Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-07

HOUSE-..............-...WAs W WAsHTNGToE, March 8.
After the reception ceremonies sev.
eral memorials were received.
The bill granting half Of Goat Isl.
and In the harbOr of San Francisco
to the Central Pacific railway came
up.
Mr.. Sargent california; explained
about the Pacific railroad and steam
ship companies, admitting that an az
rangement existed by which the latter
China unless to be sent east by rail.
He claimed that this was due to the
grasping propensities Of the Panama
railroad.
Mr.. Strong referred to the enormous
subsidies granted to the Pacific rail-
companies, from which the men who
built the road had put forty millions
clear profit into their pockets after
building the roads. Congress had
dealt literally with these railroads,
and loaded them down with lands
and bonds, and now they come for
additional subsidies. he said that
the report of the army engineers
showed that no part of the island can
be safely parted with.
Various amendments were proposed
and ordered printed.
The bill went over until to-morroW5
and the house then went In to
committee of the whole on the de-
f1ciency In the eppOrtiOnment bill.
Mr.. Wood, referring to the kuklux
discussion yesterday, expressed his
disapprobatlon of the speech Of Mr..
Dawes, who. instead OF conhninR him
self to the figures of arithmetic. In.
dulged in figures of speech on politi-
cal and partisan subjects, intended to
have their effect on the presidential
election. The attention OF the people
was not to be attracted to the obsolete
issue of the colored race. The Demo
cratic party intended to put forward
the issue Of reforming corruptions In
every department Of the government.
They intend to denounce and bring
home and prove that from the presi-
dental mansion down to the humblest
federal official, the whole concern is
reeking with corruption. That was
the issue which would be before the
people at the next election.
Mr.. Dawes replied to Mr.. Wood.
The Republican party, he said, had
no uneasiness in respect to Whist was
said to be the Issue. He had but one
theory and one principle In regard to
1t, and that was to hold every
public functionary to strict accounts
bility. He thought il remarkable
that the cry against the corruption of
the Republican party came constantly
from the Republicans of Manhattan
al hn ina tod kk.aN
be on the principle Of the pickpocket
raising the cry Of ''Stop thieip'
Mr.. Brooks New York suggested,
in explanation of the fact which
so much surprised and startled
Mr.. Dawes, that the New York
customhouse twas on Manhattan
Island, and that whenever the Demo
cratic party discovered corruption In
the case they oyertbrew it; whereas
the Republican party only voted to
confirm and strengthen corruption
in its own midst. The Democratic
party struck down robbers, while the
Republican party erected statues to
them. AZ to the question of the col
ored race, he instanced as proof that
the Democrats entertained no preIu-
dice on account of color, the fact that
his colleague Wood had walked into
the hall lately, srm-in-srm with
colored man, one Of the Japanese am
bassadors. Laughter.
The discussion waS further contin-
ued by Messrs. Eldridge, Butler OF
Massachusetts,, Garrett, Townsend,
Beck, Ooburn, Bingham and Garneld.
Mr.. Dawes offered an amendment
for the payment Of laborers and me-
Ghanics in the government employ at
the rate Of full days wages for eight
hours work.
After long discussion on the labor
question, Mr.. Farnsworth offered q
proviso to Mr.. Dawes's amendment,
that working men in the United States
who work ten hours shall not be taxed
to make up the deficiency for those who
only work eight hours. Laughter.
Agreed to.
Mr.. Dawes's amendment ss thus
amended was rejected.
Mr.. Butler Massachusetts, renew
ed Mr., Qawes's proposition In q dider-
ent form, appropriating four hundred
and fifty thousand dollars for the pur-
pose, which was also rejected-A to 81.
The committee rose and reported
the bill back to the house without
voting on 1t, when the house adjourn