St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-04
CRISP a DELEGATE.
The House Takes Most Remark
able Action.


WASHINGTON, March 3.-After the
sharp fight last night over the senate
provision In the sundry civil bill ap-
propriating $5,000,000 for the payment
of sugar bounties earned up to June
80, 1895, which resulted in the adopt
ing of an amendment shortly. after
midnight this morning, the session
dragged wearily on through the 81
lent watches of the night until the
sundry civil and Indian appropriation
bills had been sent back to confer
ence. AS the gray dawn was breaking
the house took recess until o'clock
this afternoon, and the worn-out men,
bers hurried home to catch few hours
OF rest and nerve themselves for the
siege, which promised to last until to-
morrow noon. When the speaker
again took the cha ir at 2 o'clock, more
than half the members were in their
seats. The bright sunshine and balmy
air of a spring day nd the attraction
of the excitement of the closing hours
of a dying congress drew thousands to
the glittering marble pile which over
looks the city, and the corridors of
the capitol streamed with visitors who
crowded by hundreds into the gal
ready when the house reconvened, and
the speaker graciously recognized sew
eral of the half hundred members
clamoring for an opportunity to secure
consideration of measures of local or
personal interst to them. The follow
ing were passed: Senate bill to in
crease the pension of the widow of
Joseph H. Potter from $50 to $50; a
joint resolution providing for the par
ticipation of the two houses of con-
gress through their presiding officers
in the dedicatory exercises of the
Chickamauga military park next Sep
tember; senate resolution making pro-
vision for digest of the laws and
decisions relating to the appointment,
salary and compensation of officers of
United States courts, and also senate
bill for the relief of Silas p Keller
A motion to suspend the rules and
pass a bill granting pension of $1OO
to Maj. Gen. John c. McClernand en-
countered the aggressive opposition
Of Mr. Jones Oem., Va.) This oppo-
sition drew from Mr.. Sickles, the one
legged hero of Gettysburg, an eloquent
appeal that fairly made the ceiling
ring with the plaudits from the floor
and galleries. Let us pass one good
bill, said Mr.. Sickles, "as an atone
ment for all the bad ones we have
! passed. A grateful country should
not allow Gen. John G. McClernand
| to die in want l well remember the
| words of Lincoln to me when he spoke
of Douglas, Dix, Logan and McCler-
nand. In my humble way l had offered
my services for the Union, and Mr..
Lincoln said to me that the action of
! such men as Logan, Dix and McCler-
nand and myself had lifted a great
| burden from his shoulders. IF this is
to be party war said he, then it
| cannot succeed, but when I see great
Democratic leaders coming forward
| from the ranks I lift up my hands and
| thank God that such success is within
our grasp"
| AT the conclusion of Mr.. Sickles'
speech the bill was passed with a
whirl. A series of resolutions to pay
the funeral expenses of house en-
| ployes who had died during this con-
gress and bill to instruct the audit
ing of the quartermasters claims of
John Quinn, of st. Louis, were passed.
after which Mr.. Holman called I'D the
second conference report on the In
dian appropriation bill, which showed
that the senate had abandoned the
item to appropriate $4S,5OO for the
Miami Indians of Indiana, thus leay-
ing two senate amendments still in
dispute, one to purchase for $500, COG
from the Ogden Land company the
| title to the lands within the Catta-
raugus and Allegheny Indian reserva-
tions in New York, and the other strik-
ing out the house provision to con-
tinue the reduction of the appropria-
| ton for contract Indian schools pro-
portionately SO that all such appro-
priations should cease at the end Of
five years. After some debate the house
decided to further insist on its disa-
| greement to both amendments in dis
pute, and the bill was again sent to
| conference. Then at 6:10 p. m. a re-
cess was taken until 7:S0 p. m.
There were but few members present
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