The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-16
BLACK TURNS HUNORIST.
One Of the Agricultural Bulletins
RidiCulCd.

Bowers. Of California. Replies That
the Bulletin is Of Interest to His
Section EnIoe Moves to Abolish the
Coast and Geodetic Survey Bureau
and Transfer It's Duties.
Washington, March l5.-Cp 70 The hour
Of = so O'Clock the time of the House was
spent in endcav0rs TO secure the consid-
Grafton of bills by unanimous consent.
Only one bill got through and that was
local to Oklahoma. After several com
mittee reports had been made the House
took up the sundry civil appropriation
bIIf, in committee of the whole, with Mr..
Lester, dem, Of Georgia in the chair.
Under the section department of JUS
tice" an amendment was offered by Mr..
Savers. dem. of Texas, and agreed 10,
providing that the law of Feb. 5, 1894, re-
pealing the federal election laws, should
not be construed to prevent the payment
of any claims for services under those
laws, legally performed prior TO Feb :,
1894, and continuing appropria atoms pre-
viously made for that purpose.
BLACK RIDICULEs A BULLETIN.
Mr. Black, dem. of Georgia, read from
an agricultural bulletin to show the tech
meal character of the language used, and
created considerable amusement by re-
peating some OF the terms and subsequently
explaining their meaning in plain Eng
lish During the course of The reading
the members left their seats and gathered
about the speaker in arena Of the cham
ber
Members interrupted the reading with
MIR. Sickles at one point, suggested that
a dictionary be furnished TO the repre-
sentatives in order that the language of
the bulletin might be made more intelgi-
bic. He explained, in conclusion, that he
had read these extracts to show the
fragrant and ineXcusable misuse of the
peoples money.
Mr.. Bowers. rep, Of California, an
swered Mr.. Black. He said the publica-
lions of the agricultural department,
and especially the one criticised, had
been of vast benefit to the people of his
state and district. The country was of
vast proportions. and publications that
might be of little interest or value TO one
section might be to others That was the
case in this instance.
THE COAST SURVEY.
The committee required to the section
Of the bill making appropriations for the
coast and geodetic survey, and Mr..
Enloe offered his amendment abOlishing
the bureau ana transferring its duties TO
the navy and interior departments.
Mr.. Sayers made the point of order
agrinst the amendment that it changed
an existing law.
Mr.. Cultivate said that the transfer
OF the duties of other departments did not
provide for any reduction of expense, the
work would still have to be done.
ha inf ffrFsT D. h.
Messrs. Cannon, rep, of Illinois, Hooker,
dem, of Mississippi, Dingley, rep. of
Maine, and Cultivate, dem, of Ohio, in
support thereof; and by MIR. Enloe in OPP
position.
Mr~1Snloe amended his amendment by
providing further that every officer and
employee of the survey shall be discontin-
ued with the survey itself.
RULED OUT OF ORDER.
The chair ruled that the amendment
was obnoxious to the point of order, In
that that portion of it which pro
posed TO change the existing law, by
the transfer of the work of the survey,
did not on its face reduce expenses, and
was therefore out of order
MIR. Enloe appealed from the decision
Of the chair but the ruling of the chair
was sustained as the judgment of the
committee without a division.
MI. l-tlpt llbACu lEGll 10 amend DIV re-
ducing the appropriation for the survey
of the Atlantic coast by instructing the
DOckery commission to rinvesti gate the
work of the survey and, if it found it
could be done more efficiently and more
economically in the navy and interior de-
departments, it may report by bill or
otherwise.
A point of order against this amend
ment was overruled, and Mr. Enloe ad-
dressed the committee in favor of the
amendment, going into the subject gen
orally His argument for the abolition of
the survey was that the work for which
1t was originally instituted in 1907 hal
been practically completed, and that not
only that work but the latter addition,
the geodetic survey, could be better and
more cheaply done by the navy and inte-
rior departments
At 4:35 o'clock the committee rose and
the House adjourned until u clock to-