The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03

The Speaker ruled that as the document was
presented under the call of States, and was in
the form OF resolution. it must be received.
ne auded dryly that the resolution was not an
attack upon the House. but upon the Demo
cratic party, and that he thought the Demo-
cratic party could stand it.
The resolution which was Endorsed for ref
erence to the steering committee'-having
oeen read Mr.. Randall said he did not consider
it either respectful or decent He therefore
| moved to return the resolution to the member
| who offered it.
Mr.. Parker asked consent to withdraw it, but
| Objection was made
Mr. Bayne could not see that the resolution
contained word that was not true. There was
nothing dlsrespectful in it unless the truth
itself was disrespectful.
Mr. Randall said that during his experience IN
| the House he had never seen such proceeding
as the present. and he thought it unworthy of
! an American House of Representatives. Hence
| 1t was that he made the motion he
ala. Mr.. Parker said that he had
no purpose or intention of saying any
thing that would be disrespectful to the
majority of the House. He thought it hardly
necessary for him to assure his friends on the
otner side OF his personal esteem and regard. 1t
had been his purpose to relieve some member on
the other side from the labor of preparing re-
sumo OF the excellent work which had been per-
formed this session; but in view of the fact that
| his friend from Pennsylvania Mr.. Randall was
greved he would ask unanimous consent to
was refused and Mr.. Randall remarked that he
was not grieved, and that he thought the gentle
man felt worse about the matter than he did.
Hr. Reed said that while the matter had as
sumed the form of a jest the resolution
contained so many unpleasant truths that the
indignation of the gentleman from Pennsylvania
Mr.. Randall could not be feigned 1t was true
| that this Democratic House had determined, as
| stated In the resolution. to keep half million
citizens of the United States out of the Union.
1t had houted the demand of the great Territory
| of Dakota to become one of the sisterhood of
States. That fact which could not be
! gainsaid. 1t a fact which jest could
| obilterate. Then, again, the House had deliber-
ately suppressed legislation IN regard to the Ter
| ritorv of Utah. The Senate had passed strong
| legislation the subject and the House judici-
airy committee had reported still more stringent
/ legislation; and yet this House, with forty Dem
ocratic majority, had suppressed that legislation,
| and Mormonism continued in possession of the
| Territory 1t pretended to be more eager than
the Senate on the Mormon question, and yet it
| did nothing. 1t had pretended to be more eager
than the Senate to secure legislation is regard to
| interstate commerce, aud yet it had failed to
| pass the Senate bill, and allow it to become
| law. The gentleman from Texas Mr.. Reagan]
had told him this morning that he could make
| no capital OUT of this kind Of talk. Make CAPT
tai! He did not come to make capital. Derisive
| CALCULATIONS and laughter on the Democratic
side.l He came here to do what was proper and
| right, and he saw the scorn with which that
ty. All these proceedings were going
/ into history, and all these little
| speeches about how much the appropriation
| bills footed up would not make the Democratic
| party-a party which had discredited every de-
| partment which had not already discredited
itself-a victorious party. And yet this party
| got itself into state of Indignation over an
affair like this, and for the first time ''it came
| up solid"
Mr. Reagan thought that no member should
| be allowed, in violation of the rules and in con-
| tempt of his constituents, to present a state
ment which was stump speech. and in
which there was little truth The Democratic
party in the House had passed bills declaring the
| forfeiture of land grants-measures which had
! been long demanded. and which the gentleman
| from Maine Mr.. Reed had opposed. 1t had
passed joint resolution proposing to pay out
! the surplus of the Treasury This the gentle
| man had opposed It had passed bill to regu-
| late interstate commerce and give relief to the
people against expressions under which they had
| groaned for years. This the gentleman had
| opposed. 1t had passed bill to prevent the
| absorption of the public lands by aliens. This
| the gentleman had opposed. When the number
| OF bills passed at this session came to be consd
| ered it would be found that this Democratic
| House, which the gentleman upbraided had
/ performed moro labor and passed more bills
than any House of Representatives since the
foundation Of the government Applause on
| the Democratic side.
Mr. Randall did not believe that any one
| legitimate political warfare But the gentleman
from New York Mr.. Parker] had taken advantage
| of the rules and presented proposition which
| was neither respectful nor decent, and from the
| responsibility of which the gentleman sought to
| escape by asking to withdraw it.
| Mr. Parkcr-That was not done on my account.
| It was a concession to the gentleman from Penn
| sylvania.
Mr. Randall need no concession We are
| all about to return to the people who sent us
| here, and the record of this House will be
| weighed and measured by them, and the cleo
ton will show whether the party in control of
this House is not we'll entitled to the respect and
| approval OF the American people. We have re-
turned to the public domain millions of acres of
the public lands taken by insatate corporations.
We have entered upon the building of new
! navy We have passed every act that we have
been asked to pass having for its purpose the
lettering of the condition of the laboring people
We have not in a single instance passed
| any bill in favor of monopolies. We
| have given the Senate an opportunity
| to pass an interstate commerce bill
| which only forty men on that side dared to vote
| against. The appropriation bills, as they have
| passed this House, are freer from unnecessary
/ and suspicious propositions than any appropra-
ton bills passed by any Congress since the war.
| We have done so we'll that ought to, and
believe will, receive the confidence of the Amer
| lean people. When we came here there were
thousands and thousands of people idle in the
| United States, but to-day there is not, in my
/ judgment, laDorlng man who wants to work
who cannot secure work applausel; and that
/ comes in large degree from the confidence
| which this House and Democratic executive
| have given to the American people. Applause.
| Mr. Randall's motion TO return the resolution
| TO Mr. Parker agreed to-
Mr. Scott, of Pennsylvania, offered resolu-
ton calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
| for information respecting the coinage of the
standard silver dollar. Referred.
/ Mr. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania, introduced
bill to prevent the acquisition of real property by
! corporations. Referred.
On motion of Mr.. Matson, of Indiana, the
rules were suspended, and the House, by vote
of yeas 167. nays 81, passed, with verbal amend
ment, the Senate bill increasing the pension of
soldiers who have lost or leg in the serv
! ice. The House then adjourned