The Portland daily press., 1872-05-16
xLIID CONGREss-.sECOND SESSION
SENATE.

SEN ALE.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-Mr Wilson, of Mas
sachusetts, reported the bill to provide crutches
| for disabled soldiers and sailors.
| Mr.. Trumbull reported the bill authorizing
loyal claimants to bring suits in the Court Of
Claims for captured or abandoned property in
| six months
The report of the committee on conference
was discussed until the expiration of the morn
ing hour, when the bill concerning the site for
the Baltimore q Potomac Railroad was taken
up.
By consent the Department bill was laid
aside and the Senate resumed the consideration
of the conference report on the deficiency BILL
which was agreed to-35 to a.
Mr., Trumbull, from the Committee on the
Judiciary, reported, without amendment, the
House bill supplementary to the apportionment
act of Feb 2, 1872. +-r
Mr. Wilson, from the Committee on Military
Affairs reported, without amendments, the bill
incorporating the National Soldiers and Sailors
Orphan Training Association. ,a
The Baltimore & Potomac Railroad bill was
again taken up, and Mr.. Morrill, of Vermont,
addressed the Senate in opposition. He moved
to strike out all after the enacting clause and
insert bill providing for commission, con-
slsting OF the chief engineer in charge of pub
llc buildings and the Quartermaster General, to
examine the whole subject of laying steam
railway tracks in Washington, both by the ex-
isting roads and those in process of construc-
tl0n, and into the location and construction of
depot grounds as bearing upon the construction
OF streets, avenues and parks. The bill was de-
bated till the recess ,e. sI
Evening Session.
The Senate debated at great length the House
Baltimore & Potomac depot site bill, and ad-
Journed at midnight without action.
HOUSE.
Several bills were reported from the Judiciary
Committee and passed.
Mr.. Butler of Mass, offered resolution for
the final adjournment from May 10Th, until the
last Wednesday in November ....- . A
AT the suggestion of Mr., Dawes he Withdrew
and gave notice that he would offer it again to-
morrow l.-' rf .ra~s. oA
The House then went into Committee on the
tax and tariff bill. sr--
Mr.. Dawes withdrew his pending substitute
for the second section, and the Committee pass
ed to the next section. rRFsH
An additional section was inserted after sec
tion two, declaring that the provision of Sec
tion six of the tariff act of 1866 shall not ap-
ply to the articles mentioned in the act of
March I'd, 1867, to provide revenue from i'm
ported wool. ti' F.. -ss=-4---
MIR. Lynch of Me-, moved to strike out the
clause fixing the duty ON boards, planks, slaves,
ETC., at ten per cent. and substitute for it
clause taxing sawed boards, plank and other
lumber of pine, hemlock, white wood, syca-
more and bass wood, at one dollar per one
thousand feet and when planed or finished at
one dollar addition; when planed ON one side
dnu CIuSutu duu GrOONeQ al Two DOLLARS au0i-
tionaI, and when planea on two sides and
tongued and grooved at two dollars and a half
additional. -"
After long discussion the question of lum-
ber was decided by the adoption of the propo-
sition offered by Mr.. Peters, reducing existing
duties on lumber and manufacturers of lumber
by ten per cent.
Mr.. Banks of Mass, moved to amend the
Item taxing coal tar. at one-quarter cent. per
pound by making the tax 30 per cent. of the
existing duties, Agreed to .. as
Having reached the article of quinia.. but
without disposing of it the Committee rose.
The action of the Committee to-day between
the second section and the point where the
Committee stopped, leaves the provisions of
the bill as follows: III ..,.
On all burlaps and like manufactures of fax,
jute or hemp except that suitable for cotton
bagging 30 per cent ad valorem; on oil cloth
canvass made OF flax, jute or hemp 40 per cent.
ad valorem; on bags and bagging Of fax, hemp,
Jute or gunny cloth, 40 per cent ad valorem; on
fne flax dressed or manufactured, suitable for
shoe thread and tailor's thread valued at 25
cents per pound or more, three and three-quarters
cents per pound; on lumber manufacturers 80
per cent. of the existing duties; on insulators
for use exclusively in telegraphy except those
made of glass, 25 per cent. ad valorem; on
freestone, sandstone, granite and all building
and monumental stone except martel, Is cents
per ton; on bullOnS or caunetelle and metal
threads, file or gespinst, Is per cent. ad valor-
EN-; on coal tar reduced or asphaltic pitch,
bitumen or cement manufactured from coal
tar or its vedum, so per cent. of the existing
duties; on corks and cork bark, 80 per cent; on
acids, viz: 'acetic cents per pound; carbolic
10 per cent. ad valorem; gallic 81 per pound;
sulphurlc cent. per pound and tartaric 10
cents per pound; on acetate of ammonia 25
cents per pound; on baryta % cents; iron %
cents; brown lead 10 cents; magnesia 25 cents;
potassa 25 cents; soda 25 cents, straube 25
cents; zinc 25 cents; on blue yitriol 3 cents per
pound; on camphor crude 10 cents per pound.
Mr.. Garfield of Ohio, made the conference
report ON the deficiency bill, the paragraph in
point of disagreement, is modified so that the
Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and di-
rected to pay to the lawful owners or their le-
gal representatives the value of all cotton seiz-
ed after June Both, 1866 by agents of the gov
ernment unlawfully and in violation of their
instructions. The net proceeds without inter-
est are to be actually paid into the Treasury
the receipt thereto to be in full satisfaction of
all such claims, aud not to apply to any cause
now pending before the Court of Claims or to
any cause not filed in the Treasury Department
within six months after the passage of this
act. ~
In the evening a number of unimportant
bills were passed ... p -allas'7 "a
The bill to to incorporate the Asiatic Com
merclal Company was tabled -73 to 55.
Mr.. bingham of Ohio, from the Judiciary
Committee, moved that the Committee be dis
charged from further consideration in relation
10 lands or tne Kansas, Pacific and St Joseph
Railroad Companies. so' .
MIR. Butler Of Mass, said that he desired to
make minority report in connection with Mr..
| Voorhees,. ~
1t appeared from the coloquy that resulted
between Messrs: Bingham, Butler, voorhees,
! Peters and Eldridge, that the brief maps and
correspondence submitted to the Judiciary
| Committee ON behalf the Central Branch Of
the Union Pacific Railroad had been Withdrawn
and that interest declined to be further repre-
| sented in the controversy.
Mr.. Butler said that it was a matter involv-
| ing millions of dollars and hundreds of thOus-
aads of acres Of public land He was counsel
for none of these railroads, but they had as at
torney two ex-Attorney Generals He thought
the it time to enact law prohibiting ex-Attor-
ney Generals from practicfng before the De-
! partments. He gave the history of, the ques-
tion and said that 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-Attorney
General. If the House of Representatives did
not protect the interests of the United States
in this matter, thece was no one else to do so.
Messrs. Peters and Goodrich, members of
the Judiciary Committee, defended the action
and report of the majority. Ha -
| Mr.. Eldridge, of Wisconsin, another member
of the committee, argued to show that an ar
rangement had been made between the railroad
companies, and that there was combination
made against the United States whase inter-
ests were thus sacrificed. He held that the
whole subject ought to be recommitted and a
full investigation made by the committee.
Mr.. Bingham, chairman of the committee,
vindicated the action of the majority in remit
ting the question to the decision of the Interior
Department <iN 'N
After further discussion the motion of Mr.
Bingham to discharge the committee was re-
jected, and Mr.. Butler moved to recommit the
matter. Agreed to.-Adjourned. ~ .ssss p,
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