The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-06-28
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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS,
XLIst C0NGRESS---Sscona Session.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, June 27.-The tax bill cam
up aud Mr. Sherman, chairman of the Flnanc
oommlttee, stated that in the result of the con
saiiatlon they had agreed to let all incom
Taxes go ana as substitute retain the tax n,
sugar, and also the tax on gross receints Fl
sad that the House proposition for the classifi
cation of the tax on sugars had been o,iecte,
10 by business men throughout the country
.au the senate committee classification hi.
encountered equally strong opnosition TN
remalning sections of fhe bill would clear II,
We antiquities in reference to n sneciaI ta1
dividends of corporations such as insurance
Companies and relative to the Shakers and nth
efregiOus societies.
Inc income tax section was then stricken on
without q division.
MIR. Sherman offered new section tn con.
!laue the tax on corporations and salaries dur
iig this year. The section WIS agreed to and
Vrlous amendments submitted to Mr.. Sher
Is to carry out the recommendations of the
finance Committee.
The tariff section having been reached. The
anendment striking out the duty of 5 cents
per pound on chicory, succory and dapdelion
r'pts and all other substitutes for coffee WAS
aged to, and that abolishing the classification
oasusar as arranged by the House was reject
edsafter long discussion, % to 30.
:, The Southern Senators generally. with An.
,,ngy Crasin, Morrill, of Vermont, Morrill, of
M5ne, voted in favor of striking out the clo =.
siieation, and Messrs. Edmunds Ferry. Ran
KY Sp :ague and Wilson in favor of retaining
During the discussion an amandmcnt wac
ollsred by Mr.. Yates, prohibiting hereafter ali
taleS on tea, coffee and sugar
~ me death OF Representative HeatOn of North
Cipolina, was announced, and after the enlo-
.'s ana customary resolutions the Senate took
ncess. WIN
EVENING SESSION.
At the evening session the tax Pacific rail-
wit
i1s That the guage of the road be five feet from
MARSHALL, Texas, to San Diego, California. .
lh9 all iron and steel used be purchased in the
y ated States. and permitting the Southern
naHhc railroad OF California to connect with
tneroad by a branch
HE Senate then adjourned,
HOUSE.
Abil was passed for the distribution bro rata
o. ai n onies paid or to be paid by the Rspub-
NC q Venezuela for claims of citizens of the
on.ed States under awards of the mixed COM
uisaon under the treaty of April 25, 1866.
ny. Dawes of New York introduced a bill to
authorize the issue of 4 per cent. bonds ex.
cnaagable for an convertible into legal tender
notes at par. Referred.
Aresoluton was adopted, 10S to 40, direct.
ing The Committee on Ways and Means to re.
porto the House forthwith bill reducing the
present duties on all classes of salt so per cent.
Inc funding bill was made a special order for
to morrow.
The Senate amendment to the Consular and
Dipomotic Appropriation bill were non. ICON
CURED in and Committee of Conference order
bill was passed relieving the estate of
Loug M. Edge from the legacy and stamp tax.
es. Inc propriety was church property devils
ed BY a Catholic priest to another aud by him
conveyed to the Augnstinian societies of Law
renee, Mass, and of New York.
ME suffer- OF Massachusetts, reported back
adversely the Senate bill to change the judic-
lal crcuts Laid on the table.
Mr. Davis, of New York, asked leave to- in
trodace bili to pTfnisgr crimes ana fras,d ii
Sex. Of er Ne o,,i-ce saving
hatN his colleague wanted 10 Gx the election
# The New York Legislature the House had
)etter repeal the adjournment resolution and
postpone adjournment till November
The House then went into Comm ttee of the |
Whole on sundry civil expenses appropriation
bills.
The items for the work on the capital were
attacked by some of the Missouri members,
Messrs Mccormick, Benjamin and Frnkle-
burg, and defended by Messrs Dawes of Mas
sachusetts and Schenck of Ohio.
Mr.Schenck said that as to the talk about
removing the capital he had never regarded it
as ANYTHING but bosh. and SO far as distance
was Concerned, it mattered very little where
the capital was, the railroads petty nearly
abolished all distance and the telegraph abol
lSneu all time.
A proposition by Mr.. Farnsworth of Illinois,
to widen the doors between the House and
Senate ELECTED considerable discussion.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, remarked that
on inforalaton from the architect it would en-
danger the doors, and assured the ambitious
gentlemen on the Republican side that they
would not have occasion to pass from the House
to the Senate, and they might consider them
selves lncby if they ever got back to the House.
Mr. Farnsworth withdrew his motion.
A dscussio0 arose between Messrs. Farms
worthapd Dawes in reference to the item to
pay Paul s. Forbes the balance due him nuder
a contract with the Navy Department for a
steam engine for the Algonquin. The nmount
is S27, $50.
Mr. Fsrnsworti1 moved to strike it out; he
criticised the Committee on Appropriations for
reporting it, and expressed the opinion that
the chairman of the committee (Dawes) was
like jog BOgstock, "sly, sir, devilish sly"
Mr.. Dawes retorted on Mr.. Farnsworth as
being soconstituted that he could not believe
any oneelse to be honest, and intimated that
he did not desire to be measured by the gen.
tleman rom Illinois standard of morality. The
item tasbeen reported because the Secretary
of the Navy said it was unliquidated. The
balance due this man was not q claim but
bill.
Mr. Earnsworth's motion was rejected and
the committee rose. .t-...-
Mr.. Garfield, from the Committee on the
currency bill, made report and said that he
would call it up for action tomorrow.
The House then adjourned.