Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-16
xLIst CONGREss---2d SESSION.

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reference to the Committee on Way:
and Means.
Garfield moved to refer it TO thC
Committee on Banking and Currency
as it proposed to revolutioniZe the
whole banking system, and did moi
propose to increase the public debt OF
to borrow money to carry on the Gov
eTnment.
Niblack asked If there was any rea-
sonable prospect Of an increase of the
volume of currency by the present
Congress.
MIR. Garfield did not feel authorized
to make any statement while the
Committee on Banking and currency
proposed to report, but would say that
for two weeks the committee had un-
der consideration the specific point,
how best to meet the very general
demand, especially in the West and
Southwest, for enlarged banking facil-
titles, and the committee hoped to be
able to report very soon, but consid-
cred the question OF loan at g lower
rate of interest indispensable to, and
necessarily connected with, any prop
ositiOn to Increase the banking facili-
ties. The two should necessarily 20
together, and the committee would be
utterly unable to report bill that did
not include, also, the issue of bonds at
lower rate of interest, on which to
base the entire banking facilities: :of
the country.
Mr.. Niblack inquired whether any
increase of currency would be made
in National Bank bills or legal tender
notes
Mr.. Garfield replied that the res0lu-
tiOn of the House did not state which
form the increase should take, and
therefore the committee would leave
the matter open to discussion as the
House made no recommendation on
the point.
Mr.. Schenck said the bill was one
that related in its whole object and
matter to the national credit, and as
such should 20 TO the Committee on
Ways and Means. He added that
without claiming that it gave him
any jurisdiction over the subject, that
part of this very bill relating to public
credit had been written by himself
Mr.. Schenck, in conference with the
Secretary of the Treasury, within the
llAol hECh VI AiiC OCSc4Ollg Dul liG CCL-
tainly should not have troubled him
self with any of the matters connected
with the funding bill, if he had not
expected the subject would, in the
course of business, come before the
Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr.. Judd, member of the Commit
tee on Banking and Currency, argued
in favor OF referring the bill 10 that
committee. The entire basis of the
banking interest of the entire country
was affected by the bill, while it did
not provide for creating revenue, or
creating a new debt,
After further discussion BY MeSsrs.
Ward, Randall and others, vote was
taken, and the House, by 65 to 70, re-
fused to refer the bill to the Banking
Committee, and then sent it to the
Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. Benjamin, of Missouri, then ad-
dressed the House in an hours speech
on the subject Of various bills pro-
posing a change in the present mode
of paying pensions, arguing against
the plan of having them paid by post
masters, or by internal revenue col
lectors. The subject was then post
pOned two weeks, on motion of Mr..
Dawes. Yeas, 70; nays, 62.
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts, from
the Reconstruction Committee, re-
ported a bill to admit Texas to repre-
santatlOH in Congress, stating that it
wa5 Identical with the Virginia and
Mississippi bills, with the exception
of the additional provisions that its
passage will not affect the conditions
on which Texas was originally admit
ted into the Union.
Mr.. Ward, member of the Recon-
structiOn Committee, offered an addi-
tiOnal proVisO that Texas shall be ad-
mitted with all the rights of all other
States of the Union, without qualifica-
ton or fundamental conditions except
as stated in the bill.
Butler said there was ne objection
to the prOviso except that it was use
less.
The amendment was rejected by
party vote, as was the substitute
offered by Beck, simply admitting
Texas to representation, and the bill
passed.
The House then went into Com
mittee OF the Whole, Schofeld in the
chair, on the Deficiency bill.
On motion of Mr.. Dawes, an item of
fifteen thousand dollars was invested
for a court house and p0stoftice at Des
MOines, Iowa.
On motion of Mr.. Atwood, the item
for a court house at Madison was in
creased from twenty to thirty thousand
dollars.
Mr.. Coburn moved to add to the
item of 100000 for the New York
posteffice a prOvisO that no part of the
money shall be expended until the
plan and cost is fixed by law. After
discussion, the commit |
tee, without action or amendment,
took a recess till evening.
SeHGte.-HOuse resolution giving a |
years salary as Justice of the Su-
preme Court to the widow of the late |
Hon. Z. NJ. Stanton, passed.
Mr.. Chandler, from the Committee |
On Commerce, reported adversely on |
he bill authorizing the transportation |
)f imported merchandise from port of |
first arrival within the United States |
10 Chicago, Cincinnati, and st. Louis |
examination, Inspection and /
The bill was indef- |
litely postponed.
Mr.. Abbott introduced q bill pro-.
giding Tor the distribution of arms in /
The Southern States, in the same man /
ler as provided by the act of April %,
1868, which has not been modified. |
Referred to the Committee on Mill
AIRY Affairs.
Mr.. Carpenter introduced q bill ex-
ending the provisions Of the act of
March 3, 1868, to certain other judi
,ial proceedings,
AIr. sherman introduced a bill to
incorporate and charter the Cinein-
latl and Chattanooga Railroad, to
connect between those points.
Mr.. Sherman, from the Finance
Committee, reported hack various
referred to that commit
zee in regard to the increase of cur
'ency, which, at his request, were
abled. They were introduced to en-
lble the Secretary of War to revise
he general regulations for the govern
nent of the army.
Mr., Rice offered resolution direct
ng the Judiciary Committee to re-
)ort the effect of the Fourteenth
upon the Indian tribes
# the country: whether by provisions
hereof the Indians are not citizens
# the United States; and whether
hereby treaties between the United
states and Indian tribes are not an
lulled,
Mr.. Thurman remarked that as
here has not been any official notice
II the ratification of the amendment
he resolution was premature. The
objection being sufficient, the resolu-
ion was laid over.
Mr.. Kellogg offered resolution re-
uiring the POStOffice Committee to