The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-02-28
NOT A "BEAR GARDEN"

Noisy Representatives Reproved by the
Speaker-Fair Days Work In the House.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-There was q good
Zeal of interest manifested when the
House this morning entered upon the last
legislative week of the Fifty-second Con.
gross. Many important measures were yet
awaiting action. Mr.. Peel, Of Arkansas.
was the first gentleman to catch the
Speakers eye, aud he moved the passage Of
the Indian appropriation bill under sus-
pension of the rules. There was no objec-
ton to the measure, but it was made
pivot around which circled a general dis
cussion of the anti-option bill.
DIR. PeePs motion having been
agreed 20, discussion of the
Sherman bond amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill was discussed with
some warmth. but finally all the Senate
amendments to the measure were hon.
concurred in, and the bill was sent TO the
conference. When the Speaker of the
House directly refers to that body as
"bear garden as Speaker Crisp did to-day,
the provocatIon must DO very great and IT
was. dozen members were on their feet
speaking at the top OF their voices. which
were rendered shriil through their efforts
TO outvie each other. The trouble CO.
CURED over the motion made by Mr.. Wise,
OF Virginia, to suspend the rules and con-
cur in the Senate amendments to the "car-
coupler" bull.
When the House met to-day demand for
the regular order. made by Mr.. simpson,
blasted the hopes of q number of gentle
men who desired to have pet bills passed
during the CLOSING hours of Congress-. Mr..
Peel moved to suspend the rules and pass
the Indian appropriation bill. Although
more than two-thirds of the bill had al
ready been considered and agreed to in
committee of the whole. and although Mr..
Peel requested that the reading or that
portion be dispensed with. Mr.. Kilgore
objected and tho Clerk proceeded to read
the bill In extenso.
When the reading had been concluded,
Mr.. Taylor, of illinois. spoke in opposition
from Missouri MIR. Hatch had criticised
other gentlemen because they would
not put q dollar into the treasury.
That bill was known as the anti
option bill-a bill being pressed on
the House by the greatest com bination of
mlllers ever formed In the world to limit
markets lt would be a reflection on the
intelligence of the gentleman from Mis-
souri, to say that he was not aware of that.
Mr.. Combs. of New York. sent to the
Clerks desk and had read newspaper
dispatch from Mankato. MIMI. declaring
that n com bInation of millers existed In
favor of the anticipation bill. He then
called attention TO the fact that the gentle
man who was pushing the measure in the
Senate was one OF the most i'm Dor tant mill
ers in the United States.
Mr.. Hatch said that he was glad that the
remarks he had made upon the anti-optlon
bill had reached home. He was glad that
the gentleman from Illinois. who repre-
sented IN part the city of Chicago
In which the greatest grain market
was located. should have an oppor-
tunlty of showing the House how
little he knew of his tHatch'sI position on
the anti-option bill, or on the anti-optIon
4. al Hhss lavsNa had fa<a q hoF
he Hatch had admitted that not n dollar
OF revenue could be raised. He had never
made such an admission directly or indi-
rectly. The gentleman had made one cor
that this bill would limit sales. Yes, il
would not sales of wheat. but sales of wind.
1t would limit the sales of dealers In Chi
cago. who tor every bushel of wheat raised
In q month. Congress was met with the
statement that the great trouble with the
farmers was overproduction. He denied
that there was any combination OF millers
IN favor of the bill.
Mr. Boatner said that the bill had MOTH
ing but wind in il: and Mr.. Tay Tor suggested
that the gentleman furnished TO the country
more than his full share or wind. The In
dian bill was then passed.
MIR. Holman moved TO suspend the rules
and noncur IN the Senate amendments to
the sundry civil appropriation bill, inolud-
ing the sherman bond amendment After
EAtueT WITH QlSCueelO1 TIC tnOtlOu was
agreed Co. 209 TO Il and Messrs. Holman.
Sayres and COgswel were appointed con-
ferees-
Mr. Wise moved to suspend the rules and
agree To Senate amendment to the car
coupler" bill. Mr.. Richardson demanded q
second. which. after some delay. was or
dered. 162 to 9.
Mr.. Richardson moved an adjournment
and on this motion the yeas and nays were
ordered. Then for some moments there
was great confusion and noise in the House,
which compelled the Speaker finally to
state in tones of stern reproof, gentle
men must understand that this il the
House of REPRESENTATIVES. and not q bear
garden" Applause.
The motion 10 adjourn was defeated
yeas, q; nays. 22a The motion to suspend
the rules and concur In the Senate amend
ment was agreed to-yeas. 1S4; nays. So.
The conference report on the Military
Academy appropriation bill was agreed to-
On motion OF Sir. Springer a bill was
passed continuing for one year she present
tariff on fine linen goods of not less than
one hundred threads TO the squire inch.
Mr. Breckenridge. of ArkaIsas moved &C
suspend the rules and pass the bill for the
relief of William w. Burns. Burns is one
~ Lie assiGnees of the interest Of IL. II.