Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-02
FIGHTS on MONEY BILLS.
EDMUNDS AND BECK CHlOE THE
HOUSE FOR HARDNESS.

to-day Mr.. Allison called up the House
joint resolution extending the appropria-
tions for ten DAYS. Mr.. Edmunds called
attention to this way of doing business
and to the present state OF affairs. For
several years past appropriation bills
were not sent to the Senate in time TO
have them properly considered, and when
they came to the President he had no time
to examine them, but had either 30 sign
them blEdly or to veto them blindly. He
gave list Of dates at which the appro-
prlation bills were received by the Senate
for the last three or four Congresses, and
said that this was not creditable to Con-
gress.
UNWORTHY OF CONFIDENCE.
If Congress could not better administer
public business in the most important OF
its features (prOper control OF the public
money, it was not deserving of the conf
dence of the people. He thought, there
fore, that the Senate ought to take some
step in some lawful and cOnstItu-
tional and respectful way 10 see
if 1t cannot get on with
this important public business in
reasonable, respectable, and satisfactory
manner. If they could not bring them
selves into better fashions about this busi-
ness ne should rather let the wheels Of
the government stop by refusing to pass
this joint resolution. The passing OF such
resolutions was a very confusing and
mischiev0us practice.
TEN DAYS RIDICULOUS.
Mr.. Beck stated that an extension for
ten days was simply absurd. The sundry
civil bill had not yet reached the Senate,
and that bill alone would require at least
three weeks for its consideration. Since
throwing grass had no effect, he was in
favor of trying the efficacy of stones; and
ne thought that 1t would do no harm to
let the departments close for a week.
Mr.. Salisbury called attention 80 the
fact that this delay in appropriation bills
was no new thing. lie understood that
when Mr.. Buchanan was President he
refused to sign important bills that did
not reach him ten days before the eXpIra-
tion of the session. After further discus
sion the joint resolution was amended by
extending the time to fifteen days and
passed,
THE BILL TAKEN UP.
The Senate then resumed consideration
Of the Legislative appropriation bill. A
| long discussion took place on the point of
order as to whether the amendment TO in
sert the words I'm full compensation"
was or was not in coutlict with the rule
Tne onalr submlrJed the question to the
Senate and the amendment was de-
cIded to be in order, and it
was agreed to. A still longer dis
cussion took place on the proposition
of the Committee on Appropriations to
strike out the paragraph for office work
connected with the publication Of the
records of the late war, it being charged
that these records were not edited with
impartiality, and were not confined to
records Of the war period, A particular
instance of this nature WAS dWelt upon
that of the Fitz-JOhn Porter matter. FL
nally the paragraph was retained, but
with a proviso restricting the publication
to contemporaneous events of the war,
and another proylsO directing the publi-
cation of the evidence in the Porter case
and the report thereon by Judge Advocate
General Holt.
The bill was reported back to the Senate
All the amendments on which separate
votes were not demanded were agreed to
in bulk. The reserved amendments are to
be acted on tomorrow under the five
minute debate rule. The Senate then, at
7 O'Clock, adjourned.
sUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS.
The House to-day went into COM
mittee of the whole on the suudry
civil appropriation bill. The appro-
priation for the public printing Of
ice was M ade the occasion for another
heated partisan debate, IN the course of
which Mr.. Bayne, Of Pennsylvania. after
avoiding several points of order, sue
ceeded in reading from the speech made
in the Senate yesterday by Senator Beck,
in which he expressed his humiliation
that the house should re-
duce appropriations so that the mem
bers of the body could 20 before the coun-
try and tell how econamical the House
was and how pXtraVagant the Senate.
He also read published interview with
Mr.. Holman, in which that gentleman is
represented as saying that the eXtrava-
gance of the present House IN voting ap-
propriatOns was an outrage on the peO-
pie and a violation of the party's pledge.
LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD.
MIR. Randall. acting under instructions
from the Committee on Appropriations,
offered an amendment apprOpriating $47,-
900 to meet the expenses OF the Inaugural
ton Of the statue OF Liberty Enlightening
the World.
Mr.. Hewitt, of New York, offered sub
stiJute approprlating $l06, 100 Tor that
purpose.
Mr.. Bland raised a point Of order
against both propositions.
MIR. Hewitt arZded against the point,
and coming down TO the merits Of the
proposition, he said that the time mad
come when the unparalleled evidence of
sympathy and good Will of the sister re-
public was to be inaugurated by the
President Of the United States in the
presence Of the donors and the civilized
globe, which would look on the monument
as one OF the grandest achievements of art
and as proof that free peoples retained
for each other a feeling OF regard and
sympathy higher than ali mercenary con-
siderations Of trade and commerce. IL
was o tribute from the heart Of the French
people to the heart or the American
people.
Mr.. Belmont seconded Mr.. Hewitrs
amendment.
HAMMOND's LIBERALITY.
Mr.. Hammond, Of Georgia, spoke
against the point OF order and N favor OF
appropriating suitable sum 10 inau-
ourate the statue in a proper manner.
Should the government 20 IN niQg8rdly
way and take of ia hat TO The French
people say: ave are much Obliged" or
should 1t in dignihed manner make ever
memorable the day on which The inau-
guration occutredY 10 WAS the duty of
the government 10 do the latter.
The point OF order was overrulsd.
Finally Mr.. Hewitt's substitute, slightly
modified, was agreed to by vote of ll6 TO
80.
THE CLAUSE FINALLY STRICKEN OUT.