The Portland daily press., 1872-05-22

Mr.. Morgan, of Ohio, asserted that there was
a hired lobby to carry it through.
MIR. Sargent, of California wanted to know
what unworthy gains had been used and what
members used them.
Mr.. Randall said he would not submit to be
criticized.
The debate was further continued by Messrs
Banks, Brooks, Bingham, Townsend of New
York, Kelly, Farnsworth, Maynard and Palmer
in support of the proposition and by Messrs
shall and Speer of Pennsylvania in opposition
The House then proceeded to vote on the
proposition.
Mr. Holman, of Indiana, moved to amend by
reducing the amount of subsidy to 100000 a
year. Negatved-Yeas SO, nays 100.
| On motion of Mr.. Speer, of Pennsylvania
the time for contracting fer additional service
was limited to three months after the passage
| of the act.
On motion of Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts,
the engines and machinery of the ships, as well
as the ships themselves, were required to be
wholly of American construction.
The Senate proposition, as thus amended,
was agreea tO--yeas 109 nays Sc.
The next important amendment was that of
| doubling the service and the subsidy of the
| Brazilian steamship line, in which the Com
mlttee on Appropriations recommended concur
renee with an amendment approprating $780,
600 for the year ending June 30, 1873. The
committee 8 amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Killnger, of Pennsylvania, moved to
amend by requiring that new steamships &C
cepted for additional service be of iron and
American construction.
Mr.. Lynch, of Maine opposed the require
ment as to iron material
MIR. killlingers amendment was rejected
The Senate amendment was rejected--yeas
GA, nays 112.
The next vote was on the Senate amendment
striking out the section which prohibits persons
who have held office in any departments from
prosecuting claims in such departments within
two years OF their leaving office, which was re-
jected.
The Senate amendment requiring the New
York & Panama steamship line to be MAIN
tanned was agreed to.
A conference committee was then ordered on
the disagreeing votes of the two Houses
The House then went into Committee of the
Wnoie on the sundry civil appropriation bill.
After progressing couple of pages the COM
mittee rose, and the House took a recess
Evening Session.
Among the bills passed were those incorpor-
ating the Loomis Erial Telegraph Company
and relative to the Centennial international
Exhibition at Philadelphia in 1876.
Mr. Banks reported back Mr.. Buffers resolu-
ton of yesterday relative to Sir Stafford North
cote's statement, and Mr.. Butler addressed the
House, expressing the opinion that the Presi-
dents would show that the utterance of North
cote either had been unsupported or miscon-
ceived or that he was entirely mistaken. Mr.
Butler himself had substantial ground for say
ing that Northcote was wholly wrong Mr.
Butler then spoke at some length in opposition
to the supplemental treaty, saying we should
say to Great Britain, "your course leaves us no
alternative; you did not appeal to our sense of
right but to our fears, and between us there
Ter and Banks 1.-THE latter of whom also made a
few remarks) expressed the belief that no war
would result from the failure of the treaty.
Adjourned.