The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-06

revenues. FOR Whab purp0Set 10 perpetuat6
the debt as a basis on which the national banks
could maintain their organization, and to- perpet-
uate the system of high tariff protection.
Messrs. Cabell and Tucker favored the meas
ure.
Mr.. Hiscock contended that the bill would re-
heve, directly, the laborfng man.
Mr. Chase twitted the Democratic side for OBJ
Jecting to this bill after so many petitions of de-
sire for revenue reform.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, suggested that it
was hardly a proper system Of revenue reform
to leave the duty on cotton and take the tax off
whisky.
The motion to suspend the rules and pass the
bill was Iost-yeas 78, nays I27.
Mr.. Mills moved to suspend the rules and pass
the Senate bill appropFiating 500, 600 for cree
ton OF a public building at Waco, Texas,
Agreed to.
Mr. Keifer moved TO suspend the rules, take
from the Speakers table the Mexican pension
bill, and concur in all the Senate amendments
thereto.
Mr.. Hammond demanded a second, and the,
House, 90 to SO, seconded the motion.
Mr.. Hammond, In opposition to the motion,
said the Mexican pension bill, which passed
the House, he heartily opposed. The Sen
ate had engrafted upon it amendments
to pension all federal soldiers of the late war.
He did not know how much this would take from
the Treasury. but it would entail upon the people
an immense burden of taxation. He asked the
gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Keiferl how many
dollars this bill would take out of the Treasury.
Mr.. Keifer-I am unable to give the gentle
man an accurate statement.
Mr.. Hammond-Can you answer within 81
600, 600, 000a
Me- Keifer-0h, yes; it will not take any
thousand million at all.
Mr.. Hammoud-How many will it takef
Mr.. KeiferI am unable to give the gentle
man a good approximate answer.
Mr.. Hammond-I state, emphatically, that no
man who regards his reputation for honesty will
undertake even to guess.
Mr. TouvpcapA cold fha+ ~ Aha npapipn IF tho
present session, it had been his intention TO call
up the Mexican pension bill Immediately, but
the rules of the House had prevented
him from doing so. He had, how
soon as the interstate commerce bin was out of
the way. He would vote for the pending mo-
ton, but if it were unsuccessful he would call
up the Mexican pension bill during the week.
He was not afraid of depicting the Treasury by
distributing a portion of the surplus among the
hand when the government could economize by
putting every man who had fought for the flag,
no matter IN what war, on the pension roll, and
abolishing the Pension Bureau and the army of
clerks now employed in examining pension
claims.
Mr.. Reed predicted that if the bill were not
passed within tht next sixty minutes it would
never be passed.
last opportunity to pass the bill, and Mr..
Cutcheon supported the bill as a matter of
justice to Mexican veterans and soldiers of the
late war.
Mr.. Keifer and j. d. Taylor, of Ohio, charac-
terized as extravaganza the estimate of the
amount to be taken out of the Treasury by the
bill, and maintained that it would not require
an appropriation of more than SIT, 600, 600 annu-
ally to meet its provisions.
Mr.. Herbert regarded the measure as unwise,
extravagant and unjust-unjust both to the SOL
diers and the people.
Mr.. Warner, of Ohio, held that the principle
of the bill, if followed out. would result in an
expenditure of not less than 81, 500, 900, 600. The
principle of granting service pensions was dan
gerous.
The motion to suspend the rules and concur
IN the Senate amendments was lost-yeas 100,
nays 85-not the necessary two-thirds in the af-
frmative.
Mr.. Collins moved to suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution making the Senate bill to
establish a uniform system of bankruptcy a
continuing special order for Thursday, Jan. 90.
Mr.. Willis demanded a second, which was
ordered-119 to 81.
Mr.. Potter hoped the House would consider
and pass the bill.
Mr.. Adams, of Illinois, thought he represented
the business men of Chicago in saying that they
all desired a good bankruptcy law. which would
discourage dishonest and reckless trading.
Mr.. Henderson. of Iowa, thought the passage
of the Lowell bankruptcy bill would give an i'm
petus to trade and perhaps save the country
from disaster.
The motion, after debate, was ~lost-yeas 135,
nays 75-not the necessary two-thirds in the
affirmative.
Following is the vote in detail: