Not a single case affecting questions of great public interest on the Calendar of the Committee of the Wholehas been reached during this whole session of Congress. It is not proper. therefore. to hurry up this measure to the exclusion of those of greater public interest. There are pending before you for consideration by your committees questions affecting the revision of the tariff. questions affecting the revision of the revenue laws. (the subject which we have now under consideration.) the law for counting the electoral vote. the law in regard to interstate commerce. the law in regard to immigration. the law in regard to the improvement of the Mississippi River. the law in regard to commerce with South America. the law in regard to the interoceanic canal. and therefore I say. air. that these questions of overriding and national importance ought to have consideration rather than the mere question of appropriating money to pay the officeholders of the Government. Questions of great public significance ought not to be buried in obscurity and dwarfed into insignificance by the perpetual consideration of appropriationbills. [Here the hammer fell.]
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