The morning times., 1896-12-17
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VALIJE OF THE HOSPITAL

Mr.. Parker then offered an amendment
effeGting- the refusal. OF money fef.5Hat
Springs in a different way Upon this
thereowas IL de ebaJe.sts TO The Ealtt. of the
hospital to- the Army and Navy for whicn
tits exclusively used - ~ :.
Mr.. Payne said there was no use to
maintain such an Institution except for the
benefit to. citizens OF Hot Springs. The
government had been very liberal IN spend
ing money there aiid had gIye4, the toyelf
pretty much anything il wanted.
request came in for a part OF the reserf
yatlon upon Which TO bulid school or
church and IL was donated. Theciey sbfd
the ground and pocketed the money. He
did not know whethAror not,a church or d
school house was built else where from the
proceeds.
MT.Hull read from the report OF Surgeon
General Sternberg. That paper stated
that the waters were efficacieuS In curing
Disease, and the equipment and manage
ment of the hospital excellent. Severthe:
less. patients failed to come to take adj
vantage Of it. There had only been
twenty or thirty there from the Army of
late, and it was several years since there
had been patient from the Navy. The
naval surgeon authorized TO report there
for duty had not done So BECAUSE there
We're no patients. )
Mr.. Little, WHO led the fight for the
itte]1Ou oi tHe- .rlgTlHEs appropriations
made the point that the amendment was
new Legislation He was sustained by
Mr.. Hopkins, who was chairman of the
committee of the whole.
APPEALED FROM THE DECISION. I.
Mr.. Hull appealed from the decision, and
several citations ofprecedents- were made.
Mr.. Grow called attention TO rulings in
well-known cases, and held THAT Mr.
Hopkins was wrong. Mr.. Dingley also
disagreed with the chair.
When s;l voteswas taken by aceiamation
the chair seemed to be overruled, but
upon a division the Democrats were in
clined to make a party matter OF it. and
the cnair-Was sustained by a decisive
vote. ;
Mr.. Parker then offered the amendment
in the form of inserting the single word
except before the. name OF the Hot
Springs institution as it stood in the
bill.3 o.
Afr. Little madej she pointx again, and
was again sustained. styefal members
were on their feet al once protesting. Mfr,
hopkins. was about ato refuse to hear;
anything more on the point, but Mr.. Lacey
got his attention : ana turgetfia precedent
that had not before been cited.
He appealed from the decision, and other
members came TO tdsdsupport. Mr.. Can
non, who had just come into the chamber,
began to take interest In the proceedings.
de heard Mr.. Laeey''s statement, then
asked q few questions, and finally re-
treating UP the aisle, said deprecatingly:
Excuse. me, but If shat is the mean
ing, with all due Difference to the CHAIR
A ripple of laughter spread throngf the
room at this union OF Republican leaders
against one of their pwn number and there
was considerable confusion,
CHAIR oYERRULED.
w
was restored Mr.. Parker, forgetting that
Mr.. Cannon had been interrupted in the
middle of sentence, made an earnest ap-
peal to the chair to reverse his ruling. He
said he had changed the wording of his
amendment out OF Difference to the chair
mans opinion, though he believed him
wrong. There certainly could be no rule
to prevent the committee from excepting
| one of the beneficiaries under the appropria-
ton.
MIR. Cannon then came in again with ''I
| don't care whether the Hot Springs Hospital
is appropriated for or not because / have
not examined the question, and / don't
know whether it ought To be or not But
| unless we are careful we shall set here
very wkward precedent
He read 4 precedent which said that the
Withholding of an appropriation does not
| abolish the work for which it has been
| used. 1t operates only for year and
changes nothing. -
Preparatory to a change Mr. Hopkins
| stated his position The chair HOLDS, he
| said, that it is new legislation to except
one of q number of beneficiaries from a
| general appropriation. The thing might he
| done by making the appropriations sepas-
| ately, and leaving out one Of them.
| Mr.. McRae said the ruling cited by Mr.
| Cannon had not been followed in recent
| years.
| Mr.-Lacey urged that If the House could
| omit to appropriate in the ordinary bilrfor
all of the hospitals, as it undoubtedly could,
| it could refuse mpneYfto any one OF them
Upon a vote the chair was overruled by
| 50 to 72. -a4a < -, ~.
| AMENDMENT ADOPTED.
! Mr.. Little then asked to be heard against
the amendment. He saw the amount was
only So 500, and in the past year forty-three
| men from the army had been at the
| hospital. Of these thirty-six had been
cured and removed The hospital was a
| monument to Gen. Logan, by whose efforts
it had been established.
He did not know why the gentleman from
New York, Mr.. Payne, had attacked the
| people of Hot Springs. He supposed h,
| must have gone there in early days and
| fallen among the sporting fraternity who
| then frequented the place, That was
| changed now and Hot Springs was beauti
| full city of 600 people.
Mr.. Perkins amendment was carried.
/ The bill was reported to the House witt
/ favorable recommendation
On the adoption ofthe amendmentc cuttin;
| out the ii OF Springs hospital, Mr. Littl,
| demanded a separate vote 1t was an
nounced: Ayes, 70; nays AZ, and Mr.
Little made the point of no quorum. Tht
Speaker counted 155 members present
not a quorum-and at 41O o'clock tn,