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Show CONGRESSIONAL. tioii:. Washington, 25. Tuc Houac went into Committee of the Whole on tho the legislature appropriation bill. The amendment ponding yesterday, appropriating $l,000,if00 for the payment pay-ment of tlic Court of Appeals was adopted. Ncsmiih moved to strike out from trie paragraph relating to the Department of Justice, fourteen hundred dollars, for the care and sub-'siatanee sub-'siatanee ot hurr-os and six hundred for j repairs of carriages and harne-w. He ; spoke of the Attorney General's six-!tccn six-!tccn hundred dollar landaulct and re-i re-i marked that lawyer of his (Attorney . General's) calibre, in his Slate, rode on the outside of a fifty dollar mule, i I Laughter. ) Thero was a .Spanish proverb t ti e effect thnt if you put a beggar on horseback ho will ride to the devil. Negley objected to the comp irir-on of an officer ol government to a beg-I beg-I gar on horseback. j Nesmilh "1 simply referred to a mule." (Laughter.) j Chairman "Tlio gentleman from Oregon will continue, being careful to j keep in order." Ncemith "I was only quoting a Spanish proverb, which tayy, 'Put a beggar on horfiebuck and ho will ride to the devil.' 1 havo no objection lo the termination of tlic journey in that particular direction, but I don't want people for transport -it ion. " (Laughter.) (Laugh-ter.) Durham said that as a tub committee com-mittee of the Committee on Contingent Conting-ent Expenses of tho Department of Justict', ho had investigated the subject sub-ject and would be prepared shortly to mako a report of the extravagance of that department, but lie r.uw desired the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations to t-tatc how many horses were provided for in this ?l, liX item. Garfield replied that he supposed as many as tho sum would take care of. Durham insisted on an explicit answer, an-swer, which, Garllcld failing to give, Durham accused him of want of candor, and somo unpleasant personal person-al passages occurred between the two. Garfield explained that his reasons for inserting tho item were that it was necessary for tho Attorney General to use a carriage daily in his public business, and that it had been always customary for government to supply horses and carriages. If tho House wished to fitriko out. the item thoy could do so, but ho depreciated tho attack upon the Attorney General. It was true that ollicer had boon furnished a sixten hundred dollar carriago which was wrong, but it was purchased by a subordinate, who had charge of the funds without tho knowledge of the Attorney -General, who regretted it. Wood denied that the practice of hca lb of departments to use public homes and carriages for private convenience con-venience dated back of the, Republican Republi-can administration, ond Wheeler, in reply, produced a voucher showiii" that in 1S50 Floyd, Secretory of War, was charged with two hundred dollars difference between an old wagoi and a fine carriage. Hoar thought a decent conveyance should bo furnished tho Attornny-General, Attornny-General, and asked Nesmilh if ho would like to havo the Attorney-General Attorney-General ridedown Pcnnsylvaniaaven-uo Pcnnsylvaniaaven-uo on a mule. Ncflmith replied that ho had jtm tho Attorney General on a mule in Oregon, and added that Phillip tho1 Second of Spain, rodo a mule through ! tho strectH of Madrid when ho went I lo marry Mary of England; and sacred sa-cred history gave an account of a better bet-ter man than either of them ridinr on ono of thoso useful animals, thai had no pride of ancestry and no hope posterity. Finally Ncamith's motion to strike out the, item was agreed to So to (.). G. F. Hoar offered an amendment prohibiting nny ofliccr ofGovernnient from roceiviug any componeation directly di-rectly or indirectly othor than hia regular reg-ular salary, and such fees as may bo attached, or from making private iibo of any property except audi as may bo by law appropriated lor hiH "ho , or service Qrt im employ,'1 of tho u. S. Adopted. Wilson moved an amendment providing that clerks, nmr6hnl and district utlorncys,of the United Stales on cml courts, or district courts shall reside in their respective district and give personal attention uf tho duties of their olHcca; and in caso of removal re-moval uf any such ullicer from his district or a failure to personally nt-tomi nt-tomi to Jus duties, except in cono of sickness, hw office shall b0 doomed vacant; adopted. Tho third section of tho bill increasing in-creasing Uio office hours of the fek out 18 frm "iX tU mvvn WM Uio Jirat of July in each year tho unexpended un-expended balances of the approprla-"ona approprla-"ona that shall havo ronii.W c , lho hooky of tho troasui-v U)V tWlJ Jilim yoars, shall bo carried to tho surplus fund, was amended by making an ex- ception in favor of river and harbor improvements, lighthouses and certain cer-tain public buildings. The consideration consider-ation of the bill was concludod and committee rose. Houao adjourned. |