Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-17
4 STORMY DISCUSSION Over Legislative and Judicial App
 propriations BEFORE THE BILL PASSED Was the Experience of the Senate--The lndorSeme of Cleveland Antagonized.
BEFORE THE BILL PASSED


 action of some routine morning business the legislative, executive and judicial ap- propriation bill was passed after the longest and stormiest passage which any of the appropriation bills have yet encoun- tered in the senate, and the District of Columbia appropriation bill was taken up. It took a very short time to pass this bill without material change.
 The conference report on the military academy appropriation bill was presented by Mir. Brice and agreed to.
 The house anti-option bill was. on mo- tion of MT. Washburn, republican, of Minnesota, taken from the table and re- ferred to the committee on agriculture.
 The appropriation bill for the department of agriculture was then taken up for action.
 A senate amendment reducing the ap- propriation for clerical services in the de- partment of agriculture from S49 ,520 to SEQ ,000 provoked discussion, in the course of which Mir. Dolph proposed the novel idea of giving out the clerical work of all the departments to contractors, just as na- val construction is given out; aud MT. Har- ris favored the abolition of the civil service and the civil service commission. Finally the amendment was agreed to, and the bill was reported to the senate, but not passed. After a short executive session the senate, at 6:05, adjourned until tomorrow.
 IN THE HOUSE.
 This was suspension day in the house uu- der the rules, but before the rule was en- forced some routine business was trans- acted. Senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill were disagreed to, and 1t was sent to conference. MT. McCreary of- fered the following resolution:
 sResolved, That the house of represent sstiyes indorse the nroa4pb- and vigorous ef fn of f ho Qd n sf tion to suppress lawlessness, restore order and prevent improper interference with the enforcement of the laws of the United States and with the transportation Of the mails of the United States and with inter- state commerce, and pledges the president hearty support, and deems the success which has already attended his efforts as cause for public and general congratula- tion.''
 MT. Pence, populist, of Colorado, said the resolution went further than he thought. The republican side of the house at least were desirous of going on approy- ing the administration. It might be, he said, that the time would come when there would be such conflict between striking laborers of the country and their employ CTS that it would be necessary to call out the strongest arm of the government to re- store order; that all would agree upon, but the presidentof the country, in his humble judgment, would never agree that
 
 who ordered the indictments of the strikers and who directed the military should be director and stockholder in the corpora tions affected. This resolution went fur ther than indorsing the president; it ap- proved everything done by all the members there was a democrat on the floor who ap- proved the action of the attorney general, who, when he found it necessary to em- ploy special assistant district attorney in Chicago, selected the attor- that position. He believed not, but if there were such, there were members on the floor who did not believe that the att torney of trusts should occupy the position of attorney general, as was the case at present, according to charges made by prominent democratic papers, and who did not approve his action in that position.
 Mir. Bland said: "Mr. Speaker, it is to be regretted that resolution of this char acter should be thrust in here under tif- teen minute rule for debate, because it that believe any member of this house, no matter to what political party he be- longs, will indorse the state governments and the federal government in all legiti- mate efforts to preserve our institutions, to put down riots and preserve the majesty of the laws of this country. l have no sym pathy, Mir. Speaker, with any man who raises his arm in violence to destroy prop erty to enforce what he may consider hls rights of work, and try 10 prevent others from working. No principle of that kind can find indorsement on the part of any ception of the rights of peo- ple of this country to liberty. But, sir, in these great disturbing times such as we have passed through, it often occurs that acts are done under an assumption of authority that we may be called to indorse by a sweeping resolutitn of this character. am as democrat today where have al- ways been, and that is for the rights and the dignity of the people of the states. l believe in local state governm ant and that the whole arm of the state authority should be used in suppressing violence before the federal government should interfere, ex- cept to protect it's own property and to protect it's mails. l am aware, MT. Speaker, that throughout this country, even in states where there was no vio- lence and where, if violence occurred at all, the state authorities were ready and able to deal with it without any in- structions sent by the attorney general the whole country flooded with deputy marshals-sheriffs were arrested and state auth ority was overthrown, and the strong sion of matters properly belonging to the states. Against that, sir, l protest. l protest against these blanket fed eral ipjunctions. l protest against the omnibus injunction. object to send ing deputy marshals all over the country 10 take the places of state authorities, and l say that in measure like that resolu- tiou in the excitement of the people we are, as party, as a democratic party, lia- ble to do violence to every democratic prin- ciple and to surrender here in the halls,