Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-01-26
GOING FOR HURO.


Fixing an Old Friend in a soft Posi-
tion.
Srsrif 2, tHe Register.
WASHINGTON, ID. C.. January 25.-Oue Of
the most interesting questions raised during
the present session was that which was
brought to the attention of the House
Of Repre-, el'atiyes BY the action of
Frank Hurd, the rampant Ohio free trader
lie denied the right of the Senate to origi-
nate bills appropriating money from the
treasury of the United States, and made
long speech in defense Of his position. He
claimed that when the constitution says
revenue, it means dispensing revenue"
Bills exercising the former function of gov.
eminent must necessarily originate with
the House; according to all precedant ap
preparation bills may originate with the
Senate Bnt Huri got excited aud
went way back to the first
tangible strata of the English constitution
insisted that the power OF the House of Com
mons as it existed today, was the direct
ou,grow,h from the exercise Of the power
o.: the purse. He was hStesed TO with pa
ueuce by Republicans and Dem ocrats, but
when he got through stirring response
was made 6rst by Hammond, of Georgia,
who is not fluent but convincing talker.
He showed that the same identical point
had been raised by the same Representative
in the Forty-sixth Congress and had been
overruled. He showed that all the practice
OF the past was opposed to Mr.. Hurd posi-
ton and ridiculed some OF the more absurd
assumptions of the Buckeye member.
\ Crusher.
But the most crushing answer was made
in tive minutes speech by Tom Reed OF
Maine. lie begun By taking as premise
/ The proposition that the direct language Of
the constitution was opposed to the view Of
/ the Hurd and that if the latter were to be
/ sustained, it must De 10y an appeal to the
! correct meaning OF the text Of the dOcu-
ment as shown by the deliberation Then
4 he went on to show that in the constitution
. al convention it was three times attempted
10 introduce into our iUndamen ntal law, tue
English principle Of conhning the Origna-
ton OF appropriation bills to the Lower
House Of the National Legislature and that
each time the movement was defeated by
more than two-thirds vote.
Long, Of Massachusetts, male strong
/ speech on the same side Of the question and
Mr.. Hurd opinion vas rePudiated by the
House.
Tie curious thing about the
whole affair, looked at from 3
/, logical Democratic standpoint, was the
fact that Frank Hurd uomiRally a States
| rights Democrat, was advocating the thing
which was successfully combatted By the
States Rights party when in the Constitution
al convention of l7N7 and that the Southern
members. of whose views Hammnnd was
! the exponent were capable of seeing the
ob,urdjtv Of Mr.. Hurds position.
YESTERDAY afternoon the President sent
to the Senate the nomination OF Andrew
: Drancr to be ,Judae OF the Court Of ON
mission Of Ala5aua Claims. Draper Is
ore CC the Shrcwdcsy politicians in the State
o. New Y lork ard bis ability has never
t,rp questioned He is the manager who
/ knocked out John f. Snyth in Albany
county and has always been regarded as
ono Of the men on whom Gen. Arthur could
rr', implicitly. >myth, on the other hand
wa, identified with the Cornell wing OF tbs
raltr. Its supposed that the President has
taken this way Of rcward,ng Mr.. Draper De
cause the Office now given him Is non poht'
cal. and there Is 40 probability OF any re
moyal bv President Cleveland when he
comes in. ~,
Nr.J. \. Ferguson and Hon. Ben Wilson
Of West Virginia, are at the National Ito
~ !. A.