Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-16

lite and all building or monumental stone, eX-
cept marble, % cents per ton; on houillOnS or
cannetellc and metal threads, file or gespiust,
% per cent adj valorcm; on coal tar reduced, or
asphalt pitch, bitumen or cement, manufactured
from coal tar, or its reSduum, 30 per cent of
existing duties; on cOrkS and cork bark, so per
cent; on acids, viz: acctic acid cents per
pound, CarbOlic 10 per cent al valOrcm, gallic
one dollar per pound, sulphuric ! cent per
pound, tartaric, 10 cents per pound, on ace
tate of ammonia % cents per pound, on baryta
% cents, iron 25 cents, brown lead cents
white lead 10 cents, magneSia IS cents, pOtassa
25 cents soda % cents, straubc % cents, zinc %
cents, on blue vitriOl cents per pound, on cam
phor (crude) 10 cents per pound, refined 20
cents.
Mr.. Garfield made conference report on the
deficiency bill. The paragraph in regard TO
cotton claims, which was the chief point of dsa-
greement, is modified so that the secretary of
the treasury is authorized and directed TO pay
TO the lawful owners or their legal representa-
tlveS the value OF all cotton seized after the 30Ih
of June, 1865, by agents of the government I'M
lawfully and in violation of their Instructions
The net proceeds, without interest, are to be ac-
tually paid into the treasury, the receipts there
of to be in full satisfaction of all such claims,
and not 10 apply to any cause now pending be-
fore the court of claims, or to any canse not
filed in the treasury dcNaRmcnt within six
months after The passage OFthis act.
A question was raised in the house as to the
| right OF one of the conereeS Senator Shcrmau)
| TO state in the report why he did not assent TO
it, and under decision of the chair it was treated
as amere nullity and circumference report direct
| ed to be recorded in the journal of the house as
| signed by the three house conferees andAtwo of
the senate conicreeS. The reportiwas agreed to
| and the house took recess.
The evening session is TO he for business of
| the judiciary committee.
| At the evening session a number of unimpor-
| tant bills passed.
The hill to incorporate the Asatc commercial
| company was tabled, 70 to 90
The bill changing the name of the Boston
pleasure yacht "Ette" TO that of Falcon
passed
MIR. Bingham, from the judiciary committee,
| moved that the committee be discharged from
| further consideration Of the resolution in relation
| to lands the Kansas Pacific and Hannibal
and St. Louis railroad companies.
| Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts said he desired
| to make minority report in connection with
Mr.. voorhees,, but, on account of the disappear
| anCC from the committee room Of certain pa
| pers, they were not prepared at the present
time. He moved that the subject be recon-
| mitted.
1t appeared from the cooquy that resulted
between Messrs. Bingham, Butler, VOORHEES,,
| Peters, and Eldridge that the brief maps and
| correspondence submitted TO the judiciary com.
mittee on behalf of the central branch of the
Union Pacific railroad had been withdrawn,
and that that interest declined to be further rep.
| resented in the controversy.
MIR. Butler said it was matter involving mil
| lions of dollars and hundreds of thousands
acres of public land. He was counsel for none
OF the railroads, but they hal as counsel two cX-
| attorney generals. He thought it time to enact
law prohibiting eX-attorney generals from
practising before the departments. He gave
the history of the question, and said thai in the
hearing before the judiciary committee, there
| had been no one to represent the United States
no present or eX-attorneY general, nor double
eX-att Orney general If the house of rcpresen
tatveS did not protect the interest of the United
States in the matter there was nobody else tc
do so.
MesSrs. Peters and Goodrich members of the
judiciary committee, defended the action and
report of the majority
MIR. Eldridge, another member of the commit
tee, argued to Show that the arrangement made
between the railroad companies was Il combna.
ton against the United States, whose interests
were thus sacrificed. He held that the whole
subject ought to he recOmmltted and Il full in
vestigation made by the committee.
Mr.. Bingham, chairman of the committee
indicated the action of the majority in re-
hitting the question to the decision OF the in
terror department.
After further discussion the motion of Mr.
Bingham to discharge the committee was re
jcctcd, and Mr.. Butler moved to rccommit tho
matter; agreed 10, and the house adjourned.