The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-12-16


aud rightly grow, whether they were
made by the committee on appropri-
ations, or by some other committee.
II was no now thug for him 10 be in
isvor of the distribution of the ap-
preparation bills, as he had voted TO
take away the agricultural appropri-
alton bin from the appropriations
committee. at time when that COM
mittee was presided over by warm
friend of his, Atkins of Tennessee, to
whom the public owed, as much as to
any other man, the diminished ex-
pcnditures of the government. The
minority report had introdu ed a
number of senator's rs witnesses
against the advisability of a d.
vision of the appropriation
bills. They had been summoned TO
say that, In the house. appropriation
bills should be kept together. In or
der that expenditures might be re-
duccd, AMI, that In the senate, they
should be kept together. in order.
that expenditures might be largely
increased. lie then passed OH TO the
consideration Of the proposition to
prohibit the consideration of general
Legislation on the appropriation bills,
declaring that It would be in the iu-
terest of considerate aud speedy leg
islation, aud that the only way to get
decrease Of expenditures through
the senate, was 10 permit the Holman
amendment TO stand; remarking, that
the senate would hardly worry itself
about increasing appropriations
which were made in the interest of
democratic officials:
Randall, of Pennsylvania, said he
had not intended to speak on the
subject, hut some views had been ex-
pressed by the gentleman from Iii
nois, (MorrisoD) which he was un-
willing to pass over without notice.
He realized, fully, that his past rela-
tions to the committee on appropria-
lions would seem to indicate, In the
minds of some men, that he was
welded to particular control
in this respect, but he was
sure that those who knew
him best would give him credit, in
this matter, of acting IRON proper
sense duty, as related TO the public
good. The gentleman from Illinois
had seen III TO allude to his views MS
expressed in the minority report. In
that report there was not a word
which reflected upon a human being.
lie had studiously, both in and out of
this hall, endeavored to discuss and
argue the question from higher
level than an individual one. lie had
said with deliberaiion, that the ten
dency of a diuision of the work of the
committee on appropriations was TO
increase the public expenditures OF
the government, and he believed
he was in possession of facts
what he had said. lie instanced
the river and harbor bill, and pre-
scented n table TO show that while
the bill had been in posses
sion of the appropriation committee,
the average annual appropriations
for internal improvements had been
| ga, 390, 900, and that since the bill had
| been contided to the commerce and
river and harbor committees, the
average annual appropriations had
jumped to $l2,b9l,O 900. This state
inent, he thought, would bear him
out In the assertion that the separa
lion of the appropriation bills would
largely increase the expenditures
| ltuutldlt ttUt w WV WIZ n ltbh uiib
had read, an extract from the anDua
me sage of resident Arthur to tho
Forty-seventh congress, recommend
Ing that no appropriation be made
for internal Improvement, and III
forming II that sufficient amount
remained from the appropriations o
tue previous year TO carry on tn,
necessary work of Improvement
yet In tn. face Of this message
aud in the face of the further
fact that no estimates hat
been submitted, the Forty-seventl
congress had demanded estimates
and had actually passed bill involv
ing an expense of nearly $S,000,00C
j with this statement of facts, he wa
quite content to leave TO the hous,
and the country, the question wheihe
there had not been a tendency to in
crease the expenses, under the plal
of distributing the appropriation
bills.
| O'Neil, OF Pennsylvania, inquire,
whether his colleague had any evi
dence TO show that President Ar
thurs views in this particular hat
ever been sustained by the people. Il
in his opinion President Arthur
veto of the river and harbor bin, wa
the most injudicious and the most un
called for act of his administration
which had otherwise been goo
, one.
Randall replied that whether tn
: people sustained Arthur's views o
/, not, he could peint out instance
,, where the people had defeated a
candidates for reelection to congress
the men who had voted for the exec,
sive river and harbor bills.
O'Neil declared that was not true s
far as Philadelphia was concerne,
His republican colleagues who had q
ways voted for tho proper river All
ha'bor appropriation bills, had bee
reelected to the house. Randall sug
gested that he had always vote
=, against the river and barbor bills, an
: had been returned.
Hammond, OF Georgia, argue
. against distributing appropriate
= bills. In the course of his remark
/ he referred incidentally TO the con
mittee of ways and means, and toucl
. ing upon the tariff question, declare
r that every attempt made by the den
! ocratic party to revise the tariff ha
/ been followed by u democratic VII
/ tory at the polls.
: Morrison" he exclaimed, "ws
D chairman of the wrys and means con
4 mitiee when Tilden was elected pre-
ident, and chairman of the ways an
= means committee when Clevelan
: was elected president. Laughte
a