Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-12

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On motion of Mr.. Wilson, of the
Committee on Agriculture the bill
passed extending the time for providing
an agricultural college in Indiana to the
firsi of March, 1873; also, a bill to pre-
vent cruelty to snimalsim their transit by
railroad or other means of transporta-
ton; prohibiting the confinement of
animals in ears, etc, more than twenty
four hours continuously, after which
time they are to have five hours for rest,
food and water. The bin, after some
discussion, passed-yeas 81, nays Il.
Mr.. Haldeman from the anne COM
mittee reported a bill to encourage the
planting of trees for the preservation Of
woods on the public domain, and re-
quiring all patents for lands 10 be on
condition, keeping ten per cent. of the
land in timber of planting and two acres
with timber-trees for every acre
from which the timber h cut, etc.
MI. Haideman proceeded to explain and
advocate the bin till the morning hour,
when it went over till Monday next.
The Senate's amendment TO the
Legislative Executive Judicial appro-
priation bill wa brought up in Commit
tee of the Whole.
The debate on the Senate amendment
appropriating fifty thousand dollars to
enable the President TO perfect and put
in force such rules regulating the civil
service as may from time TO time be
adopted by the President, was resumed.
Mr.. Sergeant opposed the amend
ment, and remarked that some MEM
bers would support il lest the defeat of it
might be made use of at the Cincinnati
Convention. He took no counsel from
his enemies; he took none from the
traitors of the Cincinnati Convention.
The administration of General Grant
would he Judged by its great success; by
its reduction of the national debt to the
amount of nearly three hundred million
dollars; and by the economy that has
penetrated every department. The adj
ministration had made itself illustrious
by restoring peace throughout the South,
and by the reduction of the national
debt. The Republican party would sue
coed at the next Presidential election,
not by inscribing on its banner the mere
words civil service REFORM" but by
pointing 10 the real civil service reform
wrought by the administration,
Mr.. Shanks characterized the civil
service reform and abolition of ranking
privilege as q specimens Of regular west
ern humbuggery.
Mr.. Potter reminded Mr.. Shanks that
the civil service reform movement had
been i~naugurated by the Presideh and
the abolition Of the ranking privilege
by the Postmaster General, one of the
Presidents constitutional advisers.
The discussion was further continued
by Messrs. Halman, Wakeman and
Kellogg, of Connecticut; Dunnell, Stey-
enson and Perry of Ohio, the two lat
ter in favor of the anendment,)
Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts,, opposed
it, and declared the movement to have
been "a shreWd palitical trick to put the
President in a position where, If he did
not inaugurate II, he would be attacked,
and if he did he would be a failure.
The thing had sprung from the late
turned-out Secretary of the Interior.
Mr.. Stevenson remarked that Mr.
Butler attributed too much honor "a the
late Secretary.
Mr.. Butler-It came from there and
will end there; il began In Cincinnati
and will end In Cincinnati.
The discussion having closed, an
amendment was offered by Mr.. Sargent to
reduce the appropriation to ten Thousand
dollars, which was adopted by a vote of
ninety-two ayes to fifty-nine nays.
The next important amendMent on
the bill was that for the extension Of the
capitol grounds north and south, the
cost being about five hundred Thousand
dollars.
Nh. Garfield, from the Committee on
Appropriations, explained the whole
subject, and stated that the committee
recommended nOn-concurrence, not
merely as q formal matter but as an ex-
preston Of the sentiment of the HOUSE,
so that when the matter went to the
Conference Committee they might I'M
derstand the wish of the House.
After a long discussion the Senate
amendment was amended by limiting
the amount to four hundred thousand
dollars, ana by requiring the removal
within six months of the locomotive
railroad track in front of the west gate
Of the capital, As thus amended, the
Senate amendment was oOncurred in.
The next important amendment of the
Senate was one Increasing the salaries of
assistant secretaries and other officers of
several executive departments 10 four
thousand dollars; of Judges of the Court
Of Claims to five thousand dollars, and
of United States District Judges to five
thousand dollars. The amendment was
rejected.
The committee then rose, and Mr..
Butler Massachusetts, raised a point of
order that the amendment fOrbidding
the publication Of laws in newspapers
differed In the printed bill from the ex-
act words In the engrossed bill.
The Speaker succeeded in disentan-
Cling this parliamentary snarl, and then
the votes on the various amendments
went over TO tomorrow.
Mr.. Ketehum gave notice that he
would present on Tuesday next the CON
ference report on the st Croix and Lake
Superior railroad bill.