The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-29
XXI.---NEW SERIES.
TUBS TO THE WHALE.
coNeREssMEN IN a HURRY TO PASS
AGRICULTURAL BILLS.


cONGRESSMEN IN a HURRY TO PASS
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ASH'CoI' 'onAI e'|Io'
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TIL. comm,ttss ou Rules Plies the whip
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Much Legislation TO be Rushed through
rh. Aor,c,,tural Collepes Literally
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WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. 19.-The
House to.day tabled a motion to recon-
.,sa. .ho WoTo,r,;u On a. 4. sna,,v
oiuoi '"e -, o"J o"' 49,. 60,
passed. Iheh cannon, from the oo"-
mittee on Rules, reported q resolution
setting apart to-day, Wednesday,
m,,,s,,, c..,ras, .nd Tuo.,,av ond
u.sut'y, o.sa'us anu .aay -. sssS e..Ss
"wednesday 'oInext Weok Ior Sonsioc..-
tsk6n up is the Senate bili. ~ AZ ~ IL
cultural colleges, Une pTuvIoGs Il IiSfeSSfon
on which shall be considered as order
ed after two hours debate. The next
to be taken up is the bill providing for
the inspection of meats for expectation
and 1t shall be voted on after two
hours debate. Then the lard bill shall
be taken up and vote ordered at four
o'clock Saturday. On Tuesday of next
week the bill defining options shall be
taken up and the previous question
shall be considered as ordered at three
o'clock Wednesday,. On the days speci-
fled the House shall meet at eleven
o'clock. The order also provides for a
to general appropriation bills or con-
ference reports thereon.
Grain, or Texas, inquired whether
under the order the river and harbors
Dill could be considered.
cameron replied that he thought not
ay 9aS ene e could Ge he up
hour on other days.
Biount, of the Rules Committee. crit
brineing IN rules ON such unimportant
subjects without opportunity for fair
discussion. The House had deQenera-
ted from common responsibility. He
thought that the agricultural bills had
been purposely excluded and could not
be considered. He thought that It
should be included and the time for
debate extended.
Mcmillan, another member of the
Rules Committee, said that it must be
admitted in view of the late hour in
the session that the proposed order put
the rivers and harbors bill in a peril
Gus condition. Business had already
been outlined that would occupy the
time of the House until September
leaving unconsidered the rivers and
harbors bill with its 1924, 100000 appro-
priation. He warned the House now
in order that the friends of the rivers
and harbors bill might adopt the speci-
al GrueI WIN tnelr eyes open.
co,Itt Sto,, VI ;,n Kansas, Hnal .aa man y. @ the
S9mHltIee On AgrlculI9re, saiu 10 tne
thn. Suus ss.p Si .hS s alsS.s ane narpols Diii
,s..ssi 80 sAu ...iss. ~ Sno xas iSaI- is.
Would Knock the rivers and hafbCfS bill
so high that it would nsVer be seen
again. GauRhter) He should think
that the gentlemen from Georgia and
Tennessee (Blonnt and McMiIlan) in
view of the arising of farmers in their
States would concede a few days to the
Committee on Agriculture.
Hatch, of Missouri, said that these
bills were among the most important
offered to the House. Behind these
bills were more voting thousands than
were behind any other species of leeis-
lation on the calendar. These thous-
ands were restless, excited and uneasy
from one end of the country to the
other for the reason that their meas
ures had been cut out by such meas
ures as the rivers and harbors bill. He
warned his friends on the Democratic
side to make no mistake in voting
against this order. Itwas the best that
could be done; and any Democrat rep
resenting an agricultural district who
threw an obstacle in its way wonld rue
1t before thes6Bt of Novehiber:. He
man from Kansas IMr Fnnston ss;d
IN regard tn the rivers and harhors IS h;it
II the adontion of the nonfarence o 70.
mort On that h;I, was IN stand in TIC
Wav of the consideration of these N meae.
,'rcs iat ~. r;,ors n,'I Snu y, SIHu I';,i s.
until December next ""''
Blonnt thonrht that there w,s q do
sign in the pronosed order tn exclude
The biiIs mentioned in the "rJer H wars D
most imnortant and he wns content for
them to have fair ronsideration mnder
the rnles of the House Ha ". suaaaated %
an amendment ;ncjnd;nr thss Sr;vors
and harbors hill among the H measnreS
which miUbt ;nt.rf.re S;th tha "nara'
fions of ths order WV
McKinley sa;d that there was M ,eo-
islation demanded hv the co"ntrv %
nniversaliv as that c,,nnr;SeS ;r' ~ S
nendin~ Resolution In ranortinn th;e
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