Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-12
THE HOUSE.
Phelps Stirs Up an Angry Debat,
BY Sinister InsinHatiOns.

WASHINGTON, July lin the House
a conference report was ordered on the
Land Forfeiture bill, and Holman, oil
Indiana, Stone, of Missouri, and Payson
OF Illinois, were appointed as conferees.
Hatch, OF Missouri, submitted report
Of disagreement on the Agricultural ap-
preparation bill, stating as a point ol
amendment the Senate amendment max
ing an appropriation of $100, 900 for sor.
ghum sugar experiment.
Ryan moved concurrence in the SEN
ate amendment, and after debate his
motion was agreed to; yeas 126, nays 96.
This completes the consideration oil
the bill and it stands as finally passed.
Clements, of Georgia, submitted the
conference report on the District of Co.
lumbia appropriation bill, and it was
agreed to.
The House then went into Committee
on the Whole on the Tariff bill. The
pending amendment was that offered by
Phelps, OF New Jersey, fixing the item at
40 per cent ad Udlorem duty on flax, on
linen thread and all manufactures OF
fax. He did not expect anything he
could say would change the vote upon
his amendment. There was no hope.
After the majority of the Committee on
Ways and Means had formulated their
bill in the dark, they summoned the ma
jority of the House before them and i'm
posed an oath in caucus, that no Demo-
cratic member should vote in favor of
any amendment unless it was first passed
upon and approved by the Democratic
caucus.
This produced an angry debate be-
tween Phelps, Weaver, of Iowa. Wilson.
of Minnesota, and Henderson, of Iowa.
in which Phelps interview at the Chica.
go nomination, in Gath's letter, and
Weaver's political record were the chief
subjects. Finally Phelps amendment
was rejected.
An amendment was adopted changing
the rate OF duty on bags and bagging
from 10 per cent. ad valorem to 3-8 Of a
cent per pound. Other amendments
were offered and rejected.
The third section of the bill that
relating to woods and woolen manufac-
lures, being reached, Mills proposed that
the entire sixty-one lines of the section
be read and considered as one paragraph,
as in the case of the sugar paragraphs,
an amendment to be in order at any
place. Mills tried to reach an agreement
as to the time to be allowed for debate
on this section, proposing two days; but
Reed objected to fixing any time before
the debate had fairly started. The en-
tire section was read without objection,
however. :
The Committee rose, and the House
took recess till P. NJ, the evening
session to be for the consideration of the
Census bill.
EVENING ACKNOWLEDGMENT CENSUS,
The House met this evening for the
consideration OF the bill for taking the
and subsequent censuses. The
report accompanying the bill says: In
reporting this bill the Com. .nittee would
state that, in its salient features, it is the
same bill, substantially, which provided
for the taking Of the tenth census in
twenty-five volumes. The Committee
propose to omit the publication of all
subjects except the following: Popula-
ton and social statistics relating thereto.
mining, agriculture, NOR
tality and vital statistics, valuation
and public Indebtedness, all of
which are indispensable to the
taking of the census. Those which are
although very useful for general
information, political discussion and
social science, are omitted because the |
same information may be gathered by, |
and published, from other bureaus of the |
Government, and because they can well |
be dispensed with from this decennial |
census.
By an ingenious little amendment, the
effect OF which was not noticed by any of |
he members present, O'Neill, of Mis- |
souri,, secured an increase of the wages
'f messengers, assistant messengers and |
Tatchmen from $400 to 5000 per apnum.
On motion of Conger, OF Iowa, an |
was adopted providing that
n the appointment of enumerators, pref |
'rence shall be given to honorably dis
;harged soldiers and sailors. The bill
vas then passed, and the House at II 80 |