The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-03-18

soon after adjourned.
SEOGsS E............... W As HINGToS. March II.
The Secretary of the Treasury was di-
rected TO stare the present condition OF the
st. Louis Custom House.
Resolutions tx ending the time for
taking testimony In contested elections.
Adopted.
The Indian precipitation Bill was made
the speciai oruer for Tomorrow.
A Joins resolution supplying omissions
in the enrO.lmeuts of some OF the general
appropriation bills OF las session was re-
ported. One of them require bonded ware
house owners to reimburse tue Govern
Ineut for the salaries of storekeepers, upon
which u deb ate occurred.
Buck argued against the b0nled ware
Butler. OF Massachusetts. explained ID
advocated the prOpOsittOu. wnIcn, be said,
had been unanimously agreed upou by tife
Conference, at O'CLOCK Cd The mOrnIng of
the attn OF MaTcn, and which was, at tn tJ
hour, the law OF the land. But, lJ being
matter b. hich took million and ii we hun
dIed nousand dollars out OF the pockets
of the whisky dealers, OF course, tue pro-
vision dropped oug IN the enrolment OF
tue bil. tie dlt not know VINO was TO
blame.
Washburne. of Wi,consln, asked Butter
whether ne meant l. cAarge tnat 10 was
omitted Intentional y,
Butter, IA repls, recitei the anecdote OF
the 1901, VINO tod the .tti1er ne knew mill
ier'~ uOg were always fat, bub did not
know on whose corn tney We're fatted.
Was0urue remarked tnaJ it W IS a very
Serl Us III Ter L a HnFOllluL CLERK A.
guilty Of tnat ohsnse. IL sh suti be know q,
and n mop "a tue gentle .aan from Massa-
chuse IS would take means 20 have II made
Butter SAID he did not K ow who was re-
SpDusIbie H was in form ID 10 was "a ac-
cident, winch mad happened oseranu over
again III former Congresses. He dill not
.hinlz 1t prooer ID seuss tne n 'rits OF the
question now. IL h8d been the law, but
either thrOu "a biuudsr, o. something
worse, the law al oeen altered.
Schenck defended the Enrolling Clerk
from any imputation on his iute- -rily.
Tue pr nc;pat EnrOIttng Clerk, whom he
knew TO De "A worthy officer, had inform
ed him that he and the other C erks had
been working for forty con secutIve hours
and were comp elely eKhaus ed when The
Decoration bin was sent to them from
which to make up the several items in en-
rolling. Ihe report "a p esentel to tn IN
was confused AMI difficult 10 he under
stood, ana usnce the clause in question
had been overlooked. He (Scii snck) had
no knowledge OF any such an t1ein being
In the oiiI. out he under -ook to saT from
his knowledge OF the pftIe pal EurOlIlng
Clerk that ne was incapable of having de-
signedly omitted anytht g proper TO be
inserted in "a bill, a any member OF the
House. no matter who He was d otesttng
against all such legislation IA apprOpria-
tiOn bills, and argued against returning
lures and tOos of distilieFi
Butler held up the manuscript of the
Conference Committee, aud cailsd atten-
ton to the Omitted p trasraph. which ne
said was underSc Jred VITA heavy black
lines He also cOnmen ed upon the fact
that the opposit on to the resolution c lme
from the Chairman of the Committee of
Ways and Means; from the gent eman
from Kentucky, (Back.) VINO repr-sentei
one of the largest disiiltery d iStrfolstn the
UnUed states, aud rom The Chairman of
tae committee on Enrolled Bills. (Hol-
MANI who had ma lie point of order
it, aud whose duty 1t was t. see that the
bill was properly enroI!ed.
Schenck explained how easily such a
mistake might have been made Without
imputing any improper design, aud re-
market that, so far as ne knew of the Off
GERS of the House aud mSmO OorS o the
Committee on Enrolled Bills. they We're at
Ie ist lit e nkeiy 20 attempts to commit
:. fraud on anybody as the gentleman from
Massacn usetts. Tn gentleman might tax
aOOGt the -CeSsity OF i'm posiug more tax
on distilled >pirits and 3baeGo out ali he
had TO say was, that Congress mad fixed
what that tax was to be. The people
should know b. the general system how
much tax is charged on wnisky and how
much on tobacco. and not have to go to
tn appropriation bills to fad out what
iditiO al burdens are imposed on these
articles.
Holman replied to the remark of Butler,
tn Al the suggestion was ED tirely unworthy
OF any gentleman o -cupying a seat on the
floor, Il was the first lime IN his expert
ence taat any gentlem IN had thoug mt
proper TO co.. pie such a mistake with the
presumption Ehat by any possibility IL
mi hJ have been the result of "a design to
defeat the viii of Congress by corrupt deal
1ngs Ia the enrolment of an act. He old
not know by what authority or command
of position the gentleman from Massaehu-
SttIS INDUCED IN suc1 action. Inc InII-
nation was not only fa'se, but could only
II ave been suggested by = Willingness t.
pc petraJe just such a fraud on the Iegisla-
ture of the country.
Dawes remarked that the Com mittee on
Appropriations nad looked Into the m At
ter and found no occasion to intia any
act of integrity of any officer cjnnec. Ell
with the enrOiImeR at OF the bills.
LtnOtt ar ued that the proposition to
impose additional burdens GA Tnanufac-
tur-rs of whisky and tobacco was bad
faith on the part of congress.
Allison believed the present tax was suf- Z
fieientIy h gh without imposing addi- [
tiOnal burden, but sill ne should vote to I
make the correction, becauS both Houses 4
hat ag eed to the p tragraph. 1t could be
rere lied if il was deemed right 10 do So
Lynch moved 10 ameud the paragraph 4
by max ng 1t apply only TO Internal Rev (
enue bonded warehouses.
Daweese presumed there would be no .
objection to that amendment.
Allison said there W. uId be.
Lynch explained that the omitted par
agraph was intended OG4y TO apoty to ln- {
guase was broad enough to make IL apply ,
TO custom warehouses
Schenck proposed that when the House (
was called to correct a Dlunder OF a clerk.
tO correct also a Dlunder OF legislation.
Such pr vision should nave been made 4
in Cue apprO prIatton bill. The reduction
OF the tax on WHISKY had worked we'll
aud should not be affected in such = wavs
Last year the tax produced SI3,0J1090, but
IL now was producing at the rate OF Sj0-
tU0.uaO a year. Tne Government could we'll
aff Drd TO pay its own officers to do It's own
business. The fact that it was do ng so
now, had probably had much To do with {
the larger collection OF revenue from that /
source. He protested against this whole