Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-06-21
NATIONS CAPITAL.
House Is Unable 10 Find The
Silver Bill.
Asithsf the Speaker OF The Coinage
Committee Seem to Have Il.
Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation
Bill reported to the Senate.

| Wa.nIsGroS, June 20 o-Cousideratioi
Of the legislative appropriation bill va
resumed.
| Teller moved 10 increase the salary o
/ the financial clerk of the Senate from
| s3 600 to - $50 Ruled out on point o
order.
| An appeal was taken from the decision
of the presiding cfieer and long discus
| sion took place.
| Plumb spoke Of the extravagAnee of th,
| Senate in the matter of its employees. Th'
expense now, he said, was At least Sl00, 90,
year more than it ought to be. The evi
was growing every year and would sool
become so great that il would become
political issue. He would not be surprise
| If men were 5000 elected to the Senate OF
the pledge of ruthlessly and reientlessI,
applying the knife TO the excresencel
around the Senate.
The discussion was participated in b,
Dawes, Morrill,, George, Harris. and Call
Several complimenting highly the finAneis
| clerk (Nixon.) The appeal from the de-
ci.ion of the Chair was laid on the table
The bill formally reported to the Senst.
for amendments made in committee OF
whole was agreed to.
Dawes moved to increase the salary Of
the Comm ssioner Of Indian AfAirs from
- coo to 81 600. Defeated.
Stewart moved TO strike out the item Of
3, 600 for the executive officer of tht
Geological survey. Not sgreed to.
Blair asked unanimous consent to have
the salary of the Commissioner of Educs-
tion increased from $1,000 to s. 900.
Allison objected
Stewart again offered an amendment tC
strike out the item for the executive officer
of the geological survey and spoke of thu
appropr alton bills.
Dawes reminded him Of the whole army
grown upon appropriation bills and ths
weather bureau grown up from the appro
priation of &i5,0 900 to the present msgni
tude, costing over million year.
Stewart Denounced the geological survey
as being of no practical use, although the
salary expense of it alone was over 500.
00o year, and the aggregate expense ovei
a million. /, had all grown up, he said
out of s. 900 for executing a map.
Edmunds said the geological survey.
started from an appropriation of $4,000
for a survey of the Colorado river.
Mr.. Dawes explained the operations OF
the survey and the Importance of its work
He said that during the past year many
were engaged in the geological survey OF
the nited States. making geological maps.
Mr.. Ingalls said it might be that too
many persons were employed on the gee
logical survey, but no bureau Of the gov
ernment had more cordially approved it.elf
to the comm on sense and intelligence of all
people where its operations were known.
There was not a territory west of the Mis-
souri, that had not been greatly increased in
value by the work Of that bureau. No
government publication 10 sought for with
more xvidity by cultivated readers than
contributions to the Geological survey. II
had been Of enormous scientific and practi.
cal value. Instead of being curtailed and
diminished, the operations of the survey
ought to be extended.
The discussion was continued BY Ed
munds, Teller, Stewart, Platt, Call,
Reagan. and German.
At the close Of the discussion the amend
ment was withdrawn by Stewart, and the
bill was passed.
Eimunds offered a resolution, which went
over TILL tomorrow. for the appointment OF
a committee of seven Senators to take into
immediate consideration the state of the
administrative service of the Senate and re-
port as early a. may be what measure
should be adopted in respect to the creates At
efficiency and economy of the service.
The Senate at ?. NJ, adjourned