The San Francisco call., 1897-01-23
HOUSE PASSES VETOED BILL.
Cooper and GrosUenOr Pay Their Re
spects to the President.

Cooper and GrosUenOr Pay Their Re
spects to the Pres tdent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 22.-In
the House to-day Cox Cd. )of Texas, rising
to question of personal privilege, read
newspaper paragraph crediting Walker
tR.) of Massachusetts, chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Currency,
with the statement that there was so little
public demand for legislation on the SUBJ
iect of banking and currency that he
could not get his committee together to
discuss the subject. He said be had at
tended every meeting of that committee,
save a very few, ever since he had been
member, and that he was now ready to
meet the chairman at any time and vote
upon any proposition he may present.
Walker good naturedly observed that
this was one of 10000 statements i'm
puted to him whlch hao no foundation In
fact.
A bill was passed authorizing the Gal
weston and Great Northern Railway Com
pany to build a railroad through the In
dian Territory.
A Joint resolution was reported from
the Committee on Printing providing for
an index of the Government publications
from 1881 to 1898, by DR.. ]. E. Ames.
suDerintendent of the documents, at a
in all. Passed.
On motion of Dalzell (R.) of Pennsyl-
vania it was voted to adjourn over from
to-day until Monday next.
A Joint resolution was passed providing
for the distribution of aliases and maps
published by the Geological Survey.
Cooper (D.) of Texas called up the
House bill constituting a new division of
the eastern judicial district OF Texas, pro-
yidIng for holding court at Beaumont and
authorizing the appointment OF clerk
for said court, and moved that it be
passed, the objections of the President TO
the contrary notwithstanding.
The Committee on Judiciary recon-
mended that the bill do so pass
GThe Presidents reasons for so We toin9
the bill were that the present accom- m cd a.
tions were sufficient for transactIng the
business arising from the counties in
eluded in the proposed new division.
Cooper explained that he had made
several attempts to see the President
while the bill was before him. In all
these attempts he was unsuccessful, the
secretary of the President, "who holds
the kew 10 the door by which mem bers Of
Congress are admitted to the President"
denying him the right as representative
of the people of his district to see the
executive.
Grosvenor (R.) OF Ohio said it was un-
fortunate for the American people that
for three years past few self-respectIng
representatives of a respectable constitu-
ency would make any effort to see the
President. 1t was represented that he
had issued an order that no Senator or
Representative in Congress should present
himsel in person until he had bowed be-
lore private secretary and had received
for his errand the sanction of that august
parsonage. ''At that time" continued
Grosvenor, 81 was in the midst of mat
ter connected with my offlcial relations TO
the President. and after having concluded
it filed a statement with the Executive
Mansion that I would never again see the
President Of the United States under the
present administration. And / have kept
my word. My constituents never COM
missioned me to percolate my business
with the executive through the clay of q
private secretary.
at is. unfortunate" Grosvenor went on
to say, that the President excludes him
self from communication with mem bers
of Congress. He surrounds himself with
a skirmish line of moderate capacity and
keeps himself away from US. l condemn
myself for not having expressed these
views two years ago, when, if they had
been carefully considered by the parties in
interest, there might now be two or three
friends of the President ipsCongress."
The bill was passed-144 to 68-more
than two-thirds voting i'll the affirmative.
Crowther (R.) of Missouri reported the
agreement of conferees upon bills TO in
crease the pensions OF Jane Stewart Whit
ing and of Celeste A. Boughton, fixing the
amount at $50 mouth. Agreed to.
The House then proceeded to consider
bills on the private calendar reported
from the committee of the whole.
Proceedings from this point were largely
confined to routine matters and bills of no
general interest. at P. NJ. recess was
taken until o'clock. to discuss private
pension bills.
At the evening session ten private PEN
sion bills previously reported from the
committee of the whole were passed. and
at 10:15 the House adjourned until Mon
day next