Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-21
THIRTY SIXTH CONGRESS.


= and contract. was passed.
Mr.. BIGLER moved the consideration of the
motion to reconsider the postponement Of the
tariff bill
Mr. YULEE opposed it, hoping to continue
ON the appropriation bill.
Mr.. BIGLEE preferred to settle the question
| now. The resolution fixing the time tor adj
/ Journing could not be repealed.
Mr.. WILSON opposed reconsideration unless
/ the session was extended.
Mr.. Ten EYcK, in the name of the people
| OF New Jersey, demanded the tariff, and IA
vored reconsideration He wanted to remain
here until the most important and beneficial
bill passed.
MIR. TRUMBULL said we were continually
running in debt, and opposed charging this
debt on postcrity.
Mr.. HALE said Mr. Trumbull did not pro-
pose any remedy. The best plan was to place
i'll power an economical and honest admins
tration. AS long as the democratic admins
tration is in power they would spend all they
could get and borrow all that could be loaned.
lie favored judicous tariff.
Mr.. CoLLAMER favored reconsideration, and
opposed giving Pennsylvania the tariff OF '46,
as equal to rendering stone when she asked
for bread.
Mr.. HUNTER saw no necessity for reconsid-
Grafton. The appropriation already passed,
only exceeded the estimates by trife, and
they probably would be less after the commit
tee of conference had reported, SO that the
present revenue would be fully equal to the
expenses.
MIR. BAYARD thought it better to let the
tariff bill be postponed till the next session,
when party issues will not enter into consider
alton.
MIR, POLK advocated a change of the tariff
of 1851
Mr.. SIMMONS contended that the appropria.
tons exceeded the estimates
Mr.. CAMERON advocated reconsideration,
and offered a resolution extending the adjourn.
ment to July End
Mr.. BIGLER argued that the passage of the
homestead bill would decrease the revenue
from the public lands.
Mr.. JOHNSON OF Tennessee denied this.
MIR. DAVIS had always been ready to repeal
the tariff of 1851, as it was passed by fraud
and corruption.
Mr.. HUNTER had never been aware that the
tariff Of 1857 passed by fraud. The bill passed
by very large vote in both houses.
MIR. TooMBs did not believe any corruption
was used to get the tariff Of 81 through. He
had heard it said that $4,000 were expended
by the Lawrences to get the duty off of wool
He voted for it, and believed it to be the best
adopted i'll forty years, and was approved by
all free traders in the world.
Mr. WILSON had 10 doubt money was raised
to carry through the tariff OF 1857, but thought
it was never used on members He said mon
ey was raised under the influence of lobby
agents, and supplemented men thought they
must employ these agents, who often coupled
the names of the purest minded men before
him with their schemes.
The vote on reconsideration was taken
and agreed to,-yeas 81, nays II. The tariff
bill now being before the senate, MIR. LANE Of
tered substitute, when both were laid aside
informally to consider amendments to the post
office deficiency bill a committee OF confer
ence was ordered, the senate disagreeing to
many amendments.
Mr. LATHAM moved to take up the overland
mail bill Not agreed to.
Mr. IOOMBs reported from the conference
on the civil appropriation bill, that agreements
were effected on the amendments of both
houses, except one Of the senate's appropriate
ing 100000 for the New Orleans custom
house The senate receded from that
The tariff bill was resumed, but without ac-
ton, there being no quorum, the senate adj
journed till eleven clock tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Mr.. DAVIS, from the committee of ways and
means, asked leave to report bill authorising
the president, within twelve months, to bor-
treasury notes ut 6 per cent, the loan to be
reimbursed within twenty years the certif-
Gates Of the loan to be not less than one thou
sand, and no stock 10 be issued for less than
par value.
Mr. WAsHBURNE of Illinois. moved to sus-
pend the rules to take up the river and harbur
bill-disagreed to.
Mr. THAYER moved to suspend the rules to
take up the bill constituting Jefferson and Ne
vada land districts and providing tor delegates
to congress-dSagreed to-
Mr., STEVENS objected to the report of the
loan bill, no matter where it came from
Mr.. DAVIS moved the suspension of the
rules-disagreed to-
The house passed the bill adjusting private
land claims in Florida Louisiana, Arkansas,
and Missouri
NJ. GURLEY reported a resolution that So.
OOO extra copies of reports of the committee
on naval expenditures and the resolution there
on adopted by the house, with a like number
Of the majority and minority reports and ties
timony taken before the committee on public
expenditures relative to public printing, for the
use Of the house, provided these reports, reso-
buttons, and testimony, be bound in volume
with the reports OF the Covode committee
He stated that the Covode report would cost
sixty cents a copy, and this now proposed ten
cents additional.
On motion of Mr.. BURNETT an amendment
was agreed to including the majority report of
the last session on the alleged corruptuns in
the navy department. Further action was
waived to enable Mr.. MORRILL, to make a par
tial report from the conference committee on
the legislative appropriation bill, reducing sub
jects in controversy to seven, including the
senate's 81 900 900 loan on which they had
been unable to agree, and asking further
time
Mr.. SHERMAN, from the conference on the
civil bill, reported that they had agreed to the
appropriation of $4,000 to complete the capt.
tol and aboiiShing the art commission The
mint is allowed to coin cents, but the provis.
ion exchanging them for Spanish pieces is re.
pealed $4,000 is appropriated to convert the
old senate chamber into supreme court
room; and 100000 for the Washington aque-
duct, to be expended under Capt. Meigs. The
report was rejected-77 to g.
Mr.. BRANCH said the bill had been loaded
down with amendments and rendered odious.
He moved a reconsideration to give the COM
mittee opportunity to retrace their steps.
Mr. SHERMAN stated that the bill, as origi.
nally reported, contained 81 100000 less than
now. The appropriations were increased by
those who refuse to vote for the report. The
democrats in the senate had increased the
amount two millions, while the committee on
ways ana means had decreased the estimates.
He knew the gentleman from North Carolina
refused concurrence because Mr. Meigs was
designated as superintendent Of the Washing
ton aqueduct.
Mr. BURNETT could mol vote for the bill I'M
less this superintendency was stricken out.
Mr. SHERMAN sa d tile committee on the
part OF the house made the best bargain they
could with the democrats of the senate lie
cared not if it was defeated, but wished to
place the responsibility where it belonged.