Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-06
H0LMAN'S HOLD GONE.
Magic Power of the Chief Cheese
Parer Fairly Broken at Last.
THE CHAMPIONS OF AGRICULTURE,
Headed by Mr.. Hatch, Overcome the Hoosier
in an Open Fight.
ALL BARRIERS AND TRADITIONS DOWN

HI the DdTIlcls anu lfdulllonS WHICH prtCc
dents and practice have thrown around tina
committee were borne down under the i'm
petuous sway of the champions of agricul
ture. 1t was the old conflict of prerogat;v'
against precedents, of the Committee or
Agriculture against the Committee on Ap
preparations, and as usual, Chairman Hatch
and his colleagues carried the day, and Mr.
Holman was unable to check the tide o.
sentiment which swept over the House and
awarded to the Agricultural Committee jur.
isdiction over its own appropriations
The effect of to-day's action of the House
is not a matter of to-day alone, for it is re-
garded as the first breach in the bulwarks
that surround the Committee on Appropria-
tions 1t is far-reaching in its results, and
may break entirely the force of the Appro.
priations Committee in its assumption and
desires to scrutinize and revise all appro-
priations to be passed by the Fitty-second
Congress.
Cost of the Government Exhibit.
Among the executive communications
presented by the Speaker which were ap-
propriately referred was one from the Act
ing Secretary of the Treasury In this the
Acting Secretary SAYS that $1,000 600 will be
required during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1898, for the purpose of collecting and
preparing the Government exhibit for the
Worlds Columbian Exposition.
On motion of Mr. Otis, of Kansas, a resolu-
tion was adopted directing the Committee
on Private Land Claims to make inquiry
into the Maxwell land grant in New
Mexico.
Mr.. Blanchard, of Louisiana, and Mr..
Coombs of New York, were excused from
further service on the Committee of Militia,
and Mr.. Meyer, of Louisiana, and Mr.. Craig,
of Pennsylvania, were appointed to fill the
vacancies. Mr.. Craig was also appointed a
member of the Committee on Education.
Mr. Tucker from the Committee on the
Election of President, Vice President, etc,
reported joint resolution proposing Con-
stitutional amendment changing the date be-
ginning and ending terms of Senators and
Representatives from March 4 to December
81; providing that the annual sessions shall
begin on the second Monday in January;
and further providing that the term of the
President and Vice President shall CON-
mence and end on April so instead of March
&. House calendar.
The Urgent Deficiency Bill Passed.
The urgent deficiency appropriation bill
was then on motion of Mr. Savers, of Texas,
taken up and passed without amendment or
debate
Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, called up the bill
appropriating (as a deficiency $3.50, 900 for
CARRYING on the work of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry, and $4,000 for experiments
in the production of sugar.
The exciting incident OF the day occurred
when Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, opposed the
bill on the ground that the Committee on
Agriculture had no jurisdiction over the
matter, and that it properly came under the
jurisdiction OF the Committee on Appropri-
ations. He made the further objection that
the committee had not properly investigated
the question of appropriation, and pro-
pounded several inquiries bearing upon this
point
Mr. Hatch declined to be catechized by
the gentleman from Indiana, but Mr.. White,
OF Iowa,-a member of the Committee on
Agriculture-asserted emphatically that
proper inquiry had been made.
When Mr. Holman had finished speaking
Mr. Hatch took the floor, promising his re-
marks with an expression of regret that his
colleague on the Committee of Agriculture
(Mr White, of Iowa had been caught in
the trap set by the gentleman from Indiana.
Il set no trap" said Mr.. Holman.
Necessary Appropriation Demanded.
eff the gentleman set a trap" said Mr..
White, Il did not apprehend it. I thought
that the gentleman asked legitimate ques-
tion, whether or not any witnesses were be-
fore the Committee on Agriculture. 1 re-
piled that we relied upon the gentlemen
who do the work, and we come into the
House and demand the appropriation, be-
cause ii is absolutely necessary"
Mr.. Hatch said he regarded Mr. Holman's
objection as resting upon the foundation
that the appropriations carried in the bill
had not been properly inquired into, be-
cause they had been investigated by the
Committee on Agriculture instead of by the
Committee on Appropriations Laugh |
ter He (N1r. Hatch) had made the same
fight for many years. He had never brought |
IN a report from the Committee on Agricul- |
ure that had not been attacked because it |
was unconstitutional or had not been |
by the Committee on
Ires reported by mis- committee |
were always unconstitutional, or had not |
passed muster before the Committee on Ap- |
Laughter]. The Committee |
IN Agriculture would faithfully discharge |
is duty to the House and to the country; |
out he did not propose to be catechized by |
he gentleman from Indiana as to what in |
formation he got about this or about that. |
1t was none of the gentleman's business |
.Laughterl. 1t was the business of the |
Committee on Agriculture.
Distinction without a Difference,
The fact was, continued the speaker, that
me committee had before it the Secretary
If Agriculture, the heads of the various
bureaus, md three or four members of Con-
yress The committee had reported this
bill, not by leave of the gentleman from
Indiana or by favor of the Committee on
appropriations, but under the rules of the
House which gave to the Committee on
Agriculture jurisdiction over all appropria-
ions for the Agricultural Department. If
his was not an appropriation bill, what
vas il
Mr.. Holman-It is deficiency.
Mr. Hatch-That is distinction without
difference.
Continuing, Mr. Hatch said that time and
ime again he had seen the gentleman
rom Indiana take the constitutional knife
nd pare appropriations so that they could
ot be seen under a microscope; and when
is own State was interested, open the
oors wider than was necessary to allow
his Capitol to go through. daughter. I
me OF the first speeches he had ever heard
he gentleman make was one in favor ofa bill
D build turnpike road in Indiana Where
be gentleman got the constitutional au-
nority to build turnpike road in Indiana
e could never see. Laughter.
The bill was then passed, and the House
-ent into Committee of the Whole (Nfr.
uthwaIte, of Ohio, in the chair), on the
lvalid pension appropriation bill The
iscussion which ensued was directed to the |
,lative position of the Democratic and Re-
ublican parties on the subject of pen
onS
An oid-Time Partisan Debate.
The speeches made were for the most
- diraotad toward this uuestion NJ |