The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-02-03
House Sessions.

NINETEENTH DAY.-The House, by vote
Of 183 to ~, passed, without amendment, tho
Senate bill to provide for the presidential
succession. The general debate continued for
several hours and speeches In, favor OF the
bill were delivered by Mesms. Dibble, Of
Several amendments proposed were rejected.
Republicans were recorded in the affirmative
and two Democrats in the negative. ). Mr..
Spriggs, Of New York, brought in q resolu-
ton providing that one months extra pay
shall be given to each employe Of the House
who has been dismissed since December 2.
The resolution was rejected
TWENTIETH DAY.-Mr. Wadsworth, Of
cites that whereas the President upon his
accession to Office found the gold, silver and
paper dollars Of equal value, It ''became the
duty Of the President to use all lawful means
in his power to maintain this equality IN
value Of such dollars, and that, in the opin-
ion Of this House, he has hitherto faithfully
and properly endeavored to discharge that
duty" Thespeaker pro tenn. thought that the
resolution properly belonged to the commit
Mr.. Wadsworth remarked that Il did
not refer at all to coinage, but in
volved the question as to whether or
not tho President had violated the law He
therefore moved that it be referred to the
committee on the judiciary. Mr.: Weaver, OF
Iowa, moved its reference to the committee
on coinage, weights and measures. Agreed
to--12O to So. :. Under the call of States $50
bills were introduced. -
TwENTY-F1RsT DAY.-A large number of
executive communications were laid before.
the House by the Speaker, among them q
letter from the chief engineers asking for an
immediate appropriation Of CSC, 600 for the
general work of survey on the Mis-
sissippi river. The communications
were appropriately referred =. The
House proceeded to the consideration Of
tho Senate resolution accepting the statue Of
President James A. Garfield, presented by the
State Of Ohio. Speeches eulogizing the high
qualities Of the distinguished dead were made
by Representatives Taylor, Mckinley, Ged-
des and Butterworth, of Ohio, and Pettibone,
of Tennessee The resolution was adopted
TwENTY-sEcoND DAY.-The bill increasing
the pensions of widows and dependent rela-
tives Of soldiers from s. to $l2 per month
WISCONSIN, for two reasons. His first reason
was that the whole system OF pension leg1siac
ton ought to berearranged and alaw enacted
to make the system more harmonious and less
incongruous. His next objection was that
the bill applied to all widows. It should, In
his opinion, extend only to those cases Where
the woman was married to the man
when he received the disability, ana
not to young girls who married an old
two or three years Of his Me, and
then went on the rolls as his widow. In the
midst of the debate the morning hour e1-
pired, and the House went into committee on
the whole. 900. The Senate bill for the pur-
chase of the old New York produce exchange
was amended and passed. The amount ap-
propriated for the purchase Is $50, 600. Mr.
Syrnes, of Colorado, spoke in favor OF silver
coinage.
TwENTY-THIRD DAY.-The House resumed
in the morning hour the consideration Of the
bill to increase the pensions OF soldiers wld-
ows, and Mr. Wolford started of by speaking
in it's favor. Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, took the
ground that only soldiers who had been dis,
abled in the war or widows who bad
been wives of soldiers at the time the
disability had occurred should re-
ceive pensions. He criticized the manner in
which special pension bills were passed, and
said that the contest was not so much one
about doing justice to soldiers as it was a
contest for political supremacy-a bid for the
votes of the soldiers Mr.. Funsten, OF Kan
sas, wanted to know what right Mr. Reagan
had to impugn the motives OF members, and
a warm debate Of personal character fol-
lowed. Without taking action on the bill the
House adjourned