The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-12
XLIst OONGRESs---second Session.
SENATE.

SENATE.
WAsHNGr TON, May ia bill to furnish al
tificial limbs to disabled soldiers was passed.
Mr.. Conking introduced bill to aid in the
establishment and developing of CONNER
cial intercourse and for carrying the mails be-
tween the United States and countries on the
west coast of South America, which was re-
ferred to the Post Office Committee. 1t fixes
the subsidy between New York and Panama
and other ports on the Pacific at $12,5O0, and
between said ports on the Pacific and Valpa-
raise 1000 per voyage. The contract is to
run twelve years, and twenty-four round trips
are to be made annually. The corporators are
Edwin ID. Morgan, VIM: II. Aspinwal Abiel
H. Webb VIM, Claflin George G. Richardson,
Edward Tobey and Edward Nudge.
A bill in relation to lands Withdrawn for the
benefit of the Sothern Pacific Railroad in CAL
ifornia was taken Up-22 to Is.
Mr.. Stewart explained that the bill made no
additional grant, but would remedy o techni-
cal defect in the former act.
The bill was finally superseded by the legis-
lative, executive and and judicial appropria-
ton bill, and in Committee of the Whole an
amendment was proposed appropriating s o.
900 for new building for the State Depart
ment, and adOpted-41 to Is. A further amend
ment to enlarge the Capital grounds by incor-
porating two additional squares on the east
side at an estimated cost of fraction over
100000 was also agreed to without division.
The amendments to reduce by $4,000 the ap-
preparation to the Department of Education
to lncre g the sale Of the chief clerk of the
Navy Department, and to apply the unex-
pended surplus of $12 900 from the Paris Ex-
position fund for the benefit of United States
citiz ms taking part in the International Ex-
position at London in 1871 were rejected, and
those increasing the appropriation for the
office of the Comptroller Of the Currency from
$4,000 to $4,000 and requiring the Assistant
Commissioner in the Patent office to be reap
pointed by the President, subject to confrma-
ton by the Senate, to act az Commissioner in
case of temporary vacancy in that Office we're
adopted. Pending the consideration of an
amendment amer AUTHORIZING the United States
yer bullion, aud to deliver in payment import
ed bars under certain regulations, thus prOvid-
ing Tor rennlng by private parties, the Senate
adjourned. -,
HOUSE. 81
The bill appropriating $500, 600 to supply the
deficiencies in the appropriation for compensa-
ton and mileage of members for the year end
ing June 80, 1870, was passed.
The House then proceeded to the considera-
ton of the Northern Pacific Railroad bill.
Mr.. ORTIZ, OF Indiana, who had been active
in opposition to the bill, asked leave to make a
brief statement. He commend I'd by DENYING
that this opposition to the bill was conducted
any factious spirit. 1t was done under a sense
OF duty. The measure was regarded by its op-
ponents as one of the most important that
House that the only object of these who op.
posed the bill was to have it referred and re-
considered by committee.
Mr.. Wheeler, of New York, in reply to Mr.
Crth, denied the charges of tyranny in the
management of the bill or an attempt to force
it through the House. 1t gave no additional
land to the company, only making up to it the
deficiencies caused by Government sales from
the original grant in IL. 1t had been on the
files of the House since January, and had
been fully considered and approved by every
membor of the Pacific Railroad Committee
except one, Mr.. Burlington, of Massachusetts,
He was not contendng for the Northern Pa
cific Railroad, but simply for the right of the
and he could not yield until that light was
either vindicated or surrendered.
The third reading Of the bill was then re-
fused by the following vote:
Yeas-Messrs. 'Allisou, Ames, Armstrong,
Atwood, AItell, Aver, Barry, Beaman, Ben
nett, Bingham, Blair, Booker, Bowen, Brooks
of Massachusetts, Buck, Buckley, Butler of
Tennessee, Coke, Churchill, Conger, Covode,
Degener, Dickey Dix, Ferris, Fisher, Fitch,
Gibson. Harris, Hoar, Hooper, Hotchkiss, KEEL
ley, Kellogg, Kelsey, Lash, Lynch Maynard,
Mccarthy, Mckee, Miner, Morrell of Penn
sylvania. Mye 8, Negley, O'Neill, Peck, Pierce,
Peters, Plat, Poland, Pomeroy, Porter, Pros
ser. Stafford, Sawyer. Schenck, Sheldon Of
Louisiana, Sheldon o! New York, Sherrard,
Shober, Smith of Oregon, Smith Of Vermont,
Smythe of Iowa, Starkweather, Stokes,
Stoughton, Strickland, Tafie, Tillman, Town
send, Trimble, Twitchell, Voorhees,, Wash
6urne of Wisconsin. Welker, Whitmore of
tennessee, Wilson of Minnesota-T
Nays.Archer, Arnell, Asper, Beatty, Beck,
benjamin, Briggs, Bird, Brooks of New York,