The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-11
AT THE CAPITAL.
Proceedings in the House and
Senate.

In the Senate to-day the Agricultural
Departments deficiency bill, providing
Sl5o,ooo for carrying out the provisions
and meat inspection law, was passed,
also TIVE nty bills Of local character or
for private relief.
The Senate then took up the bill for
tho erection of Government postofiice
buildings in towns having postal re-
| ceipts OF $4,000 annually. Mr.. Vest
offered substitute for it which in
structs the Secretary of the Treasury to
cause plans and designs to be prepared
for postotiice buildings, and directs that
those plans and designs shall be
SO devised as TO provide fer additions
TO the capacity of the buildings when
such additions become necessary.
1t provides, also, that the Postmas
ter General shall, from time to time,
cause any such buildings to be con-
structed in towns whore the gross post
office receipts have, for three years
preceding, exceeded 80, 900, the cost for
the site and buildings not to exceed
100000. 1t appropriates 100000 to
carry out It's plans.
Pending action on the bill the Senate
went into executive session and at 5
O'Clock adjourned.
In the House the discussion on the
free wool bill was continued.
Mr.. Dingley concluded his speech.
begun yesterday, against tho bill MIR.
Turner, Of Georgia. then took the floor
in advocacy of tho bill.
In the course OF his remarks he cri-
ticised Speaker Reeds rulings in tho
last Congress, and denied that the re.
cent decision in the Supreme Court had
vindicated these rulings.
When Mr.. Turner had concluded Mr..
Reed arose and replied to his criticisms
upon him. He expressed the opinion
that his action ut that time had been
thoroughly vihdicated by the decision
of the Supreme Court The question
was whether he had violated his duty
In counting the members present who
were in the chamber.
Never. before tho decision of the
court, had any admission been made
that it was present quorum and notan
acting quorum that was demanded by
the constitution. Tho gentleman from
Georgia himself had, in his speech to-
day, admitted that this was correct.
When the gentleman had quoted
against him the statement he had
made twelve years ago and had asked
whether it was that statement or his
rulings in the last Congress that had
been upheld by the supreme court the
| gentleman showed only that he did not
comprehend tho decision of the court.
Mr. Turner replied that the gentle.
mon from Maine had occupied both sides
OF the question and had been wrong on
both sides. democratic laughter) Mr..
Reed retorted that he had been correct
and consistent. Continuing, Mr.. Reed
argued that under the constitution, the
present quorum was sufficient for the
transaction Of business.
Tho gentleman from Georgia had seen
tit to refer to the last election. This
had been done already by the gentle.
man from Tennessee (McMillin.) AL.
though the gentleman from Georgia
had done 1t in a moro polished manner,
the fact remaiued that it had been OK.
plotted. How often, in tho history of
the world, had tho righteous man gone
temporarily to tho wall? (Laughter)
Oliver Cromwell had been the protec-
tor of Great Britain, and the FAC Of
Great Britain had been protected on
every sea. The voice of Cromwell had
stayed the persecution of Christians in
every land, and yet the people OF Great
Britain, with loud acclamations, had
welcomed back the monarchy of
Charles IL.
In few years afterwards Charles III
Jay buried in the abbey. where England
buried her distinguished dead, and
Oliver Cromwell lay buried under the
Tyburn tree.
Whose memory should De moro hon
ored-that of Charles ii or that of
oliver Cromwell. admired by ell man.
kind
Mr.. Patterson, Tennessee. made an
argument in support of the bill, and
lnveighed against the protection policy
OF the Republican party, which he
claimed was detrimental to the negro
laborers OF the South.
AT the conclusion of Mr.. Patterson's
speech tho House adjourned.