The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-25

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Washington, Jan. 24.-The house to-
day devoted all its time to the con-
| sideration of the sundry civil appro-
priation bill with such success that at
| the hour Of adjournment II had COM
pieted the reading of the bill, except
for several controverted paragraphs
| which were temporarily passed over.
! The case Of Judge Kicks had an echo
in the adoption of an amendment Of
fered by Mr.. Ray, Rep. N. W, max
ing it unlawful for clerks of the United
States courts to include in their en-
oluments fees not earned and due at
the time their accounts were rendered
and forbidding the allowance Of fees
not actually earned. The amendment
excited no debate.
An amendment to the sundry civil
bill, offered by Mr.. Terry, Dem. Ark J.,
to increase the appropriation for the
construction and enlargement of mill
tary posts from $500, 900 to $400, 900, pre-
cipitated a brief debate on the new
policy Of the war department in con-
centrating the troops. The amend
ment was lost. An amendment offer
ed by Mr.. Doolittle, Rep. Wash.), to
authorize the secretary of war to es-
tablish military post at some point
on Puget Sound was agreed to. 1t
provides for commission of army Of
ficers to examine and determine what
point IS best adapted for such a post
before the location is made
The appropriation of S150,000 for Hay
Lake channel was stricken out, Gen
era1 Casey, chief of engineers, having
advised the chairman of the appro-
priation committee today that Colonel
o. M. Poe, in charge of the work, in
an official report stated that the money
already appropriated was sufficient to
meet all expenditures to the end of the
fiscal year ending July 80, 1896.
long discussion followed in con-
nection with an appropriation of $685.
coo for the Mississippi river commits
sion.
An amendment was agreed to pro-
viding for the expenditure Of not ex-
ceeding $4,000 of the appropria ton
of $758,333 for the improvement from
the mouth of the Ohio river to the
mouth of the Missouri river, for using
movable jetties and steel caissons in
removing bars and improving the low
water channel of the Mississippi river.
Mr.. Bowers offered an amendment
to appropriate $4,000 for additional
barracks at the Santa Motica soldiers
home, California. 1t was defeated.
following proviso to the appropriation
for clerks of the United States:
And is shall be unlawful for any clerk
Of any court of the United States to in
clude i'm his efnolument account or re-
turn any fee or fees not actually earn
ed and due at the time. Such account
or return is required by law to be made
and no fees not actually earned shall
be allowed in any such account.
There was no debate on the amend
ment, but Mr.. Ray stated privately that
his amemendnt (which was agreed to)
was designed to make such practices as
had been disclosed in the Kicks in
vestigation impossible. in the future.
An amendment was agreed to appro-
priating 100000 for printing the report
of the secretary of agriculture: S44.-
600 for printing $4,000 copies of the re-
port on the disease OF the horse and
$4,000 for printing a complete set of
the Union and Confederate records for
each senator and representative. This
completed the reading of the bills eX-
cept those paragraphs passed over.
The committee then rose, and at 4:40
the house adjourned.