The Portland daily press., 1866-07-13
xxx CONGREss---lst Session.
WASHINGTON, July 12.
GIN ATE


.E SENATE, tl
motion to postpone the Tariff bill until
December next was carried yeas %, nays 1e
| Attea the transaction of some local business
the Tariff bill came from the house. -s3
Mr.. Fessenden moved to refer it to the FL
nance Committee. & a
Mr. Grimes moved to amend by adding,
"With instruct )ns to report ON the second
Monday in December" Discussion arose.
Messrs. Grimes and Henderson advocated
post ponement, and Mr.. Wade spoke against
Mr.. Fessenden said the bill as it came from
thel elHouse would require revision and altera-
ton in its most important points.
Mr.. Wilson spoke against the bill as full OF
mistakes and errors.
A bill declaratory of an act giving authority
to the Secretary of the Treasury to issue reg
listers to vessels in certain cases were passed.
Several bills were reported, and the follow
ing resolution was passed:
Resolved, that the President of the United
States is hereby authorized to place at the
disposal, without charge, of the city authori-
ties OF Portland, Me-, such clothing, condemn
ed, or ordered to be- sold, and, such surplus
camp and garrison equippage, Bedding, and
hospital furniture on hand as can be spared
from the army for the use of families render
ell houseless and destitute by the recent cont
flagratien, and that it shall be the duty of the
Su2lt6I tudoGSrS AopafGul0llJ 10 ueltV0FJ bneSe
articles at Portland, and take the receipt of
the same from the Mayor of the city, and to
receive and properly dispose of the same when
no1onger needed. g aisa.aa4 e' $50
a resolution was adopted that the Secretary
OF the Treasury furnish a tabular statement OF
import duties levied on different articles under
each act since 1912, at the next session.
A, committee of conference was appointed
on the disagreeing amendments to the Legisl
lative Appropriation bill.
The Niagara Ship Canal bill was taken up
and amended. = +tt.o~.fr
Pending discussion on motion of post
ponement till December, the Senate went into
executive session, after which it adjourned.
.,a.is rs ~ HOUSE. '
The House resumed the consideration of
the Senate's amendments to the Legislative
Appropriation, when the recommendation of
the Committee on Appropriations was agreed
to- and committee on conference asked.
The question in reference to printing the
majority and minority reports of the Recon-
lstruction Committee made yesterday by Mr..
LeBlonde came up. 191p
Mr.. Washburne, of Illinois, said if the MOI
ton toreier. to the Select Committee was
Withdrawn, the Chairman of the Committee
would explain the matter satisfactorily.
Mr.. LeBonde thereupon withdrew his mo-
ton.
MreLaflln, Chairman OF the Printing Com
mittee, explained that the testimony taken by
the Reconstruction Committee was handed in
and o dered to he printed, 250 900 extra copies
being ordered on the 18th of March; that af-
telwa"ds the report of the majority was hand
ed in, and after being printed was sent with
the testimony to the binders, and that It W,ffSS W,f
not for ten or eleven days that atute tafb then orler
report was handed iDjo o.o09 extra cories Of those
ca lne pfSa5p 81 be bound together, and that was
Icing carried out. After discussion the whole
subject was laid on the table, "a to 29.
Mr.. Alley, from the Post Office Committee,
reported a bill for the better protection of in
ternal communication. Recommittel He
also reported back the Senate BILL with amend
ments, for the construction of certain railroad
bridges across the Mississippi se
The morning hour having expired the bin
T The House then resumed the contested cleo
ton case of Fuller against Dawson. ~
After debate the contested election case was
laid over until tomorrow.
Ion motion of Mr. Rice of Me-, the Senate
ljoint resolution just received from that body,
authoFising the President to place at the dis
posal OF the authorities of Portland, Me-,
tents, camps, hospital furniture, and clothing,
for the use of the families rendered homeless
by the late fire, was taken from the Speakers
table, read three times and passed.
A resolution was adopted that the Secretary
OF War report the nun1ser of Union and rebel
soldiers who died while prisoners of war.
Adjourned. III