The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-07
Congress Engaged in Compile
ting Appropriation Bills.
PREPARING TO ADJOURN
Conferees Trying to Agree on
Matters in Dispute.
THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL VETOED
Effectual and the House Re-
fused to Pass the Bill
Again.
Again.

Washington, June 6.-The House
cleared it's decks for an adjournment
to-day by disposing of all the essen
tial business before it, which consisted
of conference reports on appropria-
tions bills.
The Presidents veto of the General
Deficiency bill proved effectual,
as the House, by a vote of 40 to
149, refused to pass the bill over the
veto, and sent to the Senate a sub
stitute emitting the French spolia-
ton items which had incurred the
Presidential opposition. Although
! there was little demand on the Indian
bill conference report, which involved
! a compromise extending government
aid to church schools for another year,
when it came to a vote, the compro-
mise was rejected by the narrow vote
| of 5S to 65.
An amendment authorizing the
! States to make liens on arid lands
| cover expenses of reclamation, was
adopted and bill passed limiting
mail which can be franked to written
and printed matter.
| When the Speaker laid before the
House the Presidents message yetoing
| the General Deficiency bill, there was
| applause by that portion of the House
which had opposed the claims, and
j which included many Republicans.
Chairman Cannon, of the Appropria
J tion committee arose and said: I'm
my Judgment if the Senate amendment
! covering 700 items and aggergating
two million dollars, had been fully un-
derstood the House would not have
! voted for it, If we had known that,
fastened as a leech, under false pre-
lenses the Chotean claim was included,
/ / do not believe any member would
/ have voted for it.
/ If any of the Senate claims had
/ been proposed in the House. Mr.. Cam
! non continued, they would have been
| stricken out on a point of order. He
| gave notice that he would move to
pass, after a vote on the veto, bill
| precisely similar to the one vetoed
with the omission of the claims put
on by the Senate.
4 Mr.. Adams, (Rep., Pa), shouted,
suppose we refuse to pass the bill over
| the veto and then refuse by two-thirds
vote to suspend the rules?"
/ To this Mr.. Cannon replied, If Con-
i gress refuses to pass bill appropriat-
! ing for the ordinary expenses OF the
! government without 700 claims fas-
| tened on by the Senate, there is moth
| ing but a healthy wholesome pubic
! sentiment to fall back on" (Applause.)
| Mr.. Richardson (Dem., Tennesseel
suggested that as the President had
not objected to the Southern war
claims. they should remain in the new
! bill, but Mr.. Cannon declared they
would be subject of a point OF order
Thereupon Mr. Mahon (Rep., Penn
sylvania) spoke with great warmth.
III want to pit against the gentleman
at the other end of the avenue, men
| like Calhoun, Clay and Webster he
said. ssand | prefer to take their judg-
ment on legal questions rather than
i that of the man who now occupies the
| Presidential chair. He has repudiated
his own party, he has repudiated the
lc0lrts of the United States and now
he proposes to repudiate Congress.
This is not a matter for the President
to settle. If we propose to let him
dictate what bills are to be passed we
might as well go home"
! Mr.. Grosvenor (Rep., Ohio), said the
President had Illuminated rehashlng
OF all the stale Democratic arguments
for repudiating these claims, ana had
4 deliberately misstated the facts. He
continued: "This occupant of the Pres
idential chair has done more to bring
into disrepute the veto power than all
his predecessors, because he has defied
Congress and trampled on the rights OF
Congress TO appropriate money Tor the
expense of the government The Pres
ident. in recent message, Mr.. Grosve-
nor concluded. had said that patriot
minds in this country were at low ebb
but it would be news to the people OF
this country, who were counting the
few remaining days that the President
had in office, to know that they must
look to him for patriotism,
Mr.. Dockery Dem, MOI, supported
the veto on the groud that bills appro-
priating money for the necessary sup
port of the government should not de-
generate into claim bills.
Mr. Brumm (Rep., Pa, as chairman
Of the committee on Claims, believed
the policy of adding claims TO
appropriation Bills TO be bad one and
then provoked a tempest when he con
t4nued, speaking OF the veto: ~ bblh@
: aside the hiblingsgate."
Il call the gentleman to order,
; shouted Mr. Savers. "He has no right
10 indulge in such talk regarding the
: President"
, Mr.. Brumm shouted back excitediy
II am responsible for all ] say, and am
, ready 10 answer for it at the proper
j time
Your responsibility" yelled Mr.
Sayers. in a sarcastic tone, does net
} amount to anything
Speaking of the arguments Of this
5 veto, Mr.. Brumm declared that they
were intended as a cheat, a fraud and {
: faIsehood."
/ When he had finished, Mr.. S3yers as
! serted that ''the language of the gen
: tlenan from Pennsylvania is not only
: unparliamentary but absolutely indie
7 cent"
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