The herald., 1895-01-26
WITH A RUSH.

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| WITH A RUSH.
The sundry Civil Bill Passed tho House.
Some Amendments.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-The sundry
civil bill passed in the house today in
the shorteat time so far known on re.
! cord. 1t was under consideration but
| $3S, 125, 721. Two propositions offered
respectively by Mr.. Sayres and Mr..
| Coombs, the former to give the secretary
OF the treasury power to Issue United
| States bonds of such denominations as
ne should see fit instead OF now to issue
them of the same denomination, and
the latter to retire and cancel the gold
certificates and make them non-receiv-
able for customs dues after July LIST next
furnished the principal theme OF dis
cussion. Sayers proposition was de-
I feated, "a to 81, while that of Coombs
was carried without division.
Another amendment, offered by Set
tie of North Carolina. to strike out the
appropriation OF $50, 900 to pay for in>
formation regarding moonshine dis
tillers was lost. An appropriation OF
| $40, 900 for light ship to be stationed
off the Straits of Rucs. WASH, was
| adopted.
During the call of committees for
| reports. Harrison, Democrat, OF Ala
bama, made the majority re-
port on the memorial OF the Central
Labor union of Cleveland, which asks
for the impeachment of Judge Kicks,
DENYING the request. Bailey, Democrat,
OF Texas, obtained leave to file the
minority report later.
Chairman Sayres OF the appropriation
committee and Chairman Wilson of the
ways and means committee had ar
ranged to divide up today, giving the
| first half to the completion Of the sundry
civil bill and the rest Of the day to Will
sons bill for the repsal of tho clause OF
| the tariff act imposing an additional
onestenth of one cent per pound
| upon sugars from bounty paying
countries, and the house on Sayres' mo.
ton went into committee of the whole
and resumed consideration of the sun
dry civil bill.
Quigg, Republican of New York, Of
fered an amendment to the paragraph
providing for the pay of bailiffs, criere,
etc., of United States courts, so as to
provide "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 amendment was
agreed to.
Broderick, Republican, OF Kansas,
offered substitute for the paragraph
providing for the transfer OF the Fort
Lesvenworth military prison to the de-
partment of justice. q paragraph author
! izing the confinement in that prison of
persons convicted in United States courts
or by courtmartials; directing the
attorney-gensral to transfer to the prison
| such persons not serving such sentence
| imposed by United States courts az can
be accommodated. Broderick opposed
the transfer OF the prison to the departs
ment OF Justice. Broderick's substitute
| was rejected.
Settle moved to strike from the para
| graph providing punishment for viola
| tions OF the internal revenue law the
appropriation OF 10000 for detection OF
violators. Settle eontendsd this appro-
priation was not necessary for the en-
forcement of the internal revenue laws,
but harrassed the citizens OF North Car
DINA and other states.
Swanson offered an amendment pro.
viding no portion OF the appropriation
should be paid to any one except duly
authorized officers of tine government.
Both amendments were lost.
Sayres offered an amendment proyid-
ing no portion of the sum appropriated
for printing United States notes shall
be used for printing notes of larger de.
nominations than those required o. can
celed.
Coombs, Democrat. OF New Hamp-
shire. offered as q substitute an amend
ment providing for the retirement and
cancellation OF gold certificates.
Bland, Democrat. of Missouri, favored
the Coombs amendment. He thought
it should be supplemented by another
which would give the secretary OF the
treasury authority when there was
sufficient amount OF silver coined in the
treasury to justify it, to issue silver GER
tificates against the gold deposited in
The treasury. This was done. hs said,
under Mr.. Sherman's administration OF
the treasury with the result of gold
accumulation of $50, 900, 900.
After some further debate by Mr.. Cox
and Mr.. Warner in favor of the Coombs'
amendment, the vote was taken on Mr..
sayres' amendment to give the secretary
discretion to issue such denominations
OF greenbscks az he saw fit. 1t was
lost, "a to "a. The Ooombs amendment
to retire and cancel the gold certificates
was agreed to without division. An
other amendment offered by Mr..
Coombs making gold certificates nom
receivable for custom dues after July,
1895. and after that date. nom carry able
as the. lawful reserve of any national
bank, was also agreed to without divi.
sion.
The amendments sppropriating SAC, 900
for q lightship and for signal to be
stationed off the straits OF Fuca, Wash,
near Flattery Reef, was agreed to. This
completed the consideration of the bill.
The committee amendments we're agreed
to and the bill WAS passed.
The house then took recess until 8
o'clock. the night session to be for the
confederation of pension bills