The Portland daily press., 1886-12-20
XLIXth CONGRESS.--SECOND SESSION
HOUSE.

WARRINGTON, Dec 10.
On motion Of Mr. Ward Of Indiana, the Senate
amendments TO the House bill, authorizing the
employment Of nail messengers in the postal SER
vice, were non-concurred in, and a conference
| ordered
In the morning hour, Mr.. Hill of Ohio, on be-
half of the committee on territories, called up
the bill providing for an additional associate Jus
tice Of the supreme Court of the Territory of
New Mexico. The bill was passed.
The House then went into committee OF the
whole on the Oklahoma Bill.
Mr., Barnes of Georgia opposed the bill because
II uld not PROVIDE any clearly defined territory
over which government was to be established
the extent OF the territory TO be governed being
e UPON ,he aolty oi tne TO
render portion of their land He believed that
the honor OF the country would be affected by the
BILL for good faith toward defenceless and inof-
fensive people required that 1t should not pass
Pending action the committee rose. and the
morning honr expired. Instantly hush fell over
the House, and the noise in the galleries ceased.
All eyes were turned upon Mr.. Merrison, wnO
arising in his seat, said
"Mr. Speakers move that the House resolve
itself into the committee Of the whole on the
state OF the Union for the purpose of considering
revenue bills"
Mr. Mckinley Of ohio-And on that / demand
During the roll call absolute silence rsIgned in
the House. and many members, with pencil in
hand, were figuring on the vote.
follows:
SoJ, Bacon, Baientine, I'll T Bar6oar BarEsdsie auisH
BBSTne Barry Belmont Bennett
caidwe Felix caSgDbeli N STfnnm Tm osGe ca@p
bell On: ", Cagdler, Carleton, CatchIngs,
Slagdy Clements COBB Collins Compton Com
Crisp, Crexton, Culberson, Daniels, Dargan,
Davidson Fla, Davidson (Ala.l Dawson, bib
Findlay, Fisher, Ford, Forney, Frederick, Gfb.'
q, Hale, Hail Aal,eil, Hammond: 'fI Harris, RS,
IN. O.. Herbert Hewitt, Hin, Holman, Howard,
Houk, Hutton, Johnston, n. C), Jones (AIa.),
IoVerine Lowrey s Matson aM Maybarv bfM MccreSry
McMlllin, McCrea, Miller, Mills, Morgan, Morri-
son. son; murphy, X Neal; Neiee, Nelson; Norwood,
Pendar, Richardson, Riggs, Robertson, Riggers,
kusk, 8addler, Sayres, Seymour, Shaw, Single
Stone Mass Stone Rys R9sssa Stone 'eSS5 MOI Slew Slew
arr Swope, Tarsuey, Tanlbee, j. NJ Taylor
lTenn.), ;, Throckmorton, TiIlman Townshend,
White (Minn),. Willis, Wilson, Winans, Welse,
Waltord, Worthington. Speaker Carlsle-l49
Anderson (Kan), Atkinson, Baker. Bayne, Bing-
ham Bliss, Bsund, Bontelle, Boyle, Brady,
Bnes BUnne prBwd BuSroMs
Campbell (Pa.), Campbell lo). Cannon, Caswell,
Conger, Cooper, Curtin, Cutoheon, Davenport,
trout, Evans, Everhart, Farquhar, FELTON,, Flee
ger, Foran, Fuller, Funston, Day. Geddes, Gil
hllan' Con, Green IN. }, Grosvenor, Grout, ,Guen-
Lher; Hanback,, Harmer, Haynes, !, Hender-
hiestand, Hires, Hiseock, Hit, Holmes, Hopkins,
Houk, IriOn, jackson, James, johnson Of New
York, johnson (Ihd), Kelley, Ketcham, LaFol-
lette, Laird, Lawler, Lefe re, Lehlbaek, Libby,
Lindsey, Long. Loutit, Lyman, Markham, Mar
tin, MeAdo0, McComas, McKenna, McKeney.
Merriman. Miller, Milliken, Moffat, Morrill,, Nor
row, Muller, Negley, ODonnell O'Hara, ONeill,
Perkins, Peters, Pettibone, Phelps, Pierce, Plumb
Randall, Ranney. Reed (Me.), Rice, Rockwell,
ROmeis, R0well, Ryan, Sawyer, Scranton, Seney,
Sessions, Smals, Sowden, Spooner, Spriggs, Stahl.
necker Steele, Stephenson, Stewart lVt), st.
Martin, strlbeI, swinburne, Symmes, Z. B. Tay-
lor (o.), j. Il: Taylor (o.), Zach Taylor (Tenn.),
Thomas (Ill), Thomas (Wis.1, Thompson, Van
Schack, Wade, Wadsworth, Ward, Wallace,
Ward lIll), Warner IO9, Weaver lNeb), Weber,
West, White lPa.l, wilkins and Woodburn-154.
The announcement. was received with some
applause on the Republican side, but 1t was quick
ly suppressed.
Tine ielaewlng Democrats voted in the negative;
Ermentrout. Foran, Gay, Geddes Green of New
Jersey, Irlon, Lawler, LeFevre, Martin, McAdoo
sprlggs, stahlnecker, st. Martin, Wallace, Ward
Of Illinois, Warner of Ohio and wilkins
The following Republicans In the Affirmative:
Messrs: Hayden, Nelson, Stone Of Massachusetts,
Strait, Wakefield and White of Minnesota.
Mr.. Herbert Of Alabama attempted to call up
the naval reorganization bill, but was antag0nized
by Mr. Crisp OF Georgia with the Pacific railroad
funding bill, and the Speaker ruled that the ques-
ti0n must first be taken ON calling up the latter
measure, as It was prior special order.
On a standing vote, there was majority Of III
to 40 in favor of its consideration.
Mr.. Holman demanded the yeas and nays, pend
ing which Mr.. Springer made hlibustering
carried its opponents not having sufficient force
to order the yeas and nays.