American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-04-04
Reported for the American Republican,
FIRST SESSION of the 29th CONG RESS.
WASHINGTON, April 8, 1886.
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SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 8, 1886.
SENATE.
The Clerk of the House brought in the Sab
Treasury Bill passed by that bra nch Yesterday,
which was twice read by its title and referred
to the committee on Finance.
Messrs. Pearce and Johnson severally moved
the appropriate reference Of the various resolu-
tons of the Legislature of Md. presented by
them yesterday.
Mr.. R. johnson reported, from the commit
tee on Commerce, in answer to memorials from
N. York, bill TO repeal the act of end March,
1887, in reference to pilot laws.
A large number of reports from committees,
chiefly adverse, upon private cases, were taken
up and concurred in.
Onmotion of Mr.. Fairfield, the bill to change
the distribution of duties among the Naval Blu
reaus was taken up; the bill assigns Hydrogra-
ply to the Bureau of Docks and Dock yards,
and Equipments to the Bureau of Ordinance;
the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
The special order being resumed
MIR. Ashley made his long interrupted speech.
The most he expected to accomplish, he said
was the dressing up of old arguments in a new
guise; still he could not feel justified, as re-,
preventative of a sovereign State in remaining
silent upon question which might possibly in
FOlVc TWO great IldllOnS in war.
After defending the west from the charge of
ignorance made by MIR. Archer and comparing
statistical notes to shew that Virginia, though
| hundred years old, was but fraction of
per cent. in advance of Arkansas, only eight
years old, on the SUBJECT OF education; and after
Vindicating the Baltimore Convention from the
charge of Jacobnsm, made by tile same Sen
ator, Mr.. A. entered upon a long argument
concerning the title, and proved, to his own
satisfaction, that we owned, and must have,
''the whole of Oregon"
Mr.. A. could not vote for Mr.. Colquitt's form
of notice because he believed that the House
would reject it, and then we should have no
notice at all; neither would he vote for MIR.
Crittenden's, allowing the President to give the
notice any time after this session.
Mr.. McDufhe next rose and moved an adj
iournment, but withdrew the motion momenta-
rily for
Mr.. Webster, who said that if the Senator
from S. c. concluded early enough tomorrow
to allow of his following him for an hour or so,
he should do it, and chiefly in answer to the
dsparagememt that had been put upon the !
Washington Treaty; he moved theprinting of
the message Of the President Of to-day, trans
uniting the correspondence on that Treaty, |
which was agreed to.
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE
MIR. Burt, of S. c., rose to a privileged ques-
ton, with reference to Army estimates.
The committee on Military Affairs had d. |
rected Mr.. B. to notice an editorial in late |
number of"The Union, " in which it was main
tanned that 10 confidential communication had |
been made to the committee by the Secretary
ofWsr as allGdged in the House by members
of the same, as the reason for not making
known the said recommendations and esti-
mates. In order to diSprOue the article in the
" Union," and TO set the committee right upon
the subject, particularly the chairman and Mr..
Burt, who had stated the confidential nature
of the Secreary's letter, he read extracts from
the same, by which it appeared that the esti-
mates were confidentially submitted by the Sc
cretary, and the committee requested so to re-
gard them.
On motion of Mr.. Robert Smith, of ILL.,, the
House went into committee of the Whole,
Mr.. Foot, of VT, in the chair, and took up
for consideration the bill making appropriations
for the continuance and completion of the
Gu mberland Road
An amendment was offered providing that
an appropriation of the Public Lands be made
instead of money. The Bill approprates
100000 for the State Of Ohio and $4,000
each for the States of Indiana and Illinois.
Mr.. Stanton, of Tenn, perceving, as sup
pose, that there was 10 be general grab for
the public domain, putin for $50, 900 acres for
the State of Arkansas, in the shape Of an a
mendment, appropriating this much for the
completion oil a military road in that State,
There was somewhat of a protractcd debate
upon the question, whether the appropriation
should be in money or land, in which western
and southern members alone participated
Upon the principle that land was better than |
nothing, and it was that Cor nothing, several
from the West advocated it, The Committee .
rose, a resolution limiting debate to half an
hour when next taken up was adopted, and the
House adjourned,