Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-19

was incorrect. These bills had been
withheld at the demand of the Rcpub-
lican majority. Any chairman OF On
appropriations committee who would
come and say to the House and the
country that he would not bring In
supply bills until certain legislation was
enacted would merit, and probably re-
ceive, prompt and severe rebuke.
Mr.. niscock said that be might have
arrogated too much to himself. lie was
willing tdenodify his remarks and say
that the gentlemen from Illinois and
Kansas Cannon and Ryan had ably
seconded him.
You might add every Republican
member of the House." suggested MIR.
Ryan. "That is a better way to put
it,"
Mr.. IIiseock replied that II might be
put in any way. lie had merely been
illustrating the fact that one committee
speaking through its chairman could, for
good or bad, control the legislation Of
the House.
Further in the course of the debate
Mr.. Mckinley, Of Ohio, said the power
Of the Appropriations Committee did
not come from its jurisdiction over
twelve appropriation bills, but from its
ability TO use these bills as n vehicle
for general legislation. Speaking from
a minority standpoint, he did not care
how soon the majority distributed
the appropriation bills, but they
would never have his vote to distribute
these bills unless their distribution
was needed to rid the House of what
he regarded as a pernicious system in
the rules. lie did not sympathize with
friends on his side who thought as the
Republicans were in the minority and
the Democrats in the majority that 1t
was good policy for the minority to
help the majority to enact rules which
everybody admitted would lead TO ex-
travagance.
Nobody admits it," declared Mr..
Morrison.
ut is admitted all over,'' replied
Mr.. Mckinley. The distinguished
leader Of that side of the House. the gen.
tlernan from Pennsylvania the man
who for twenty years has occupied
conspicuous place on this floor the
man who has stood at the forefront Of
his party and knows his party
better than any other man in the
country-knows its purposes and
knows its desires--appeals to us
to help him to keep down the brakes
and keep it out Of the public treasury.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania
said the other day, and said it feel
ingly, appealing to this side of the
House Help us; save us from our
selves / cannot resist that feeling
appeal. Laughter ] 'annot resist
it, coming from such a source, for,
rep, 9, there man % ihls rei
~ v,-1ay wnv S.uss tine desires ani
purposes Of the Democratic party it is
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, for
he has been with it,"
(" lie was with rs last year." inter-
rupted Mr.. Bingham, Of Pennsylvania.
Yes" replied Mr.. Mckinley, " and
we were glad to have him. We were
glad to have him help us to defeat the
Morrison bill and is he to be punished
for that? Is that the meaning Of this
fight? If it is, then let us vote down
these rules. say that to my side Of
the House. II it is to punish the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania because he
helped to defeat bill intended to de-
stroy the industries Of the country
if that is what it means, / ask what
is the position of the Pennsylvania,
when he votes to strike him down. The
gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Ham
mond), gentleman in whom l have the
highest confidence, told us the other
day that his party was now in the
ascendant on trial that they had been
kept from the knowledge Of govern
mental affairs, and they were necessa-
rily green; and then he said he was
afraid to try this experiment. I'll tell
you, it is good sense it is good states
manship, to help gentlemen on that
side to keep up the barriers, to pre-
serve the dam at the head Of the stream,
lest you may not be able to erect it at
the foot"
damn them altogether" suggested
Mr.. Reed soto rOce.
yes" continued Mckinley, "my |
friend says damn them altogether
/ want to give him the benefit Of that in
the Record. lie has been trying to do
that for six or eight years in this
House, but he has not succeeded. The
party still comes up smiling. Laugh
ter and applause But another thing |
| want to say in this connection
If the Appropriations Committee in
the past, having had charge Of all Of
these appropriation bills, has acted as
check on iobbery and on the waste |
Of public expenditure land all will adj !
nit that il is), IN Gods name we need
that check nov, when the Democratic |
.arty has .aker eontrOl If ihis Coy
eminent. AZ we ever needed II, We
need IL now against the wild projects
and visionary schemes that will find
advocates in this house and we
especially need it in view Of the
fact that the first official message Of the
President Of the United States an
nounces to this House and the country
that on the estimated expenditures Of
the next fiscal year we are s24, 1000
short of the estimated revenues Of that
year. God knows that If economy was
needed in the past, it is necessary now
with threatened deficit. Our surplus
We left you is nearly gone. We cannot
save that, but we can do our utmost to
save ourselves from a large deficit"
Laughter and applause
Finally Mr.. Hammond offered an
amendment to strike out the distribu-
lion feature Of the report. This brought |
the House to a square vote on the
question, and the amendment was re-
iected by a vote of yeas, 20; nays,
226.
The following is the vote in detail
Yeas. --Messrs. Atkinson, BENEFIT, Bucha- |
an, Burnes, butterworth, Campbell OF New |
York, Gambler, Cannon, Caswell. Clements.
Cobb, Compton. Cowles, Dargan, Ely, Err |
Inentrout Eyerhart. f1eegar, foran. For |
Of IAr 10