The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-19
In the House.

WASHINGTON, April 18-Enloe of Tennessee
rising to question of personal privilege, had
read an article from d New York paper declaring
gigantic job had been discovered in the south
ern war claims bill introduced by him. The ar
ticle states that Thomas, of Wisconsin. chair
man of the committee on war claims, had de-
nounced the blllaS one of the most Infamous
Jobs which had ever been foisted upon Congress-
Thomas SAID he had not censured any member
OF the committee; he had stated that if the bill
passed II would be Infamous because he could
prove that number Of claims In the bill were
claims OF persons notably diSloyal.
Enloe said the charge in the article that he
mad brought the bill before the House in sur
reptlulouS manner was q falSehOod
Thomas reiterated his statement that a num-
Der OF claims in the bill were those of disloyal
persons, and that a number of them had never
been examined by the committee.
Butterworth moved that the House 20 into
committee of the whole for consideration of the
legislative appropriation bill Friends of the
private calendar mustered sufficient force to
defeat the motion, yeas, liz; nays. 1l6
LAWYER OF illinois, presented the protest of
the Hardware Association of the United States
against the proposed duty on cutlery and guns
Referred.
Henderson, of Illinois, reported the river and
harbor appropriation bill. Referred TO the com
m1ttee OF the whole The House then went into
committee of the whole on the private calendar
The court of claims bill was the first on the
calendar. Thomas. of Wisconsin, offered re-
solution that the bill be reported to the House
with recommendation that it be recommitted
with instructions to the committee on war
claims to inquire into the loyalty of each claim
ant.
He said the bill contained 2S5 claims. based
| on pretended findings of the court of claims OF
this number there were eight cases where no
findings were transmitted to Congress-. In 176
cases the usual method of ascertaining the
| loyalty OF the parties had not been followed
The committee on war claims had punched
these 80 claims without any examination or in
Vestlgatlon. The secretary of war had trans
mltted TO the committee since the report of the
bill q statement showing that in eightv-four
cases the claimants had filed vouchers for sup
plies furnished the confederates or done some
other thing indicating diSloyalty.
Cannon said If this was correct. the House
dare not pass the bill until thoroughly investi-
gated.
Buchanan, of New jersey denounced the
attempt to drag through corrupt with ircorrupt
cases.
Houk, of Pennsylvania, said it was not so
much the corruptneSS as the desire to kill the
bill.
This precipitated wordy war in which
Buchanan, Houk, Kerr and others took part
Stockdale, of Mississippi, argued that the
fact that man signed vouchers for furnishing
supplies to the confederate army was no proof
OF d1Sloyalty." II he had not signed his prop
erty would have been take away from him
Houk spoke for the loyal men of the south de-
carlng that had it not been for them the con-
federacy would have succeeded. After a tilt be-
tween Houk and GroSVenor, a resolution by Nc
ComaS was agreed to. recommittng the bill
with instructions TO the committee to report it
back within two weeks, and that the bill be
placed at the head of the calendar The resolu-
luton was reported to the House.
Grosvenor raised the point of order and the
speaker ruled the resolution out of order The
bill, therefore, went back on the calendar
Recess
At the evening session the House passed fifty
private pension bills.