The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-04-07
House Sessions.

SIXTY-SEVENTH DAY.-The bill changing
an officer on the retired list of the army was
discussed without action. AT the evening
session the House passed thirty pension bills.
ing pension Of 1900 year to the widow
of General w. S. Hancock. It was passed,
four votes being cast in opposition, but the
previous question being demanded, the bill
went over
SIxTY-EIGHTH DAY.-The limited debate
on the adverse report on the free coinage OF
silver bill was begun, and the floor was taken
by Mr.. James (N.Y. in opposition to the bill.
1t was question, he said, which business
men ought to solve. Mr.. Hemphill (S CO.
said that the question before Congress was
silver to parity as mtney metals, and he
advocated, as a means to this end, the ap-
pointinent of a commission to secure an inter-
national bimetallic union. Mr.. Bynum
Qnd.) q member Of the COMMITTEES on coinage,
weights and measures, supported the mi
nority report, which favors the passage Of
the free coinage bill. Mr.. Stone (Mo)
favored any measure which would place
silver on an equality with gold. Adjourned.
S1xTY-NINTH DAY.-Quite sensation was
produced in the House when the chaplain de
voted his opening prayer to an invocation to
God to rid the land of gamesters, whether in
or boards Of trade The prayer, upon mo-
tion Of Mr. Butterworth was ordered to be
inserted in the Record. -. The bill grant
ing a pension of 5000 year to the
widow Of General W. s. Hancock. was
passed by a vote of yeas 1859, nays II. Bills
were passed increasing to $50 a month the
pensions Of the widows Of Commodores Spi-
Ger and Fillebrown. :. BY a vote of 98 to 95
bdns;on bill was ., psssed psss granting mdntS to
aspSiHh tse Widow Of Of ResTAdmiral HAYWOOD. GR9a
Mr.. Anderson kansas introduced a bill
creating commission Of arbitration in cases
OF strikes on railroads Mr.. Van Eaton
M ss.) introduced bill prohibiting polyg-
amy.
SEVENTEEN DAY. - Mr.. Richardson,
TENN on behalf of the committee on war
claims, called up and the House passed the
Fourth of July claims bill. The amount in
volved is $235, 200. :. The House went into
committee Of the whole on the Indian appro-
priatiop BILL. Mr.. Burnes Mo.) submitted
the conference report on the Urgent deticien-
cy bill, and it was agreed to.
SEvENTY-FIRsT DAY. MIR. Anderson
(Kan.) asked unanimous consent that an
order should be made allowing the committee
on labor to report for action at any time mot
to interfere with revenue or appropriation
billS legislation for the purpose of
providing for arbitration in strikes
on railroads. He pointed out its
Importance by saying that the whole
Southwest was without wheel carrying
freight. There was no objection, and the Or
der was made: ... The Indian appropriation
yeas, 236; nays, s.. The postoffice appro-
priation bill was taken up. and the
general debate limited to six hours.
Tie bill appropriates 54,38,5SS as
AGAINST an estimate of *54, ,9SG, 1876, and an ap-
nropriation of $53, 0,990 for the current
Year. Mr. Burrows (Mich.) referred to the
appropriation for the transportation of for
eien mails, and charged the postoftice depart
ment with multiplying the law of Congress
passed at the last session, which authorized the
postmaster general to enter into contracts with
American vessels for carrying the mails, at
rate not exceeding fifty cents nautical mile:
He also charged that the department had
Iyantonly and openly defed not only the
spirit but the letter of the civil service law.
SEvENTY-sEcoND DAY.-In his opening
prayer the chaplain of the House besought
the Lord to enable the educated AMI intelli-
gent men and women of the land to cOmpre-
Eend that in this republican country there
could be no privileged class, and in this DEM
ocratic age no aristOcracy could be found.
He prayed that God might forbid therich and
prosperous from attempting to import and
reproduce on our new soil the pomps and
shows, the folly and fashions, the luxury and
pride of other clilnes, lest the giant anarchy,
blind through ignorance and rage, like sight
less Samson, goaded to madness by oppres-
sion, should put forth his strength and cele'
brate his self murder in the ruin of his op.
pressors, till chaos should come again. 80.
Consideration OF tie House appropr!a ton
bill was resumed.