St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-13
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
A Discussion Over the Springfield,
Mass, Armory.

WASHINGTON, May 12.-After the
transaction of routine business in the house.
Mr.. Belmont of New York called up the
joint resolution providing an indemnity to
certain Chinese subjects for losses sustained
within the jurisdiction of the United States,
with special reference to the riot at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
The amount to be appropriated is
S147, 900, and several members argued
against it as bad precedent, claiming that
persons who lost property in other riots
could consistently claim remuneration from
the national government. as for example
those who suffered in the late Chicago and
Milwaukee riots.
The morning hour having expired, the
committee rose and the house again
went into committee of the whole
on the army appropriation bill.
Mr.. Rockwell of Massachusetts moved to
| increase, from $500, 600 to $500, 600, the
appropriation for the manufacture of arms
| at the Springfield armory. MI. Long of
| Massachusetts, supported the amendment.
| Small arms were needed, there being only
surplus of 100000 government rifles in the
country, while the secretary of war had
stated that the surplus should never be al
lowed to fall below 500, 900. This was not
good time to strike at the interests of
skilled labor. 1t was not desirable thing
to pass bill that was going to turn out
one-fourth of the skilled laborers at Spring
field, when there was need for their work.
Mr.. Bragg of Wisconsin suggested that. the
amendment might have been offered be-
cause Springfield happened to be in the
district of the gentleman from MasSachus-
etts (Mr. RockwelD. There was no
| PROSPECT OF FOREIGN WAR
and if the government was to manufacture
muskets for the purpose of supporting the
government by shooting down its citizens,
| it was time the Springfield armory was
| blotted out. He did not believe in the doc
trine that it was necessary to manufacture
arms in order to preserve peace among the
people. When the government was pinned
| together with cartridges and bayonets, the
first match would set fire to it. Mr.. Rock
well repealed the Impeachment that he had
been impelled to offer the amendment by
the fact that the Springfield armory was in
his district. Ordinary courtesy fell as
coidly on the gentlenan's (Mr. Bragg's)
| heart as ''icy waves on wind swept
i shore" The motion was agreed tO-S6 to
81. The committee then rose and the house
by a vote Of yeas 103, nays 106, refused to
agree to the Springfield armory amendment
| dilu lHe Dlll was paSSeu
| Mr.. Brumm, of Pennsylvania, rising
to question of privilege, stated
that the record this morning was
incorrect; that it made Mr.. Wheeler of
Alabama use the language yesterday "the
conspirator, E. M. Stanton while the
language employed had been. ''the arch
conspirator, Edwin NJ. Stanton" Mr..
Hammond of Georgia disclaimed any
knowledge of the facts, but added sarcas-
| tically. that if the facts were circulated by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, a cor
rection of the record should be made. 1t
was very important that the
ADJECTIVE SHOULD BEIN.
Some gentlemen did not object to being
called a liar" who, if called a id
liar" would get very mad. Mr. Morrison
of Illinois did not see that any question of
privilege was involved. His recollection
was that the gentlemen from Alabama did
use the word ''arch." 1t was very COM
mon custom to revise the record" and
when gentlemen found he had stopped
over, to take out his language. The
| gentleman from Alabama might
with entire proprety. have erased
the word ''conspirator' also. 1t would not
have hurt anything or anybody. Mr.. Reed
OF Maine remarked that a matter like this
| always Sliidlh Ill tIlc cOOll0g, ana the won
der was that it had not shrank more ''Just
as our friend from Michigan Mr. Cutcheon)
did when he made an assault on Gen. Grant
and took it out of the record suggested
Mr.. Springer of Illinois. IF some of the
gentlemen on the other side had done the
same thing" retorted Mr.. Reed, sit would
have been better for history
Mr.. Dunn of Arkansas thought it was
important that the journal should speak
the truth, but not many people expected
the record to tell the truth. MIR. Wheeler
admitted that he had used the prefix
''arch," but stated that he had struck it
out from the record because it had stirred
up
| SOME FEELING IN THE HOUSE.
The correction was ordered made. The
house then went into committee of the
whole (Mr. Hatch of Missouri in the cbair)
on the diplomatic and consular bill. MIR.
Cannon of Illinois criticized the report of
the committee as misleading, on the ground
that it claimed that the bill had reduced
the appropriation for the service, while in
reality it increased the appropriation $780,
600 over that for the current year. In