The San Francisco call., 1896-03-28
ceeded to the consideration of executive
business and soon afterward adjourned till
Monday
PROCEEDINGS IN THE HoUs
Consideration of the Ctcit appropriation
Bill In Refused

Consideration of the CtciI Appropriation
Blu ls Refused.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 27.-Quite
UNEXPECTEDLY the House of Representa-
tives to-day by vote of 142 to n refused
to consider the civil approximation bill re-
ported yesterday, adopting the motion of
Hepburn (R.) of Iowa to take up bills in
private calendar for the first time this ses-
sion. The adoption of this motion ex-
hausted an hour and another hour was
spent in discussing a motion by Pickler
(R.) of South Dakota that only pension
and private relief bills reported from the
Committee on Military Affairs be consid-
cred. This was finally agreed to. Only
three bills were considered and they were
reported to the House with recommends
tion that they be passed.
Before a vote could be taken on them
Hepburn (R.) of Iowa moved that when
the House adjourned tonight it adjourn
until Monday next. Despite the strenuous
opposition of Cannon (R.) of Illinois,
chairman of the Committee on Appropria-
tions, the motion was carried to-103 to 25.
The House then at O'Clock was de-
clared in recess until o'clock, the even
ton of private pension bills.
The evening session of the House devel-
oped family row among the Republicans
regarding pension legislation. The first
bill taken up was that discussed last Fri
day night-a Senate bill granting pen
sion of $50 a month to Charles E. Jones, a
photographer, for injuries resulting from
a wound received while taking picture
of Longstreet's Notifications at Suffolk,
Virginia.
Connolly (R. } Of Illinois antagonized the
bill, and in the course of his speech Sc
verely criticized the Committee on Invalid
Pensions for bringing in bills of this class
to pension men who were not enlisted.
PickIer (R.) of Sohth Dakota bitterly re-
sented the criticism of Connolly, declaring
that it was not fair, and that his assertions
were base slander upon the Invalid Pen
sions Committee. The committee had
recommended nothing for which it had
not the precedent of many Congresses
past. After amending the bill so as to
give the man a pensionable status and
leaving to the Pension Bureau the deter
mination of the amount to be paid him,
the bill was laid aside with a favorable
recommendation.
Subsequently Mahon (R.) of Pennsylva-
mia, apparently laboring under suppressed
feeling, said that statement had been
made on the foor which ought not to go out
uncontradicted. When the gentleman
from Illinois Connolly had charged that
certain gentleman whom he need not
name, but whom all Republicans recog-
nized as their leader [applause], had inter-
fered to suppress legislation in behalf of
the old soldier he spoke. without founda-
ton. The Speaker of the House, Mahon
asserted, had always given preference i'll
granting recognition to mem bers to those
having bills for the old soldier. The
House has spent fifty-five hours this ses-
sion in considering private pension bills
and had passed forty.
.Grosvenor (R.) of Ohio followed in a
similar strain, advising Connolly before
he undertook to arraign the Republican
majority to have more data to go on than
he had at present. Connolly, responding,
said that with a great Republican major
ity in the House Republican quorum
failed to appear at these Friday night ses-
sions, and there were too many candidates
for the Presidency and their friends in
this Congress engaged in promoting their
interests to do justice to the old soldiers
in the matter of pension legislation.
The committee rose after having favor
ably acted upon four bills, and at 1890
o'clock adjourned until NJ Monday next.