Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-05

The bill having been read in full ant
the Vice-President having declared thu
the bill was open to amendment, Mr.
Vest said that if he could defeat it b!
any sort of parliamentary tactics, h
would do so very cheerfllly. 1t wa
very evident, however, that the bill
would pass, and all that he could hope
to do, under existing circumstances
would be to delay action upon it for
number of days only.
The Senate subsequently passed Thu
bill.
HOUSE.
Mr.. McA1illin, from the committee or
ways and means, reported back Il rcso
luting calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for information as to the
amount of drawback allowed to the
sugar refining company Or the sugar
trust during ihc past year. Adopted.
.llso adversely the sub-treasury bill.
Mr.. Simpson, of Kansas, rising to a
question of personal privilege, referred
10 speech made in the Senate by Sen
:ttor Perkins, condemniag him for haT'
ulg made public letter addressed TO
rim by one OF his constituents rejecting
upon Secretary Noble in regard to the
opening of the Cherokee outlet and his
connection with the cattle men.
He was frequently interrupted by IIr.
Funston, of Kansas, and Mr. Hender-
son, of Iowa, with points Of order, and
for half an hour the House was in a
state of confusion. Finally the Speaker
was compelled to request him to take
his scat. The House then went into
committee of the whole On the Dur
borrow world 5 fair bill.
Mr.. Cummings, of New York, said
that it was a matter Of pride with him
that he had fiHbustercd against this
looting proposition. lie felt thatifthat
great iilibusterer, Samuel j. Randall had
been living and OH the floor Of The House
to-day he would have been among those
who stood by his side.
The Worlds fair proposition had so
mixed itself up with the government
that it was difficult to tell which was
the Worlds fair and which was the
government. The remnants Of former
Congresses had covered the floors so
that it could hardly be told whether
the present Congress or the heel-taps
of former Congresses ran the house.
1t was matter of pride with Mr. Cum
mings that he had flibustered against
the looting appropriation.
Mr.. Fellows, of New York, support
ed the bill. The work, he said, was q
governmental one. The idea of the
fair had been born in Congress; it had
its inception here. From the start to
the finish it was governmental work.
He had been appealed to as a demo-
craft to refuse his aid to a proposition
which his colleagues designated as one
to loot the treasury. But he had re-
ceived his commission from a higher
democratic authority than the demo-
cratic majority in this Congress. He
had received it from the platform of
the democratic convention which had
favored the fair as q national enter
prise. When he came to receive di
rections that would control him rs Il
democrat, he preferred rather to re-
ceive them from democratic conven-
ton than from part of his colleagues
on this floor.
The debate continued until / o'clock.
Much of it was foreign to the question
pending and referred to the Commits
sioner extensions.
Precisely at o'clock the chairman
of the committee of the whole stated
that under the order of the House the
committee must arise. Having arisen
the Durborow bill was reported to the
House.
The pending amendment land the
only one) was substitute offered by
Mr.. De Almond, of Missouri, for the
first section of the bill. 1t provides
that if the Worlds Columbian EXPOSE
ton shall deposit at a mint of the
United States a sufficient quantity of
silver bullion it shall be coined and de-
livered to the exposition in half-do!lar
coins in amount not exceeding 5000
600.
1t was rejected-yeas, 76; nays, 189.
The vote was then taken on the final
passage of the bill and it was passed by
a majority of forty-eight, the vote be-
ing 131 ayes to SO nays. So the bill
passed the House. 1t appropriates
50, 100000 to the Chicago fair.
So the bill has passed both houses Of
Congress.