The morning call., 1895-02-24

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| iourned and was not present during the
| executive proceedings.
| Senator Ransom said after his confirma-
ton that he would not qualify until after
March 4. After that time he would be
prepared to proceed to Mexico as soon as
the Secretary of State desired him to 60
EXTRA COMPENSATION PROTIDED.
Employees of the House and Senate Lib
orally Retcarded.
WASHINGTON, Feb 23-The features of
| to-day's proceedings in the House was the
| fight on the proposition to pay an extra
months salary to all the employees of the
House and Senate. 1t carried in the COM
mittee of the whole by vote of SO to 81.
with an amendment to include an extra
months compensation for the individual
clerks of members. Notice has been given
that a record-making vote will be declared
when this amendment is reported to the
! House. The reading of the deficiency bill
was completed, with the exception OF few
amendments temporarily passed over, the
principal one OF which is the appropriation
of 1925, 900 to pay the Boring Sea awards
After some brief routine morning busi-
ness the House went into a committee OF
the whole and resumed consideration of
the deficiency bill. While the series of
amendments to give extra compensation
to various employees of the House was be-
ing adopted, Dingley of Maine protested
against such prodigal liberality. In brief
speech he warned the Democrats of the
House that the appropriations were mount
ing up dangerously near the billion limit,
Il half Il i
exceed those of the Fifty-first Congress.
Grosvenor OF Ohio tainted the Demo-
Gratis with being obliged to sell bonds
at a ruinous rate of interest to pay the cur
rent expenses of the departments.
Did not Secretary Sherman sell 4 per
cent bonds at par which were afterward
worth 81 opp asked Springer.
Twelve years after great war, replied
Grosvenor, Secretary Sherman sold bonds
payable in coin to resume specie payments
But the contract he made with the syndi-
cate provided that before the bonds should
be taken they should be open to popular
subscription for thirty days. The credit of
the Government subsequently became so
high these bonds afterward commanded a
premium of 80. But look at the transac-
action we criticize and see the contrast
Now, thirty years after the war, without
giving the public an opportunity to sub
scribe, bonds are sold bearing per cent
interest by n secret contract which netted
the syndicate $i0000,000 twenty-four hours
after the bonds were placed on the mar
ket"
Tracey of New York offered an amend
ment to give the employees of the House
and Senate an extra months pay. Savers
attempted to amend this proposition by
excluding from the benefits OF the amend
ment those employees who had been voted
extra compensation, but this motion was
voted down. Livingston of Georgia. offered
another amendment to that of Tracey, to
give an extra months pay to the indi-
vidual clerks of members.
Savers, chairman of the Committee on
appropriations, protested against the Liv-
ingston amendment, which, he said, pro-
posed to give to members 500 for extra
clerk hire. There were members, he said,
who did not pay out $25 month for clerk
hire, and in answer to queries he said that
Turner and Black of Georgia did not pay
more than $25 month for clerk hire.
Dockery of Missouri declared that it was
an appropriation to members of an extra
$780, but Williams of Mississippi believed
the amendment was Just and declared his
intention of supporting it. Tracey APP
pealed to members to vote the amendment
down. "If it carried and was reported to
the House" said he, "a rollcalI would
be demanded and we will appreciate the
difficulty of obtaining majority for such
a large appropriation when members have
to go on record"
The Livingston amendment was carried,
106 to 20, and as amended The Tracey
amendment was also carried, so to 81.
Dockery gave notice that he would de-
mand an aye and no vote in the House.