The morning call., 1895-01-26
BEST TIME ON RECORD.
HotU the House Passed the Smndry Gle
Bill,


Bill.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The sundry civil bill
passed the House to-day in the shortest time so
far known on record. 1t was under considera-
ton but three days. As passed the bill carried
S38, 125, 721. Two propositions, offered re-
speetively by Sayres and Coombs, the former TO
give the Secretary OF the Treasury power to
issue United States bonds of such denominations
as he should see fit instead of, as now, to issue
them of the same denomination, and the latter
to retire and cancel the gold certificates and
make them non-receivable for customs dues
after July l next, furnished the principal
theme of discussion. sayres proposition was
defeated, I'd to 81, while that of COombs was
carried without division.
Another amendment offered by Settle of
North Carolina, to strike out the appropriation
of $4,000 to pay for information regarding
moonshine distillers was lost. An appropria-
ton of SAC, 900 for hghtship to be stationed
off the Straits of Fuca Washington, was
adopted.
During the call of committees for reports
Harrison CD of Alabama made the majority
report on the memorial of the Central Labor
Union of Cleveland, which asks for the i'm
peachment of Judge Kicks, denying the re-
quest Bailey 3D. of Texas obtained leave to
file the minority report later.
Chairman Sayres of the Appropriation Com
mittee and Chairman Wilson of the Ways and
Means Committee had arranged to divide up
to-day, giving the first half to the completion
of the sundry civil bill and the rest of the day
to Wilson'S bill for the repeal of the clause of
the tariff act imposing an additional one-tenth
of q cent per pound on sugar from bounty-pay-
ing countries, and the House, on Sayres' mo-
ton, went into committee of the whole and re-
sumed the consideration of the sundry civil
l N,zfN Vol voffor
ment to the paragraph providing for the pay of
bailffs and criers of United States courts, SO as
to provide, s'That all persons employed under
section 715 OF the Revised Statutes shall be
deemed in actual attendance when they attend
on the order of the court" and prohibiting pay
to them during the vacation of the court.
Quigg argued that the adoption of this amend
ment would expedite the business of the courts,
besides paying the bailiffs and criers who have
received no pay since last March. The amend
ment was agreed to.
Broderick (R.) of Kansas offered substitute
for the paragraph providing for the transfer of
the Fort LeaVenworth Military Prison to the
Department of Justice, paragraph authorizing
the confinement in that prison of persons con-
victed in United States courts or by court
martials, or directing the Attorney-General to
transfer to the prison such persons now serving
such sentence imposed by United States courts
as can be accommodated. Broderick opposed
the transfer of the prison to the Department
of Justice. The substitute was rejected.
Settle moved to strike from the paragraph
providing punishment for violations of the in
ternal revenue law the appropriation of
$4,000 for the detection of violations. Settle
contended that this appropriation was not
necessary for the enforcement OF the internal
revenue laws, but karassed the citizens OF
North Carolina and other States. Swanson
offered an amendment providing that no por-
ton OF the appropriation should be paid to any
one except duly authorized officers of the
Government. Both amendments were lost.
Sayres 3D. of Texas offered an amendment
providing that no portion of the sum appropri-
ated for printing United States notes be used
for printing notes of larger denominations
| than those required or Cancelled. Coombs Cd. y OF
New Hampshire offered as q substitute an
amendment providing for the retirement and
cancellation Of gold certificates.
Bland (D.) of Missouri favored the Coombs
amendment. He thought it should be supple.
| mented by another, which would give the Sec
rotary of the Treasury authority, when there
was a sufficient amount of silver coined in the
treasury to justify it, to issue silver certificates
against the gold deposited in the treasury.
This was done, he said, under Sherman's adj
ministration of the treasury, with result of a
gold accumulation of $50, 00O, 900.
After some further debate by Cox D.) OF
Tennessee and Warner (D.) of New York in
favor of the Coombs amendment the vote was
taken on Sayres' amendment to give the Score
tary discretion to issue such denominations OF
greenbacks as he saw fit. 1t was lost IA to 81.
The Coombs amendment to retire and cancel
the gold certificates was agreed to without
division. Another amendment offered by
Coombs, making gold certificates non-receiv-
able for custom dues after July, 1895, and