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drew his motion when be found that 1t
would possibly limit the time for debate.

| Placed on the calendar.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole (Air. Payson. Of Illinois. IL. the
chair) on the sundry appropriation bill.
POINT OF ORDER.
The pending question was the decision
Of the Chair upon point of order raised
| by MIR. Dingley, Of Maine, against MI.
BANDS free-coinage amendment
The Chairman sustained the point OF or
der on the ground that the amendment was
not germane 10 the paragraph to which II
was offered, and further that it changedan
| existing law.
Mr. Bland appealed from the decision. :,
| The decision Of the Chair was sustained
| by vote Of 134 10 127.
| When the question was put there arose
Immediately great excitement IN the nan,
and a. Messrs Cannon aud Bland TOOK
| their places as tellers nearly every MEMBER
| in the House rose and anxiously watched
| the count. The following Democrats
voted in the affirmative: Andrews
| Nutchler, Vaux. Spinola, Durphy, whey,
and Clancy. The following Republicans
voted in the negative: Carter, Townsend
| (coiored), Lind, Bartine, Turner OF Kan
sas, Kelly, Laws, Council, Herman.
Sweet. and Clark of Wyoming. The vote
was close and not until the last moment
was it evident which side would tip the
vote to be 134 to 127 the Republican SIDE
| burst into applause. So the Chairman
| decision was sustained.
Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri. moved TO
| strike out the appropriation OF S2O,OOO Tor
recoinage and insert the words ana so
much as may be necessary TO meet tine eA-
penses of such recOinage Is hereby az,
| proprlated out of the silver-proht tund.
Adopted.
In advocating his amendment Mr.. Dock
cry said its object was to provide for tne
recoinage of the $4,000, 900 OF subsidiary
coin now in the Treasury. About Sls,OOO,-
| 900 of this consisted of half-dollar pieces
The amendment provided q sufhcient sun
TO meet the abrasion or DETACHMENT OF the
coin and permitted the Secretary OF the
| Treasury To substitute coins IN current de-
mand for these half-dollar CONS. The fur-
ther effect Of the amendment would be 10
| compel the Secretary TO coin at once INTO
standard silver dollars the 100000 OF
| trade-dollars now in the Treasury.
THE WORLDS FAIR.
The committee then required to the
World's-Fair paragraphs, to which MI.
| Gambler, Of Massachusetts, proposes
| Ohough 10 has not yet been formally
offered) the following substitute: mat
the Secretary of the Treasury be instructed
not TO approve the payment OF any expense
attendant upon the meeting OF the Worid
Columbian Commission or of its Board OF
Lady Managers, except such meetings a.
may be called at the time OF the dedlcatloh
and opening of the Worlds Far' as
provided for in section 8 OF sald
act; nor to approve the payment
of any expense attendant upon the meet
ing of the Executive Committee OF the
| Worlds Columbian Commission as created
by Article V. of the bylaws of the said com
mission; nor upon the meeting OF the
| Executive Committee of the Board OF
| Lady Managers except such meetings a.
may be held not oftener than once III SIX
months; nor TO approve the payment on
| any salary TO any officer OF inc
| Worlds Columbian Commission out OF
any money which has been or may De
available for such purposes, other than an
annual salary not in excess OF $1,000 10 the
president. 1000 10 the vice-chalrman OF
| the Executive Committee, and 5000 10
| the secretary: nor to approve the payment
| of any salary TO any officer OF the BOARD OF
| Lady Managers out OF any money when
| has been or may be available for such pur-
noses other than an annual salary not III
excess of -. 600 to the president and $4,000
| TO the secretary; nor TO approve the pay
| ment of any expenses of the Worlds
| Columbian Commission or of the Board OF
LADY Managers other than those herelnbe-
| fore mentioned which shall amount TO
| more than $4,000 per annum IN the aggre-
| gate" ,
Mr.. Wilson. of West Virginia. questioned
| the efficiency of the national commission
on the expenditure of Government money,
and criticised the salaries paid TO the
| officials The total amount OF the salary
| lists was So, $40, and under the authority
given the commission 10 increase the num-
| her of appointees as the fair grew the
salaries would swell until they swamped
| the Government appropriation. Inc re-
port of the Worlds Fair Committee was
then that these salaries should be- cut
down. If the United States assumed 10
RIM the commission by paying ITS own
commissioners ID would be morally hound
to make up any deficiency that might oc-
cur.
'sISAcUBREs."
former member of the House had once
defined "sinacuree (as he expressed it, as
| a pOsition where there was nothing to do
and a ID sight of pay. Laughter:
| He thought that good many of the posi-
| tions on the National Commission were
| "sinacurees."
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Kentucky. de-
tended the Committee on Appropriations
| in reporting the paragraphs providing Tor
| the expenses of the commission. The
appropriations were made IN conformity
| with the provisions of the act for which
| the gentlemen from Massachusetts,. New
| York. and West Virginia (Candler, Flower,
| and WILSON, had voted. and against which
| he had cast his vote. 1t was the duty OF
| Congress 10 make the fair a success, not
| a failure, and he, as a member of the Com
mIttee on Appropriations, had felt 1t to be
| his duty to concur III the recommendation
Of the appropriations which had been
made.
In the course of the discussion Mr..
Mason. of Illinois. referred TO the fact that
Mr.. Gamblers amendment had been
formally offered, and gave notice that he
would make the point of order against. 1t
! (when offered) that ii was q violation OF
statute Of the United States.
THE COMMISSION DEFENDED.
Messrs. Adams, Taylor, and Mason of
Illinois, defended the Worlds Fair Com
| mission and deprecated the criticisms
which had been made upon Chicago and
| everybody connected with the exposition
as being entirely unwaranted.
Mr.. Coleman, of Louisiana, said that the
exposition had done more for the indus
| tries of the South than any action taken
| by Congress for years past.
Mr.. B1tterworth had no doubt OF this
fact, and he continued at some length to
defend the city OF CnlcagO from the as
PERSONS cast upon it in the matter of
raising the money, and laid stress upon
the point that the proposed exposition
was not an enterprise of Chicago nor of
Illinois, but was Of the whole country.
There ought, he said, TO be national pride
in this matter.
Mr.. Gambler then offered his amendment
formally. and against 1t Mr.. Mason raised
his point of order.
Pending decision the committee rose
and the House took recess until 8 O'clock.
the evening session to befor the considera-
ton of private pension bills.
At it's evening session the House passed
lis private pension bills.
Serious Charges Against a Kansas Judge
LBy telegraph to the Dispatch.l
TOPEKA, KAN. February Ga resolution
providing for an investigation of the
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