Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-08

Pending that motion Mr.. Kelley moved TO
strike out the enactiug clause of the bill. This
was agreed to in the committee Of the whole by
a vote of 95 to IS.
The committee thereupon rose, and the chair
man reported its action.
Mr.. Kelley moved that the house concur in the
action of the committee, and that the bill he re-
committed to the committee on ways and
means, with instructions to report back his own
as a substitute.
Mr.. Dawes moved as an amendment thgt the
committee be instructed to report back bill
reducing the rates of duties TO ninety per cent
of the present rates
Mr.. Finkelnburg moved TO amend Mr.. Dawes
amendment by reducing the rates to eighty per
cent of the present rate; rejected, 70 to no.
Mr., Dawes motion was adopted II to II.
The bill was then reCommtteed TO the commit
tee on ways and means, with Instructions to re-
port it back forthwith; amended by reducing
duties TO ninety per cent of the existing rates.
The vote on recommittal stood, yeas III, nays
IS.
Mr.. Kelley was proceeding to say, after the
vote on Mr.. Dawes amendment, that he thought
some members had voted under miSappreheu-
sion, but was interrupted by calls to order, and
Mr.. Garfield called out that there was no misap-
prehenSion, but the back of the coalition was
broken. Mr.. Dawes proposition only applies to
articles specified after line 3d. pare 2 and up to
line 272, page 16. That is, it does not apply to
coal, salt, leather or pig iron, which articles are
TO stand at the rates reported in the bill Origi-
naly. Mr.. Dawes thereupou reported back the
bill as instructed, and 1t was referred to the
committee of the whole, to be taken up to-mor-
row. The house took recess till evening, when
the session is to be for business of the military
committee.
At the evening session the following bills, re-
ported from the committee on military affairs,
were passed: Senate bill to establish the pay Of
enlisted men of the army: senate bill to estab-
q at IN
and TO elevate the condition of the rank and file
OF the army; house bill placing enlisted men of
the engineer corps on the same footing with re-
spect TO compensation for extra service as other
enlisted men; the house bill to provide for the
establishment of a military prison at Rock
Island H., and for the government thereof.
MIR. COburn, chairman Of the military com
mittee, reported bill constituting existing acts
so as TO allow pay to officers from the date of
their commissions in cases where they were not
mustered in at the time in consequence of being
III the hospital from wounds or i'll rebel prisons,
Mr. Stoughton, another member of the COM
mlttce, opposed it as dangerous and pcIni-
cious bill, which would take 1000 600 out OF
| the treasury, and moved to lay it ON the table.
Mr.. COburn denied that it would cost one
| tenth of the amount stated by Mr.. Soughton
Mr.. Poland argued that the proper construc-
ton of existing laws on the subject was that
| which this bill proposed to give it, but which
| the war department nulliied. After a long dis
| cuSSion the bill was rccommttcd.
Mr.. Stoughton, from the same committee, re-
| ported bill TO enable honOrably discharged
soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphans,
to acquire homesteads on public lands, and
| allowing their right to be assigned.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Stoughton,
Platt, Conger and Coburn in support of the
| bill, and by Dunnell, Mccormick, Richie, Haw-
| ley, Townsend of Pennsylvania and Townsend
| OF New York against it, as being in the intcres
| OF landsharkS and spectators, and involving
100000, 900 acres of land with little or no advan-
tage to the soldiers and sailors
After a long debate, and without reaching
any vote on the bill, the house adjourned.