The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-31
,ot from % 10 40 oents per bushel.

OU per cent, au NAlOreins Agreed TO.
Mr.. WADE (Ohio) moved to amend by increas-
ingthe duty on grindstones from 10 per cent al
yalorem to 50 per ton, of thirteen cubic feet.
Mr.. EDMUNDs (Vt) moved to amend by in
serting paragraph putting q duty of 10 cents
per bushe on oats. Agreed TO.
MIR. CHANDLER (Mich.) moved to amend by
increasing the duty on soda ash from % to III
cents per pound. Disagreed to.
Mr.. GRIMES moved to increase the duty on
malt, from 80 to 40 per cent ad valorem. Agreed
to.
Mr.. SHERMAN moved to amend by adding a
proylso to the paragraph in relation TO rail-
roads, that the law requiring certain railroads
to purchase iron exclusively OF American man
ulacture' is suspended for two years. Disagreed
AT 1915 Mr.. CoNNEss (Cal.) moved to adjourn.
Disagreed TO.
Other amendments were offered, but mono
were acted on. A call for the yeas and nays at
li4O r NJ, showing that there was no quorum
present, the Senate adjourned.
House of Representatives,
Mr.. Wilson Qowa) leave, introduced bill to con-
form the rules oil practice and peadings ofthe United
states to the laws Of the respective States Referred to
The House proceeded, the regular business of the
passed last session TO provide for an annual inspection
spection oistr cts o. indian affairs and ive boards of
inspection, each to consist OF hree Chief
years one an ofcer the Regular army be annually
pointed Annually BY he President from ma among ~ such
persons as may be recommended by the annual meet
States Each Of the inspectors except the military one
to re reserve serve SSVVU year n & tg 4r sery ees mnesge
receive the same pay, MILEAGE and allowance when en-
lion are to visit ali the indian tribes within their respec
tive districts at least once in each year to examine into
any officer or empioye Of the INDIAN Department in their
respective Districts subject to the approval Of the Pre-
Mr. WINDoM (Minn.) addressed the House in
support and explanation Of the Senate bill.
Mr., SCHENCIt (Ohio) opposed the Senate BILL
holding up to ridicule the proposition of com
binng in each board of inspection a politician,
q nt,,,iaet oT,1a ri 10 t1a Int
of the politician would be to wink at the cor
rupt contracts made with the Indians; of the
priest to pray for them, and of the warrior to
kill them if they did not behave themselves.
Naughter.)
MIR. RAYMOND IN. V asked Mr.. schencll
whether the Military Committee had received
any communication on this subject from the
Lieutenant'Ge General of the army.
NJ. SCHENCK (OhtO) replied that the commit
tee had received n communication in the shape
of a report to General Grant from Colonel Par
ker one OF his staff, and himself an Indian chief
covering the whole matter.
Mr., HART(N Y) member of the Committee
on Indian Affairs, spoke against the Senate
racter, and in favor of Mr.. Schenc1' substitute,
which he thought was the best remedy for the
evil. He supposed the five churchmen were to
be put into these boards of inspection because
the five politicians were regarded as subjects of
general depravity; but he had heard of such
thing as a church member stealing, and he did
notbelieve that church members would be found
entirely incOrruptbile.
Mr.. HIGBY (Cal.) favored the Senate bin, or, If
il were not passed. he wished to see the control
Of Indian affairs pass into the War Depart
ment.
Messrs. DoNNELLY and CHAMBER offered
amendments to the bill.
The morning hour having expired the bill
went over till tomorrow, in the morning hour
Mr.. GARFIELD (Ohio), on leave, introduced II
joint resolution extending for three months
from the close Of the present session the time
for codifying The laws relating to customs.
Passed.
The Speaker presented Executive communi-
cations, as folows:-
From the Secretary of War, transmitting
papers in the case of Michael McCann's claim
ferred to Committee on Claims.
Transmitting General Grams report of the
ST. Clair fats. and General Warren's report of
surveys of the Upper Mississippi river and its
tributaries. Referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
Referred to the Joint Committee on Reconstruc-
tion.
From the Secretaries of state and of the Navy,
with statements of disbursement of contingent
funds. Laid on the table.
The House then went into Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union, Mr.. PoMEROY
in the chair and resumed the consideration of
the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation BILL
the question being on Mr. williams amend
ment as amended on motion of Mr.. Stevens, to
strike out the word Rome from the list of places
where ministers resident are to be stationed
and to add the proViSo that no money shall be
paid for the support Of the United States Le-
CATION at Rome, or for the future expenses of
such legation.
Mr. DODGE supported the amendment, and
sent to the clerks desk and had read q letter
rom lGOIle, from Jle lteV. Dr. Rrllne, dated
January 4, 1867, establishing the fact that the
late suppression of Protestant worship at Rome,
and declaring that Papal Rome was less tolerant
than Pagan Rome had been.
Mr. BANKS, chairman of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, suggested that the staten en IS
in the letter read had reference TO English and
not to American matters The Secretary OF
State had notified the House that no official in
formation on the subject had been received
from the American Minister at Rome.
- MIR. STEVENS remarked that the Roman Go.
vernment had no representative here, and that,
consequently, the American Government
should have no representative there.
Mr.. BANKS explained that if Rome sent q
Minister here he would be entitled to prece-
dence over the diplomatic corps, a thlng 10
which the people would probably object.
Mr.. KASSoN remarked that that was simply q
matter Of etiquette adopted only in Catholic
Mr., BANKS insisted that that was the rule
wherever the Papal Government had represen-
tatives, and remarked that that was the reason
why there was no Roman Ambassador to the
principal Protestant countries.
Mr., KASSON tnterpOSed the remark that 1t
was on the score of the supremacy OF the
Church.
Mr.. BANKS went on to say that he would not
object to omltting the appropriation for repre-
sention at Rome, but he would not have the
House take that decisive action without official
information to base it on.
Mr.. STEVENS called attention to the fact that
the Rev. DR.. Adams stated that all Presbyterian
worship had been prohibited within the walls
Mr.. BANKS explained that DIR. Adams Ian
guage was Hypothetical.
Mr.. MORRILL, remarked that this Government
should not have had representative at Rome
for the last ten years. 1t was a useless ex-
penditure
Mr.. FINCK opposed the amendment depre-
eating it as an attack on the Papal Govern
| menC and on the Roman Catholic people OF this
country.
Mr.. BIDwELL CCal.) also opposed it on the
ground that an embassy was required at Rome
| to look after the interests Of the American
travellers and residents there.
Mr.. BANKS called attention to the fact that the
Roman Government had exhibited an entire
| WILLINGNESS TO surrender Surratt one of the as