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resumed the consideration of the bill from
The House, TO establish Uniform rule of
computing the mileage OF members of Con.
gress. The question being on Mr. Noryelis
motion TO postpone the bill indefinitely.
MIR Clay Of Kentucky, spoke at large in
favor OF the bill. ], was passed. he said by
the nearly unanimous vote OF the other
House, and ten years ago. similnr bill was
passed blythe other House, and defeated by
the Senate.
He alludedto the unpeasantness Of touch.
ing any abuses Of this kind, from the prea,
number OF individuals interested in them,
IRON whom II was diffic ult to escape animad.
version. But, as always, Mr. c. would now
proceed to perform his duty, regardless of
himself but sincerely DESTROYS not TO ipiure
unnecessarily. the feeling. of any member;
and he trusted his remarks would be listen.
ed to in the same spirit OF courtesy with
which he designed TO make them.
The time OF his retreat from public life
was not very far distant, and, before retiring,
he wished TO point out three or four abuses,
which he would in part do at this time One
related 10 the ranking privilege, of which
there were abuses in every way, which Mr.
z. specified, and pointed to certain reme-
dies.
Another grea, one was that now under
consideration. Mr. G. proceeded To show
that the law respecting mileage had been
rendered very greatly uncertain and unc,
quail, particularly by railroads and steam
boats. He insisted, that, even il by that
law, It was designed to pay both the travel.
ling expenses and the per diem OF a member,
that object would be more than attained by
this bill. Mr. G. read documen, showing
great inequality in The mileage Of individual
members. one case Of which was that Of two
members living within ten miles of each
other, whose mileage, for which they res
pec,ively received 80 per twenty miles, diff
fered from each o,heI BY two hundred and
fifty miles The other cases we're most
iy very strong and striking. Mr. c. also
read and commented upon the report Of the
other House on this subject, in confirmation
oft views
He closed'by alluding to the extraordina.
fy increase in the expenditures OF the Gov
eminent During the administration OF
Washington, Adams and the first term of
Jefferson, the whole civil lis, did not exceed
100000 yearly. Now. the Treasury De-
partment alone nearly reached that sum
and the expenses Of Congress, including STA
tionary printing, fuel &c. even went beyond
1t. And reforms by Congress, he insisted,
ough, to begin with themselves
Further remarks were made BY Messrs
Calhoun, Wright Davis, and after sundry
amendments. the bill was ordered 10 third
reading by vote OF 81 TO 9.
House Of Northumberland Clifford,
Of Maine. moved TO reconsider the vote by
which the House had yrs,erdy refused to
order to a third reading the join, resol",ion
OF the Senate relative TO the disposition OF
the presents sent by the Imaum Of Muscat
TO the President ofthe United States. with a
view 10 propose an amendment declaring
that the President might dispose of,he pres.
ents in such mode as he thought best the
proceeds ihereof,o 60 into the Treasury Of
the United States.
a. The question wns then put on adopting the
amendment moved by Mr. Clifford, (viz. TO
sell the presents. save such rs can be placed
in the Department Of State. and put the pro-
ceeds in the Treasury and carried by yeas
md nays in the affirmative as follows: Yeas
SO, nays 10.
So the amendment was adopted.
The question then being on ordering the
bill, as amended, 10 its third reading. il wns
decided by yeas and nays as follows. Yeas
50, nays g.
So the bill was ordered to its third reading
The main question on the passage Of the
4 bill, was carried by yeas and nays as fol-
lows yeas 80. nays ~.
So the joint resolution was passed.
III empowers the President 10 dispose Of
such OF The presents both from the lmsum OF
Muscat and the Emperor of Morocco, as
cannot conveniently be deposited or kept in
the Department of State. and TO place the pro-
ceeds ia the Treasury Of The United States
Correspondence ofke Ncw York Courier.
Washington. Saturday Eve. July IL, 1910.
In the House to-day, the Army Appropri-
alton Ball was again taken up in Committee
'of the Whole on the state Of the Union-the
pending question still being oil the motion
ofthe Chairman OF the Committee Of Ways
and Means TO add an appropriation of 300.-
600 dollars for the suppression Of Seminole
hostilities in Florida. Mr. Waddy Thomp-
son insisted that the appropriation was alto.
ge,her too small. and that nothing effectual
could ever be done towards The termination
Of hostiiities, until a consentaneous move
ment by al least ten thousand men should be
made. Mr. Biddls. OF Pennsy lvania. en-
chained the attention of the committee for
an hour and three quarters with most mas.
terly exposition Of the corruption and profit.
gacy with which this war had been carried