The Portland daily press., 1870-04-26
Mr.. Aver of Virginia offered the following


Whereas, the Secretary of the Treasury est.
mates the customs re ceipts of the government
Tor the next fiscal year at S175, 900 000 and the
excess of total receipts over expenditures at
Sl02,OO0,OO0 and whereas the public welfare
demands such prompt reduction of the BUR
dens OF taxation as shall be consistent with the
maintenance of the public credit; and where
az, it is both impracticable and ineXpedient to
make general readjustment of the tariff dur
Ing the present session of Congress; therefore
Resotced, That in the opinion of this House
the tariff bill now pending in committee OF
the whole ought to be indefinitely postponed.
The Speaker, in deciding a point of order
made'by Mr.. Schenck of Ohio, said that if the
resolution proposed to postpone the tariff bill.
1t would not be in order, because it was well
known parliamentary principle that nothing
can be postponed that is not under considera-
ton. 1t was mere expression of opinion
that it ought to be postponed.
The resolution was laid over.
The resolution for inquiring into the trade OF
the U nted States and the British Provinces,
also for an account of the monies paid into the
treasury for property seized for taxes, also that
government is in honor bound to pay loyal cit
lzens Tor property taken in the South, were
severally laid over.
A resolution instructipg the Pension Com
mittee to report bill providing pensions for
the surviving officers and soldiers of the war of
1872, was passed.
absent on the call of the roll of the House on
Friday evening came up, and n resolution by
Mr.. Schenck of Ohio was adopted, that each
absentee under the order call, not yet excused,
be fined $40, except those hereafter excused
for good reason by the House. Messrs. Ferry,
La11in and Morgan were excused OH account of
illness. The case of the latter gave rise to con-
siderable discussion; Morgan not asking to be
excused, but abiding to the fact of the absence
on Thursday evening of the chairman OF the
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man OF the Committee on Appropriations.
Mr.. Dawes stated that he was not absent on
Thursday night, though he was in the hall at
the time OF adjournment, and he was not re-
sponslble for the naval appropriation bill then
under consideration, but opposed to it.
MIR. Schenck admitted that he was absent on
Thursday, having gone to Mount Vernon with
his Ohio friends. 1t was the only recreation
he had taken during the whole session, but if
there had been a call of the House and he had
been fined, he would have paid it without
whining.
Mr.. Lynch of Maine repeated his assertion
about the absence of Messrs. Dawes and
Schenck on Thursday night, and commented
~on the ludicrOus appearance of those gentle
men. They met in the evening, one in the ca
pacity of Judge and the other as prosecut-
ing attorney.
Mr.: Dawes asked Mr.. Lynch what he meant
in referring to him as acting as Judge.
MIR. Lynch replied that the gentleman (Mr
Dawes) was in the chair hearing the excuses,
and that circumstance struck him as ludcrous
after that gentleman's absence the night be-
fore.
Mr.. Dawes said he had already stated that he
was not absent on Thursday night and inquir-
ed whether the gentleman (Mr. LYNCH bad
any respect for what belonged to gentleman
Mr.. Lynch replied that he had great respect
for the gentleman himself and therefore he
must have respect for what belonged to gentle
men. Finally Messrs. Lynch, Cullom, Strader
and Garfield were excused and the House hav-
ing refused, Sc to "a, to suspend the rules for
the introduction of a resolution RENTING all
the fines the matter ended for the day.
A joint resolution was adopted appointing
Gems. Giles A. Smith, j. E. Smith and Ely S.
Parker commission to procure an appropri-
ate burial place for the remains of the late Sec
rotary Rawins and provide for the erection of
suitable monument, and that the same be
paid for out of the contingent fund of the war
department.
In committee of the whole the paragraph OF
the tariff bill fixing the duty on iron punch
lngs, clippings, &c, was amended by prOvid-
ing that such iron entered for manufacture
shall be forfeited. A long discussion ensued
on the paragraph relating to rolled or ham,
mered iron in bars, and after rejecting eeveral
amendments the committee rose.
"A joint resolution was passed donating four
pieces of condemned ordnance to the Peoria,
ILL.,, Ladies' Monum ent Association.
A resolution was adopted calling for infor-
nation as to the amount expended in the i'm
provement of the Boston and New York har-
bOrs, the Della ware breakwater and the mouth
of the Mississippi. Adjourned.