The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1892-03-22
CONGRESS,
THE DEBATE ON THE FREE
WOOL BILL CONTINUES.

opening, among them Mr.. Georges bill
TO refund to producers of cotton the
amount of internal revenue tax paid
by them. Mr.. Hoar introduced a reso.
luton, which was adopted, instructing
the committee on buildings and grounds
10 inquire whether it would be practic-
able to erect temporary cover over
the east end of the Capitol on the oc.
casion of the next presidential inaugu-
ration on the 4th of March next.
On motion the President was requested
to communicate to the Senate the cor.
respondence which had led to his re-
cent retaliatory proclamation in re-
gard to the Republic of Colombia. Mr..
Butler revived the question of the
alleged unhealthiness of the under
ground committee rooms and moved
that an examination should be made
by experts into this matter. The
Senate then passed several public
building bills.
A measure to refund to settlers in
the vicinity of forfeited railroad
grant extra price of $l.25 an acre
they paid for their lands, in the expec-
tation that railroad would be built,
was discussed by Mr.. Dolph and Mr..
Berry for and against the measure, and
by other Senators, one suggesting
that if this principle were adopted it
might commit the government to re-
fund of millions upon millions of dol
lars in connection with all the vari-
Gus forfeited railroad land grants.
On Mr.. Teller's suggestion the bill
was amended so that the money should
be refunded to the actual purchasers
o. their heirs and not their assigns.
With this change, he advocated the
passage of the bill. The roll was called
on the passage of the bill and resulted:
Yeas 20, nays 2l--no quorum, the
Democrats voting in the negative.
Pending final action on the bill, the
Senate at 4:50, went into executive
session and mediately afterwards ad.
ourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
When the House opened this morn.
ing Mr.. Enloe offered resolution call
ing on the Secretary of the Treasury
for list of all employees in the United
State coast aud geodetic survey, whose
salaries we're increased or decreased,
or who were dismissed during the year
1890 Mr.. Outhwaite, of Ohio, op
posed the resolutions; it was probably
based on the alleged grievance of some
discharged employe. Mr.. Enloe re
piled that it WAS the discharged EN-
ployes who gave information about tht
conduct of government bureaus; those
who remained would naturally no
complain; he had been approached by
certain people who asked him not t(
submit the resolution.
Mr.. Blount supported there solution
which was adopted.
Mr.. Richardson, of Tennessee, sub
mitted a report from the committee OF
printing on the alleged violation of tn
rules of the House by Mr.. Walker, G
Massachusetts, in inserting an attac
on Mr.. Williams, of Massachusetts
covering five columns in the Record
Under the rule "Leave to print" Nj
Walker had inserted the remarks.
The report recommended the adoT
tion of the following resolution: "Tha
the House, deeming it high duty ths
the courtesy and decorum required b
parliamentary law and practice shoul
characterize debate and the conduct
members at all times in their oflici
relation, expresses its disapproval
the unparliamentary language used t
Hon. Joseph A. Walker, represent
tive from the State of Ma ssachusett
in that portion of his speech printed
the Record on the 18th instant, b
which w:.rss7a0t.-delivered on the foo
and considering It impracticable
separate the parliamentary portions
the said speech, from such parts there
as may be unparliamentary thereof,
"Resolved, That the public print
is directed to exclude from the perm
nent Congressional Record all of tn
portion OF the said speech which "
not delivered in the House,"
This contained the attack ON t
mugwumps, and especially apon N
Williams, heretofore partially pl
lished. MIR. Richardson, of Tenn
see, asked unanimous consent that t
report and resolution of the commit
be printed in the Record, to be call
up tomorrow, or at some future d.
Agreed to.
The lou thsn-wsnt into comm
tee q the whole on the arl
aPRr2briation bill, and after
short discussion, the bill was repor
to the House and passed. The Ho
\ went into committee Of the whole
the Free Wvoi bill, Mr.. Goodnight,
Kentucky, addressing the House
/. favor of the measure saying, If the p
lection theory was correct then inst
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