Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-22
A LIVELY DISCUSSION.
Mills and Holman Cause a Stir mi the
HOuse-EcOnomy In Expenditures as
Seen By the Senate and House.
TSwofw n..ro-fA,I Ttle

Seen By the Senate and House.
Lively OrntOricaI Tilt.
WASHINGTON, December 21.-The House
was treated to spicy little discussion this
morning. between Mr.. Holman, Of Indiana,
and Mr.. Mills, of Texas. The discussion
was precipitated by a statement of Mr..
Carlisle, of Kentucky, to the effect
that, in offering the resolution yes
terday. for the appointment OF
/. r. Hill as assistant doorkeeper, he had
fixed the salary at 81, 900, believing that was
the salary which had always been received
by the other special employe, Mr.. Clancy.
Mr.. CLANCY has been the Republican minor
ity employe. He had learned that there
was mistake, and that Mr.. Clancy's salary
had been 81 500. He therefore moved to re-
consider the vote by which the resolution
was adopted, in order that the House might
determine whether it would reduce Mr..
Hills salary to 81, 500, or increase Mr..
Clancy's salary to $1,000.
The vote having been reconsidered, Mr..
Holman, Of Indiana, moved to reduce Mr..
Hill's salary to 81, 500, and he urged the me-
cessity of observing economy in the ex-
penditure of public money. Mr.. Mills said
that that was the same old speech he had
been listening to for the last 16 years. Every
session the House was treated to lecture
on economy, which was to be applied to the
officers of the House and the smaller officers
of the Government. But whenever it came
to applying economy to the expenditure of
hundreds OF thousands or millions of dollars
the eloquence of the gentlemen was lost to
the country. Could the American people be
protected from excessive expenditures only
by cutting down the salary OF some poor
fellow about the House of Representatives?
He had fought against the reduction of pay
of officers of the House, and the increase Of
nav of officers of the Senate, which the gen.
tleman from Indiana, as member of the
Committee on Appropriations, had per-
mitted to be done year after year. He be-
lieved in common with all English-speaking
people, that the House OF Representatives
was the breath of the people, and he believed
in maintaining its equal dignity, equal
power and equal rights. Applause, I If he
should ever succeed in getting to the Senate
there would be somebody in the Senate who
would still feel that he was kin to the
American democracy, and that this House
should be preserved in equal dignity and
right to the Senate.
Mr.. Holman said that if gentlemen in
tended to practice economy they must begin
with the details which came before Congress
for consideration. The dignity of the House
had it been assailed during the last six
years, when Mr.. Clancy had been receiving
81, 500? Had the gentleman from Texas felt
it necessary, in order to preserve the dignity
Of the House during those six years, to in
crease the salary? II the House had been
more considerate in the expenditure Of pub
lie money than the Senate had been, it was
to the great honor and dignity Of this body.
Mr.. Holman's motion was agreed to-96
to 10-and the resolution as amended was
adopted.