The San Francisco call., 1896-02-22
Members of the House Continue
Their Deliberations Into
the Night.
LITTLE PROGRESS IS MADE
1t Is Necessary to Count a Quorum
to Increase Veterans
Pension.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 21.-The
| utmost efforts in the House to-day of
Dingley, Cannon and other leaders of the
| Republicans were unavailing to reverse
the defeat sustained yesterday in the COM
| mittee Of the whole to reduce salaries of
Indian inspectors from $4,000 to $2500 a
year. When the consideration of the ap-
preparation bill was resumed Grow (R.) Of
Pennsylvania moved to make the salary
$4,000, and against that proposition Crisp
| (D.) of Georgia raised point of order that
| it changed existing laws.
A debate extending over two hours fol.
lowed upon this. Chairman Payne (R.)
of New York, at the close, overruled the
point. In the course of the discussion
| much acidity of expression was shown,
Hopkins (R. } of Illinois speaking of Grow s
| motion as the result of inspiration he
would not name, but a manifestation of
fractional opposition TO the Indian Com
mlttee."
Grow changed his amendment to make
the salary $2501, but again the committee
of the whole sustained. the Indian Com
mittee and voted against the reduction.
Upon points of order of Cannon (R.) of
Illinois that they were new legislation
propositions were stricken out authorizing
the Secretary OF the Interior to pay the
expenses of the Indian inspectors while
they were located in Washington and to
create the Office of superintendent of irri-
CATION.
The appropriation of $4,000 to meet the
expenses of the Board of Indian Comm
sioners. which has been in every Indian
bill for twenty-six years and which the
committee omitted from its draft of the
bill, was inserted Oh motion OF Mccall (R.)
OF Massachusetts, supported by Bartlett,
Fisher and Quigg of New York.
Having completed only ten pages of the
bill in two days, the committee rose and
on motion of Dingley (Rl of Maine it
was ordered that when the House ad-
iourned at the close of the evening session
for the consideration of private pension
bills it be to meet on Monday next.
In the morning hour Senate amend
ments to the military academy approprla-
ton bill were agreed to and the following
Senate bills were passed;
To amend section 1894. Revised Statutes,
so as to empower the Secretary OF the
Treasury to remit or mitigate forfeitures
under his Jurisdiction, as we'll as fines and
penalties; to amend the law regulating tn e
establishment of final proof in tim ber-
culture entries.
An anne .idment offered by Picker
(R.) of South Dakota to make the maxi
mum of pay of head farmers at Indian
agencies $65 per month was agreed to-.
The committee then rose.
At P. NJ. a recess was taken until s
O'Clock, the evening session being for the
consideration of private pension bills.
At $40 o'clock it became necessary to
determine whether or not qurum of the
committee of the whole 600 members) was
IN the hall and Lacey (R.) of Iowa, chair.
man, announced that 11S members were
present. The occasion for it was this: A
bill was under consideration to increase
the pension of Louis G.. Schilding, who
served in Company A, Fourth Ohio Cav
airy, from $37 to $50 a month. 1t was rec
commended by the Committee on Invalid
Pensions, which report showed that he
was suffering from gunshot wound,
rheumatism, piles and valvular disease OF
the heart. Kerr (R.) of Ohio explained
that the beneficiary had appeared in per-
son before the committee and demon
strated the fact that his condition war
ranted the amount of the pension recon-
mended.
After colloquy between Kerr and Col
fin motion to lay aside the bill with
favorable recommendation received 81 af-
fimative and negative votes, whereupon
Erdman made point of no quorum. The
chairman's count disclosed a quorum pres
ent and the motion was agreed to.
The committee recommended favorably
nine bills and the House passed five
At 1880 the House adjourned until
Monday.