The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-07-28

laws q bounty OF al00 and no more; and every such
OdieI hOnorablY discharged on account OF wounds,
and the dow minor children, or parents of such
SOLDIERS who died in the serv co or iron dlsease
wounds coniTacted IN the In the line OF duty
shall be paid the additional bounty oil one hundred
dol ars
The soldier who enlisted for two years. and who
is entitled to government bounty Of fifty dollars
~ Ger the existing laws, IL 10 get under the like
conditions, an additional bounty OF $50.
MIR. Harding H. expressed his contempt for that
cuptdity which forced members either TO Yete them.
seves increased compensation, or vote against The
lOunty 70 soldiers.
The 81 eaker called Mr. Harding to order for the
expression which he had used
ldr Morrill, (Vt asked Mr.. Banks whether he had
ever known conference committee Yield on
point on which the House had expressed its will by
the al most unanimous vote OF 120 10 4.
Mr.. Banks went on TO state that the Senate Com
mittee had received instructions. in pursuance of
which IL assented to the demand Of the House on
the ques ION o. bounty: He beleved that the pro-
VISION embodied would be entirely satisfactory to
the friends OF the bounty; hat 1t carefully drawn
and would be found to be just to the soldier and the
Government lhe second proposiuOD related to the
compensation OF members. These we're the only two
propositions on which the Conference Committee
1t was only at the verv last moment, certainly
within the last forty five minutes, that he called
upon 10 decide, not on that great question merely,
but on the question whether there should be an
agreement on the part OF the Conference Committee;
aud his difficulty was increased from the fact that
the House had been long time waiting and that
the limitation of the Senate was close at hand. He
was mLelled therefore, TO Weld his judgment to
the wishes of the Committee of Conference.
The conference on the part of the Senate, he
should say Cld not demand, a sine qua non, the
adoption OF the proposition in regard 10 salaries;
but expressed the strongest belief that anv other
proposition than the two coupled together would be
Unsatisfactory 10 the senate 1t was therefore left
TO HIM to say, at the last moment whether the Com
miitee should have TO report disagreement, or
whether he should assent to the proposition; and he
took the spOnsbllity Of dissenting to the proposition
of the senate in regard to salaries Had the affair
been IN his own management at the commencement
OF the conference, he should not have reported 1t
but being called upon 10 decide at The last moment,
he thought 1t his duty TO report it, and he had there
fore signed IT with his colleague on the other side
(Mr Nlback)
The Chairman of the Committee Mr.. Wilson, OF
lowa) had not signed 1t.
MIR. Wilson (lowal said that he had opposed from
the teginning the amendment increasing the
salaries and had opposed every proposition that
subject IN both conferences While the pension, in
still he thought it better than the House had any
reason to expect from the Senate. lt was because
of his OBJ ostOn TO that feature of the report which
increased The sala1 es OF members that he withheld
his signature from the report.
Mr. Banks felt IT his duty to say that he understood
from the Chairman, at the commencement OF the
Oeh erations, that such was his determination; the
report would have been different, but the Senate
Committee had expressed the feeling that it would
be acling with them somewhat IN bad faith if they
were compelled at the last moment to tOregO that
provision and he therefore ieloed.
Mr. Niblack lind said that, like his colleague, he
felt mewhat embarrassed in regard to the report.
There much in it VIII ch did not meet his appro
va. There bad been enough discussion in regard
TO the question of the compensation of members to
convince hm that it was the Intention of the pre-
sent Congress to increase the salaries some time
before The 4th OF March next. He believed the
question might well te met now as at any other
time. lhe provision as to bounty did not come
fully up to his views; but st a compromise, he
accepted it, and as compromise he accepted the
whole report
Mr. Conkling IN Y y INQUIRED whether as q mat
ter of fact, the managers the part OF ihe House
had found IT necessary order TO come TO re UOrt
TO agree to the position for the increase salary
MIR Banks replied that at the last moment he fe,t
| II his duty, against, perhaps, his own judgment
under other circumstances to report this proposition
70 the HOuse for action. dc moved the
| ques ION,
question, but was informed by the Speaker tnat a
report of a Conference COMMITTEE must by ParIia-
meniary law Oloer than the Government itself, be
ADOPTED or rejected as a whole.
| Ihe previous question was seconded and the main
question ord red on agreeing to the report.
