The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-23
STRIKE QUESTIONS
ARE EZHUMED.
EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT
IN PRESERVING ORDER
MUST BE PAID.
CLEVELAND'S ACTS UPHELD.
ONE INTERESTING DEBATE IN THE
HOUSE ON THE DEFICIENCY
BILL.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The House de
voted Washington's birthday to the fur
Their consideration of the general deficiency
bill. Most of the time was spent in the
discussion of questions of minor import
ance leading to extra compensation Tor
employees of the House, and no amend
ments of any moment were adopted. Just
before ad journment the Senate resolution
to postpone the time when the new regu-
lations to prevent collisions at sea should
go into force passed.
The House then went into committee of
the whole and resumed consideration OF
the general deficiency appropriation bill.
When the paragraph relating to the elev-
enth census was reached Hepburn wanted
to know when the reports of the last census
were to be published. Five years had
elapsed, he said, and yet but two of the
twenty-six volumes had reached the pub
lie
Breckenridge, in charge of the bill, re-
piled that all the material would be in the
hands of the printer by March 1, and the
volumes would be published thereafter as
rapidly as possible.
Livingston Cd of Georgia moved to
strike out the appropriation of $120,000 for
United States marshal fees. 1t precipitated
some discussion.
Boatner criticized the appropriation on
the ground that no specific claims of these
fees had been furnished.
Cannon (R.) of Illinois defended the ap-
preparation. A large portion of the sum
was to pay deputy marshals who were in
Chicago on the occasion of the riots there a
nf faac
only be estimated, for, he said, vouchers
were not transmitted to the Department
OF Justice until they were paid.
On motion of Boatner provision was
added to the paragraph requiring the At
torney-General to report to Congress a list
of the persons to whom this money should
be paid and the amounts paid each.
Gradually the discussion drifted into the
question of the Government taking hand
in the suppression of the strike. Breckin-
ridge expressed his apprehension that the
doors were opening too wide when great
corporations were allowed to go into the
courts and secure protection for their prop
erty at great expense to the Government.
Henderson (R.) of Iowa, in an eloquent
response called attention to the resolution
passed by Congress after the President had
sent troops to Chicago commencing his &C
ton. The Government, said he, must
| afford protection to interstate commerce
and it must enforce the mandates of the
courts.
81 am glad" said he, "to live in coun-
! try where the executive met his duty as
Mr.. Cleveland did, manfully and cour-
ageously, and where Congress with one
voice Endorsed bis action.
1.-THE storm has now blown over,' he
continued, land the men who took their
| lives in their hands, who responded to the
call of the law and helped to execute it,
should have their pay. Most of them are
poor Now, when the trouble is passed,
can we afford to haggle and growl about
paying them their due? Shame upon Con-
gress if it fails to do its duty"
Livingston argued that it was not
question of refusing to pay the honest
obligations of the Government but it was
claimed that much of this appropriation
would illegally go to deputy marshals who,
were illegally engaged in protecting pri
vate property which should have been pro-
tected at the expense of the city of Chicago.
Livingston finally withdrew his motion to
strike out the appropriation.
| Livingston offered an amendment to pay
G. B. Payne, Charles Morgan, NJ. G. Nor
decai and the Southern Steamship Com
pany $12, $40 for mail service rendered some
years ago. The amendment went over
temporarily, as did one offered by Tracey
| CD of New York to pay the employees of
the House and Senate an extra months
pay.
An amendment to pay the widow of
Thomas Mccoy of st. Paul, the late consul
general at Liberia, $4,000, was agreed to.
Terry CD of Arkansas offered an
amendment to pay Jason Blackburn of
Little Rock. Ark, member of the Fortieth
Congress, from Louisiana, $17.700, the
| balance of salary due him.
/ The chairman of the committee on the
whole (Tarsney) ruled the amendment
out of order. Without completing the
consideration of the bill the committee
rose.
A bill was passed to amend an act grant
ing a right of way through the Indian
Territory to the Kansas and Gulf Railway
Company also, on motion of Tracey, the
Senate bill to postpone the time for the
enforcement of the new regulations to pre-
vent collisions at sea.
At o'clock the House took a recess I'M
til o'clock, the night session to be devoted
to the consideration of private pension
bills.
| A COMMENTED mind is better than riches