Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-15
: Oppose Reorganization of the
 Executive Departments.
MIR. ALLEN OF NEBRASKA
Scores a Newspaper Item in Which He Figures-Too
 Hot In the House.

WASHINGTON, July 1.-The plan slowly and laboIously evolved by joint com mittee of the houses for a reorganization of the executive departments of the gov ernment and which was incorporated in the legislative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill was the only portion of that measure which provoked any debate today. A motion to strike out these pro- visions was made by MT. Sherman and ad- vocated in speech, in which the proposed change was described as entire revolu- tion of the financial system of the govern ment. MT. Sherman's s familiarity with the routine of the business in the treasury might have been supposed to have given great weight and authority to his judg- ment, but hs opposition to tho change had really no effect at all, for there were only four votes, including his own, given to the motion to strike out the paragraphs, while there were forty votes against it. The bill went through the committee of the whole into the senate, but there were so many amendments on rather trif1ing matters offered by individual senators that the bill did not reach it's final passage.
 A newspaper statement recently made representing the populist senator from Ne- braska Mir. Allen) as making an unseemly
 
 ing, where many senators have rooms for the convenience of themselves and their clerks, was denounced by MT. Allen today as absolutely false, and without shadow of foundation. It had been given currency to, he said, by tan assassin of character -''a human ghoul;' one who, "like the strangler of India, crouched in the grass by the pathway, threw the deadly rope around the victim's neck and choked out his life.' But while he heaped all these and other epithets on the offsnding newspaper man, Mir. Allen asserted, with an attempt at Christian forbearance and charity which almost passed belief, that he ''Would not speak unkindly of the man,' and that he Hentertained for him no unkind feeling whatever.' '
 The senate adjourned at 4:l5 p. m., after point of no quorum had been raised to the amendment to the legislative appropri- ation bill.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 Speaker Pro- tenn. Richardson, in letter to Clerk Kerr, named Representative Dock cry, democrat, of Missouri, to perform the duties of the chair today. The hot weather or some other circu!sting cause developed an unusual amount of ssCbjectionp in rn9 house today and of. half dozen efforts to obtain unanimous consent for the consid- eration of private bills in the morning hour only one was successful. MT. Henderson, republican, of Iowa, was fortunate enough to get bill through for the construction of a bridge across the Mississippi river st Du- buque for the Dubuque and Wisconsin Bridge company.
 An hour was then spent in fruitless dis cussion of the bill reported by the com mittee on inter state and foreign com merce to promote the efficiency of the rev enue cutter service by providing system of retirement for the officers. MT. Clark of Missousi made another speech against it and when the vote on reporting it favor- ably to the house showed a majority of twelve in its favor he made the point of no quorum, which had the effect of prevent ing action on it today.
 The rest of the session was occupied in the delivery of eulogies upon the late Rep resentative George w. Houck of the Third Ohio district, who died February 9. Tributes of respect to his memory were paid by Messrs. Curtis of New York, Black of Illinois, Bryan, Storer, McKaig, | Lyton, Patterson of Tennessee, Donovan, 1 Wilson of Ohio, Ritchie, Baker oi Kansas, | Springer and Hare.
 The house adjourned at 3:35.