Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-12-21
AT THE CAPITOL TO-DAY.
ECONOMY IN THE HOUSE
A Lively Discussion on That Subject
DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL
The Leedom Asset Resolution Passed.
CENSUS TALK IN THE SENATE.
DISTRICT APPROPRIATION BILL
CENSUS TALK IN THE SENATE.
The senate.

The senate.
The House joint resolution donating fixtures,
furniture, &c. heretofore belonging 70 the
territorial governments), to the states OF WASH
ing;on and Montana was presented and passed
Mr.. Ingalls,, from the committee for the Dis
triet OF Columbia, reported back, with amend
ments, the Senate bill 20 establish a public
park in the District, and 1t placed on the
calendar.
Among the bills introduced aud referred 10
committees were the following:
BY Mr.. Plumb-To provide for the allotment
OF lands in seyeraity TO the Paw-Paw Indians In
Indian territory.
by MIR. Hoar-To establish uniform system
Of bankruptcy throughout the United states.
BY MIR. Gorman-To establish court Of pat
ent appeals
TO AMEND THE CENSUS ACT.
On motion of Mr.. Hale the Senate bill 10
amend the census act by making the maximum
pay of supervisors ! 1000 instead Of sJ00 was
taken up, and a letter from Mr.. Porter, the
superintendent, was read 10 show the in
adequacy Of the compensation now provided
Mr.. Hale made further explanation of the
bill, IN the course of which he promised that
the eleventh census would not be allowed to
drag along as the tenth census had done.
SAYS THE TENTH CENSUS WAS 'NoToRiousLy
INACCURATE"
Mr.. Ingalls, remarked that the country would
be glad to hear from the chairman Of the census
committee that the next census was not 10 be
repetition OF the last The tenth census had
been provided for in 1850, and now, at the close
OF 1889, all the volumes of that census
were not published. He did not recollect
the entire number of tones that had been
precipltated on the country in an avalanche OF
mlsinformation. The census had been no.
toriously inaccurate. Ii was not reliable. IL
was ra1 as.f aot-
| ter that never should have been included.
After protracted discussion, participated in
by Senators Dawes, Reagan. Teller, German,
Dolph, Stewart, Blair, Paddock and Wilson OF
Iowa, tmost Of it on the subject of statistics Of
Tar N mortgages and Mr.. Blair's remarks being
directed to the question Of statistics OF the
liquor business the bill went over without
action, Mr.. Hale giving notice that he would
call it up Immediately after the holiday recess.
Nominations Today.
The President sent to the Senate today the
following nominations:
Milton Weider of Oregon, collector internal
revenue for the district of Oregon.
Sergt Lunsford, second artillery, to be SEQ
ond lieutenant, sixth cavalry.
Thos. w. Lord. fret Lieutenant, retired list,
to be captain on the retired list; also a number
OF recess appointments, mainly postmasters.
House of Representatives.
The House was treated to spicy little dis
cussion this morning between Mr.. Holman
Qnd.) and Mr.. Mills CTex.) The discussion was
precipitated by statement from MIR. Carlisle
(ky.) to the effect that in offering the resolu-
ton yesterday for the appointment for l. Il.
Hill assistant door keeper he has fixed
the salary at $4,000, believing that that was the
salary which had always been received by the
other special employe, Air. Clancy. tClancy
has been the republican minority employed
He had learned that this was a mistake and
that Mr. Clancy's salary had been sl.5OO. He
therefore moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the resolution was adopted in order that
| the House might determine whether IL would
reduce Mr.. Hills salary to Sl.500 or increase
Mr.. Claney's salary TO $1,000. The vote having
| been reconsidered. Mr.. Holman Ind moved
| to reduce Mr.. Hills salary 10 81 500, and he
| urged the necessity of preserving economy u
| the expenditure OF public money.
MR. HOLMAN WINS.
Mr.. Holman's motion was agreed to-s6 10 70
and the resolution as amended WIS adopted
THE FIRST OF THE KIND.
Mr.. McComas md }, from the committee on
appropriations, reported the District of Colum-
bia appropriation bill. Printed and recommit-
ted This is the first time in the history OF the
House when at the first regular session a gen.
eral appropriation bill has been reported be-
fore the holidays.l
Mr.. LEEDoN's ASSETS.
Mr.. Breckinridge (ky.) called up as a special
order the resolution offered by him yesterday
relative to the turning over Of the assets in the
sergeant-at-arms' Office to the present sergeant
alarms. He withdrew the resolution and sub
stituted therefore the following:
Resolved, That TO enable the sergeant-at-
arms to have full and untrammelled use OF his
office and the safe therein, the Treasurer of tho
United States is hereby requested TO take into
custody all money and other assets placed by
j. u. Leedom, as late sergeant-at-arms in said
| safe, and to safely keep the same on special de-
post until further order of tins house.
On motion Of Mr.. Baker (N.Y.) the resolution
was amended so as to provide that the written
consent of MIR. Leedom must FIRST be obtained.
1t was further amended Ton motion Of Mr..
Reilly of Pennsylvania by the addition of .
proviso declaring that nothing therein con-
tanned shall be construed to affect the liability
of Mr.. Leedom.
THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
The resolution, as amended, was adopted
over the protest of Mr.. Peters (Kan.), who
doubted the propriety of putting two time
locks between the members and their money.
ONE MONTHS EXTRA PAY FOR DISCHARGED EN-
PLoYEs.
Mr. Boothman (Obio) from the committee
on accounts, reported a joint resolution pro-
viding that all employees of the House who
were on the rolls on the Sd of March and who
have since been discharged shall receive one
months extra pay.
This was vigorously combated by Mr.. Oates
ala }, who suggested that Silcott would be
entitled to receive the benefit Of it, He was
opposed TO this method OF legislation. II the
House employees did not receive as large Q
salary they should, let members have the
manhood to amend the law and give them
sufficient pay and abandon this position Of
coming in at the back door. The amount
carried by the resolution was about $4,000,
and yet members had not the courage TO vote
themselves like amount TO pay their salaries,
which had been stolen.
HE WOULDN'T EXCLUDE sILcorT.
Mr.. Boothman defended the resolution, cor
tending that the appropriation should be made
in a spirit of justice and equity TO the men who
had come to Washington at the opening Of
Congress and were discharged WITH
out having any money 70 return horne.
So far as Silcott was concerned.
he would move to exclude him from the bene-
fits Of the resolution. Laughter and cries Of
'Ohi no."1 1t might be good plan to vote
Silcott this months salary and when he came
back be could be caught Mr.. buchanan (NJ.),
suggested that Silcott had enough money =
get home. lLaughter
The District I'm Congress.
THE DISTRICT TO PAY HALF THE PARK KYPENeRa
Senator In0alls from the cor,xn;xt.. -. A.