Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-16
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON. Jan 15 1885

| HoUsE.-Mr. Bland of Missouri, intro duced bill repeating so much of the act of June 9, 1879, provides for the exchange and redemption of subsidiary coinage; refer red.
 MT. Cookery of Missouri, from the Com mittee on Accounts, reported . customary l joint resolution allowing discharged employees of the House one months extra pay; defeat ed after discussion about wasting the peo- ples money by vote of T yeas to 1S9 nays. TheHouse then resumed the consideration of the presidential succession bill, it's passage being advocated by MT. Dibble of South Car olina, who regarded it as far better statuto- ry provision than the existing law. Mir. Osborne, of Pennsylvania, regretted that he could not give the bill his sanction, but he could not find in the arguments in its support sufficient legal reasons to answer the constitutional objections he found to it. Mir. Rockwell, of Massachusetts, announced his support of the pending measure, not that he thought it by any means perfect, but be- cause he regarded it as much better than the present statute.
 MT. Baker, of New York, spoke briefly of the bill and was followed by MT. Ryan of Kansas, who, in admitting that in some re- spects it was far superior to the existing law, found in it some defects so fatal that he did not feel at liberty to vote for it. The latter gentlemen favored the settlement of the question by constitutional amendment and the amendment which he thought to be best was one providing for three vice presidents. At 3:30 NIT. Caldwell, of Tennessee, de- manded the previous question, which after a
 little parliamentary fencing was ordered yeas 146, nays 125. An amendment offered by MT. Adams, of Illinois, striking out the clause which repeals the sections of the re- vised statutes providing for special elections was rejected; yeas 113, nays 153. The vote was then taken on the substitute offered by MT. Mckinley, of Ohio, leaving in force the present law with the addition of provision that for the pur-
 pose of having a Speaker for the House of Representatives in office continually
 Congress shall convene at 12 o'clock noon on
 the 4th day of March next succeeding the election of representatives, and whenever a
 vacancy exists either in the office of President
 pro tenn. of the Senate or Speaker of the
 House the President shall convenne tine
 house in which the vacancy exists for the
 purpose of electing presiding officer. The substitute was rejected; yeas 10S, nays 157.
 The House was divided on these votes by
 party lines.
 MT. Ryan, of Kansas, moved to recomnlit
 the bill with instructions to the committee
 to report back joint resolution proposing
 constitutional amendment for the election of
 two or more vice presidents.
 MT. Everhard moved to amend so that the
 measure would devolye the presidential sue
 cession on the Speaker of the House, Presi
 dent pro tenn. of the Senate, Secretary of
 State, chief justice of the Supreme court,
 Secretary of the Treasury and Attorney Gen eral in the order named; rejected.
 MT. Ryan's motion was also lost.
 The bill was then passed-yeas 182, nays
 T-precisely it from the Senate. The negative vote was cast
 by Republicans and by Messrs. Ben nett and Green of New Jersey. The following named Republicans voted with the Democrats in the affirmative: Allen of
 Massachusetts, Atkinson, Baker and Browne of Indiana, Buck, Butterworth, Cutcheon,
 Ely, Gallinger, Hayden, Herman, Hiestand, Hiscock, Hit, James and Johnson of New
 York, Ketcham, Lafollette, Long, Markham, McComas, Moffatt, ,Negley, Payne, Pettibone, Price, Rockwell, Scranton, Steel, Strait, Struble, Swinburne, Symes, Wade, Wake field and Warner of Missouri and Weaver of Nebraska.
 The House then at 5:55 adjourned until