, 1888-04-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE.

wAsuISaToN, April A.-The house COM
mittee on rivers and harbors has abaddoned
che idea of attempting to call up the river
and harbor bill on Monday next, under u
q suspension of the rules, canvass which
was made having disclosed q decided OBJ
lection to the summary disposition OF a
bill involving such large amount of
money.
Robertson, of Louisiana, from the com
mttee on military affairs, reported q bill
for the relief of soldiers and sailors, who
enlisted and served in the army or navy
during the rebellion under assumed names.
Piaed on the house calendar. Gallinger.
from New Hampshire, from the committee
on invalid pensions, reported bill grant
ing increased pensions TO soldiers who have
lost hands.
Bynain, of Indiana, from the same COM
mittee, reported with amendments the sem
ate bill granting pensions to ex-soldiers and
sailors who are incapacitated for the per-
formance of manual labor and providing
for dependent relatives of deceased soldiers
and sailors. In the committee of the
whole, Whitehorn, OF Tennessee, from the
committee On Indian depredations, re-
ported q bill to provide for the adjudica-
ton ami payment of claims arising from
Indian depredatons.
TIE committee of the whole, proceeded
to the consideration of a bill authorizing
the secretary of the treasury to settle and
pay the claim of the state OF Florida on
account of expenditures made in suppress
ing Indian hOstilitics.
The consideration of the homestead bill
having been postponed until next Saturday
the house went into the committee of the
whole on the Indian appropriation bill,
with McCreary, of Kentucky, i'll the chair
Perkins, of Kansas, said the bill present
ed no new legislation, but contained pro-
vision for the payment of the Choctaw
judgment. This judgment, amounting to
81 800, 900, was now drawing per cent. and
except an act of repudiatiOn. Then passing
from the subject OF indians, Perkins ad-
dressed himself to the question of the
tariff He criticized the recent speech
made by Nelson, of Minnesota, and pro-
ceeded to argue that the wealth of the
system OF protection. He criticised Mills
bill because, upon examination he found
that almost every article raised by tna
American farmer was put upon the free
the benefit of capital. The bill might be
considered as report to the house of rep
sentatives by the southern states, and when
the antecedents and convictions they have
heretofore obtained were considered 1t was
not remarkable that they had made no
provision for labor. A few years ago they
had cOntended that capitol should own its
labor, should lash its labor, should sell its
labor He sent to the clerks desk and had
read for the purpose of showing southern
6cutitueHt Oh tuo oupycCb Hcc JTau6
and labor, extracts from the confed-
crate constitution. Perkins criticised Mills
bills as striking down the products OF the
field, and putting the labQrers Of America
In competition with th6laborers Of the
old world except, perhaps. In the case of
rice growers OF the south, and cotton grow
ers who got their bonds free of duty. while
the northern farmer must pay duty on
hoop iron, for hopping hay. He hoped
that in the coming debate there would be
no hipocriscy, that that mask would be re-
moved aud the hidious face of free trade
exposed with all its deformities. While
Townsend and Springer had been allowed
to indulge in platitudes, gentlemen from
the south had been adm onshed to sit still
but he hoped that now they would demand
10 be heard. After they had hlibustered
against bill which proposed TO pay $l7,
O0O, ,OOko northern states, it was right that
.ahe democratic house should surrender to
them.
Allen, of Mississippi, thought II was q
pity Perkins could not get his head out oi