Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-02-07


responsible for having the Legislation
passed, as he tCockrcll) believed ths
committee acted on its sense Of duty
with the best information its members
could get.
Mr.. Hswlcy said bill could be
passed in half an hour repeating such
legislation.
Thereupon Mr.. jackson called up
the bill already on the calendar relating
to fees Of pension-claim agents and at
torDeys. The bill was taken up, but
Mr.. Palmer asked and received unani-
nous consent to lay it temporarily
aside to allow ofhis delivering some re-
marks on the woman-suifrage constitu-
tional amendment. The decision to
take up the pension-agent's bill was
also temporarily postponed.
Mr.. Palmer spoke at considerable
length on the question of woman suf-
frage upon its merits. He concluded
by expressing the conviction that not
only was it right, desirable, and expe-
dent that women should vote, but that
the dangerous political conditions which
were perhaps about to confront us rem
dered it our duty, for the safety Of the
nation, no longer to deny to our political
life the strength to be derived from the
conscience and moral worth Of woman.
A resolution was agreed to'providing
that sessions Of the Senate begin at III
A. NJ. on and after Monday next.
The bill to regulate fees Of pension
agents and attorneys was then taken up.
After debate the bill was passed
without division.
The consular and diplomatic appro-
priation bill was then called up and
| passed.
The conference report on the Mill
itary-Acsdemy appropriation bill was
called up, and the Senate receded from
its amendments.
The Chair then laid before the Senate
the anti-silyer-coinage bill, but without
further action the Senate, at p. NJ,
went into executive session, and when,
at SIS O'Clock, the doors were re-
opened the Senate adjourned. leaving
that bill as the unfinished business for
tomorrow.
House OF Representatives.
When the House met at 10 o'clock |
this morning in continuation of yester-
day session there were nos more than
half-dozen members present, and
further recess Of ten minutes was taken.
After recess the House went into Com
mittee of the Whole-Mr. Hammond in
the chair-on the riyer-and-harbOr bill,
the pending amendment being that pro-
viding that no part of the appropriation
of" 800, 600 for improving the national
harbor Of the first-class at Sandy Bay,
Mass" shall be expended until a new
Board of three engineers shall decide
that that point is the best location on
the coast for such harbor. Agreed to;
but. on motion ofMr. Oates, ofAlabama,
the entire paragraph relating to this
harbOr was stricken out.
Several amendments were offered and
lost.
Mr.. McComas offered an amendment
providing that no money appropriated
by this act shall be expended except
for such works as the Secretary of
War, under the direction of the Presi-
dent, shall determine and in no case
shall the expenditure for any purpose
exceed the sums designated by this act
for that purpose.
Pending action, Mr.. Willis moved
that the committee rise, and on rird-
roce vote the Chairman decided that the
lyes had it. and disregarded the de-
mands for tellerS.
The Speskerpr TEN. (Mr. Blackburn
having taken the chair, Mr.. Willis
moved that the House adjourn, and the
Speaker, diSregardinS calls for a divi-
sion, declared the motion carried.
The House was instantly called to
order, and the legislative-day of Friday
began.
After the reading of the Journal the
House proceeded to the consideration of
business under the new rule. The
business transacted under it was not Of
general interest. The Committee on
Public Lands reported the bill to de-
'lare forfeited the entire grant Of lands
II aid Of the Girard and Mobile rail-
Dad in Alabama. Placed on the House
The amount of land involved
5 GSS, 900 acres.
The Committee on Naval Affairs re- 7
,orted adversely the joint resolution +
the thanks Of Congress to Q
commanders Schley and Coffin and :
lieutenant Emory. Laid on the table. !
Mr.. Randall said that he was in +
tructed by the unanimous voice Of the I
Committee on Appropriations to ask
he chairman of the Committee on
Iivers and Ilarbors when he expected
o reach q final vote upon the measure A
nder his charge.
Mr.. Willis replied that the Commit
&c of the Whole had been prosecuting q,
he consideration of the bill as fast as !,
be rules would permit.
Mr.. Randall said that if the bill were ;
to-day and tomorrow it II
'ould have occupied the entire week. :,
he House would not be free from pub
&c criticismifthe appropriation billswere :,
ot all sent TO the Senate by the 2jth !,
f the month. TO accomplish this, the 4
Committee on Appropriations was of :
pinion that it should have the right of u
'ay after Saturday night, and a serious u
fort would be made to pass next week
he post-Oilice, legislative, and sundry ~
ivil bills. a
Mr.. HiScock, Of New York, thought a
hat if there was not to be an extra Ses- IL
ion the appropriation bills should S
ave the right Of way now. y
Private business having been dis =
ensed with, the House, at AS p. NJ, v
ent into Committee of the Whole tMr. o
hammond, of Georgia, in the chair on Is
re river-anG-harbor bill, and the pend "
Y amendment. offered this morning by II
Ir. McComas, of Maryland, was re- o.
cited. U
Considerable bad feeling was created
+ developed during the further con- 81
deration of the bill. and the lie par lo
was passed between Messrs. u