Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-02-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
Debate Regarding the
ID Printing Department.
BUILDING APPROPRIATIONS
Anderson, of Kansas, Makes
Vigorous Defense of His
Telegraph Bill.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

Telegraph Bill.
JAssociated Press Dispatches TO the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, February 9.-In the
Senate to-day, Manderson, from the
Committee on Printing, reported 6
Joint resolution for the disposition o.
the undistributed copies of the records
Of the rebellion, the reports of the
tenth census and the reports Of the
Public Land Committee. The report
gave rise to discussion, in which
Vest said that there was continue
stream of publications pouring out O
the Government printing office, fol
the getting out Of which the money
might as well be thrown into the
Potomac river. Ei g.
Teller admitted that there was 9
waste in that direction, and the joint
resolution was finally passed.
Riddleberger's resolution for amend
ing the rules allowing the British Elk.
tradition Treaty to be discussed in
open session was reached in regular
order. Riddleberger explained that
the British Lions tail, having bee
twisted by vote of % to 21 (referrinq
to the vote by which the consideration
Of the treaty was postponed till De.
eember), the passage of that resolu-
tiOn was no longer necessary.
Senator Hawley and others called
him to order. and he sat down, saying
that he supposed he had right to say
SO much and did not like to be called
TO order every time he rose.
Plumb's resolution, calling on the
Secretary Of the Interior for inforrna
ton as to the charges made by The
registers and recorders of land Offices
for reducing testimony to writing
passed.
The Blair bill was taken up as un
finished business and laid aside.
MINING LAWS.
The bill to authorize the sale t(
aliens of certain mineral lands was tax.
en- up and after q discussion hingint
upon the fact that non-DemocratiC
members of the committee we're pres.
ent at the consideration, Edmund,
moved it's re-committal to the Com
mittee on Mines and Mining.
The bill was also opposed by Reagan
and Plumb. f
Stewart said that it was the labor
ing men of the territories who are de
manding the passage of this bill
They were asking that capital should
not be kept out of the mines and
themselves be deprived OF employ
mont. The law of last Congress was q
restriction on the development of the
territories and q discrimination
against them.
The bill was recon united to the
eommi tee and Stewart gave notice of
q meeting on Tuesday.
The bill appropriating SIS, 900 fol
the erection Of statue of the lats
Spencer F. Baird before the Nationa
museum was passed.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The bill for an additional appropri
alton for a public building at Penssco
Ia, Fla, gave rise to general discus
sion as to the erection of public build
ings.
Vest, from the committee on The
same said in reply to Edmunds, tha
he was unable to furnish information
as to the aggregate amount of the bills
for that purpose, but the tariff and
the Blair bills would sink into insig-
nificance as compared with the esti.
mates for public buildings.
Dawes mentioned the cases OF the
st. Louis, New York and Boston post
offices where the actual cost far ex-
ceeded the original estimates, and
every man connected with such in.
crease, he maintained, should be in
dicted.
Plumb gave some amusing in
stances of how the money appr opri-
ated for public buildings was wasted
and read a list of employees of the
new library building being erected in
Washington. which list included O
janitor, sculptor and four women. 1t
was very remarkable, he said that
the women lin the report he was
reading from seemed to be in charge
of horses and carts. He declared hi.
beliefth there was no honest pnr.
pose to complete that building within
the contemplation Of the act of Con-
gress.
The discussion was continued by
Stewart Vest, Hale, Morrell and
Voorhees,. -
Stanford introduced bill to increase
the appropriation for the cost of pur-
chasing q site for public. building at
Gan francisco to $650, 900. .Ers
tT THE TAX ON LARD. -
The hearing before the Senate Com
mittee on the bill imposing tax on
lard was resumed to-day. Judge
Wilson, attorney for Squire & Com
pany, read a petition signed by large
number Of dealers and manufacturers
Of pure lard, also letters from two
cracker manufacturers of St. Louis,
favoring the passage of the bill. A
clipping from the New York Journal
at Commerce was read, showing that
the exports of lard from New York
city had fallen of .6OO,O 900 pounds
since 1886. Mr.. Cromwell said that
he had petition Of persons stating
that refined lard is not an injurious
article. r4hfHsi ffissl t>s@y4
THE HOUSE,.