Morning journal and courier., 1885-12-17
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 1885

HoUsE.-Mr. Hiseoek was opposed to the | building up of system of rules that would | crown any man or any set of men as king oi l the legislative body. He argued that if the appropriation bills were distributed they could all be reported within thirty days from l the time the committees were formed. On this point MT. Randall asserted that as chairman of the Committee on Appropria tions in the Forty seventh Congress, the gen tleman from New Fork ought to have learned that it was impossible to report the | bills within thirty days within the time ot the organization of the committee as ire quently the estimates were not in by the ex- piration of that time.
 A colloquy between the two gentlemen fol lowed during which MT. Randall put against the remark of the gentleman from New York the record of the Appropriation committee under that gentlemans chairmanship.
 To this MT. Hiscock replied: "I am en- tirely willing that my record as chairman of that committee shall be paraded before the House. He also admitted having held back the legislative and sundry civil bills to af- ford the House time to vote on the internal revenue and tariff bills.
 "A little log rolling" suggested Mir Ran daIl
 MT. Hiscock-sIt was done nobly. do not think I should have had the power, but having had it exercised it, and believe, in i. zist the conclusion Of his speech Mr. His 'eock was roundly applauded and congratu- lated by his party colleagues.
 MT. Holman, of Indiana, followed in oppo- sltion to the abolition of the clause of the rule known as ''the Holman amendment" which enables legislation to be engrafted on appropriation bills if it is in the interest of economy. He argued that instead of having been an evil the amendment had saved to the taxpayers about $50, GOO, ,OOO year.
 MT. Blount, of Georgia, thought that the real issue had not yet been presented. This was an old struggle which had gone on through many Congresses and was here to- day The members of the committee were urging their views with congregations which wonld not be accepted by the House and the other committees presenting the grievances they suffered at the hands of the Committee on Appropriations, which would not be justi- fled by an examination He did not believe remedy for the trouble lay in either of the propo- sitions before the House. The proper remedy was to take away from the Commit tee on Appropriations the power to put 8 single legislation proposition upon an appro- priation bill, and then give to the other com mittees right to secure action on the i'm portant business reported by them. He be- Heved that the Committee on Appropria- tions, if it had no power to place legislation upon appropriation bills could report them at an early day. Granting to the other committee power to se- cure action on the reports would have the effect of preventing nasty action on important legislative propositions and would enable flood of light to be thrown over them. Referring to MT. Hiscock's statement to withholding appropriation bills in or der to force action on other measures, he con- tended that if that were true the distribution of the bills would extend that power to nine committees, each of which could keep bill |, ,f o<@@l,
 Without concluding the general debate the House at 4:35 adjourned until tomorrow.
 LIBERALS TO ASSUME OFFICE. A Radicals View of The Situation
 With Aa Irish Parliament.
 LONDON, Dec. 16.-Mr. Joseph Cowen, the Radical who has just been reelected to the House for Newcastle-on-Tyne, said in an in te1view this evening that he believed that the Liberals would be called upon to assume office before the first of March. This was to certain extent to be depIored in view of the undoubted success which had attended Lord Salisbury's foreign policy. As to the Irish policy, he believed that the establish ment of county boards would not be sufh cient to satisfy Ireland. If the Tories were unfettered by the Orangemen he believed they would speedily devise satisfactory measure of home rule. He thought it unlikely that the Orangemen and the Wings would allow the Liberals to carry a home rule measure through the next Parliament. A deadlock, in his opinion was inevitable, and the dissolution of Parliament within ten months was possible. If an Irish Parlia- ment were created he believed it's first act would be to establish tariff of duties on imports for the protection of Irish indus tries at the expense of British manufacturers. This was the danger most feared by the Rad icals, and such action would probably never be allowed by England.
 MORE SILVER DOLLARS WANTED The Anti-MonopoIy League Consider
 the Question.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-A meeting under the auspices of the Anti Monopoly league was held at the Metropolitan Hotel this even ing to consider the silver question. Hong Edwards Pierrpont presided. Among those present were Hon. Fred A. Conkling, D. A. Hawkins, General Nagle, Hon. David Healey, L. E. Rawson and others. In his address Mr. Pierrpont stated that the objection to silver az money was alleged to be it's huctuat1on in value He maintained that it did not fiuo tuate any more than gold.
 Hon. A. J. Warner of Ohio, was then in- troduced. In the course of his remarks he said that as a result of making one metal the money work of the world, prices have fallen from 30 to 35 within the past ten years MT. Warner argued at length to show that President Cleveland was mistaken in supposing that continued coinage would drive gold out of circulation.
 After several speeches had been made resolutions were adopted petitioning Con gress to resume the free coinage of standard silver dollars and to pro vide for the issue by all sub-treasurers and national Repositories of treasury bills of the denomination of one, two and five dollars on deposit of silver coins.
 The resolutions also declare mono-metal- lism to be unconstitutional and present req sons why free silver coinage would benefit