Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-19

roll call was finished. The nominations of
Messrs- Villas and Dickinson were then at
once taken up and confirmed, without de-
bate, and it 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, Cockren, 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, Voorhees,, Waltha1l
and Wilson 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, Spooner and Stockbridge-2S
Those paired in the affirmative were
Blackburn, Eustis, Gibson, Hearst, Kenna,
Pascoe, Payne, Ransom; in the negative,
Chandler, Jones, of Nevada, Henderson,
Morrill,, Sabin, Sawyer, Teller and Wilson,
of Iowa.
When the House got to work yesterday
Mr.. McMillin, OF Tennessee, from the Com
mittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,
reported the Dingley resolution, calling for
tolls against American vessels passing
through the Welland canal The resolu-
ton was adopted
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, chairman
OF the Committee on Printing, submitted
the report of that committee on the Grosve-
nor resolution, declaring it advisable to in
quire into the cause OF the delay in supply
ing copies of the Daily Record. The report
contains a letter from the Public Printer
that delay had only happened upon two oc-
casions, and in each case was caused by a
failure of the clerks office to furnish copy
until late hour. There was also letter
from the clerk stating that the failure was
due to the immense number Of prepared
bills 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 a resolution
was adopted directing the Committee on
Printing to inquire what amount OF de-
layed work ordered by former laws re-
NAMED at the printing Office, and If it
should be found the work was not worth
carrying out to report a bill repeating such
former laws.
Mr. Perkins, OF Kansas, offered an
amendment providing that every commit
tee Of the House should have as many
clerks as there are members on the COM
mittee, one to be selected by each member:
that the clerk selected by the chairman
should be chief clerk and that the other
clerks shall receive a salary OF S75 month,
and that wnen member Is On more than
one committee, he shall only have the
right to appoint one clerk.
After a brief discussion Mr. Perkins
amendment was rejected-yeas.6 81; nays,
181; and the vote REQUIRED upon the resoIu-
ton reported by the Committee on Ac-
counts. This was antagonized by the
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clerks for the committees on expenditures
in the various departments, although in re-
Spouse to a question from Mr. Randall, Mr..
Shaw stated that it would only increase by
two the number of clerks authorized by the
Forty ninth Congress-
The resolution was agreed to-yeas, la;
nays, SO; and the House adjourned