Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-23
House of Representatives.

lourucd.
House of Representatives.
After the routine morning business the
House resumed iii Committee of the Whole
the consideration of the Oklahoma town
site bill. The third section, the only one
remaining in dispute. was finally adopted.
The committee rose and the bill was passed.
Mr.. Stewart, of Georgia, from the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, reported a bill
authorizing. the Acknowledgement ana
Secretary of the Interior to purchase town
sites, to be located north and south OF the
3gth degree of north latitude. and TO erect
thereon buildings for the confinement OF
United States prisoners at cost OF SOD
600 each and appropriating 100000 for
the erection of workshops.
Mr.. Holman raised the point of order
that the bill must receive It's first consldera-
ton in Committee of tine Whole. The
Speaker oyerIuled the point of order and
Mr.. Holman took an appeal. The decision
OF the Speaker was sustained LAB to l22.
Then MIR. McCreary, of Kentucky, moved
that the House go into Committee OF the
Whole for the purpose of considering the
bill. This was agreed TO. In committee
MIR. Holman raised the point of order that
the bill was not III Committee of the
Whole. hut the chairman (Nr. Burrows)
held that the motion of Mi. McCrcary car
RED the bill TO the committee.
On motion of Mr.. Clunce. of California.
an amendment was adopted providing for
the purchase of three sites and the erection
OF three buildings additional, one TO be To-
Gated west of the Rocky Mountains.
Tho second section provides that con-
victs be employed exclusively in the manu-
facturo of supplies for the Government.
Mr.. Spinola, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that cOnyicts shall
-. ,t.l, in ha maj OF
goods or merchandise that are manutac-
tured in any part of the United States. Re
jected.
Mr. McCreary of Kentucky. offered an
amendment providing that conyicts shall
not be worked outside the prison en-
closure. Adopted.
Mr.. Cummings. of New York, offered an
amendment providing that everything
manufactured by conyicts shall be branded
"prison made.n Rejected.
MIR. Raines, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that convicts he
EMPLOYED exclusively III the manufacture
of such supplies Tor the Government as can
be manufactured without the use of ma
chinery. This amendment was discussed
at some length 10y Messrs. kaines, Far
Quhar, Spinola. and Lansing of New York,
Pendleton of West Virginia. Brecken-
ridge Of Kentucky, EnlOe OF Tennessee,
anu olOISI Vi flooNobhhNNN1p.
ment was agreed tol4 TO 65. Pending
further action the committee rose.
Mr.. Mckinley, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported back the Gus
toms administrative bill. and it was re-
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Mr.. Mckinley then moved that the House
go into committee. stating that as soon as
the committee was in session he would
move that it rise and that the House adj
journ. 81,
But this did not prove satisfactory to the
Democrats. and MIR. Crisp moved an adj
journment.
The Speaker decided tho motion lost
So TO ss-and the yeas and nays were called.
The motion TO adjourn was lost-9i TO 100.
The question then. required ON Mr. NC
Kinley's motion TO 20 into committee. but
as IL was evident that tue Democrats would
demand the yeas and nays. MIR. Mckinley
moved to adjourn; which motion was, ut
$50, agreed TO.
The reason underlying Mr.. Crisp's mo-
tion TO adjourn was that he feared the Com
mittee on Elections might report upon the
contested-election case of Smith ". Jack
son, from the Fourth West Virginia district.
He does not desire (and in this he has the
full support Of the Democratic side OF the
Hcuse) that any Of the contested-election
eases shall be called up while the House Is
devoid Of any regular rules for its.govern-
ment and is dependent only on the general
parliamentary law rs construed by the
Speaker.