffoIn last nights session.
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL SET ASIDE.
Mr. Willis said 1t was the clear intention of
the House yesterday to devote this morning g
session to consideration of the river and harbor
bill, and asked unanimous consent that the
regular order be dispensed with, but Mr. Reed
(Me.) objected.
The arst bill coming over was one granting a
pension of $50 a month to the widow of Maj L.
I. Ihornbury. 1t was rejected by vote of 81
70 4s, but motion to reconsider was entered.
PENSION OF s., 600 FOB THE WIDOW OF GEN.
GEO. H. THOMAS.
Thehext bill coming over from last nights
session was the Senate bill called up by Mr..
Randall, Of Pennsylvania, granting pension
Of 81 900 per annum to the widow of Gen. Geo.
H. Thomas
Mr.. Price (Wis) opposed the bill as making
too great discrimination between general OIL
GERS and privates.
Mr.: Randall Mr.. Cutcheon (NIich) and Mr..
Houk 3Penn.l supported the bill.
Ihe bill was passed-yeas 143, nays 50.
THE RIVER AND HARBoR BILL UP-DEBATE
LIMITED.
After half an hour consumed by the Speaker
In ruling upon points of order answering parlia
mentary inquiries and endeavoring rather un-
successfully to suppress the disorder and confr-
Willis motion to limit debate on the pending
section OF the river and harbor bill to one and a
half hours, and it was agreed to. And them at
11:45, the House went into committee Of the
whole (NIr. Hammond, Of Georgia, in the chair)
on the bill indicated.
the clerk discussion arose as to how the hour
and a-half for debate should be distributed, and
the chair asked the aid of the committee to
enable him to put a "bushel into peck meas
ure." No arrangement was arrived at, and the
power Of recognition was left entirely with the
chair.
Mr.. Turner (Ga.) raised the point Of order
against the Hennepin canal paragraph that in
reporting this clause to the House the commit
dictton, and fnfringed upon the jurisdiction of
the committee On railways and canal
Capitol Topics.
4 PRoPosED PEABODY STATUE AT THE CAPT.
TOR
At the conference OF school superintendents
in Richmond, Va, yesterday, Superintendent
Farr read a bill to provide for the erection Of q
statue Of Mr.. George Peabody, of Massachusetts,,
in the hall Of statuary in the Capitol at Wash
ington, by the Various states which have been
Mr.. Farr moved that a committee of five be ap-
pointed to prepare suitable resolution and bin,
copy to be forwarded to the general assembly
OF Virginia and to every superintendent in the
states in which the Peabody fund has been ex-
pended.
TIE p. o. APPROPRIATION BILL IN THE HOUSE.
Mr. Holmans point of order against the par-
agraph in the post office bill granting additional
compensation to American. steamers carrying
the mails was overruled by Mr. Springer yester-
day, and the ruling was sustained by the
House on an appeal but the clause was after
amendment was adopted making letter rates
for drop letters, including delivery at letter
carrier offices, two cents per ounce. The pre-
was postponed until to-day.
NOTES
At the session Of the House last night several
bills were passed removing political disabilities,
besides number OF pension bills. Mr.. Randall
called up Senate bill to grant the wife of Gen.
Thomas pension Of $4,000 per year, but the
point Of no quorum was made by Price, of Wis
cOnsin, and the bill went over.