Morning journal and courier., 1890-07-18
THE FIFrx.F1Rsr CONGRESS.

Further Consideraefon or she Sundry CIVIL Appropriation Bill in she sen- i ate-Passage by che House Of the Land Grant Forfeiture Bill.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., July 17.-The senate resumed consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill, the pending question be- ! ing on the amendment to add to the appro- priation of $500, 900 for topographic surveys provision that one-half of that sum should be expended west of the 101st meridian, and that the act of October, 1888, reserving irri- gable lands be repealed
 MT. Moody argued in favor of the amend ment.
 Messrs. Morgan and Reagan both addressed the senate. Without finishing his remarks Mir. Reagan yielded the floor for a motion to the bill to day.
 MT. Allieon offered resolution, which he said he would not ask immediate action on, making 1t in order at any time to move that debate on any amendment or on all amend- ments to appropriation bills be limited to five minutes for esch senator, the question on such motion to be determined without debate. He remarked that such resolutions had fre- quently been adopted by the senate.
 After a short executive session the senate at 6:l5 adjourned till tomorrow. HOUSE.
 Immediately after the reading of the jour- nal the house went into committee of the whole on the land grant forfeiture bill. A short debate, participated in by MT. Nc Mir. Payson of Illinois ensued, but the neat of the chamber was so great that Q majority of the members sought the breeze to be found in the lobby and but little attention was given to the discussion.
 Mir. Anderson of Kansas offered an amend | ment forfeiting railroad lands not earned at the time limited by the granting acts. Lost yeas 37, nays 58.
 MT. Holman of Indiana offered an amend. ment forfeiting all lands not earned within the time limited by the granting acts. Lost-60-79.
 Mir. MeRae of Arkansas offered an amend- ment directing the attorney general to insti- tute suit against persons holding lands oppo- site to the constructed portion of railroads which was not constructed within the time specified in the granting act.
 In speaking to this amendment MT. Bu- chanan of New Jersey alluded to an attack made upon Speaker Reed and the republican party some days ago by MT. Stone of Mis- souri. He deplored the fact that an un- fortunate dispensation of providence had taken from the democratic party Randall and the wisdom of the Kentucky legislature had taken from it 8 Carlisle, because 1t
 seemed that pigmies rushed in where giants | feared to tread. Referring to remark by MT. Payson of Illinois to the effect that the
 senate would not agree to the AcRea amend-
 ment, MT. Rogers of Arkansas suggested that
 the gentleman from New York (Mr. Beldep)
 should issue another bulletin to instruct the l senate what to do.
 MT. Bynum of Indiana, in the course of l some brief remarks, read from the. manu- | script of the official reporters of the Record
 the report of the recent colloquy between Mir. Cannon and MT. Houk in which they refer to | each other as nuisances. This reference was | omitted from the Record, and in alluding to the omission Mir. Bynum quoted from a 1 speech made by MT. Cannon in the Fiftieth
 congress deprecating mutilation of the Rec- i ord.
 Mir. Cannon said that during the colloguy | referred to, in the heat of debate he (Csnnon) l and the gentleman from Tennessee (Houk) had said things which they would not have
 said in cooler moment. But the colloquy had been personal to themselves, and from kind had been, on agreement between the | gentlemen, left out of tho Record. It had remained for the gentleman from Indiana to rise in his place and put in the Record what had been stricken therefrom by
 agreement between the two gentlemen con- I
 man turned back te the Record of the last
 congress and read where he (Cannon) pro. tested against a mutilation of the Record
 He recollected the circumstances we'll. IL
 was @ controversy between the gentleman
 from Indiana (Bynum) and himself. The gentleman had not come to him and agreed to strike out what had been said, but had
 struck it out without consultation. He (Cannon) was gratifed to believe that there | was no representative on either side, save l alone the gentleman from Indiana, who ha6
 the heart on the one hand or the malignancy
 on the other to seek to obtrude himself where
 under the parliamentary usage of the house
 he did not belong. Applause on the repub
 lican side.
 Mir. Bynum said that the gentleman wa
 mistaken in regard to the controversy between
 them at the last congress. He (Bynum) hat
 not kept any thing out of the Record, but hat
 made one of his statements more specific. s,
 far as the gentleman's denuncistion was con cerned the gentleman had a perfect privileg
 and right to utter it here-here. [Republicai
 misses.
 Mir. Cannon (deprecatingly) beg the gal lant gentleman from Indiana not to hurt m
 outside of the house. Laughter.
 | MT. Houk said that both the gentlema al
 from Illinois and himself had felt that the had been guilty of an impropriety in thei remarks They had believed that with pro  the Record, and by common consent certain things which had appeared in the newspaper
 had not appeared in the Record. The gentle ! man from Indiana (Bynum) had now dug u what had passed between the gentleman fror 7 Illinois and himself (Houk.)
 Naturalists asserted that the alligato 5 placed himself in the sunshine, opened hi jaws and waited for the flies to walk in, ,whe he sncked them down. If there was an . member who took pride in feeding on ths 3 l sort of dirt, God bless his soul, let him talk } it to his hearts content. Lsughterl. Tn l McRae amendment was lost-72 to 93-an 3 l the bill was reported to the house. ! Mir. Holman moved to recommit the bill with instructions to the committee on pub lie lands to report it back with provisio 2 forfeiting all lands not earned within tn
 time limit in the granting acts. Lost. a The bill, which is the senate bill with house substitute, forfeits all lands granted | , aid in the construction of railroad opposit
 to and co-terminous with the portion of an
 such railroad not now completed.
 The house at 5:15 adjourned. THRILLING EXPERIENOE.