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Show IN TIIE HOUSE. The Speaker and 21t mbtr Ho Xot Work Together Very .Smoothly. THE SILVER BILL PROVES A KNOTTY POINT. The .'Voprieicr ef a 'JhteJeo Hold Lay Claim To take Freut Park. ATI FIERCE FIRE DURNING IN MINNESOTA. TtruaJo In Illinois: Lvs of l.lfe.- A .Missouri Village Oil Fire. 1 Tclegraf 10 tss News.' t:ii: noi'sn. A llrenl rj" llm l.llllr Uuul: NpenlierninI ?lettiliers. WASiifM.Tiix. June 20. In cou-t'nuati' cou-t'nuati' 11 ef the rtqiort of the discussion which appeared iu yeenlpy' TstniH. Conner (iowaj sttbl, i.otwlthrtandlnt; the action of the House in correcting cor-recting the journal, the hill had Ueti referred lo the committee 011 coinage, ami tho chairman of that coinmllUv had actual lurceseioii of it. Crisp (U.L) saiJ there was no evi-deuce evi-deuce of reference. The journal did not show it. Morrow (Cal.j said tiie aitiun of Ihe Hmise jcttenisy was exceed-Ingly exceed-Ingly sigalflmut of "its disjKisition The fact was there was no reference 1 at all. The Sje-ikcr had 110 aullior-ily aullior-ily to n fer the '.'ill. 1 1 is action was Hit voidable, but void. The Mil wwi upon the S.-aker' tilde. Tlie mere jdiysical fact thst the gentleman gentle-man f-nm Imv 1 (Cuiigir) or his clerk had actual po--ron of the bill made no ditt'.-rt 11 v in Its iar-liamentnry iar-liamentnry pi-s'tloii. Uult-rWurt!. de:i!?d that the House, by adoitIiig Mllb' resolution, resolu-tion, dm I a red the bill had not beii referre-'. Henderson (la.) askeil if Morrow would contend lle.t if tiie House, King under Di-mocralic umnage-meut umnage-meut f--r the time being, should burn up the record of the jctsrace of a .'senate bill, tlie bill would fail. Morrow insisted there was 3 material ma-terial difi. rence between the fact and this ipj.;tiou. Ituttirworlh ileclannl that then: were not t'enty-five np-n meter the .dome of tbe Capitol w Iiu lw-lieveil lw-lieveil the bill was iiicom-etly re-ferrcil re-ferrcil utxui their oath'. Ite4iUi-cau Ite4iUi-cau an.Ian-e.l Morruu- repu.sl that a majority of the House ha! declared olhurw i-e. Williams (I lis said that ytster-day, ytster-day, while the matter to rcciiiM-.er wan ir-u-Iinj, an i th- n-soliit-on h id I sen .- ioiiUil, tin- chainnau "f the coinniittiv 0.1 oiuage walked unto the Speaker's nesk. look up a bill that he ( Williams) believed was TilB MI.VKK lltl.I, and lismltsl it over to the clerk of the commltUu 01 coinage. I'll is looked like a con-piracy to o'.italii physical prssrsskiu of tin- bill. Conger" ( la.) chalnnan of the rem millet- on coinage, said the bill was delivtrej to his ch-tk lufore II o'clock yest-rday iin.miiig. Ihirlpg tlie afternoon, ujsm recjui-st of the journal clerk, it had In-en put in his ptH-cson for a short time in onler to make swine cierii-al cnduri-cments, Isit he (Conger) had again Liken it back to the committt e eltrk. McCrcary maiutaind that iindtr the Constitution the bill had never U en pnqsriy in charge of the committee com-mittee on coinage. The Constitution Constitu-tion rtquire-I tlie House to keip a journal. Until that journal was. ni-pruved ni-pruved it w.is not proper to send a bill any u lure. 'Iheintry in tin-jiHirnal tin-jiHirnal was void. I It-held that the bill was on the Siieaker's table and should lie plaits Ufere tlie lli.u-e for action. After furthirdiscusriidi by 1 Stand, theSpeakeraudcthirs, Itlnnd iihkII-lied iihkII-lied the language of his resolution hi as to direct that the -iniikcr, under un-der rule 241, do lay the matters 011 his table, im-ludliig the silvir bill, before tlie House for action. Tin: srKAKHK sin. that isjrhai he c-ild simplify Ihe matter, and suggested to I'.ljtidthat heundeistood his wish to lie sillily to get at this nmlter u hen it would naturally come up, sup; oeing it w as uou the S, leaker's table. Not (ass-in-- on the nmtlcr at this time. w liat the chair proposed to do was tint when the bill was reachidit slKKlId lie brought Is fore the House, but the gentk-min did not seem to consider that th.s was yi-sttrdnj 's private bill day, and that a private bill alone was in onler. i'.Luxl askeil whether the bill would Is-laid Ik fore tile House tomorrow to-morrow morning. The Sjs.-aktr declined to answer Unit que-tiou until the proper time McComas deaiaudeii tlie regular ordr. The Sjienkersaiil tiie regular onler was a pri.-ale bill, which he passed to the rending ch-ik. Sirmgcr asked t know- w lieu the chair might !e expected to decide where the Mil was. Speaker Wheuever the bill would be In onler, providing the views of tlie other side are cornet, alwut which thechairpn-vnts noopiulun, because lie docs not think it is a proper time. As liLind and Springer finally in-ji-tcsl on a s-cific ruling, the rieaktr finally ruled that island's resolution to proceed to consideration considera-tion of tlie silver hill was not in ordir, under the mles. Uland apisnlrd and McKinley maved t lay the appeal oil the table. Tlie yeas and nays were onlennl ieniingw hlch Crisp moved that the lions.- a JJotirn. The motion was defeateu, Uit the liourof five arrived and the House under tlie nile took a recess, the evening session to be forjieusiou business. No business was transacted at the evening si-sstou. sirualc. Wasiiixoton, June 20. Stewart, rising to a question of personal privilege, denied the truth of the story recently published, giving an account cf an imaginary coutiiit lietwteii hime!f and Iteagac. Itisagan ato stated tliere was absolutely abso-lutely no foundation for the report. The psKtofllce appropriation bill and the consular aim diplomatic appropriation ap-propriation bills were reported and placed on the calendar. Consideration of the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation hill was resumed. After some discussion, dis-cussion, the nmendmeut increasing the salary of the Commisilontr of the General Land Office from $ I'JOO jo SoOOO and assistant comnils-eiouers comnils-eiouers from $3000 to $1500 was agreed to. The motion to increase the salary of tho Commissioner if Indian Affairs from SllJil to$M0Q was defeated. de-feated. Stewart moved to strike out the item of S3000 for ail executive officer offi-cer of the geological survey. This .a) e rise to a long debate. Major i5well was barshly criM-lsrtl by Stewart and others, and defended by I ngalis. At the close of the discussion dis-cussion the amendment was withdrawn. with-drawn. The bill thin passed. Adjourned. |