Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-12-18

| Wnifu feUtGbtW upUu a uuillhi DfllEs 41C AtdN
sludiously in and out Of this ball endeayered to
| discuss ana argue the question from higher
| level than an individual level. lie had said
With dellberatiOn, that The tendency OF divls-
| Ion OF the work of the committee Of appf0prla-
lions 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
narDOr Dill, and presented a table to show
| while the bin had been in the possessions Of
the appropriation committee the average an
nual appropriation for internal improvements
| had been 81 100000, and that since the bill had
been c0nhded to the committee on river and
! harbOrs the average annual appropriation had
jumped to SlS,6s1 600. This statement he
thought would bear him out ID the
assertion that a separation Of the appr0pr-
at on bills would largely increase expenditures
| Mr. Randall sent to the clerks desk and had
read an extract from the annual message OF
President Arthur to the F0rty-seventn congress,
recommending that 10 appropriation be made
for internal improvements, and informing Ii THAT
sufllclent amount remained from the apprOpr1-
atlons OF the previous year to carry on all neces-
sary works OF Improvement. Yet, In face OF his
message, and In the face OF the further
fact that no estimates had been
| submitted, the fOTty-seyenth congress had
demanded estimates and had actually passed
! bill involving an expenditure OF nearly SS,0OO-
600. With this ate of facts he was quite con-
tent TO leave to the house and to the country the
| question whether there hadnot been q tendency
| to increase expenditures under the plan OF
distributing APT roDriati0n bills.
Mr.. ONeill, of Pennsylvania, inquired whether
! MS colleague had any eyidence'tO show that
| President Arthur's views in this p rticular ha,
ever been sustained by thepeople. in his opinion
| President Arthur veto Of the river and harbOr
bill was the most injudiciOus and uncalled for
| act OF his administration. which had otherwise
been a good one. [Laughter.]
Mr. Randall replied that whether the people
/ had sustained ATthur's views or not, he could
| point out instances where the people had de-
Ieated candidates for reelection to congress-
| who had voted for tNYppeqfVp river and haF-
| Dor bills.
Mr.. O'Neill declared that was not so as far as
| Phiadelphia was concerned. His Republican
colleague, who had always voted for proper
river and harbor appropriation bills, had been
reelected to the house.
Mr.. Randall suggested that he had always
voted against the r.ver and harbor bill and he
| had been returned.
Mr.. Gibson said: There is not ? member of
the house but knows thatmiions Of money and
thousands Of acr s of the public lands have been
! given to private corporations to enable them 10
ay a tax on the traffic Of the country where one
| dollar has been expended In free navigation
The voice OF the railroad is heard not only IN the
press, but in these halls. and every attempt to
secure free navigation is attacked, and the COM
! mittee making the attack Is charged by lnnuen-
/ do, with steals. ! challenge the az preparation
committee to compare their bills with the river
and harbor bills. and see which have the most
jobs in them. Mr. Gibson then went on to
argue in support Of the distribution
plan and criticized the app opriation committees
of former congresse sand charged them with
negectlng to buid a navy and erect fOrtlfca-
tiOns for the protection Of thegreat cities of the
country. he would vote to destroy, as far as
possible, thenarbitraTy and tyrannlcal power Of
the appropriation committee.
Mr.. Randall thought that in view Of the re-
marks Of the gentleman, from West Virginia, as
to land grants and subsidies, 1t was proper for
him to say that since the house had been under
Democratic control, there had not been an acre
of land or dollar of subsidy appropriated AS
to his thrusting himself forward here, every
member ought to know that he had done just
the reverse. He did not deal in personalities in
personally he ought not do it here.
Mr.. Canon. Of Illinois, made strong argu-
ment IN opposition to the distribution Of the ap-
preparation bills. 1.-THE true remedy. ;" he said.
+ for the evil which had grown up IN delaying the
reporting Of the appropriation bi Is was TO let
aie committee on appropriations make al
j it the power Of originating legislation. From d
mere temp rary and partisan standpoint he
would prefer that the rules should BIZ amended,
as proposed, because he believed that 1t would
lead 70 Increased expenditures. He did
| not believe that the different committees
would be dishonest, but he believed that each
committee would protect It's speciality, and that
a6gSo9Gy TouH Ms BEYOND what What
advantage to have these ruled adopted he
did not think The Republicans could
afford to help the other side adopt
them. Ii the rules were amended they would
stand for a centery to curse all parties who had
power IN the house, to work permanent dam
age to the country
Mr.; Reed, Of \ aine, spoke in favor Of the pro-
posed revision. For the last three Ongresses
the representatives Of the people Of the United
! States had been in irons. They had been al
lowed to transact no public business except at
' a0aC s@s cSsTe Saq y senePmen see PemssSn %So
while they possessed individually more wisdom
than the rest OF the members, did not
possess all the wisdom Of this world. Laugh
teri. He for one believed that the safety Of the
country was not In the hands Of any one man,
or any one sat of men, bnt in the general virtue
of the representatives Of the people, backed
Experience was ha the Of the hs
United States and the laws OF the United States
were made in obedience 10 the wishes OF the
people What he specially congratulated the
house on was that it had, at last
secured a unanimous voice In favor
OF transacting some other business
than the noble, lofty business Of the committees
EN- appropriations. Since the 46th congress. that
was the only business which the house had been
! allowed to transact.
] Mr., Morrison gave notice that he would en-
deayOr to close general debate tomorrow after
noon, and then the house adjourned
The Anti ProhibitlonistsV Victorious
in Morehouse Parish.
Special to Commercial Herald.
BAsTRoP, Dec. 15-Out Of fourteen
hundred and twenty.eigbt votes polled
in this parish, yesterday, for and
against the sale Of intoxicating liquors,
nine hundred and seventeen were for
license, making majority in favor of
the whisky men of four hundred and
six. While nine-tenths of the farmers
of the parish are in favor Of prohibit
tion, and all agree that our parish has
been largely benefited by it, still on
the day of election, through indiffer-
encp thew allowed All the neoro vote