The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-12-19

agreed to. The resolution offered by Cock.
rea vas agred to, calling on the Secretary
:. :no treasury Tor Information asto what
ciaims were before the Treasury Depart-
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cameron was relieved from service on the
COMMITTEES on Transportation Routes to
ene Seaboard, McMillon from service on
Ine Committee on Mines and Mining, and
Claims.
The Chair appointed Mitchell, OF Oregon,
20 the vacancies indicated.
Beck offered a resolution that the Com
mite on Finance be instructed to ascer-
tain whether the laws requiring all Gus
toms duties collected to be applied to the
payment OF the interest and principle of
the pblic debt have been obeyed, and if
they have not, to report the bill, or other
wise. such measures as would secure their
enforcement.
At Beck's request the resolution was al
lowed to lie over for the present.
Adjourned till Monday.
Consideration of the report of the Com
mlttee on Rules was resumed, the pending
0AAeAuuAVAU OcAuS UuAU OuCTCO ny springer,
OF lllinOis-tO abolish various committees
OF expenditures in different departments
and concentrate their duties in one COM
mittee consisting of fifteen members. In
advocating the amendment, Springer stated
thatduring the past ten years the clerk OF
these committees had been paid $500
while as far as he could remember but two
OF them had made reports--the Committee
on Expenditures in the War Departmental
the Forty-fourth Congress, and Committee
on Expenditures in the Department of JUS
tice in the Forty-eighth Congress.
Morrison thought much good had re-
suited from the work done by these two
committees. During the late campaign he
had heard it proclaimed everywhere in
Democratic speeches that the Democratic
party wanted to SIZE the books. Now that
it had an opportunity he hoped it would
not close it's eyes.
Hope you won't" remarked Brown, Of
Indiana; "You will nave some books of
I your own in a few years."
Herbert, OF Alabama, opposed the
amendment, asserting that Che House
should always stand ready to investigate
the abuses which had grown up in the ad-
ministration OF the government. He did
not think that Republican members could
afford to vote to abolish committees
Hawk, of Tennessee, stated that the Re-
publicans would not vote to abolish them.
It was true that when the Republicans
were in power there was little necessity for
them, but the prospect was that they would
be very useful in future. [Laughter.]
| After further debate the amendment was
| rejected.
Hammond, OF Georgia, offered as an
amendment that no appropriation should
Fbe reported in any appropriation bill foT
any expenditure not previously authorized
by law, unless in continuation OF the ap-
preparations for such public works and OBJ
jects that are already in progress. Ham
mond said his object was to discover
whether the House would retain the power
to keep riders on the appropriation bills.
The amendment was rejected without a
division.
Cannon moved to strike out the para
graph which limited appropriations over
which the Appropriation Committee had
Jurisdiction.
The motion was lost.
The House rejected the motion of Ham
mond to strike out the clause of the pro-
posed new code of rules, distributing ap-
propriatio1 bills among the several com
mittees of the House, by a vote of 81 for
and 227 against. None OF the Califol MIA
or Nevada and Oregon members voted
"yea."
On motion of Cobb, of Indiana, an
amendment was adopted granting the Com
mittee on Public Lands leave to report at
any time for the forfeiture of land grants,
to prevent speculation in public lands and
for the reservation of public lands for the
benefit of actual and bona fde settlers.
Adams, of Illinois, then offered an
amendment, virtually prohibiting rid
ders." It was substantially the same as
the one which was offered before the test
vote, or distributing Appropriation Bills
had been offered by Hammond, and been
rejected by the House. The amendment
was now adopted, and the remainder OF
the report was agreed to without objection.
Then the report was adopted in toto. So
the rules of the Forty-eighth Congress, as
amended by the Committee on Rules, are
re-enacted as the rules of the F~orty-ninth
Congress.
Morrison, of Illinois, then called up the
resolution for the holiday recess. after LAY
ing amended it so that the recess shall
begin on Monday next n end on Jan
uary 5.
Beach, of New York, opposed the idea,
which he considered a childish one, o.
taking a holiday recess at this time. 1t
was attended with danger, and he appealed
to the Democratic House to go as far at
the Republican Senate had done in taking
some action on the Presidential Success
sion Bill.
The resolution was then passed.
On motion of Natson, OF Indiana, tn
, Senate Bill granting q pension to Mrs
& General Grant was taken up and passed
, Adjourned.
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