The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Senate.


wAsHNGToN, February I-Mr. Poland Cvt) intro
dG.sd SI for the sppointment Of surrosate Of the
On motion Of Mr. Trumbul Oll) the bill to regulate
the du OF the CLERK OF the House of
Mr Davis Ky spoke at some length against the hill
charagterlzng 1t as party measure having none but
House, where had received the sanction OF ali pares
veSience Of organng the House Without some spsca
S IN OF that at 9Ry Sy T differed The
upon the list members from States represented in the
after further debate the bill was passed Yeas 81
na's g.. Ihe negatives were Messrs Buc Aalew Davis
MT wilson @eTeG to nf tSse sp be bin to
abolish and forever prohibit peonage in the Territory
Mr.. Po and had no objechon 70 taking up this bill ii
bankrupt bill passed as soon as possible and Se be
leved il was properly before th senae, having been
he Chair said the BankEuPt bill was not before the
ae s Sg ao eeT the special
Mr. Fessenden ME hoped the Bankrupt B Ill would
Canal bill would be taken up He thought 1t would
H Sr Lane said he was opposed to bOh but he pre-
terred taking up the BankrupG bill first
House of Representatives.
Mr., Patterson (N. H., one of the Regents OF the
directing the Secretary OF the reSsury to receive o
the Treasury oD the same terms as the Original beqaes
States bonds the hands Of the Secretary of The IRs
tuition amounting to SIS 2lO'62 together wi h such
other sums the Regents may from time to time see
MT to deposit not exceeding the original bequest,
Ihe second elton authorizes the income from the
Tesduary legacy to be applied b. the Board OF Regents
bequest in accordance With the act OF August TO- 1854
MI. Eliot Mass J. lro!n the Committee Commerce,
reported Joint resolution permitting Captain John A.
Webster Jr., the steamer Mahoning, 10 receive from
the Government OF Great Britain gold chronom eter
vessels IN distress on our coast Read three times
directed to transmit the EeDorts and for
the Improvement Of the har9ors of Pent Water and
on u oton of Mr.. Darling IN. Y. J. the Committee of
Ways and Means instructed 20 Inquire into the
expediency OF amending internal Revenue law so as
to require the destruction OF copper stills th at may
The House proceeded, as the first business in order
bill at was before the House at the close of the
Of Patents TO hear the application the heirs of Thomas
W. Harvey the re extension OF the patents of 3Uth
IN machinery Tor cutting Screws for dressing
heaus, and gant eX ensons OF such patents for
Mr.. Bromwe Qll }, who reported the bill from the
Committee ON Patents addressed the House In support
The b was opposed by Mess. Hale, washbune, of
Mr.. hae a.. ~ represented that although the pa
tn from the invention the assgnees OF The patents had
m1de fortunes. He described II as the most enormous
nienOgoly that this country had ever seea "a
N Washbu' ne took the same ground, and showed
that the public mad SreSd paid millions ,SE the Ryen-
vey had assigned their interest," 20 the American Screw
Company OF Providence, Rhode Island,
Nr sIison g Oval stated that me American Screw
Company, which had tn patent had actually bought
o. an English company from bringing their pro-
due IONS into an American market, paying it a
ru, all Of s40000 q year.
r. stevens PaJ stated that for years past the Anne
ricfn Screw Company had divided 80 to 40 per cent
scLDi- annually.
oaly was 800 or SOY per cent over par that its
iyldends were immense.
d. Of lhe American Screw Company asserting thar IL
Was tor The widows and heirs '' ~
Mr. nv ers Pa member of the ComInIttee nm
PA ,ents spoke in support of the bill vi
Mir. . IlIson moved to lay the bill on the table
III. Washburne (Mass.) demanded the yeas ana navs
The motion was negatVeo-Veas, 20i nays, 95
Ihe mornnS hour pired aud the bill went ovar ,,II
ncA private bill day PROBABLY to morrow '''
The House az half past O'Clock took nm tha San.1o
hI regulating the tenure OF certain civil Offices hs
debate oeing ON the suggestion of Ar Haze limited 20
hall- hour speeches. ~ W