APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1865 AND 1866.
The committee on financereturned the general appropriation bill. H. R. 176 with amendments, recommending its passage.
Messrs. BENNETT, DUNNING and COBB expressed the opinion that the bill had better be passed without amendments for fear it might not find a quorum in the House to pass the Senate amendments ; and Messrs. BEESON, CHAPMAN and CULLEN assigned similar reasons for the votes they cast upon the passage of the bill.
On motion of Mr. BENNETT the committees' amendments were laid on the table by yeas 36, nays 9.
On further motion of Mr. BENNETT the constitutional restriction was suspended and the bill read the second time.
page: 376[View Page 376]Mr. VAN BUSKIRK moved to further suspend the constitutional rule and read the bill the third time now.
Leave being granted Mr. BROWN, of Wells, offered the following :
Resolved, That the previous order of business be suspended and that the following bills be taken up in the order named and brought to a direct vote, namely: The Morgan Raid bill, White Water Railroad bill, the Morton bill, the appropriation bill, and that by the adoption of this resolution, Senators pledge themselves to carry out the order named.
Mr. CORBIN then addressed the Senate at some length reviewing the action thereof for the past few days. During his remarks several Senators grew impatient and points of order were raised that he was not confining himself to the question before the Senate.
The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR finally decided that the points of order were well taken.
Mr. CORBIN appealed from the decision of the Chair and demanded the yeas and nays on the question of appeal.
The question being : "Shall the decision of the Chair stand on the judgment of the House?" it was decided in the affirmative by yeas 36, nays 3.
Mr. BROWN, of Wells, withdrew his resolution.
Mr. ALLISON demanded the previous question and there being a second the main question was ordered.
The constitutional provision was then suspended and the bill passed by yeas 42, nays 3.
Pending the roll call--
Mr. BROWN, of Wells, said he voted for the bill under protest. He would not like to see it fail for want of his vote.
Mr. CARSON rather than see the measure defeated would vote ''aye.''
Mr. DOUGLAS saw many things in the bill he did not like, but preferred to vote for this one rather than the House should adjourn without passing any general appropriation bill.
Mr. DOWNEY had not obtained his own consent to act upon a measure of so much importance, it having been before the Senate but so short a time, and requested that his name, should be passed till he saw the result of the vote.
Mr. VAWTER voted under an arrangement with gentlemen that other bills now before the Senate should be acted upon to-night.
And so the bill passed.
