The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-02
REJECTED BY THE HOUSE.
the CONFERENCE REPORT ON THE
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.

Lively Debate INDUCED in Over the Mat.
ter-rhe Alien Landlord Bill PASSED
The President and the OIeomsrgarine
Bili-A Female Terror-Adjournmen
MISREPRESENTATION.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. when tbs
agreeing report of the conference committee
on the river and habor bill was presented
in the house Friday the question of consid-
GRAFTON was raised by Hatch, and pending
the disposition of the matter the house took
recess until S p H., at which time, after
lively debate eleven pension bills were
passed before adjournment
Consideration of the conference report
upon the river aud harbor bill was resumed
Saturday. Hatch of Missouri made point
of order against the conference report as
it related to the Hennepin, Sturgeon bay,
Potomac fats and other clauses of the bill.
The point raised was that the report of the
conference committee violated every single
instruction given by the house. He
therefore declared it out of order,
and said it should not he received
If the report was received, no confidence
could hereafter be placed in a conference
committee Since the first day of the first
session of the first congress, no such record
bad ever been made by a conference COM
mittee 1t had no precedent The house
conferees he said were bound in honor by
the instructions of the house and could not
exceed those Instructions.
Blanchard said hs wished to inform the
gentleman from Missouri that the house
conferees did not propose to take their ideas
of honor from him. 1t was not true as
stated by the gentleman that every single
item about which the house had
given instructions was in the bill,
and the gentleman knew it
was not true. They had all been modified
except the Potomac fats The gentleman
did not expect the point of order to be sus-
tanned and be characterized it as plan to
defeat the bill
Upon the question of honor he wished the
gentleman from Missouri to understand
that before be, comparatively mex
perienced member, yielded to the senate
conferees, be had sought the advice of the
best friends he had in both houses-men
who were the peers Of gentlemen from Mis-
souri,, in all that went to make up char
acter, and that 1t was upon their sugges
tions he had at last yielded upon the propo
sition of the senate.
Hatch said he was not aware that be had
said any thing calling in question the honor
of the gentleman from Louisiana. He had
not offered lis services to the gentleman,
and when he wanted TO instruct gentle
man on point of honor he would select
his own pupil He did not know why the
gentleman should 90 to the senate for in
structions, as TO what would be right or
proper for him to do
Blanchard-And the gentleman did not
10 go
Hatch-The gentleman stated positively
that the arguments Of the distinguished
gentlemen in the senate were on this ques-
ton and the Inference of the gentlemau's
remarks was that he had been guided by
the opinion of the senate conferees and not
by the action of the house. We have had
enough of the senate controlling this body
and it is pretty near time to come back to
the point where the house of representatives
can control its own matters and its own
couferees The gentleman stated that
said what was not true | reiterate Just
what l said The conferees were in
structed to strike from the senate
enc OF those paragraphs is still in the bill
do not say they have not been modified.
They have been oiled a little in order to en-
able the house to swallow them
With oleomargarine. suggested Blanch-
ard
Hatch-Ges. The worst oleomargarine
ever manufactured is better than the oil
the gent eman has PIT in.
; L. L
the oleomargarine used by the committee
and the gentemau's oleomargarin,, is that
they were hatcher by different persons
Laughter
Eatch-It was Matched out Of a mighty
bad egg and brought in here in viola ton of
instructions of the house @
Henderson of Illinois opposed the point
of order and urged the adoption Of the con
ference report
Hatch raised the question Of considera-
ton against the report, but the house by a
vote OF il to "a decided to consider it
Willis of Kentucky appealed to every
friend of rivers and harhors to vote down
the conference report. If that were done,
he said, there would be another report free
from OBJ ectionable features Further
debate was INDUCED in during which
Blanchard gave warning that If the pending
report were voted down there would be no
opportunity CT passing any Airer and
barber bill at this session.
The house then, by vote of yeas 102,
nays lSJ, refused 10 agree to the conference
report, and further insisted upon its dis
agreement to the amendment, and further
conference was ordered
Payson of Illinois, from public lands, re-
ported back the alien landlord bill lit pro-
hibits the holding of real estate in the ter
ritories by nonresident aliens, or foreigners
or resident aliens, or foreigners who have
not declared their intention to become citi
zens of the United States After brief
debate the bill was passed yeas 203,
nays e.
Reagan, Crisp and Weaver of Nebraska
were appointed on the inter state commerce
bill Willis, Blanchard and Henderson of
Illinois were appointed conferees on the
river and harbor bill Blanchard and Hen
derson were, at their own request excused,
and Glover and Markham were appointed
In their places
Senate.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. The senate
Thursday passed the surplus resolution by
q vote OF T. TO 40 The yea vote was as
follows: Messrs Aldrich, Allison, Blair,
Brown, Call, Camden, Cameron, Chace,
Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds,
Eyarts, Frye, Gibson, German, Gray, Hale,
Hampton, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Jones
New, kenna, Mcmillan, Mcpherson, Ma
hone, Miller, Palmer, Payne, Platt, Pugh.
Riddleberger, Sabin, Sawyer, Sewell, Sher-
man, Spooner, Van Wyck. Walthall, and
Wilson Md "a
The joint resolution as passed provides
that whenever the surplus in the treasury,
including the amount held for the redemp-