Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-22
CONGRESSIONAL.
FOrty-First Congressional Session.

| bill.
The House bill to pave Pennsylvania
Avenue passed.
Mr.. Sherman from the Finance Commit
tee, reported joint resolution to deter
mine the construction of the internal rev.
enue act; also, to exempt undistributable
sums added to the contingent funds of
| insurance company's. Passed.
Mr.. Bsysrd presented a memorial from
VIM. +. Smith, President of the Interna-
tienal Ocean Telegraph Company, propos-
| ing for five hundred thousand dollars
! year, to be paid by the United States for
| twenty years, to establish aud maintain
international telegraph cables from San
| Francisco to Japan and China, and a third
from the United States, and to accept no
conditional terms, or never consolidating
with any existing trans Atlantic cable,
and never charging more than So in gold
for each message of ten words. Referred.
The Senate took up the postoffice ap-
preparation BILL Mr.. Trumbull's amend
ment limiting the franking privilege
hereafter; rejected by a vote of y to %.
Ramsey's proposition to repeal the frank
ing privilege was amended by prohibiting
any allowances for stamps or increased
pay to Senators or Representatives in con-
sequence of the repeal Of the .franking
privilege.
Mr.. Ramsey's amendment was then re-
jected by 26 to 2S.
Yeas Boremsn, Buckingham. Came
ron, Casserly, COttrell, Chandler, COnk-
ling, Cragin, Davis, Ferry, Hamlin, Har-
Ian, Howe, Howell, MeCreery, Morton,
Pratt, Ramsey, SchurZ, Scott, Sherman,
Sprague, Trumbull, Wiley, Wilson and
Yates.
Nays-Ames, Bsyard, Brownlow, Car
penter, Cole, COrbett, Drake, Fowler, Gill
bert, RmiltOn of Maryland, Harris, Nc
Donald. Morrill, of Vermont, Nye, Os-
bOfne, PomerOy, Poole, Rice, Robertson,
Ross, Sawyer, Spencer, Stewart, Sumner,
Thayer, Vickers, Warner and Williams.
The bill then passed.
The Senate then proceeded to the con-
sideration of the Consular and Diplo-
matte bill amendments, as reported by
the committee appointed, which were
adopted.
Mr. Sumner, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported amendments
providing that Consul General at Liberia
and Resident Minister to Japan be
changed to Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister PlenipOtentiary; also, to increase
the appropriation for contingent expenses
of foreign intercourse and for missions
abroad from $4,000 to $50, 900. Adopted.
The bill was then reported to the Senate.
In the Senate the income tax was taken
up on the Naval Appropriation bill.
Among the amendments reported from
the Committee on Appropriations were,
for fifteen-inch guns, el40, goo; for gun
powder, $500, 900; for labor at navy yards
$500, 900; in the bureau of construction
and repairs, for labor in navy yards and
on foreign stations, 81, 200 600; for the
purchase and preservation of timber and
the general maintenance of the navy,
$500, eco. To enable the Secretary of the
Navy to discharge the disabilities pro-
yided for by the contracts made
previous to March 4th, 1869, S575, $50; in
the Bureau of Steam Engineering, for re-
pairs of machinery, tools, labor, etc,
$4,000, and striking out the provision
that, in payment of funeral expenses,
no distinction be made between officers
of the line and staff officers. Agreed to.
MIR. Drake, from the Naval Committee,
reported su amendment revlEing pay
list for the navy, regulating promotions,
OF officers, etc.
At five o'clock the bill was laid aside,
and the tax and tariff bills taken up,
when the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Butler, of Massachusetts, from the Re-
| CONSTRUCTION committes, reported a bill
| for full and general grace and amnesty,
and oblivion of wrongful acts, doings and
omissions of sll persons engaged in the
war of the late rebellion. Ordered to be
printed and reoommitted.
Mr.. Schenck reported back the fund
ing bill with one slight verbal
amendment and asked that it be
made the special order in the House
| for Thursday next. Mr.. Randall object
ed and schenek withdrew it, saying he
| would take the chances of its being made
the special order in the House next Mon
| day under suspensiOn,of rules.
| Mr.. Logan offered a resolution reciting
/ the action of military affairs, and the
/ House in reporting a resolution declaring
Mr.. Whittenore, by selling military and
naval cadetships, unworthy of a seat in
the House, and reciting his election and
| presentation of his credentials, and re-
| solving that the House decline to allow
the said Whittemore to be sworn in as a
Representative of the Forty-first Con-
gress, and directs that his credentials be
| returned to him.
After discussion, Nj. Poland endeavored
to obtain reference of the credentials to
the Judiciary Committee, but Mr.. Logan
| declined to admit such resolution and
moved the previous question, under oper-
alton of which his resolution was adopted
by vote of lsl to p.
Nays-Arnel', Aver, Brooks, of Massa-
chusetts, Butler of Massachusetts,, Cessna,
Cobb of n. c., Coburn of Alabama,
/ Farnsworth, Hosr, Jenckes, Kelly, Knapp,
Maynard, Merrell of Maine, Newsham,
Poland, Roots, Sawyer, Smithof Tennes-
| S0ol AoAOi AoJ vi @"A'SNSAA ~ANa W hAt
more.
The House then went into Committee
on sundry civil expenses bill.
| Mr.. Upton Introduced joint resOlu-
ton donating four condemned eannons to
the Willoughby (Ohiol soldiers Monu-
ment Association. Passed.
Among the bills reported was one by
Mr.. Ella. reciting that S67S, 1862 were dus
by the United States to the State of Mas
sachusetts for interest on expenditures
during the war of 1872; that One-third o
IL had been assigned to Maine, and thai
the claims of both States had been as
signed to the European and North Ameri'
can Railroad Company, and directing
that certificates be issued for the same to
that Company.
Mr. Dawes. chairman of the Committed
on AppropriatiOns, deemed this a proper
occasion, it being the hast general apprO
paiation bill TO review as work OF the
committee and the House in regard tC
public expenditures. He reminded the
House of the remarks made by himsel
in the early par of the session, compar
ing the estimates tor the next yea
with the estimates of the last ad
ministration for the present year. anC
showing that the balance was alarmingly
| against the former; remarks of his Wer,
much commented upon, and no two gen
: tlemen since have been able to agree OF
| the ngureS IOF elbnbE N6dFs Inc treasury
had however, employed one of its mos
skilled accountants to review the esti
mates for both years and he nov
laid il before the House to b.
printed in the Globe as the result of tn
investigation. It showed a balance hand
somely in favor of the estimates made b,
: this administration. This administration
this summary shows, estimates for mex
year will be S, ,O9S, ,245-less than the esti
mates for the present year. That diner
ence was found by the department cor
recting its own mistakes in estimate
to amount to about thirty million
dollars, which was all made agains
itself, and correcting estimates made b.
the last administration for the presen
D wear to the amount Of about s., 900 600, al
' made in its own favor. If the Committe
d on Appropriations had addressed itself Z
> the work Of redeeming the pledge it mad
: to cut down appropriations, not only be
! low estimates for next year, but ais
Q below the appropriations made TO
: the pres ent year. he took some prid
I in submitting a result 10 the House 9
: estimates for the year ending June 81
r 1871, exclusive of what is called perms
r nent appropriations, were $i55, ,O96, ~,
! The committee bas reported sppropris
9 tiOns amounting to Sl4l, ,753, SOP, being
| - aad go poE -,