Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-04


Treasury, with instructions 70 report
the facts TO Congress next session.
Dir. Manderson inquired - 70 the
item Cor fifteen days leave Of sbssace
to the employees Of the Govsrnm 'n'
Printing. Office.
Mr. Hale said that the item was re-
tanned. As to the item for the Bra
I'll Steamship Company the appropriA-
ton Is struck out, and clause subst'.
tuted directing the Postmastsr-G General
TO report ct the next session
the amount Of services rendered
and the sum Justly and equits-
bly, due. The item to pay the
Central Pacific Railroad Company for
services on its non. subsidized lines Is also
struck out. The item IS to the Wash.
irgton aqueduct and tunnel is retained,
vith the provision that the Board OF
Engineers lo7 Fortifications and River
and. Barbor improvements shall report
whether any changes are necessary IN
the method Of lining the tunnel, and
tie method Of lining and perfecting the
reservoir.
MIR. Hear asked how the appropria-
ton bills Of this session compared with
those Of preceding sessions, with regard
10 the omission by the House OF Repre-
sentatives OF items Of appropriation ab-
solu,ely necessary for the operation Of
the Government, and depending upon
the Republican Senate to put them in.
MIR. Bale replied that in his opinion
this practice Of the House was becom-
ing worse from year 10 year. The SEN
ale found bills sent over from the
House fractional and incomplete. 1t
would find, for example, in regular
estimates, one third Of the items
have been left out, while there was
no difference in the point OF merit
between those omitted and those in
cluded. This did give rise to state
m,nts more or less declamatory in an.
other branch Of the Government as to
the extravaganza OF the Senate, while
the fact was the Senate was very care
fnl TO put in nothing that was not neces-
ssry 10 the running Of the Government.
There were impatient utterances at
being charged with these increased APP
preparations, and be was bound to say
for The Committee On Appropriations
that in dealing with this subject it had
not been treated as party matter,
Democratic members having mani
tested the same impotence as Republi-
cans.
MIR. Ejmunds read from the book Of
estimates the items of deficiency esti-
mated for by the heads Of Departments,
sggregatipg more than $4,000, 600, and
said it was just as well known when
the regular appropriation bills were
passed last year that the sums appro-
pristed were inadequate to the necessi-
ties of the Government as il is to-day;
but they we're not increased because an
opportunity was wanted to tell the dear
people and workingmen how economical
Congress had been.
The report was agreed to.
MIR. Allison, from the COMMITTEES on
Appropriations, reported back the joint
resolution appropriating $4,000 addi-
tional for the purchase Of land for a site
for the Congressional Library.
Mr.. Plumb objected 10 it's present
consideration. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Wilson reported back the House
Joint resolution TO continue the appro-
priations temporarily until the 5th in
stsnf. Messrs. Plumb and Edmunds
objected to its present consideration.
Mr.. Allison asked that the objection
be Withdrawn, and stated that if the
resolutions were not passed those en-
ployees whose compensation is provided
for in the sundry civil bill could not be
paid for the time intervening between
the last day of July and the
day when that bill would receive the
Presidents signature. Mr.. Plumb
declined to withdraw he obi ected.
being willing, he said, to leave with
the House the responsibility for its tar
diness in sending appropriation bills to
the Senate, and the change Of rule in
| the House by which seven or eight of
the general appropriation bills were
taken from the Appropriations Com
mittee. lie might particularize enough
to show where the blame rested, but as
The House tolerated the autocracy
which controlled its business, it became
itself responsible for all delay.
The Joint resolution was placed on
the calendar.
Mr.. Allison, from the same commit
tee, reported back the House adjourn
ment resolution with an amendment
charging the time from the 2Sth Of July
to 4 p. NJ. 4th Of August.
MIR. Hosr expressed his dissent to the
passage Of this or any other adjourn
ment resolution until the Senate had
considered the bill reported by him from
the judiciary Committee on April 18th
for an "inquest" under national au-
thority. lie referred to the massacres
during the last few years in Louisiana,
South Carolina, Alabama: Mississippi.
and other southern States, and stated
that in every one of these cases, so far as
vas shown to the people Of the North
by the press, a negro and Republican
was the victim and q Democrat and
white man the sggressor. He quoted
largely from a pamphlet containing
public addresses Of Fred. Douglass,
whom he characterized as the most con-
spicuous and distinguished colored man
in this country. and as a man Of alice
tionate and gentle nature, who was
| famous for the pacific character of his
counsels to his people. If any Of the
outrages so eloquently described by
Douglass had been perpetrated on an
American citizen in Mexico or Canada
Congress would not adjourn until it had
made provisions to put the national de-
fences in condition for war.
MIR. Kenna protested against the
speech made by the Senator from Mas
sachusetts in the closing hours Of the
session. That speech would 20 into
the Record and would go into the cam
paign as bloody-shirt campaign docu'
ment with fraud on it), carried free
through the mails fer the purpose Of
agitatipg sectional sentiments and feel
ings which $50 far as he was con-
| IA $500 la.d snd urnuld remain SO