The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-06
Mr.. CRISP IN THE CHAIR
But NOT WELL ENOUGH TO SIT
OUT THE SESSION.

Fithien Proposes 20 Put Agricultural
Implements on the Free List-Census
| Deficiency Appropriation Passed
With a General Legislation Attach
ment.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Sin the House this
morning Mr.. FithiAn Of Illinois sent to the
! speaker, for reference, "A bill placing farm
implements upon the free list. He wished
to have the bill printed in the Record. but
the speaker declined to recognize him for
the purpose OF making that request at the
present time.
Speaker Crisp is very hoarse and his voice
is hardly audible. The calling OF the COM
mittees for reports, which is usually made
by the speaker in person, was delegated to
one Of the reading clerks, the speaker being
DESTROYS Of saving his throat as much as
possible. Finally he left the chair and
yielded the gravel to Mr.. McAullin Of
Tennessee.
Several reports were maze from commit
tees and placed upon the appropriate
calendars.
The call Of the committees having been
completed. Mr.. Fithian made his request
that the bill introduced by him be printed
in the Record. and the request was acceded
TO.
CENSUS DEFICIENCY BILL.
The House then went into committee of
the whole, Mr.. Richardson OF Tennessee in
the chair, on the census deficiency bill. Mr..
Ssyers of Texas, in charge of the BILL made
an explanation az to it's provisions aud
brought the charge Of extravaganza against
the administration of the census bureau.
He said that hundreds Of men and women
~ hovr haa ,av,lnr raN
had been employed in the Office at the in
stance of congress. Had the superintendent
of the census been left to operate his bureau
without pressure from the outside to put in
office large number of incompetent per-
soDs, the expenditures would have been very
much less.
Mr.. Henderson of Iowa-Do you refer to
number or qualityl
Mr.. Sayers-To both.
MIR. Henderson replied to Mr.. Sayers and
defended the census office. Mr.. Dingley
also defended Superintendent of the Census
Porter. He said if the expenditures of the
census bureau had been increased. this was
due to the fact that congress had imposed
upon it the new and unheard Of duty of in
quiring into the private business of the
citizens and compelling them to disclose the
amounts of their farm mortgages.
Mr.. DUNCAN Of Ohio opposed an appropri-
alton for the census bureau until the charges
made against it had been answered salts
factorily. 1t had been said that tons and
tons of statistics had been destroyed after
compilation, and that lot Of punching ma.
chimes the invention of relatively which
could be purchased for $40, had been en-
ployed at royalty of SO.
CROOKEDNEss IN LIMESTONE.
Mr.. Cooper Of Indiana criticized the cen
sus Office on the ground that it had disurimi-
mated against certain limestone industries
of Indiana in favor Of others. In the tax
ing Of the census great inaccuracy, If not
dishonesty, had been committed as far as
the limestone workings were concerned.
Mr.. Stone Of Kentucky paid high tribute
to the ability and efficiency Of Superintea-
dent of Census Porter.
FIRST rider" OF THE SESSION.
Mr.. Sayers offered an amendment appro-
priating Sl15,5l4 for the subsistence of
Sioux Indians, and calling upon the Secre-
tary of the Interior to report 10 the House
the names of all employees under the direc-
ton and supervision Of the Indian bureau.
The latter clause Of this amendment was the
first general legislation Co be incorporated
upon an appropriation bill; but, no objec-
ton being made, the amendment was
adopted.
The committee having arisen, the bill
was passed. The private calendar was
then taken up for consideration, but no
progress was made, and the House adj
journed until 2:45 o'clock tomorrow, when
eulogies will be delivered upon the late
Representative Lee of Virginia.