Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-10

LOhDA L, JULY III,
Columbia, when the proportion due to the Dis
Irlct was less than three for the year ending
January 10th. 1885. Adopted.
Also O resolution calling on the Secretary Of
any employees in his department are granted
leaves OF absence for more than thirty days in
any one year. Adopted.
GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL.
The House then resumed the consideration oi
the general deficiency bill, the pending Ques
lected.
MR. RANDALL DENIES.
Mr.. Randall (Pa.) said it was stated in q New
York newspaper that he had been intention.
ally absent at the time that this matter came
up In cominittee of the whole and q brother OF
MS was interested in the claims as attorney.
ne hao known nothing Of the matter at that
time, but he had since learned that his brother
was not interested-directiy or indirectly in
the matter. However, that would make no
dinerence to him, as everybody knew. But he
bad right 10 say that in committee he had re-
sisted these claims in every possible way, and
ne would continue to do so.
Mr. cannon (lll.) confirmed the truth of the
statement that the gentleman had resisted these
@ Claims, Out suggested that he had given no rea-
Mr.. Randall replied that his reason was that
ne d1d not think that the appropriation would
Inc amendment was rejected-yeas 1O4,
nays 10S.
COULD NOT VOTE FOR THE BILL.
The bill having been ordered engrossed and
read the third time, MIR. Burnes (Io.), who has
charge OF the measure, said that it had been sc
amended in committee of the whole that ii
Was impossible for MIN to vote for it.
OPPOSING EXTRA PAY TO CAPITOL EMPLOYEES
Mr.. Reagan Texas) then took the floor to
emphasize his opposition to the amendment
adopted yesterday granting a months extra
pay TO the House and Senate employees. This
amendment, he said, was calculated to take
from the Treasury at least $2OU.UoU, eXtorted
from the taxpayers, to be given as Il pure gratu.
salaries.
MIR. Hepburn uowa) inquired as to the differ.
ence between the proposition and the joint
resolution introduced by air. Reagan giving AN
entire years salary to The representatives oi a
dead empioye when that eul pioye let no wife
no children, no family except lobbyist who
Infested the corridors OF the Capitoi.
MIR. Reagan did not think tnaL the gentleman
should attack the accuracy Oh his present posi-.
ton by showing that he had done something
wrong in the past In introducing the resolu.
tlon 10 which the gentleman referred ne mad
ioiioWeo line OF precedent, ana lie nid done II
by request He again attacked the extra pay
clause. Members mad voted iOr it merely u
beuefit some fliends mere At the expense vi the
Taxpayers at nome. Inc wnOie sy stem Was vi
clous; II Was plunderiug of the treasury, and
1t ought to be rebuked.
Mir. Price '(Wis) severely criticised the bill
declaring that 1t was marred ana SCARED all
over Win frauds upon the people, and he ar.
raigned members tor voting ior propositions
merely because they benefited sucn and sucn a
person or Mad been offered by sUcu aud Sucn u
menoer. Would MemDers never learn that
they ought to white out their own cOnci u
slons, iusteaG OF being driven along like cattle.
Dr. Helnpniii Is. C.) protested aeainSt giving
gratultles W the employees OF the House. II was
wrong III them 70 ASK IL; il Was worse in Con
gresS To give it.
Mr. NI..A 7 \ fha
Gentlemen who would not make a Christmas
present To ii servant who mad been in employ.
lnent Iorty years would come here and without
consideration vote a months extra pay t.
House employees. Congress was inc trustee Of
the people's money and should expend that
money as u private trustee would eApend the
trust fund.
MIR. Hiscock IN. W called attention to the
fact that every days session OF Congress cost
the taxpayers S3O,UOO, and asked members to
compute how much the people were taxed by
reason of the session being protracted by long
speeches over small appropriations. 1t would
be found that tue talk ABOUT ecunoIny Gust The
people five times the WuOie sum involved in
Tue appropriation items which were the basis
for the talk.
After iurtner debate the bill was recommitted
WiLn INSTRUCTIONS to Tie cofAinltiee on apprO-
priations to report 1t back without the clause
grauti an extra mOnLh's pay to House and
Senate employees.
THE REPORT ON THE RANDALL TARIFF BILL.
Mr.. Morrison reported back adversely from
tariff bill, and it was referred to the committee
OF the whole.
The District in Congress-.
TO PAY THE HEIRS OF MESSENGER HICKS.
In the Senate Mr.. Plumb offered an amend
ment to the sundry civil bill to pay the heirs
OF A. W. Hicks, of Washington. $3.50 for ser
vices rendered by Hicks messenger to the
House military committee of the Forty-tiilh
Congress-. There Was a controversy between
MT a mi iflrX nm ffan
and Doorkeeper Polk as 10 which of the two
had the right to appoint the messenger. Mean
time Hicks rendered good service and Was
promised his pay, winch he did not get. Con
gress Is asked now to allow the claim to pay the
board bill and funeral expenses OF Hicks.
Capitol Topics.
ONE NOMINATION YESTERDAY.
The President sent to the Senate yesterday
to be assistant United States treasurer at Balti
more.
THE GENERAL DEFICIENCY BILL.
The House resumed the consideration of the
general deficiency bill yesterday afternoon, and
adopted the amendment granting an extra
months pay to the House employees. Quite 8
siroug debate was had over this amendment
Mr.. Reagan charging that the amendment, as
approved by the committee of the whole die
not include the Capitol police and official ste
nOSruphers, and that it had been tampered with
since, To make it do So MIR. Hepburn
VINO drafted the resolution. said Mr.. Reagan
was mistaken, ana tnal gentlemen then ac
knowicdged that he must be. At the evening
session nothing was done.
TWO MORE vETOES.
The President sent two more veto messages tc
Congress yesterday afternoon. One contained
his objections to the bill appropriating $3.50,
900 for the construction of u public building al
aytOn, Ohio which the President thought un
necessary, as it was to give ouice room 10 oniy
about ten or twelve government employees
The other contained his objections to the bill
granting pension to Daniel II. Ross, who has
died since the bill was introduced.
NOTES.
Senator Hoar, chairman of the Senate com
mittee on privileges and elections, has published
q card denying that Senator Logan or any
other member OF the committee requested tina,
the vote Oh the Pay ne case be kept secret.
Inc vetoed Dlll TO grant u pension To Joseph
ROmiser was referred in the House yesterday tO
the Committee on Invalid Pensions by q vote o
13O TO lis after long discussion. This dis
posed of all the veloes on ting speakers table.
Representative Shaw has recovered from his
recent illness, and Will return To Washington
Monday.
The German.American National Bank
Case.
ARGUMENTS ON THE APPLICATION TO ADMIT
THE PRISONERS TO BAIL.
To-day in the Court in General Term the case
of John Hitz and Charles E. Prentiss, late pres
ident and cashier of the German.Americau
National bank, convicted of having made false
entries in the books OF the bank, and sentenced
each TO nve years in the Albany peniten tiary
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