There seemed, at first to be some hesancy ON order,
members TO rise and lei the vote be taken squarey
and the yeas and nays were ordered.
| There was considerable excitement, and Tor time
| breahltss attention, as each member answered to
| his name AS the call was about comp eted groups
of members stOod around the Clerks desk, waiting
| 10 hear how the vote stood
Mr.. scheDck rose tn a question of order, insistinp
that was against the rules for members to be neaT
| the Clerks desk while the vote was being taken
| The Speaker so ru ed
At tie close OF the call there was majority of ter
votes IN the negative, but there were several mem
bPrs who had not answered when first called, some
who had voted ave, finding tthemse ives likely to bt
in a minority changed their votes to no, and again
when the tide turned changed back again to ave
The members who voted aye then began to explain
their votes
| crtas, pay, but was III favor OF bounty for the
soldiers and therefore he voteo ave. (Eaughter.l
MI Hulburd wv. Val followed with a similar
Mr.. briggs (Aich hoped that these gentlemen, il
they were forced 10 take the increased pay, woulC
| turn over the excess TO the soldiers.
Mr. Ferry (hich said that he had voted three
times against the increase of salary to Senators ano
| Members, but this being the last opportunity OF
voting in taVor of bounty for soldiers. he felt com
PEELED to change his vote from no TO- ave, but stood
ready to pay over the excess 10 the soldiers, aud
challenged his colleague (MT. Drggsl to do the
Mr. Schenck asserted, with characteristic blunt
ness, that ne voted aye to both propositions. A..
Mr. ONelil pa voted aye, for the sake of the
(Mr Wentworth qll), after showing so much
anxiety for the previous fortY-eight hours TO Vo
against the increased pay to member not in the
Hall when the report was read and the vote wa
| taken ....
| AT length all the members present had voted, and
| the unchanged list showed a majority Of one II
| favor OF the report. The vote was thereupon an
nouUced-yeas 81; nays 90. The iolo"ng is tho
| Yeas-Messrs. Anderson, Banks Barker, Benia
min, Bergen, Clarke (Kansas1 Culom, briggs, Eek
! icy, Eiondge. FarnswOrth, FaTquhar. Ferry, Gloss
brenner, Higby. Hogan IA mes, HotchkIss, Hulburc
wv Va b lnPersol, Jenckes. johnson, Kelley, Kerr
| Kuykendal, Latham, LIE B ond, Leftwitch, Marston
MaS naId, mcclure, Mccullough, Miller Moorehead
| Myers, Newell NlDlack, Nicholson ONeill, Patter
SON. Randall (Pa, Rice Mass Roe (Me.l. schenck
StrOuse. Taylor (Tenn J, Taylor IN. Y.l Thornton
Van horn IN. ", Van Horn (Mo y Whaley- 81;
Nays-Nessrs Allison, Ash ey (NeYadal Baker
( ofb, Conkhng' Deirees, Eggleston. Eliot. Fruck
Garsfeld, Harding (IllinoIs Hart, Hayes, Huobel
(omol KassOn, Ketchum, koonz, Lafm. La yrenc'
iPa }, Lawrence (OhiOh Lynch, Merour Morrill,
norris, 0rth, Paine, Pesham, Phelps, Plants, Price
Ritter, Rap, Sawyer, Shanklin, shellabarger
StoSes labor SGhS wii.n1 ovS Sa9I wilson 1Ps
/ and WHght-6O.
Tbe House then, at a quartef.past A. NJ, ad
iou.ned its Fnday's session. to meet again at
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