The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-05
42d CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, June4.
HOUSE. i-Bg

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The bill providing for U. 8. District
Courts at st. Joseph and Springfield, Mo.
was rejected. =
Abill pissed to distribute to the late
insurrectonary States their quota fol
equipments from 1869 to 1859. t
A message from the Senate having an.
nounced that that body had agreed to a
conference report on the tariff bill, o re.
port was presented in the House by Mr..
DAWES. There Is an aggregate reduc.
tion for both houses ofabOut $53 900, 900.
MIR. DAWES said he had some interest.
ing figures which he would have printed
in the Globe, and which showed that the
reduction of taxation for the last two
years had been $S5,00O,O00, which with
$54, 100000 reduction In this bill would
make $140,000000. The expenditures for
1871, when reduced to a gold basis and to
q peace basis, were only $6,500,000 more
than In 1860, The rate OF expenditures
per capita In 1850 was $195 100000, and
in 1871 $176000O0O. The conference
report was then agreed to without discus.
sion, and the House adjourned to meet
Friday next .,ls ..'I5 !
SENATE.
MIR. SUMNER presented petition pro.
testing in the name Of 100, 600 shoemakers
against the repeal Of the eight hour law.
Mr.. SHERMAN called up the conference
report on the tariff bill, and It was con.
CURED IN.
MIR. HOWE submitted a majority report
ot the Committee Of Investigation and Re.
trenchment on the New York Custom
House.
Mr.. BAYARD submitted o statement
signed by himself and Mr.. CAssRRLY, as a
minority OF the committee, stating that
the majority report had been made unex.
pectedly to them and before oil the testi.
mony on the subject had been published,
and asking in view Of this fact that the
minority be allowed to present their views
during the recess, and that there should
be published as many copies OF their re.
port as OF the majority report.
Messrs. HOWE, EDMUNDs, and PRATT
objected to granting the, request of the
minority without acting on the proposi.
ton.
The Senate took up the bill to prevent
cruelty TO animals in transit. ~
Mr. THURMAN moved to postpone its
consideration until December. Lost.
MIR. CAssERLY offered an amendment
providing that the act shall not take
effect for one year after its passage, and
that it shall not take effect in any State
having sufficient legal provisions for the
prevention Of crueIy to animals within
the meaning Of this act.
Senator CAssERLY's amendment was
rejected.
MIR. SHERMAN moved an amendment
providing that the bill shall take effect on
the first of October. Agreed to.
MIR. CAssERLY offered an amendment
designed to provide better Accommodations
lor immigrants, and in advocating he de-
scribed some of the hardships and i'll
treatment he had seen immigrants sub.
iected to on the great railroad lines Of the
West. The amendment was lost-yeas-
10; nays-23. The bill was passed and
the Senate took recess until 1880.
EVENING SESSION.
The Senate resumed the consideration
Of the sundry civil appropriation bill.
The amendments reported from the Com.
mittee on Appropriations were agreed to,
except the amendment increasing the ap.
preparation for surveying public lands In
Louisiana, and appropriating $512,343 to
pay for furnishing hostile Indians in
Montana; striking out the appropriation
Of $4,000 for an equestrian statue to Gen.
Scott; appropriating $4,000 for expert
mental breech.loading boat howitzers,
and the two last amendments relating to
the settlement Of the accounts of the
treaty Of 1889 with the Creek nation,
which were not reached.
The following amendments were passed
over: Appropriating $12, 500 for the i'm,
provement of Judiciary Square in Wash
lngton, and appropriating 1857, ,6sS for
the payment CT the Carliss Steam Engine
Company.
At11f.Mthe Senate adjourned.