The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-02-07
In the House.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6-McKinley asked
unanimous consent for the present consid-
Grafton of the bill, provididg that nothing
in the tariff act shall be held to repeal or
impair the reciprocity treaty with the Ha-
waiian islands.
Bland thought the bill should be consid-
cred in committee of the whole and Mr..
Mckinley moved that the House go into
committee for that purpose, but withdrew
his motion as be found it was impossible to
limit the time for debate
The speaker laid before the House the
Senate bill, amending the land forfeiture
act of September 90, 1890, so that the period
within which settlers, purchasers, and
others under the provisions of said act may
make application to purchase the lands for
felted thereby when such period begins to
run from the passage of the act shall begin
to run from the date of PRONUNCIATION by
the commissioner of the general land Office
or his instructions to the officers of the
local land Offices for their direction in the
disposition of said lands. The bill passed
with verbal amendments.
The pending question was the decision of
the chair upon the point of order raised by
Dlngley against BANDS free coinage
amendment. There was no debate and the
speaker Immediately proceeded to deliver
his decision sustaining the point of order.
Bland appealed from the decision but
the chair was sustained. The following
Democrats voted in the affirmative: An
drew, Mutchler, Vaux, Spinola, Dunphy,
Wiley and Clancy.
The following Republicans voted in the
negative: Carter, Townsend, of Colorado:
Lind Bartine, Turner, of Kalsas; Kelley,
Laws, Council, Hermann, Sweet and Clark,
of Wyoming.
When the chair announced the vote 1874
to l27 the Republican side burst into ap-
pause.
Dockery, of Missouri, moved to strike out
the appropriation of $4,000 for e-coinage
and insert the words "and so much as NAV
be necessary to meet the expenses of such
re coinage is hereby appropriated out of the
silver profit fund" Adopted.
The committee then required to the
Worlds fair paragraphs to which Gambler.
OF Massachusetts, proposes, though it has
not been formally offered, the following
substitution: THAT the Secretary of the
treasury be instructed not to approve the
payment OF any expenses attended upon
the meeting of the Worlds Columbian
commission or board of lady managers. ex
cept such meetings as may be called at the
time OF the dedication and opening of the
Worlds fair as provided for in section of
said act; nor to approve the payment of
L.
ing OF the executive committee of the
Worlds Columbian commission as created
by article of the bylaws of said commits
sion, nor upon the meeting of the executive
committee of the board of lady managers
except such meetings as may be held not
oftener than once in six months nor to ap-
proprlate the payment of any salary to any
officer OF the Worlds Columbian
commission out of any money
which has been or may be available Tor
such purpose, other than an annual salary
not in excess of 81, 900 to the president
81 coo to the vice chairman of the executive,
committee, ana s., 600 to the secretary: nor
to approve the payment of any salary to
any officer OF the board of lady managers
out OF any money which has been or NAV
be available for such purposes other than
an annual salary not in excess of &, 900 to
the president and 50 coo to the secretary
nor to approve the payment of any eX-
penses OF the Worlds Columbian commits
sion or board of lady managers other than
those heretofore mentioned, which shall
amount to more than $4,000 per annum in
the aggregate
Flower, of New York, speaking on the
amendment, said the desire of the commit
tee on the quadrocentennial celebration
was to make the country understand the
committee was in favor of economy in the
management of expenditures connected
with the fair.
Wilson, of West Virginia, questioned the
efficiency of the national commission in the
expenditure of the government money and
criticised the salaries paid to the officials.
The total amount of the salary list, he said,
was SOS, $40, and under the authority given
the commission to increase the number of
appointees as the fair grew, the salaries
would swell until they swamped the gov
eminent appropriations.
Breckenridge spoke and defended the
action OF the appropriations committee. 1t
was the duty of Congress to make the fair
a success, not a failure, and he, as mem
Der of the appropriations committee, had
felt it his duty to concur in the recommen-
dation OF the appropriations which had
been made.
Vaux, of Pennsylvania, made constitu-
tional argument in opposition to the pro-
visions of the bill.
Taylor, of Illinois, said what Chicago