The Portland daily press., 1870-07-13
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ny TELEGRAPH To THE
x,ousTLAND DAELY PRESS.
XLIst O0NGRESS---Second Session.

A bill was passed increasing the pension to
| 500 PEI month to the widow of General Hayes
VINO was Killed at the battle of the Wilderness.
Inc sundry civil appropriation bill was then
taken up.
On motion of Mr.. Sumner $50 900 was APP
proprated for the survey of the Tehuantepec
and Nicaragua ship canal routes.
iong discussion ensued an amendment
providing for an issue of bonds to an amount
not over one million eight hundred thousand
dollars IN satisfaction of all claims Of the Choc-
Jaw Indians, which was sustained by MesSrs.
klce, Pomeroy aud Howard, and opposed by
Mr. Sherman. 1t was finally rejected.
AN amendment was agreed to allowing the
exchange at any United States mint or branch
mint OF unrefined or imported bullion, under
ana providing that the privileges of depositors
OF bullion shall not be in.eriered with.
Messrs. Wilson, Cameron and Warner, were
appointed committee of conference on the
army appropriation bill. A brief executive
SESSION was held and a recess was then taken.
AT the evening cession the civil expenses ap-
preparation bill was resumed and various
amendments, including those appropriating
$l0,o00 to pay the surfmen to be employed at
alternate sections on the Jersey coast, for the
purpose OF saving life and property from wreck,
and $4,000 TO humane societies of Mass. for
protecting human life from ship wreck, by life
boats and other means.
Mr.. Sawyer offered an amendment providing
for compensation Of United States off Gals who
have not taken the test oath for servc . in 1855
and &C.
Mr.. Sumner said the parties should present
their bills against Hugh McCulloch and An
drew johnson, and that their services were
performed in violation of law. He then made
a point of order, " itch was sustained, that the
claim was private one and therefore not adj
mlssable in the appropriation bill
Mr. Sawyer modified his am,ndment and in a
different form it was ruled in order, and favor
ed by Messrs. Warner, Williams, Morrill,,
Drake and Harland, and opposed by Sumner
and Cameron, who argued that 1optiOn of the
amendment would nullify the statute imposing
the test oath, which expressly prohibited the
payment OF salary when tie oath had not
been taken. On the other hand it was claimed
that the statute referred to had been practical
ly repealed in the appointment to office of
former rebels and the service for which the
compensation was asked had been fairly rem
dered.
The amendment was adopted, % to 10.
FURTHER appropriations were made of $4,000
TOR clerks in the office of the Secretary of the
treasury; $4,000 for repairs andlfurnishiog the
Presidents house. The bill as amended was
then reported to the Senate and the amend
ments concurred in. An amendment was
adopted making an appropriation to extiuguish
the Indian titles the land known as Black Bob
indian reservation in Kansas, and provision
for the purchase in the Indien territory of
homes for the band. The bill was passed and
tue SENATE at l2.30 adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Dickey of Pennsylvania, from the COM
mttee on appropriations reported the Senate
amendments to the army appropriation bill,
with the recommendation that the bill to re-
duce the number of army officers, az agreed to
by the conference committee, butrejected to by
the Senate, be substituted for the proposition
OF the Senate on that subject.
MIR. Logan of Illinois stated the various
ffnr M hath f1,a Go,
ments for the reduction of the army, and that
reported by the committee of appropriations,
the latter being substantially agreed upon by
the conference committee and approved by the
House. He objected to that part of the Senate
amendment which continues the present sys-
tenn of commutaton instead of having fixed
rates of salary. He preferred any salary rather
than have the present system of Communication
continued.
Mr.. Van Wyck of New York did net think it
necessary to strike the salaries of Generals
Sherman aud Sheridan. He said the people
did not think it necessary
Alter further discussion by Mcssrs. L gan of
w! Lawrence of Penn, Butler of Mass, and
Dickey of Penn, the substitute reported by the
On appropriations was agreed to.
On the motion of Mr.. Schenck of Ohio, the
10th and 1. tn rules, which prohibit bills being
sent to either House or the President in the
last three days of the session were suspended.
Mr.. Schenck, from the Committee on Ways
WIZ NACdus, HtpoEtcu udCh Guc Oeudt0 JOluC re-
solution to relieve insurance companies from
liability to the income tax for undistributed
sums carried to their contingent fund, with an
amendment applying it also to sums paid by
mutual life insurance companies to their hold
ers. The amendment was agreed to and the
joint resolution passed.
Mr.. Schenck of Ohio reported and explained
the funding bill, from the Conference Commit
tee. In the conference committee the Senate
agreed to adopt the House bill as basis of the
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the issue of $3.50, 900, 900 bonds bearing five per
cent. interest and payable after ten years;
500, 600, 900 bearing four and half per cent.
and payable after fifteen years, and 100000
600 bearing four per cent. and payable after
thirty years.
Messrs Garfield, Judd, Cox and others OPP
posed the bill mainly because of its discrimina-
ton against new banks in compelling them to
take the new bonds at a low rate of interest as
a basis for circulation, and because it would
make the United States more tributary to
Europe.
Mr.. Cox of New York said that the only pan
acea for the country, was fair, gradual and
honest resumption of specie payment, and the
laws of trade and commerce, and the Democra-
cy would fight hereafter for it.
MIR. Garfield of Ohio, regarded the section
which, requires the new rational banks to de-
post the new bonds as an indefinite suspension
of the banking feature of the late currency bill.
He also opposed the allowance of one half of
one per cent commission, thinking one quarter
of one per cent ample.
The report was then rejected, so to 101, and
Messrs. ScAenck, Hopper and Marshall, were re-
appointed a committee of conference.
Messrs. Butler, Farnsworth and Paine, were
appointed a committee of conference on the
Georgia bill.
Discussion of resolution from the commit
tee on public lands, extending for seven years
the privileges of the grant of landto Wiscon-
sin, for the rise and profit Of the railroad from
st. Croix river on the lake to the west end of
Lake Superior and Bayfield,, occupied the
House until the expiration of the morning
hour, when the bills went over.
A resolution Was adopted for printing an in
dex to the Congressional Globe of one volume
only per session.
Mr.. Butler of Mo-, moved to suspend the
rules and adopt resolution instructing visitors
to West Point to act as House committee to
inquire into the complaints of i'll treatment of
the colored cadet at West Point, with power
to sends for persons and papers and to employ
a clerk and stenographer.
Mr.. Cox of New York moved TO adiOurn