Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-19


upon the favored places freely the
golden shower of Jupiter or Danae. Nor is
the sun III every instance directed by ade-
quate Importance or necessity. 1t is uure-
stricted by uupronounCeable names, 10y oh.
security of situation, by dearth Of water, 10y
mass of obstruction, 10y difficulty OF distance
or 10y lack of people
Bayous are to he improved whore
the alligator wallOws and the pell-
can feeds and inlets where King Frost
holds his carnival i'll palaces OF ice ; aud
shores which seem rs remote and fabulous
as those OF Calypso or Atlantis.
There is nothing, Mr.. Chairman, which
seems too Incredible to he embraced within
the limits of this bill Applause.
The Chairman. The gentleman time has
expired.
MIR. Brumm. II the chair will recognize
me | will take the floor and yield my time
to the gentleman from Pennsylvania
The Chairman. The chair recognizes the
gentleman from Missouri.
Mr.. Stone of Missouri. | will take the
floor aud yield my time t" the gentleman
from Pennsylvania
Mr.. Willis | move, Mr.. Chairman, the
committee rise.
Mr.. Dunham. The gentleman from Missouri
(Mr. Stone) has yielded his time to the gen
tlemau from Pennsylvania
Mr. Willis. | object | have moved that
the committee rise. | will give the time to
the gentleman from Pennsylvania after
wards
Mr.. O'Neill, at Pennsylvania There must
be some way i'll which NY colleague can
have an opportunity to conclude his re-
marks.
Mr.. Willis. My object is to give the gen.
tleman time i'll the way prescribed 10y the
rules.
Mr.. Cutcheon. What is the regular order
at this time
The Chairman. The chair will state the
business of the House
Mr.. Durham. l rise to point OF order.
The Chairman. The gentleman will state
it.
Mr. Dunham My point of order is that
the chair recognized the gentleman from
Missouri, who took the floor and yielded his
time to the gentlemen from Pennsylvania
My point Is that the gentleman from Penn
syivanIa is now entitled to the floor.
Mr.. Willis. If the gentleman will hear
me Tor moment, there is no room for any
division of sentiment on the question. The
rules provide that five minutes shall be al
lowed III support ot an amendment and then
without unanimous consent there can be no
further debate until i've minutes shall be
occupied in opposition to it.
l simply propose to move that the COM
mittee rise Tor the purpose OF limiting debate
to five minutes, with the intention of yield
ing that time To the gentleman from Penn
sylvania. | shall ask unanimous consent, If
necessary, that five minutes time be granted
to the gentleman from Pennsylvania with
the understanding that that will close the de-
pate upon thls nstupn anu amendments
thereto.
Mr. Durham. | ask ior ruling on the
point OF order have made.
The Chairman. The gentleman from llli-
nOis asks for ruling upon the point of order
aud the chair is ready to rule upon it. The
chair recognized the gentleman from Penn
syivania MIR. Everhsril, who consumed five
minutes IN support of his amendment The
gentleman from Missouri Mr.. Stone then
took the floor, having been recognized by
the chair. He yielded his time to the gen.
tleman from Pennsylvania, who IS now en-
titled to the five minutes additional by
unanimous consent of the House, because IT
requires unanimous consent OF the House to
give him ten minutes.
Mr.. Willis. | object, tor the reason that
shall give the gentleman five minutes after
the debate is limited
Mr. Dunham. But the gentleman from
Missouri wants five minutes also.
The Chairman. The chair Will submit the
request to the House. Is there objection to
allowing the gentleman from Pennsylvania
hye minutes additional time?
Mr.. Reagan. | object.
Mr.. WILLIS ! now ask that 10y unanimous
consent the debate upon this section and all
amendments thereto be limited to five min
utes; intending to yield that time to the
gentleman from Pennsylvania.
Mr.. Perkins. But the gentleman from
Missouri wants five minutes also.
Mr.. Willis. Then / will ask to make it
Mr.. Reed, of Maine. Upon what question
was the gentleman from Pennsylyan ad-
dressing the committee
The Chairman. Upon an amendment
offered by him.
Mr.. Reed, OF Maine. 1t was that the bill
be laid aside To be reported adversely to the
House, as ] understand IL
The Chairman. The clork will report the
amendment OF the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr. Everhart. My amendment WAS that
the bili be reported adversely instead OF
fayOrably.
The Chairman. The gentleman will send
up his amendment
Mr.. Reed, of Maine. / suggest to the chair
that the tve-minute rule does not apply to
the amendment of the gentleman of Penn
sylvania
Mr.. Bayne. BY way of simplifying this
matter, as II Is not necessary TO wait tor the
amendment TO be written, | will state that
the amendment of my colleague is that the
bill be reported back adversely. The pr,po-
sition OF the gentleman from kentucky was
that 1t be reported iavorably. My colleague
moved az an amendment that it he reported
unfaYOraby.
MIR. Cutcheon. 1t was To insert the word
"not' before the word I" iavOrably" in the
motion OF the gentlemap from Kentucky.
The Chairman, The gentleman from Ken.
lucky Mr.. Willisl now asks unanimous
consent that the time Tor debate on this para
graph of the bill and all amendments be
limited to ten minutes. Is there objection ?
There was no objection and IL was 30 or
dered.
MIR. willie now yield five minutes OF
that tlme TO the gentleman from Pennsyl-
vania Mr., Eyerhartl
The Chairman. The gentleman is entitled
by unanimous consent to live minutes and
alter the expiration OF five minutes more
which the chair understands is 10 be Welded
10 the gentleman from Missouri, making ten
minutes III all, the debate is closed.
Mr.. Everhart Mr.. Chairman | was saw.
ing thaI the scope aud purpose of the bill are
extraordinary, Every sort of Information
and construction seems to have been EN-.
ployed in order to extend this committee's a
jurisdiction. Channels beset with mud or
rocks, or rapids, are tO be deepened or
widened, without the ultimate possibilities
OF commerce. Canals are To be bought. or
built, or seized, or accepted, and tunnels are
To be- pierced, bridges To be sprung, dikes
aud dams 10 be constructed, for the apparent
relief of particular states or riparian owners.
Enormous experiments, which hitherto
have failed, are 10 be repeated with aggra,
waited cost on the "Father OF Waters" with
no assurance of better benefits To navigation.
So the bill orders which is now before us.
such is this unpretentious roll, which
refers to places which no gazetteer has
ever mentioned; 10 nomenclature which
no polyglot lexicon can explain and "a
regions OF climatic variations with which no
signal bureau corresponds Laughter an d
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