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! WAsnINaToN, Jan. 81.
SErATE.-Among the bills introduced and
referred were the following:
BY Mr.. Jones of Nevada-To discontinue
the coinage of 50 and 81 gold pieces and Of
three cent nickel pieces. The bill adversely
reported ION Jan. 1o) from the census conn
Inittse to ASCERTAIN what percentage of the
people own their farms. the number of farms
under mortgage and the amount thereof was
: taken from the calendar In order to give Mr..
Berry (who had introduced the billy an op.
portunity to state the grounds Of his opposi-
ton to the report. and why the bill should
be passed.
Mr.. Plat referring to statement made by
Mr.. Berry - to eastern manufacturers loan-
ing money to western and southern farmers
at large rate of interest, took occasion to
say that the idea that the eastern manufac-
turefs had accumulated large profits and
6Ae
tire mistake. They had not made large
profits and many of them were large borrow
ers.
Mr.. Berry varied somewhat his original
statement, and said that trust companies and
corporations In New York and New England
had representatives in all the southern and
western States trying to loan money to farm
ers on farm mortgages.
Mr.. Hale, chairman Of the census commit
tee, stated that there was no hostility on the
part of the committee to the proposed in
| quiry, but in every suggestion to enlarge the
scope of the census the committee was CON-
fronted with the danger of putting in such
new work as would delay the census, and
that instead of the census being made !
clear, distinct, and swiftly taken one, it
would run over years and years, and the
committee lin cooperation with the superin-
tendent) was DESTROYS to prevent that. Mr..
Reagan argued in favor of the bill and de-
clared his belief that in two out of every
three farm mortgages there would be fore
closures and the present owners would lose
their farms. ~t-
Mr.. Vest spoke of the abnormal depression
| of the agricultural interests of the country
evidenced by the fact that corn is bringing
now to its producers In Missouri and Kansas
only from IS to ID cents a bushel and wheat
from 40 to so cents, while coal costs them 2e
cents bushel. He himself had very distinct
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preston, but the first thing to be ascertained
| in order to provide remedy was to ascertain
the extent of the evil. The farming commu-
nifty had conviction that legislation was
largely responsible for the existing depres.
sion. He wanted to make it mandatory on
the superintendent of census to obtain this
information because the conduct of the
superintendent In this and other matters had
not tended to obtain his (Mr. vest's) conf
dence.
Mr.. Spooner argued that mortgages were
not always a signal of distress; they often
indicated energy and vigor and ambition
and desire to obtain more property. Some-
times they were to relieve want. His col
league (Mr. Sawyer) had told him when Mr..
Reagan was speaking, that he never knew of
but one farm mortgage being foreclosed in
his region Of country. He hoped the bill
would be indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Hale said he had not supposed when
he moved to take up the bill that the debate
would take SO wide range. The passage
of the bill, he said, would add 100 per
cent. to the burden of the enumerators,
would add millions to the cost of the work,
turn it ssawry" and lose the time Of action.
Mr.. German did not see how the enumera-
tor would have his burden doubled by ask
ing the questions required in the bill.
| Finally after further discussion the bill
| went OV01 WltuOu6 &CtIOu tl1l ". uOrrOWs
The Senate passed the following bills:
The Senate bill to promote the efficiency
Of the enlisted force of the navy.
The bill provides for increased pay for
each additional term of four years. service
and for placing enlisted men and appointed
petty officers Oh the retired list after thirty
years' service with an allowance of seventy
Eve per cent. of their pay and allowances.
After brief executive session the Senate
at $3.50 adjourned.
HoUsE.-Yesterday just previous to the
adjournment Mr.. Bland, of Missouri, moved
that the House adjourn, and on q division
the speaker declared the motion lost. Mr..
Bland thereupen demanded tellers, and &C.
cordinR to the record this morning the speak
lers."
There was no record of this fact made in
the journal and this morning Mr.. Bland
moved to have the journal amended accord
ingly.
The speaker stated that he had made bis
reply in an interrogative form and that the
acquiesced in it. The chair was informed
that such details were not inserted in the
journal. The chair submitted Mr.. Bland'l
motion to amend the journal, and on divi
sion declared the motion lost by q vote of &
to 95.
MI. Bland demanded t0ner6.
The speaker inquired WHISTLER the gentle
man from Missiouri had discovered an,
ground why tellers should be appointed
The chair Last night had suggested that be
| would like to have his attention called to AM
provision regarding tellers.
Mr.. Bland said he had demanded teller
; under the general practice Of the House.
J The Speaker declined to entertain the de
mand for tellers.
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but almost at tho same moment appealed
from the decision Of the chair. The Speake
50 d that the appeal came rather late, blu
, that he would entertain it.
, Mr.. Mills, of Texas, argued that vote b.
! tellers was as much a part of the parliamen
tary law az a vote to adjourn. It was tn
, only vote by which the House could correc
/ decision Of the Speaker. and if the Hous
did not have right to this vote the Speake
fused to permit tho House to have tsllers +
verify his count he simply refused to allo,
the House to say whether his decision (righ
wrong) should stand.
A long debate followed, in which man
members took part.
= Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky, entered into
. discussion of what parliamentary Law
: consisted in. He went back to the rules Q
the English House of Commons, upon whio
, the rules of previous Congresses had bee
founded. In constructing that parliamer
tary law gentlemen mast construe it in rels
o ton to its notifications by the rules c
o former Congresses. These rules had bee
/. the result of experience. Members mui
look back to the manual which was printe
g from year to year to find a set of rules who
the experience of members had shown to b
Q applicable to the ordinary conduct Of bus
g ness in the House. So that it had been bel
land rightly held) that in the absence Of cor
ventional rules 1t must look to those rul'
+ and apply them, 10 far ~ could b.
l. to the situation in which the Houi
9 found itself. From time immemorial 1t ha
been the law Of English speaking legislatiy
|, assemblies that no presiding officer coul
y make An absolute final decision to bind Il
= body over which he presided. If the presto
: ing officer decided a question of order 1t ",
4 in the power of any member to appeal an
;. take the Judgment OF the body itself. In Il
y English parliament 1t was in the power
o any single member to demand division an
have tellers. Congress had placed a restri
Y ton on that rule and had provided that
y count by tsllers must be demanded BY on
!. fifth of quorum.
y y The chair has always been unable to g.
how 1t ia possible for the House which b.
g passed out of existence to bind by rules ar
= regulations the House which was to con
= into existence in the future. The recent d
"a o}siona hv the Sneaker of tho Honsa ha,