The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-01-19

roll call was finished. The nominations OF
Messrs. Villas and Dickinson were then at
once aiken up and confirmed, without de-
bate. and 1t was ordered that the President
be notified of the three combinations. The
following Is understood to be the vote in
secret session on the confirmation Of Mr..
Lamar:
Ayes-Bate, Beck, Berry, Blodgett,
Brown, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Col
Quit, Daniel, Faulkner, George, German,
GRAY, Hampton, Harris, Jones Of Arkansas,
Mcpherson, Morgan, Pugh, Reagan. Rid
dleberger. Salisbury, Stanford, Stewart,
Turpie, Vance, Vest, Vo' rhees, Walthau
and Wilso, of Maryland-32.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Bowen,
Cameron, Chase, Cullom, Davis, Dawes,
Dolph, Edmunds, Evarts, Frye, Hale, Haw.
ley, Hiscock, Hoar, ingalls,. Mitchell, Pad
dock, Palmer, Platt, Plumb, Quay, Sher.
man, Sp, oner and Stockbrldge-S.
Tn Sc paired in the affirmative wers
Blackburn, Eustis, Gibson, Hearst, Kenns,
Pascoe. PAYNE, Ransom; in the negative,
I handler. Jones, of Nevada, Henderson,
Morrill,, Sabin, Sawyer, Teller and Wilson,
OF Iowa.
When the House got to work yesterday
Mr.. McMiil q, Of Tennessee, from the Com
m,ttee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
reported the Dingley resolution, calling for
information relative to Discrimination In
tolls against American vessels passing
through the Welland canal. The resolu-
tion was adopted.
MIR. Richardson, Of Tennessee, chairman
o. the Committee on Printing, submitted
the report of that committee on the Grosve'
nor re solution, declaring it advisable to In
q ire into the cause of the delay in supply.
ing copies Of the Datfy Record. The report
contains letter from the Public Printer
that delay had only happened upon two 90
casiops, and in each case was caused by Q
failure of the clerks Office TO furnish copy
until a late hour. There was also lette,
| from the clerk stating that the failure was
| dine to the Immense number of prepared
Ills introduced through the petition box.
! Assurance was given by both these gentle
men that there would be no delay in the
/ future.
On motion of Mr. Richardson resolution
was adopted directing the Committee on
/ Printing to inquire what amount OF Dc
| layed work ordered by former laws re
manned at the printing Office, and Il II
should be found the work was not worth
! carrying out to report bill repeating sucr
/ former laws.
| Mr.. Perkins. Of Kansas, offered a.
amendment providing that every commit
! tee of the House should have as many
c'erks as there are members on the com
miitee, one to be selected by each member
that the clerk selected by the chairman
should be chief clerk and that the othel
clerks shall receive salary of SO month
aud that when a member is on more thai
one committee, he shall only have th'
right to appoint one clerk.
After brief discussion Mr.. Perkins
amendment was rejected-yeas. o.; nays
| /. - and the vote REQUIRED upon the resolu
ton reported by the Committee on Ac
counts. This was antagon zed by tn
Repu blicans, for the reas' that 1t provides
clerks for the committees on expenditure
In the various departments, although in re
spouse to question from Mr.. Randall. Mr.
shaw stated that it would only increase b.
two the number of clerks authorized BY th
Eorty-ninth Congress.
The resolution was agreed to-yeas, Ia
! s1ys, 81; and the House sda6uyus6