Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-03-03
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
CONGRESS- DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
KITCHES ON APPROPRIATION BILLS.
LIVELY SCENES In BOTH HOUSES.
The Senate.

The Senate.
The Senate was called to order at O'Clock.
A quorum not being present Mr.. Dawes moved
a call of the roll. The call showed 25 Senators
present, being Ia short of a quorum. At $50
the chair declared a quorum present.
THE SENATE REFUSES TO RECEDE FROM TBS
AMENDMENTS TO THE INDIAN BILL.
Mr.. Dawes called up the conference report on
the Indian appropriation bill. The two houses,
he said, had agreed on the bill SO far as all
items properly pertaining to an appropriation
bill were concerned. The Senate had struck out
all items of general legislation and all items for
qqepredatlon claims. Upon those, however, the
House insisted. Since the bill was passed, Mr..
Dawes added, the Senate seemed to have weak
ened on its position as to general legislation.
some ,i11 provisions of the Indian appropriation
Dill were open violations of our treaty obliga-
tlons, as well as unconstitutional.
Mr.. Sherman said if the Senate regarded the
House legislation as wise Senate rule should
not interfere with it; If unwise and unsound,
the Senate should not recede, no matter what
the consequences.
Mr.. Plumb said we were confronted with the
possibility, to say nothing more, of an extra
session OF Congress- growing out of the action of
the House. The course of that body had shown
the Observation-Disclosures one man to produce
such result, pregnant, as Mr.. Plumb believed
1t to be, with the gravest consequences to the
defective form of the legislation found on the
appropriation bills tended to make him (Mr.
Plumb) immovably opposed to yielding, so far
NO more gross confession of legislative IN
competency had ever been seen than had been
chamber within thirty days. Bills appropri-
atlng millions of dollars had been passed with
out consideration and then sent to the Senate
within two days of the close of the session. Mr..
Plumb characterized the river and harbor lump
appropriation as a criminal waste of the peo-
pies money.
Mr.Ingalls-By democratic Secretary of War.
, Mr. Plumb would not give the debate polit-
lcal TURN; but the question was becoming serious
not @ only ,s as to the present but the future.
quiring the appropriation bills to be prepared
early enough to afford full consideration In both
houses.
Mr.. Hoar believed the time was coming when
Congress would have to sit not later than the
1rst OF October, at least in the years when short
sessions were now held.
In order to bring the question to point and
get the understanding of the Senate, Mr..
Dawes moved-though he said he would
vote against his own motion-that the Senate
recede as to the provision of the bill relating to
legal jurisdiction and procedure in cases of
crimes committed by Indians. The Senate re-
fused to recede-yeas, d; nays, Al.
DISAGREEMENT ON THE sUNDRY CIVIL. BILL.
message from the House of Representatives
announced disagreement with the Senate on
the sundry civil bill.
The Senate on motion of Mr.. Dawes insisted
on its amendments, and the chair appointed as
conference committee Messrs. Allison, Hale
and Beck.
Mr.. Dawes explained the remaining differ
CiSCo ou tuc 1uuldH Ulll 10 De PROVISION pro-
hibiting the carrying of whisky into the Indian
Territory; that disarming the Indians, and that
relating to the Oklahoma territory. These,
Mr.. Dawes added, were good provisions, but
were at present in such form on the bill as to do
more harm than good.
Pending the consideration of this matter, Mr..
Conger, at eleven o'clock a.. m., moved that
when the Senate adjourn to-day (the legislative
day being the second of March until noon to-
day 1t be to meet at one p m. on the third, this
afternoon.
The motion was agreed to.
MIR. SHERMAN EXPLAINS AS TO THE INAUGURA-
TION PROGRAM.
MIR. Sherman explained tliat an erroneous i'm
preston seemed to prevail that the committee
of arrangements appointed by the Senate to
take charge Of the inaugural ceremonies had,
with respect to the conduct of the coming inau-
gural, departed from the old established rule.
He Mr.. Sherman) had had all the old pro-
grams looked up, and he could positively
state that not only had the House of Represent
atives not been Disseminated against, but that
In the present instance the precedents had been
departed from in favor of members
of the House. He (Mr. Sherman) would be very
shown to the House of Representatives. He
read the program OF 1S45, to show that in
the old practice the House of Representatives
was not recognized at all.
, MIR. Hawley read the program Of Buchanans
inauguration to show the greater consideration
shown now than had been shown then for the
House OF Representatives.
Mr. Frye objected to further discussion of
this subject, and it was allowed to drop.
THE INDIAN BILL CONFERENCE REPORT AGAIN
The matter of the Indian conference report
was again taken up.
Mr.. Dawes moved that the Senate insist on
the remaining amendments.
Mr.. Manderson moved that the Senate recede
as TO an amendment extending the time for the
payment for Indian lands.
Mr.; Van Wyck satiucally said the Senate
appropriation bill when put on by the House.
but could Itself put on such bill a Pacific Mail
subsidy clause when It thought fit. John Roach,
Jay Gould and G.. F. Huntington had been de.
feated at the other end Of the Capitol, but had
demanded that the Senate should violate its
MIR. Van Wyck supported Mr. Mandersons
motion Being motion to recede. it had pre-
cedence and was put first
cede.
Mr.. Vest hoped the Senate would agree with
the House provision regarding the Oklahoma
matter, and moved that it recede from Its
amendment. Considerable debate followed
THE SENATE INSISTS.
Finally the Senate, by vote, insisted on its
amendment, and the chair appointed Messrs.
Dawes, Plumb and Ransom q committee of
conference on the bill.
House Of Representatives.
The House at 3:55 this morning took a recess
until o'clock am.
CONFERENCE ON THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL
There were hardly dozen members in the
hall when the session was resumed at 8 am
The sundry civil bill had, in the meantime.
come over from the Senate, heavily loaded
with amendments.
Mr.. Randall asked unanimous consent that
this bill be taken up, and the Senate amend.
ments non-concurred in, and sent to q confer
ence committee, but objection came from Mr.
Hepburn, of Iowa, and then there was call of
the House which, closing at $50, showed the
presence of only As members
MIR. Randall's motion was then renewed and
agreed to; and MeSsrs Randall, Forney and
Ryan were appointed conterees on the part of
the House
After various Intellectual attempts to have
bills taken up by unanimous consent, and it
being plainly impossible to have any public
adjourned till IL ain,
When the House reconvened at IL o'clock
the Speaker announced that owing to the con-
tinued session of the House, from eleven
o'clock yesterday morning to almost four this
the journal was not prepared and its
reading was temporarily dispensed with =.
Mr.. Valentine (Neb) Immediately moved
night, his object being to prevent consideration
of the contested election case of Frederick VS.
Wilson, of Iowa. The republicans refrained
from voting on the motion for q recess and
left the House Without quorum.
THE DEADLOCK ON THE p. o. APPROPRIATION
BILL.
No attempt was made to transact any busi-
ness until Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, submitted
the report Of the conference committee on the
Post Office appropriation bill, announcing q
continued disagreement.
Mr.. Townshend stated that there were several
points of difference between the two houses
amendment relating to the ocean mail service
He was opposed to this because he regarded it