Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-19
HOUSE.

HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, June Bills passed for the
erection of public buildings at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, and Sioux City, Iowa, and spropriating
100000 for each.
The Pacific railroad extension bill was then
taken up.
Mr.. Henley opposed the bill. He attributed
to Charles Francis Adams the statement that
the free pass list of the Union Pacific Railroad
company cost the government 5000 per day.
Mr.. Long said that Mr.. Adams courted the
fullest investigation. There was nothing t.
be concealed In the management Of the road
Mr.. Henley said that il the allegations con
tanned In the resolution were true Charlie,
Francis Adams and his associates should b,
wearing the stripes Of . convict In the pen
Tertiary.
Mr.. Henley proceeded to argue against tn
bill, and declared that 1t Was time to apply al
heroic remedy 10 the ease OF the Pacific rail
roads.
Mr.. Weaver advocated the payment Of tn,
first mortgage bonds in eleven years.
Mr.. Springer, Mr.. Holman and Mr.. Weaver
opposed the bill.
After a sharp discussion between Messrs,
Holman ard Crisp, the previous question was
ordered on the engrossment, and the third
reading of the bill, but the opponents of the
measure, showing n disposition to fllibuster
until s O'Clock, and thus prevent "A vote upon
the bill itself, Mr.. Crisp yielded TO the inevi-
table and stated that he would endeayor To
secure "A vote on Tuesday next. The house
then adjourned.
WASHINGTON, June Mr.. Kelley, rising to
a question Of privilege, cited the rule under
which the HOUSE meets on Friday nights for
consideration Of pension bills. He found in
the Record Of yesterday a twenty five-column
speech on Edwin NJ. Stanton, delivered by
the representative from the eighth dis
trict of Alabama (Wheeler), when, he
avowed, there was no pension business before
the house. The sessions which had been set
apart for consideration of meritorious bust
ness were being perverted to the ba ,est ends
the slaCder Of the illustrious dead who died
from devoted services to their country. Mr..
Kelley moved to e. )unge the speech from the
Record, and ann 4nccd that he would call up
the motion on Tuesday.
Under call of states, Mr.. Weaver, Of Iowa,
offered a resolution, which was referred, re-
citing that it is currently reported, and gen
orally believed, that certain directors of the
Union Pacific or Kansas Pacific Railway com
panies have been faithless In theiI trusts in
various ways, and particularly In buying stock
of the Kansas Pacific at a nominal or small
sum and transferring it to the Union Pacific,
then selling the same at "A great profit,
by which, and other similar transac-
tons, the directors made great personal gains
and neglected to account for the same to the
Union Pacific, and directing the judiciary com
mittee to inquire into the transactions OF the
directors OF both companies since incorpora
ton. If the committee finds the directors
have made gains which they should have nc
counted for to either corporation they are di
rected to bring in a bill authorizing the de
partment Of justice to commence proceedings
to compel the directors to render true proceed
ings.
graduated income tax.
.ir. Mahoncv, of New York, offered a reso-
luton expressing the sympathy of the house
with Gladstone and his associates. Referred
to the committee on foreign affairs.
The motion by Mr.. Cobb to suspend the
rules and pass the bill to repeal the pre-.
emption, timber, culture and desert land
acts prevailed. The rules were suspended and
the bill passed by a vote of lSS to 40.
The bill to construct a bridge across the Ar
thur Kill was passed.
The house then adjourned.
WASHINGTON, June .-Mr. Kelly called ny
as a privileged question the motion to ex
pungc Mr.. Whceler's speech from the Record
He based his question Of privilege on a con
scious, deliberate, persistent abuse Of the or
der of the house by the representative from
the Eighth district of Alabama. In lieu o.
the motion made yesterday he submitted
resolution reciting that Mr.. Wheeler had beer
guilty Of abuse of the order Of the house, in
asmuch as his speech had not been made upor
any pension bill, and declaring that as th'
delivery of his speech was without the sane
ton OF the house, and in contravention OF
special order, said speech be eXpungcd from
the Record and prohibiting the public printe
from publishing it. in pamphlet or othc
form.
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, raised a point OF or
der against the resolution. The speech ha.
been made by unanimous consent of tn
house, and therefore could not be an offens,
against the house.
The speaker replied that 1t was not in tn,
province of the chair TO decide whether Il
was an abuse or not. 1t was alleged TO be an
abuse by the gentleman from pennsylvania
The question was to be decided by the house
Mr.. Kelly then proceeded to address the
house. Mr.. Kelly read a letter from Secretary
Stanton In which Stanton referred 10 charges
against himself regarding his relations Will
Gen. Mcclellan. Mr.. Kelly also read a shor
extract from a letter from Gen. Grant shown
his high opinion Of Mr.. Stanton.
Mr.. Morrison then cut short further discus
sion by moving to refer Mr.. Kelly's resolution
to the committee ON rules. Agreed to-76 Il
80.
The house then went into committee Of tn
whole, Mr. Blount I'm the chair, on the legisla
tive, executive and judicial appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Holman wished TO call attention to In,
startling rapidity with which the expenditure
of the government were being increased
Passing on to consideration Of the clause max
ing an appropriation for the civil service com
mission, he stated that the amount appropri
atcd was the same AS that given for the pres
ent fiscal year, $2l 400; but there was a pro
viso ADDED requiring certifcation Of the entir'
list of applicants from each state who hat
passed examination. This requirement, he ar
gucd, was not a change In the existing law
but was simply a limitation OF the expenditure
OF money.
MI. Cannon argued that the proposed
change In rules Of the civil service commission
was out Of order in an appropriation bill, be
ing a plain change Of law.
Mr.. Oates, from the committee on judiciary
asked leave to report back the Edmunds anti
polygamy bill, but Mr.. Game, OF Utah, oh
jected.
The point was made that the delegate hat
no right 10 object, and the speaker took th'
point under advisement.
The house then adjourned.
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