Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-26
CONGRESSIONAL.
Bland OF Missouri offers Strong 0bjec-
lions to Bills Appropriating Money
for Public Buildings
The Binfor the Organization of the Terri
tory of Oklahoma Considered In
Committee of the whole.
Fiftieth Congress.
THE HOUSE.

FifIteth Congress.
THE HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25--Mr. Stewart
Of Georgia, from the committee on judi
ciary, reported bill rendering eligible
to any position in the army any person
who has served in the military, navy or
civil service in the Confederate states.
House calendar.
Also adversely for Furnishing the pas
sage of Confederate money as genuine
United States obligations. Laid on ia
ole.
On motion of Mr.. Lanham OF Texas
bill was passed providing an additional
mode of taking dispositions of witnesses
in corresponding in United States courts.
1t provides that it shall be lawful to take
dispositions in the mode prescribed by the
law OF the state in which the court is
held.
In consideration morning hour Mr..
S ringer Of Illinois, under instructions
from the committee on territories, called
up the bill for the organization Of the. terri
tory OF Oklah ma and it was considered
in committee of the whole.
The hour WAS consumed by Mr. Msnsur
Of Missouri in speech in favor of the
measure, in which he sketched the man
ner in which No Mans Lsnd had come
into its present anomalous condition.
The committee then rose and the floor
WIS accorded In commi tee OF the whole
to the committee on public buildings and
grounds.
The first bill called was the one ap-
| propriating S75, 900 additional for public
building at Chattanooga, Tenn.
Mr. Bland of Missouri spoke in oppo--
sition to the means In which The House
acted upon measure for the erection of
public buildings. It was matter of am
bition for q member to show his con.
stituents his Influence and power b.
securing building for his district. A
member who had bill for such pur-
pose pending could not antagonize SIM
liar bill chsmpioned by brother men,
Der, and thus one-half of the House WAS
involved in system of log rolling.
Mr.. Browne OF Indiana said economical
as he WAS he took the responsibility of
expressing the hope that the committee
on public buildings and grounds would re-
port favorably every bill that asked the
construction of public building in every
city, town or village where the needs Of
public society commanded 1t. He knew
OF no better way to use the surplus in the
Treasury than by sending it into
sovereign ates for buildings for post
Offices aud courts. He would welcome
p)stoffices into his sovereign state as he
would welcome national banks and the
Bland silver dollars which were illustra-
tive the one Of glory and the other
of the power Of the government
for II took considerable power 10 make
70 cents worth of silver equsl to 81. He
(Browne) WAS in favor Of taking the
money from where it was useless aud
putting 1t into circulation, where it would
do the people some good.
Mr.. Bland WAS glad that the speech had
come from the other side Of the House. 1t
was an expression Of opinion that the
House was here to dispose of the surplus
In wasteful extravaganza instead OF
to reduce taxation. That was the
issue in this House and would be
the issue IN the next campaign. The
800 900, 900 surplus in the treasury came
from taxes paid by laboring men. Every
dollar paid into the treasury had
cost the taxpayer at least
SIS The s100,0oo,0o0 in the treasury
represented S400, 900 900 which had gone
into the hands of capitalists and monopo-
lists and trusts under the famous system
OF the protective tariff. The government
had 8 debt upon which the money
should be paid, and he was sorry
that the gentlemen from Texas (Mills)
had not brought forward his bill which
authorized such payment. He did not
wonder thst the gentlemen on the other
side had voted solldly for all public
building measures. They desired to tske
the money from the Treasury in order to
perpetuate the system Of taxation which
was onerous and burdensome. APP
plause
Mr.. Kerr of lows, suggested that the
bills had been unanimously reported by
the Democratic committee.
Mr. Bland admitted the truth Of that
statement, but said that II the committee
nad yielded to the pressure brought on It
by the gentlemen on the other side 1t
would have brought In bills sppropriating
325, G00, 900. He had been at.
tempting In vain to secure
q yea and nay for the passage Of these
measures for he did not desire that. the
gentlemen on the other side should go
into the next campaign charging the Dem
ocrats with extravaganza without them
oCANEb SOius upOu LSSJ1us I'LL DlnuI
then oF.red sn amendment providing that
no public buildings shall hereafter be CON
structed unless some one of the execu-
tvs departments shall first certify to
Congress that no suitable sccommods- |
tons for the service Of the government |
can be obtained in the city or town speci- |
fed at less rental than $4,000 year.
The amendment was ruled out of order |
and the bill was sgreed to.
Upon the next bill, appropriating |
S25, 600 for the purchase of site for a |
public ouilding at Buffalo, N. Y, Mr.
Bland took occasion to renew his attack |
upon the measure and advocated reduc- !
ton Of the surplus by the payment Of the
bonded debt. he appealed to the House |
TO cease Its waste Ct money on these |
public buildings and to come down to the |
Democratic doctrine Of economy and re- |
duction of taxation.
Dibble OF South Carolina, suggested |
that the gentleman from Missouri, (Bland) |
By his course in regard 70 public build |
ing measures was in violation of the |
spirit OF the resolution making those !
measures special order.
Co sles Of North Csrolina, wishing to |
ask Dioble question, the announcement |
nv the chslr that "the gentleman from
North Carolina desires to ask the gentle |
man from South Carolina q question:" /