Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-13
NO PRINTING OFFICE
The Senate Will Take No Action This
Session.
Assuming Grave RespOnsfbiIities-Th
Present site Refused by "a
Close Vote.

The much mooted question of a site for
the new printing Office was before the
Senate for about the fifth time this session
this afternoon, when the conference report
on the sundry civil bill was taken up. Be
fore the Senate went into executive session
Fisherman entered a motion that the Sem
ate recede from it's amendment to this bill
making available for the purchase of the
Malone site one-quarter of a million dol
lars. appropriated by the sundry civil act
of 1880. When the bill was taken up after
the doors we've opened Mr.. Cockrell asked
TO have the proposition adopted by the
House on Saturday. which selects the pres
ent site of the printing office, read 20 the
Senate. -.--
When this done Mr.. sherman said that
the best way to settle. the question now Is
to drop both propositions. and he thought
this should be done in order that the great
appropriation bill might become a law. He
criticist., the practice of putting matters
of general legislation in the appropriation
bills The Malone site. he said, had been
adopted by a very large majority in the
Senate, and had been rejected by very
large majority In the House. In view of
this fact he thought the best thing to do
was to do nothing. and 50 he would ask the
senate TO recede from its amendments
He expressed his qualification that the
committee had made appropria tons for I'm
proving AMI repairing the present building
and with the appropriation of $4,000 the
o
He was very much surprised he said that
the House committee on public buildings
and grounds should favor placing the build
ing ON the present site. Whatever site he
said. was taken should be entirely detached.
1t was better. he said. to leave the matter
to the future consideration of the commit
tee on public buildings and grounds. When
the matter was last before the Senate SEN
ator Sherman voted In favor of the Malone
site. ..... -a .....,......
Senator Cockrell did not think that the
large majority in favor of the Malone site
should be taken as an index of what may
happen. THE Senate sometimes changes
3ts lines" he said In the Fiftieth Con-
gress, first session. the Senate inserted in
the general deficiency bill amendment
using the present site, but the House would
not agree. Again, In the second session Of
the same Congress, the same thing was in
serted In the sundry civil bill The Senate
insisted on that twice. but was finally
forced to yield. But the House has now
come back to the conclusion of the Senate.
II We recede from this amendment what
becomes OF the House amendment cues
ton? VIII II fall? The Senator from Ohio
seems TO want IL to fan"
A Standing shame.
Senator Vest made an eloquent appeal to
the Senate not to postpone a settlement of
any important question. but to decide 1t
now by adopting the House amendment
One thing he said was absolutely certain
and that was that the two houses could not
agree to any proposition but that which was
adopted by the Senate committee on public
buildings and grounds. He reviewed the
history of the legislation at this session and
said; 1t Is a question between allowing
this matter to remain open for another ten
years or of putting the building on a site
where the government now owns a large
amount of ground"
Mr.. Vest criticised Mr.. Sherman for not
raising his point against legislation in ap-
preparation bills the other day. when he
into the sundry civil bill '-'''
re quoted from letters from Gen. Palmer
and Mr.. Benedict of the need of immediate
legislation. and he spoke of Mr. Benedfct's
having said In a recent letter to him that
he would no longer be responsible for anv
office rs
Are We to have enother horrible scan
oalE asked MIR. Vest, excitedly DO we
want Congress again lampooned for its
criminal negligence. and our public officers
again indicted for murder? Do we want to
nave the terrible scenes of the fall of the
Ford Theater building re-enacted under
our eyes? This building Is a standing scan
DIAL and reprosch. and 1. for one do not
want the government to be left face to face
with the shameful charge that We are I'M
able to provide new printing office. when
every day and night hundreds of people are
In danger Of their lives 5000
senator Gallinger made a few remarks
about the urgency of the situation and he
argued strongly against the adoption of
MIR. Sherman's motion. Senator Harris re-
peated the parliamentary situation at some
length. -.-..-I- ~
Killed by Friends.
The Senate got into long tangle over the
exact status Of the amendments. and
speeches were made by half a dozen Sena-
tors Finally, Senator Lindsay split the
Knot by moving that the Senate agree to
the House amendment. This was lost-3O
70 -: and Immediately Mr. Aldrich renewed
MI Sherman's motion to recede from the
Senate amendment TO the bill This was
earried-26 to 10: and thus the new printing
Office project was killed for the session.