Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-08
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON, July z, 1886

$3.50, 600 for making free of toll the com
| merce through the harbor. He explains
the nature of his amendment, which wa
| only to carry out the intention of Congress
| free to commerce. After discussion tn
| substitute was agreed to and the amendmen
as thus amended agreed to.
| The next amendment was one increasing
the appropriation for Duluth, Mimi, harbo
from SOC, 900 to s75, 900; agreed to.
| Quite number of other amendment
| made by the committee reducing appropria
| tons for southern rivere wers rejected leav
| ing the amendments as passed by tn House
| The river and har5or bill was temporarily
| laid aside and Mr.. Edmunds, from the Com
| mittee of Foreign Relations, presented, OF
| behalf of Mr.. Morgan, absent on account Of
| sickness, a bill and report in the matter Of
| the l. Abra claim against Mexico and Mr.
Brown presented the minority report; or
dered printed.
The chair laid before the Senate the mes
sage or the President vetoing the bill au'
thorizing the construction of railroads
through the Indian reservations in Montana.
The message was read. On motion of Mr..
Dawes the bill and message were referred.
The Senate resumed consideration of
the river and harbor bill. Mr..
Pugh argued against the amendment
reducing the appropriation, for the Tennessee
river. Mr.. Mcmillan defended the amend
ment. He stated that the total amount al
necessary for its completion was 81 40, 900,
and the amount that could be expended for
the next fiscal year estimated at $500,
600 The amendment was agreed to; yeas
%, nays %.
Mr. Blackburn opposed the amendment
striking out the item of s., 900 for the south
fork of Cumberland river, KY. The amend
ment was agreed to; yeas %, nays 20.
Mr.. Blackburn argued against the amend
ment reducing the item of $4,000 for the
Kentucky river from $250,000 to 100000.
Without disposing of the amendment the
Senate at CLIO p. m. adjourned.
HoUsE-The Speaker laid before the House
the twenty vetoes received from the
President yesterday. The veto of the bill
granting pension to Edward NJ. Harrington
caused considerable debate, the Republicans
trying to defeat its reference to committee
by advocating that its consideration be post
poned until Friday next. A motion to this
effect was defeated. Mr.. jackson, of Penn
sylvania, attacked the veto policy of the
President, who, he declared, was not actuated
by any regard for the worth and merit of
private pension bills. He was in sympathy
with a party opposed to pensioning Union
soldiers. Mr.. McMullen said the present
President had signed more private pension
bills than any other President in the same
space of time, and Mr.. Jackson retorted that
he had vetoed ten times more good ones than
all other Presidents put together.
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas, criticised the po-
sition taken by the President in the pending
message.
Mr.. Matson, of Indiana, said the Demo
Gratis would stand by the President and he
should have fair play. 1t was not fair to un-
dertake upon hasty consideration to pass a
bill over the veto.
NJ. Bragg, of Wisconsin, said the Presi-
dent was honestly discharging his duty and
ha in ha nyaraiaa of his indO-
ment sent legislation back to the House with
his reasons for disapproval, it should be
acted upon with judicial and deliberate con-
sideration. Mr.. Bragg expressed his salts
faction that there was man in the execu-
tive chair who had the nerve to place his
hand upon legislation which he deemed i'm
proper. Congress had gone too far in PEN
sion legislation, but there was class of SOL
diers for whom there had been no voice rails
ed in the House. He referred to those who
from patriotic motives had filed the army at
the beginning of the war. Before the House
went further in pensioning the deadwood of
the army it should make provision for the
men who perilled their lives in 1861.
The message was referred to the Committee
on Invalid Pensions.
The next message was one vetoing a pen
sion to Catherine Mccarthy. Mr.. Matson
moved reference with instructions to report
it back on OF before Monday next.
Mr. Brown criticised the Presidents action
and invoked Gods mercy upon the man who
had the heart to veto bill granting a pen
sion to the widow of man who had died for
his country. He said the President would go
down to history as the greatest American OBJ
jector.
the Democrats who stood by the vetoes
would have their manhood very severely
taxed.
Mr.. Cannon saw in the views the intima-
ton that while Cleveland was President there
would be no further pension legislation. The
President brushed away the great business
interests of the country to cater to the little
solid knot that came from the solid South.
He wanted their applause. They cast solid
votes in nominating conventions. There he
stood looking through gimlet hole with
magnifying glass looking for abuses and heap
ing derision upon the poor men who lost
health in the service of the country. Mr..
Cannon warned the Democrats that they
would have to defend the Presidents course
before November and predicted that the peo-
pie would send Congress here that would
pass these bills over the vetoes.
Mr.. Matson said that many members for
got that these bills had been vetoed by Re-
publican commissioner OF pensions years ago.
Mr.. Weaver, of Iowa, thought that no dis
respect would be shown to the President by
immediate action on the veto and he there
fore opposed its reference.
The motion to instruct was lost-yeas lis,
nays 12S-and the message was referred to
the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
The next message was referred without OBJ
lection, but contest arose over the next
one, vetoing a bill granting a pension to
Sally Ann Bradley. Mr.. Matson moved to
refer and Immediately afterward, in order to
shut off debate, demanded the previous
question.
Mr. Grosvenor of Ohio, who originally
introduced the bill, desired some time to dis
cuss it and upon Mr.. Matson declining to
yield, the Republicans refrained from voting
and this broke quorum. A call of the
House was ordered and the doors closed.
The House then industriously refrained from
doing anything for fifteen minutes, when
further proceedings were dispensed with and
having thus completed the circle the House
started out upon another one. The Repub-
1icans again refrained from voting. Another
call was ordered. The only thing that pre-
vented the completion of the second circle
was the arrival of the hour of o'clock,
when under its order the House adjourned.
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