Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-05
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THIRTY-FIFTH CONGREss- Second Session.


civilized dweers on this continent
Mr.. Green opposed the Senator from New
York with some heat, and finally consented to
temporarily withdraw, for the bill TO carry out
the treaty with the 1anctOn and Sioux In
dams, to which Mr.. Yulee, from the Post Office
Committee, offered an amendment appropriate
ing S36l,0O to pay the existing contracts to
carry the mails across the Isthmus OF Panama
and Tehuantepec. Adopted.
Another amendment, for a semiweekly mail
from Charleston, Or Savannah, to Key West
and Havana, at the rate of S200,0 900 per an
mum, was adopted, % to Is, and the bill pass
ed.
MidRight-The bill to remove the govern
ment quarantine buildings from New York,
was taken up and the bill passed
Mr.. Stuart moved the appointment of a
committee Of conference, to ascertain what ac-
ton should be had.
Mr.. Stuart's motion was adopted, and the
Conference Committee appointed.
2 a. M. But very few persons are now
present. Private bills are now being passed.
2 80 A M. The Senate has gone into exc
cutive session on the pay of Committee Clerks
AT three o'clock, A. NJ, the doors were re-
opened.
AS the Senate was now awaiting the action
of the House, recess was taken.
After the Senate resumed business, private
bills were considered for the purpose Of killing
time.
Mr.. Foot of Vermont presented a resolution
rendering the unanimous thanks of the Senate
to the Vice President for his able and dignifed
conduct in the chair. Adopted.
Recesses of ten minutes were now taken at
intervals, everything being dead lock.
A. MA message came from the House
stating that they had agreed TO some of the
Senate's amendments to the miscellaneous APP
preparation bill, and disagreed to Others and
that the House would assent to meet a COM
mittee of the Senate for the purpose of confer
ring in the disagreements to the postal bill.
Mr.. Hunter stated that, judging from what
he had been informed, the only chance of pass
ing the bill was in the Senate receding, and he
therefore moved that the Senate recede. 1t
was imperative to pass this bill, or else the ma
chinery of government will be stopped
Mr. Broderick demanded that the amend
ments be read
Mr.. Hunter again and again assured him and
the Senate that it would occupy the time till
noon to read the amendments. Delay would
be fatal. The bill must be passed or the
wheels of government would be stopped.
Mr.. Broderick would listen to no explana-
ton, and insisted that all the amendments
must be read.
Mr.. Hunter bitterly 1.-The bill will fail. Let
me.
The reading was then proceeded with.
Subsequently other attempts were made to
effect an agreement, but Broderick Was inn
practicable, saying he wished to exhaust, if he
could, the time of the Senate.
Mr.. Hunter was evidently intensely morti-
fled at seeing the labors Of the session thus
blocked.
AT length, Mr.. Broderick yielded at ten
O'Clock, when the other amendments were re-
coded, he calling the yeas and nays on the Cal
Itornia mail steamer amendment, which was
also receded from-27 to22.
This being the last amendment, the bill was
enrolled and sent back to the House, and also
to the President.
Mr.. Wilson gave notice that early in the
next session he should call for committee of
investigation with view Of correcting by leg
islation the abuses which have grown up under
the system of government patronage, by which
6O,0O0 men hold their places at the will of the
President
The Executive, Judicial and Legislative APP
preparation bill was signed by the Vice Presi-
dent.
Mr.. johnson, of Tenn, offered his resolution
to prepare estimates to limit the expenses of
government hereafter to $50, 100000. A bill
was added as an amendment that the causes Of
the increased expenditures of government be
investigated.
Mr.. Cameron offered resolution asking for
a Committee of Investigation to enquire wheth-
er there has been any malteasance in the mat
ter Of printing the Post Office blanks. Adopt
ed.
This is the case of Rice, of the Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, to which Cameron recently
referred.
A message was here received from the House,
announcing that they had passed a new postal
appropriation bill, in which they asked the
concurrence of the Senate. But after a long
discussion on the action of the House, in re-
jecting the original BILL Mr.. Toombs Directing
to the second reading of the bill, the Senate,
on motion of Mr.. Mason, adjourned sine die.
HOUSE-CoNTINUED.
Mr.. Phelps motion to suspend the rules was
lost-84 to 30.
Mr.. Phelps reported then a new Post Office
Appropriation Bill similar to the former origi
nal one The bill passed unanimously
1880. The House resumed the considera-
ton of, and passed, the bill regulating the COM
pensation in cases of deceased members.
The proceedings thus far have been charac-
terized by no discreditable scenes. Members
are constantly going to and returning from the
refreshment rooms, and some have retired to
sofas for sleep. The galleries, which, early in
the evening, were crowded, have thinned out
The House took up the bill fulfilling the
treaty stipulations with the Dacotah and Ton
AMANDA Indians, which was returned from the
Senate with an amendment. The amend
ments were concurred in also those to the
Lighthouse bill.
2 o'clock Mr.. Kunl1el of Pa, asked leave
to introduce bill providing for the redemp-
ton of outstanding notes, authorizing loan,
and regulating and fixing the duties on i'm
ports.
Objections being made, Mr. Kunkel moved
for the suspension Of the rules. Lost-l01
against 81.
Mr.. George Taylor Intellectually endeavored
to take up the report relative to the late Super
intendent OF Public Printing.
$50 A, Nj. On motion of Mr.. Phelps, the
House took up the miscellaneous bill.
Mr.. Phelps of Missouri said if the House
intended to pass the bill, there was no time for
discussion on his motion.
The House then acted on the amendments,
under the operation of the previous question,
non-concurring in number, including that
appropriating 100000 for Treasury buildings.
Messrs C0mins, Hall and Thayer were the
only members from Massachusetts, who voted
for the resolution of thanks to Speaker Orr.
The House concurred in the amendment APP
propriating S4l3,000 to pay the Florida volun-
teers and rejected by four majority that
abolishing the franking privilege.
The amendment extending the Treasury
note law for two years, was then read, debated
and finally rejected by 81 against 90. Much
interest was manifested during these proceed
ings, which occupied several hours, the Secre-
tary of the Treasury being present through
out the whole.
Finally, at 7 A. M, the vote by which the
Treasury note amendment was rejected, was