| Show A SLIGHT BREEZE Dignity of the Senate 1 a Trifle Ruffled Washington Feb 2 3After Bore brief rputine business the House went into Committee of the Whole and resumed i re-sumed consideration of the deficiency billWhile While a series of amendments to give extra compensation to various employes of the House was being adopted Mr Dingley Republics of Maine protested against the prodigal liberality Mr Tracey Democrat of New York offered an amendment ro give the employes of the House and Senate an extra months pay Mr Sayres attempted to amend this proposition by eXt Iudin from the benefits of the amendment those em ployes who had been voted extra compensation com-pensation but this motion was voted down downr Livingston Democrat of Georgia Geor-gia offered another amendment to that of Mr Tracey to give an extra months pay to the individual rIerss to members mem-bers Mr Sayres chairman of the Committee Com-mittee on Appropriations protested I against the Livingstone amendment I which he said proposed to give to members 100 fir extra clerk hire I There are memoers said he who do not pay out25 a month ior clerk hireWho Who are they trims them shouted a chorus oij members Both Mr Turner and Mr Black of Georgia I underapind do not pay more than 25 n moMth for clerk hire Mr Dockery Democrat of Missouri Mis-souri in the same tone declared that It was an appropriation to members of an extra 100 Mr Williams Democrat of Missouri Mis-souri believed the amendment vaa just and declared his Intention of supporting sup-porting i Mr Tracey Democrat of New York appealed to members to vote the amendment down I It carried and was reported to the House said he a roll call would be demanded and we all appreciate the difficulty of obtaining a majority for such a large appropriation when I members have to go on record I Laughter The Livingstone amendment was carried 105 to 70 and as amended the I Tracey amendment was carried 93 to 61Mr Mr Dockery gave notice that he would demand a yea and nay vote in the House In a brief speech he warned the Democrats Demo-crats oC the House that the appropriations appropria-tions were mounting up to dangerously near the billion limit and unless a halt was called they would exceed those of the Fiftyfirst Confess Mr Grosvenor Republican of Ohio in reply taunted the Democrats with beIng be-ing obliged to sell bonds at a ruinous rate department of interest to pay current expenses of the Did not Secretary Sherman sell 4 per cent bonds at par which were afterwards after-wards worth 12D asked Mr Springer Twelve years aLter a great war repiiea Mr Grosvenor Secretary Sherman sold bonds payable In coin to resume specie payments But the contract he made with the syndicate provided that before tho bonds should be taken they would be I open to popular subscription for thirty days Loud Republican applause Tile credit of the government subsequently became so high these bonds afterwards commander a premium of 30 But look at the transaction we criticize and seethe see-the contrast Now thirty years after the war without giving the public an Opportunity to subscribe bonds are sold bearing 4 per cent interest by a secret contract which netted the syndicate 10000000 twentyfour hours after the bonds were placed on the market Republican Re-publican applause Mr Bailey Democrat of Texas offered an amendment to appropriate 5200000 for j i > W the payment of certain Indian depreda ton claims allowed by the court or claims which was agreed to Several amendments passed over were not acted upon when the committee rose and the remainder of the afternoon was devoted to eulogies on the life and public service Carolina of the late Senator Vance of North |
