Morris tribune., 1886-08-04

BiIi-A Female Terror-Adjournmsn
| GOssip-Nominations.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug. 2.-When tn
agreeing report Of the conference committet
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 tool
recess until p m, at which time, after .
lively debate eleven pension bills wer'
passed before adjournment
Consideration of the conference report
| upon tho river and harbor bill was resumed
| Saturday. Hatch of Missouri made poin
| Of order against the conference report a.
| it related to the Hennepiu 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. HI
! therefore declared it out of order
and said it should not he received
| II the report was received, no confidence
could hereafter be placed in conference
committee Since the first day OF the first
session of the first congress, no such record
| had ever been made by 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 he 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 tho gentleman knew it
haH oil aH
except the Potomac flats 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 he, a comparatively mex
perienced member, yielded to the senate
conferees, he 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 it 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 anything calling in question the honor
of the gentleman from louisiana He had
not offered his services to the gentleman,
and when he wanted to instruct a gentle
man on a point of honor, he would select
his own pupil He did not know why the
gentleman should go to the senate for in
structions, as to what would be right or
proper for him to do.
Blanchard-And the gentlewan did not
do so.
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 gentlemsn'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 1t is pretty near time to come back to
the point where the house of representatives
can control its own matters and its own
conferees The gentleman stated that 1
said what was not true. I reiterate just
what ] said The conferees were in
structed to strike from the senate
amendment certain paragraphs and every
one Of those paragraphs is still in the bill
1 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-Yes. The worst oleomargarine
ever manufactured is better than the oil
the gentleman has PIT in.
Murphy of Iowa-The difference between
the oleomargarine used by the committee
and the gentleman's oleomargarins, is that
they were hatcher by different persons
laughter.)
Hatch-It was Matched out Of mighty
bad egg and brought in here in viola tion of
instructions Of the house. l.~1 1SN
Henderson of Illinois opposed the point
Of order and urged the adoption Of the con-
ference report.
Hatch raised the question of considera-
tion against the report but the house by
vote of III to "a decided to consider it.
Willis of Kentucky appealed to every
friend Of rivers and harbors to vote down
the conference report. If that were done,
he said, there would be another report free
from Objectionable features Further
debate was INDUCED in during which
Blanchard gave warning that If the pending
report were voted down there would be no
opportunity of passing any Airer and
harbor bill at this session.
The house then, by vote of yeas 102,
nays 1876, refused to 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. [It 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 2O9,
nays 6.
Reagan, Crisp and Weaver of Nebraska
were appointed on the inter-s 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 Clover and Markham were appointed
in their places
senate.
WASHINGTON CITY, Aug 2.-The senate
Thursday passed the surplus resolution by
. vote OF AZ to 40 The yea vote was as
follows: Messrs Aldrich, Allison, Blair,
Brown, Call, Camden, Cameron, Chace,
Conger, Cullom, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds,
Evarts, Frye, Gibson, German, Gray, Hale,
Hampton, Harrison, Hawley, Hoar, Jones
Nsv.), Kenna, Mcmillan, MCPHERSON, Ma
hone, Miller, Palmer, Payne, Platt, Pugh.
Riddleberger, Sabin, Sawyer, Sewell, Sher-
man, Spooner, Van Wyck, Walthall and
Wilson (Md.)-42
The joint resolution as passed provides
that whenever the surplus in the treasury,
including the amount held for the redemp-
tion Of United States notes, shall exceed
Sl00, ,00Q, coo it shall be used at the rate Of
$l1, ,000,000 o month to pay the interest bear
ing honda 1t gives the president power to
suspend these payments in cases Of emsr-
gsncy and reserves working fund of $20,-
00O,000 It makes the trade dollar redeem
able for It's face value at any Tins within
six months from the passage Of the act
The house bill to increase the strength Of
the navy, was then taken up and passed as
amended BY the senate committee, confer
snce committee being appointed to save time.
Norafnationsg