The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-27
TUBS TO THE WHALE.
CONGRESSMEN IN A HURRY TO PASS
AGRICULTURAL BILLS.

N1'NSo@ OttN. oi-GSs
The Committee on Rules Plies the Whip
Much Legislation TO be Rushed ThrougI
The Agricultural Colleges Liberall
Provided For.
WASHINGTON, D. G., Aug. 18th
House to-day tabled motion to recon
slider the Mckay bill, so it is fnall.
passed. Then Cannon, from the Com
mittee On Rules, reported resolution
setting apart to-day, Wednesday
Thursday. Saturday and Tuesday ant
Wednesday of next week for considera
ton of bills reported from the Commit
tee on Agriculture. The first bill to b.
taken up is the Senate bill to aid agri
cultural colleges, the previous question
on which shall be considered as order
ed after two hours debate. The next
to be taken upi the bill providing fol
the inspection of meats for expectation
and it shall be voted on after two
hours debate. Then the lard bill shall
be taken up and a 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-
fed the House shall meet at eleven
o'clock. The order also provides for a
morning hour each day and gives place
to general appropriation bills or con-
ference reports thereon.
Grain, of Texas, inquired whether
under the order the river and harbors
bill could be considered.
Cameron replied that he thought not
but that the bill could be called up Fri
day or Monday or during the morning
hour on other days.
Blount, of the Rules Committee. crit
lclsed that committee for its action IN
bringing in rules on such unlmpOrtant
subjects without opportunity for fair
discussion. The House had degenera-
ted from common respectability. He
thought that the agricultural bills had
been purpoSely excluded and could not
be considered. He thought that it
should I've included and the time for
debate extended.
Mcmillan, another member of the
Rules Committee, said that 1t 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 blu with its S24,000,0O0 appro-
priation. He warned the House now
in order that the friends of the rivers
and harborS bill might adopt the speci-
al order with their eyes open.
Funston, of Kansas, chairman Of the
Committee on Agriculture, said to the
friends of the rivers and harbors bill
that if they knocked out the Agrlcul-
tural Committee that committee
would knock the rivers and harbors bill
so high that it would never be seen
again. Naughter.) He should think
that the gentlemen from Georgia and
Tennessee (Blount and McMillan) in
view OF the arising of farmers in their
States would conee6e 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 legis- |
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 30 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
it before the first of November. He
wanted to reiterate what the gentle
man from Kansas, (Mr. Funston said
in regard to the rivers and harborS bill. |
If the adoption of the conference re-
port on that bill was to stand in the
way of the consideration of these meas
ures let the rivers and harbors bill wait
until December next.
Blount thought that there was q de-
sign in the proposed! order to exclude
action upon the rivers and EarborS bill.
The bills mentioned in the order were
most important and he was content for
them to have fair consideration under
the rules of the House. He suggested
an amendment including the rivers
and harborS bill among the measures
which might interfere with the opera
tions of the order.
Mckinley said that there was no leg
islation demanded by the country so
as that comprised in the
pending resolution. In reporting this
order the Committee on RuleS had but
responded to the agricultural senti-
ment of the country, both North and
South. The resolution was not antag-
onistic to the rivers and harbors bill.
The appeal which came from the other
side that the order excluded the rivers
and harborS bill was not because gen
tlemen on that side loved the rivers
and harbors hill but because they op-
posed the dispatch of the public hu>i-
ness. He then intimated that the Com
mittee on Rules would map out the lat
ter part of next week for the consider
alton of measures reported by the Com
mittee on Labor.
The resolution was adopted and TIE
House accordingly proceeded to consid-
Grafton Of the Senate agricultural col
.ege bill.
The time allotted for debate was uti-
lized by over a dozen members, and
most of whom III short speeches favor
ed the bill. The discussion closed and
the bin as amended was passed with
out division. 1t appropriates out of
money arising from the sale of public
lands to each State and Territory for
the more complete endowment and
of colleges for the benefit
of agriculture and the mechanic arts
the sum of S15,GO0 for the year ending
June 30th, 1880. and an annual increase
of such appropriation for ten years
thereafter by an additional sum of 81 600
over the preceding year. The annual
sum to be paid thereafter shall be 25,O0O
dollars.
Every Bone in His Body Broken.