Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-22
Fiftieth Congressional Session
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. ! S&NATE.-Co of the Sundry civi
 appropriation bill being resumed the pending
 amendment as to steam plate printing was
 taken up.
 Mir. Blair took the floor to argue against
 the amendment, but yielded in order to per-
 init Mr. Voorhees, to offer an amendment to 1 the resolution as to election outrages, direct ! ing the committee to enquire also whether
 money was corruptly and unlawfully used in l the control of the election in November, ] 1888, in any of the States and to examine in
 to the various sums of money raised for such 1 purposes, by whom paid, by whom collected ! and to whom disbursed.
 MT. Blair then went on with his argument, 1 to the effect that the hand press work is of a ! higher quality that the steam press work. In I the course of his remarks he stated as on the I authority of MT. Bell, chief of the treasury detective service that the silver certificates l are counterfeited to-day more than ever be- fore, because the backs are printed on steam presses and because hand printing is rejected. The great labor organizations of the country, he said, had espoused the cause of the hand printers. It seemed to him in view of all | the facts that the safe and sensible thing for
 the senate to do was to let the action of the ! house in the matter stand.
 MT. Call also argued against the amend | ment.
 At 3:45 the presiding officer announced
 that the enrolled bill for the admission of the States Of North Dakota South Dakota, Mon ! tana and Washington had been signed by l him and by the speaker of the house. It was ! then sent to the President for his approval. l In the course of a second speech by MT. Blair he spoke of MT. Graves, superintendent of the bureau of engraving and printing, as ! the agent and attorney of the steam press | owners to all appearances" and as probably ! having his official head in his pocket" and of l the report of the senate committee as ''rot- ! ten report" and ss mot worth a rush." ! After further long speech making the vote I was taken and the amendment as reported l by the committee on appropriation was ! agreed to.
 Further amendments were reported from ! the committee on appropriations and agreed | to, including the following appropriations: ! s75, ,000 (additionaD for the expenditure of \ States; appropriating $335,000 (additionaD under the head of prevention of epidemics, D | and appropriating $6,0O0 for proper repre- ! sentation of the United States at the inter- ! national convention in 1889 for the protec- I tion of individual property (referring to pat ! ent laws.)
 | Mr. Hiscock offered an amendment appro- | priating $500, ,000 for the expenses of an ade- | quate preparation for an appropriate celebra- | tion of the centennial of the constitution of l the United States and authorizing the Apresi- l dent to invite the chief executive and judi- ! cial officers of Mexico and the Central and | South American States and of the several ! States and territories of the United States ! and to entertain the foreign guests in a suita- ble manner.
 Mr. Edmunas said he did not feel willing | to vote $500, 900 out of the taxes of the peo- | pie for a mere glorifcation.
 MT. Hoar expressed his surprise that such | an objection had been made by a senator who had tried to put on the bill an item of $1, ,000, 900 for collection of monkeys in the neighborhood of his house. Naughter) He ! regarded the proposed celebration as simple
 but august ceremonial, in honor of which ! MT. Gladstone declared to be "the most mar velous single document that ever came from human intellect;;' it's successful inauguration and it's administration for one hundred years. i If the day of the celebration was rediculous | in the eyes of the senator from Vermont he
 might spend it in his geological park in the | company of his monkeys. Daughter | The vote resulted: Yeas 16, nays 12; nc | quorum.
 Mr. Blair withdrew the epithet which he
 had applied to the report of the finance con-
 mittee and modified his remarks to Mir ! Graves.
 The Senate then, at 3:45, adjourned til | tomorrow.
 HoUsE-The postofise appropriation bill
 was resumed and, and in speaking of form.
 al amendment, MT. Scott, of Pennsylvania
 said that he had list of presidential post. | masters in Pennsylvania which he hoped that \ gentlemen on the other side who believed 1T
 civil service reform would not overlook
 There were in Pennsylvania 191 presidentia
 postmasters. During the four years of the I present administration thes number of origi l nal appointments which had expired wal 103, of resignations %, of suspensions F, o ! removals S. of deaths s. The number of of ! fees which had become presidential was 37
 In three offices no changes had been made | T,, I,i S5y e%ria ! dential postmasters, and during tht present administration no changes haG
 been made except in two casei where charge of malfeasance in office ha6 ) besn preferred. He referred to tho fact thA in 1885, between 25th of February and Sd O. | March, four presidential postmasters in hi
 district had been appointed and confirmed and he hoped that gentlemen the othe side would recollect this record.
 l Mir. Cannon, of Illinois, said that tn, , funeral ceremonies having been concluded I and it not being respectful to talk of tn
 faults of the dead, he hoped the consideration l of the bill would be proceeded with. Afte ] some consideration of the bill the committe ! rose.
 Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, moved to recon ' init the bill with instructions ts the post |, office committee to report it back with tn classification features eliminated. Lost, yea I 54 nays 172.
 ' The bill was then passed.
 Mir. Forney, of Alabama, presented th conference report on the legislative, execu !. tive and judicial appropriation bill and it wa 1 agreed to.
 The House went into committee of tn whole, MT. Dockeroy in the chair, on the de !; iciency appropriation bill.
 On motion of MT. Scott of Pennsylvani , an amendment was adopted appIopriatin
 $6, 900 to pay Daniel Lamont, the Presi dents private secretary, the difference be
 tween his present salary and the $5, GOO ! year, the salary which his successor will re | ceiye. Much of the time was occupied witt
 8 debate on the alleged parsimony of the ap } propriation committee's treatment of publi : building, and without completing the bi 7 the committee rose and the house adjourned
 HYPPoLETE REPORTED KILLED
 The Northern General Routed Near Si r Marc With Loss of Three Hun 5 dred.
 BosToN, Feb 21.-The latest news frol Hayti is furnished by the second officer of th
 steamship Delta at this port from Port [
 Paix The officer states that there is no con g munieation between the cosstwise towns, br :, information was received February 12 from
 | native mail carrier, who had just arrive b from St. Marc, of @ serious conflict betwee g the northern and southern armies, that o, a ,. cured three days before, one mile below s
 March, in which the army under Hyppoli
 had been completely routed and 900 or 2( "A killed.
 EThe mail carrier said that the northerne
 had first blocaded the port of St. Marc, aft Is l which Legitimes army moved toward the il It ! terior and on the second days march encou n | tered detachment of Hyppolite's army vii
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