The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-28
Senate and House Consider Questions of
No Great Importance to the Country.
A POLITICAL DEBATE WAS THREATENED
Tic Iousn refused to Take Up the
Sunday civil Appropriation HIII
and Pnsscd ON Three Measures
which lind ncen Reported senate
rniI.s Much, Accompanies Little.

senate to-day after occupying the nj g.
tention of that body every day during
inc present week. II apprupriatns IN
round numbers twenty-five and Il half
miilions. The debate upon 1t. was first
on MI Sherman's motion to strike out Il
provision changing the time or meeting
OF the Executive Assembly of New Mex
ico. Mr.. Sherman's motion was defeat
cu-fcas. lS: nays. 10. so that the bill
remains lin that rCspccU us II passed
the House.
MIR. Hills motion developed a political
controversy, and notice was given bv
Mr German that the discussion could
not be cut on, but would assume pretty
large dimensions. with the object of
avoiding this threatened political de-
bnte Mr.. Cullom lcp). OF Illinois who
was In charge of the bill, moved To lay
Mr: liiiIs motion on the table. but AIR.
Cullom's motion was disagreed to-
Yeas, u; nays. 29. The Democratic Sen
ators were aided by the votes OF the
Populists and of two Republicans SEN
ators Frye and Wolcott. Thercupun MIR.
Cullom withdrew all opposition To MIR.
IlillS motion and IL was agreed to
Ihat practically ended the conSicra lion
OF the bin and ii was passed without n
division.
The Senate, at 4:5o, adjourned til Mon
day.
House of Representatives to-day. bv n
vote OF lag to Il, refused To consider the
snhdry civil appropriation bill reported
yesterday. adopting the motion of MIR
Hepburn 0tcp), of Iowa. to take up
bills on the private calendar for the first
time this session. The adoption Of this
motion exhausted an hour. and another
hour was spent in discussing n motion
by Mr.. Pickler CRep.). OF South Dakota,
nnnGinif ,N,i,. r
bilis reported from the Committee OIL
Military Affairs be considered This
was finally agreed TO.
only three bills were considered. and
they were reported To the House with
recommendation that they be passed
Bcfore vote could be taken on them.
Mr. Hepburn Rcp), Of Iowa moved
that when the House adjourn tonight
II be until Monday next and despite the
strenuous opposition of Mi Cannon
Nh"p). of Illinois, chairman of the Com
inittec on Appropriations, the motion
was agreed to-103 to ~.
The House, then, at O'Clock was
declared in recess until o'clock this
evening.
Tie evening session of the House de-
Neloped into "A family row among the
Republicans regarding pension legisa-
ton The first bin on the calendar was
that discussed last Friday night. a Sen
ate bill granting Il pension Of $50 a
month to Charles H.. Jones, "A photo
grapher. for injury resulting from II
wound received while taking q picture
nl L.ohSstrcet's fortifiCatiunS at Suffolk
Va. General John Peck commanding the
ulElslon 10 winch the photographer regi-
mcnt belonged
MIR. Connolly (Rcp). Of Illinois, antag-
oniZed the bill ana In the course of his
speech severely criticised the Commit
lee on Invalid Pensions for bringing in
hlllS OF ms class 10 pension men who
were not enlisted men at all. Will. hun
dr"ds Of cases of bona tidn soldiers re-
'nained in the committee room
MI Pick'er tRepD, Of South Dakota.
chairman OF the committee, demanded
that the gcnrleman's words be taken
down. but withdrew the demand and Mr..
Connolly concluded his rc:; arks
lie was followed by Mr. picklri. who
bitterly resented the criticisms of Mr..
Connolly. declaring that II was not fair.
ana that his assertions were a base
SANDER upon the Invalid Pension Com
mittee. That committee had reported
but one other bill This session h, said
to pension civilian shot while in the
service of the Government Tie com.
mittee recommended nothing for which
II had not The preccdtnts Of many C.n-
tf"SarS past. After amending the LIN
50 as 10 give the man a pensionable stat
us ana leaving to the Pension bureau
the determination of the amount to be
paid him. the bill was laid aside with
favorable recommendation.
Subsequently, Mr.. Mahon CRcpb. of
Pennsylvania. apparently laboring un-
der suppressed feeling. said that a
statement had teen made on the floor
which he thought ought not to go out
uncontradictcd. When the gentleman
from Illinois Connolly had charged
that certain gentleman whom he need
not name, but whom all the ReDubli-
cans recognized as their leader zap
plause) had intcrfered to suppress legis-
laiion In behalf of the old soldier, he
spoke without foundation. The Speak
or Of the House, Mr. Mahon asserted.
had always given preference in granting
recognition TO members, to those having
bills for tho old soldier.
The House had spent f1fty-nve hours
this session in considering private pen
sion bills. and had passed forty. giving
an average of an hour and half to
each bill. If the members wanted to
take up the time in making speeches.
which was their right. Mr.. Mahon con-
ceded they could do so. but they should
not criticise others and charge that can
didates for the Presidency or their
friends were using the old soldiers as
football.