St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-29
THE sUNDRY CIVIL BILL.
Settling the Silver and Land CUES
tiOns..A Row on the Floor.

slOnS..A Ii low on the Floor.
WASHINGTON, July 2s.-The house
went into committee of the whole, Mr..
Blount OF Georgia in the chair, on the SEN
ate amendments to the sundry civil appro-
prlation bill. The amendments were con-
Sldered without discussion and the recon-
mendations of the committee on appropria-
tions were agreed to until the clause re-
latlng to silver certificates was reached.
Mr.. Bland of Missouri offered an amend
ment, providing that the certificates shall be
issued on all the standard silver dollars in the
treasury and paid out on the expenditures
and obligations of the government, and when
received in the treasury shall be reissued.
The amendment was rejected, 81 to ST. and
the clause was agreed to in the shape recon-
mended by the committee on appropriations.
The next question upon which hitch &C.
Cured was the senate amendment reducing
from $500, 600 to $780, the appropriation
for the protectio of the public lands against
fraudulent entries. The committee on appro-
prIatlonS recommend concurrence on the
amendment, but Mr. Holman moved non
currence and made a speech, in which he
stated the necessity of protecting the peoples
land against fraudulent entries. Mr.. Toun-
shend, Illinois, and Mr.. Cobb, Indiana, took
the same ground, and the latter reiterated
the same assertion that which he has made
before upon the floor, that 80 per cent. of the
entries in the Northwest were fraudulent.
This aroused the Indignation of the represent
atlves OF that section, and Mr.. Ryan and Mr..
Perkins, Kansas, Mr.. Dorsey, Nebraska, and
MIR. NELSON OF MINNESOTA
denied the correctness of the assertion. Mr.
Nelso declared that Mr.. Cobb and the men
from whom he got his information uninten-
tonally slandered the people of the West He
then paid his respects to the special agents of
the land Office, characterizng them as a very
cheap lot of men, who never interfered with
the big men who could pay them tribute but
spied into the affairs OF the honest farmer
VINO entered half or quarter section. The
object of the large appropriation was that the
Democratic party might pay its political
debts and give office to lot of bummers. Mr..
Cobb called attention to the fact that this
kind of speech always came from repre-
sentative of that section where the fraud was
charged. He referred to the charges of fraud
made by the special agents. and said that the
gentlemen over the way were
STANDING BY THESE FRAUDS.
Mr. Dorsey-They are not frauds.
Mr.. Cobb-You say so, 1 know. You are
one of the men the agents have in view
Mr.. dorsey (threateningly)-Do you
charge that against me, my friend
NOW mind" replied Mr.. Cobb. IT will
make charges when the proof justifies them,
and not until then. I made no charge"
Mr.. Dorsey-You said l was one of those
men.
Mr.. Cobb said you were like one of the
men the agents referred to.
The motion to non-concur was lost, Sc to
Ill, and the amendment was concurred in.
The other amendments were concurred in
or non-concurred in, according TO the recon-
mendaton of the committee on appropria-
tons, aud the committee of the whole rose
and reported the bill and amendments to the
house. Mr.. Bland (Me.) demanded separate
vote upon concurring in the senate amend
ment to the silver certificate clause as
amended. 1t was so concurred in 116 to 35,
Mr.. Bland not being able to muster a sufficient
following to order the yeas and nays The
action of the committee of the whole on the
other amendments was then ratified and
conference ordered. Mr.. Holman Qnd) SUBJ
mitted the conference report on the legisla-
tive appropriation bill, and it was agreed to.
The house then adjourned.