Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-03-18
F0RTy-FIRST CONGRESS.
This Afternoons Proceedings
FRIDAY, r March IL

/ on District of Columbia.
Mr CIagin presented memorial signed by
| all the chiefs OF the bureauX OF the Navy De
/ partment, asking that where any officer OF the
| navy below the rank Of Rear Admiral is assigned
| to the charge Of bureau, he shall have the paw
of Commodore. The memorial is favorahly
| indorsed by the President and the Secretary oi
the Navy; it was referred to the Committee on
/ Naval Affairs.
| MIR Hamlin, from Committee on District Of
| ably:
| To incorporate the Sons and Daughters of
| Liberty.
To incorporate the Washington Association
for the Improvement OF the Condition of the
Poor.
To incorporate the Washington Union Benev-
olent Society.
Mr.. Conklng, from the Committee ON the
Judiciary, made a report on the case OF Adelbert
Anes, Senator elect from Mississippi, with a
resolution that the said Adelbert Ames il not
eligible TO seat in the Senate.
Mr.. Rice, as a meslber sf the Judiciary Com
mittee. desired TO express his dissent from the
report and the resolutions.
printed.
The bill making an appropriation for the i'm
provement of the Cape Fear river was taken
from the table, and Mr.. Abbott made some re-
marks advocating its passage.
Mr.. Fenton offered a Joint resolution that IL
the President shall obtain the assent of the
Government of Mexico the Secretary of War
shall detai a corps of engineers to make survey
of the summit of the Isthmus of Tehauntepec 10
ascertain II there is sufficient water for q shin
canal, and II so a complete survey shall be made
for ship canal from the Gulf of Mexico to the
Paclhc Ocean. Referred to Committee on
MI Hamlin called up bill to INCORPORATE the
metropolitan Presbyterian Church, which was
amended by striking out the 9Th section and
Mr. Morton moved that tomorrow he set
apart, by special order, for the consideration OF
the ADVERSE report Of the judiciary Committee
on the case Of General Ames Senator elect from
Mississippi. He desired to have the action OF the
Senate ON this matter, and his object in making
the motion was because in the case of an adverse
report ii was generally the custom Of the COM
IN ttee making it TO call it up.
MI. Conkling remarked that he intended TO
call up TINS matter as early a. possible. IL was
snesi anssuOn Oh the highest privilege overriding
Senator who had the floor.
The Georgia bill was then taken up.
MI wilson gave notice that, at the prOper
time, he should offer the following amendment:
mat In consequence Of the Illegal, reyolu-
tionary and designating proceedings OF the
General Assembly of Georgia il be- and hereby
Is, declared that the term OF service of the said
General Assembly shall date from January 26,
ls'O, and shall continue until the persons to be
snosen S, on me tuesday after the first Monday of
November, 1872, a. members Of the General As
sembly OF said State are qualified: ProrILed.
That the last clause of the second subdivision of
the first section of the third article of the con-
siitntion OF Georgia, in the following words
The General Assembly may by law change
the ume OF election, and the members shall
noid untll their successors are elected and quail
ned, SHAH never be by any Legislature eNer-
clsed SO as to extend the term OF any officer be-
tne reg9aT 1 @ Period named in the said con-
by joint resolution, consent to this fundamentai
condition before this act shall take effect.
HOUSE.-The regular order OF business was
demanded Immediately after the reading of the
journal, and the House resumed consideration
of reports of private nature from the Commit
tee on Patents.
Mr.. Jenckes, (R. I.,) from Committee On
fatents, reported substitute for the bill for
the relief Of Robert Burns Goodyear, extending
IOr seven years longer patent for pewer looms.
Mr.. Jenckes' substitute proposes to refer the
matter TO the Commissioner of Patents for in
vestgation.
Mr.. Dawes Mass opposed the bill. Ii there
was any one thing, he said, that should be
guarded against II was combination OF monopo-
to S sue. has sy
had monopoly twenty-one years, and he was
opposed to extending it further. The peculiar
patent referred especially to the manufacture
of ginghams and cheap fabrics. and every one
in the country was interested in having these
articles as cheap as possible.
Mr.. Jenckes defended the BILL and claimed
his patent.
The bill was laid upon the table, OH melton of
Mr.. Jenekes, from same committee, reported
bill allowing Ann NJ. Redefer, widow of Jos
Redefer, deceased, to make application for ex-
tension OF patent for bedstead fastenings.
Bills for similar purposes for relief of John
Murphy and Saml Gardner, Jr, were reported
Mr.. Tanner, IN. Y.,) from the Committee ON
Public Buildings and Grounds, reported favor
ably upon the bill to incorporate the Washing
ton Market Company.
After the bill had been read, Mr. Tanner said
he had no disposition to discuss it, and would ask
the previous question.
Mr.. Randall (Pa.l asked leave to offer an
amendment that nothing In the act should be
construed to prevent private companies and in
dividuals i'm Washington and Georgetown from
erecting market honses. The amendment WAS
agreed TO, and the bill was then passed, without
debate.
A bill extending the time Tor payment of
Nr. Washburn Mass from Committee on
Claims, reported a bill for the relief Of j. Ed
ward Clark, late Marshal of the United States
ing hour expired, and the bill went aver.
Mr.. Schenck (O.) moved that the House meet
in Committee of the Whole to- morrow for de-
bate upon the tariff bill.
Mr.. Allison (Iowa) inquired when the gentle
man purposed to close general debate upon the
bfll.
Mr.. schenek said there had been so many in
close debate: He thought it best to defer that
subject until next week.
Mr.. Schenck's motion for session tomorrow
was agreed to.
The House resolved itself into Committee of
the Whole on the Tariff bill.
Mr.. Stevenson (Ohio) addressed the commit
tee on the subject. He advocated a reduction
of the tariff on all articles Of general use. Tea,
coffee, and sugar, he contended, should have no
dHty upon il, because that duty was particular
ly burdensome upon the poor people. He
also wanted free coal and free salt.
II was argued that q tariff should be
imposed upon these in order that our
own producers might be made masters of
the market. But that was a reason why he
opposed il, because he wanted no masters in the
market. He approached the salt question, he
said, with some fear, because OF proximity |
to the gentleman from New York, lMr. McCar-
thy,) whose heart seemed to be preserved IN
salt. He also wanted, hides and skins free,
and reduction Of the duty on iron, for all these
articles entered largely into consumption by the
people generally The prosperity OF the country |
would Be enhanced by letting the raw material /
of hides and skins come in free, and allowing |
our oxn peopie to engage In the manufacture \
for domestic use and foreign export. He wanted |
inmheT free, too, 50 that our people could have /
chean homes and H would not cost fortune 70 /
hniid house to cover the poor mans family.
AZ 2 O'Clock the conWittee rose, and the |
uonse proceeded to the consideration Of busi- |
sss relating to the District Of Columbia.
Wr' Cook. (Ill.) from Committee on District
of Columbia, reported back memorial of Jo-
scphine Grifiing and Rachel Townsend for an
Tnirmary in the District, and il was referred TO