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Daily Kennebec Journal.
Forty.SecoDd Congressional Session
WASHINGTON, 20.
SENATE.


Mr.. vickers offered an amendment re.
stricting the five minute rule to debate, an
amendment germaine to the bill. Lost.
Messrs. Casserly and Trumbull opposed
the five minute resolution, and Mr.. Anthony
favored it.
Mr. Trumbull denounced the resolution a.
gag rule.
Mr.. Cole thought it should be adopted be-
fore the Cincinnati nomination or business
would be sacrificed to political debate.
Mr.. Wilson was unable to see any danger
in the resolution which would prevent any
Senator from legitimate debate, still rather
than to create the impression that it was
designated to interfere with the rights Of the
minority. He would prefer that the resolu-
ton lie over for future consideration.
Mr.. Morton advocated the resolution which
was necessary for despatch of business, and
ne would not be deferred from voting for
what he thought was right, by sensational
and unfounded clamor.
Mr.. Casserly said Mr.. Morton belonged to
the two-thirds majority which could suspend
the rules at any time, and what was sport for
him might be death to the minority.
Mr.. Sherman thought it highly desirable to
adopt resolution of this kind to check the
tendency to endless and wearisome debate
AS the majority had the responsibility they
ought to have the power to control the action
of the Senate.
Mr.. Cassery offered substitute providing
that no amendment to an appropriation bill be
in order unless it is germaine to the bill, and
provides for an appropriation of public mon
ey in pursuance of existing law. Rejected
II to 81.
Mr.. Trumbull offered an amendment pro-
viding that an amendment proposing general
legislation not germaine to the bill shall not
be offered to an appropriation bill Lost-ll
to %.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to add to the original
resolution the following words ''And no
amendment to any such bill making legisla-
tive provisions other than such as shall d.
rectly relate to the appropriation contained in
the bill shall be read" Agreed to-25 to 49,
The resolution as amended was then adopt
ed-53 to 49,
Messrs. Alcom, Boreman, Sumner and
Trumbull, republicans voted in the negative.
The resolution as passed provides that
during the present session it shall be in order
at any time to move recess, and pending an
appropriation bill to move to confine the de-
bate on amendments, there to be five minutes
by any Senator on a pending motion, and
such motion to be decided without debate,
and no amendment to any such bill making
legislative provisions, other than such as d.
rectly relate to appropriations in the bill
shall be received.
Adjourned.
The bill proposed by the commissioners of
Centennial celebration of independence, to
be held in Philadelphia in 1876, was intro
duced by Mr.. L. Myers, incorporating the
company for the erection of exposition build
ings, &c. Referred to the committee on for
o; aHairs with ipetrpctions IN roport
incorporates the names of two persons from
each Congressional district, four from each
State at large, and two from each Territory.
The House then took up the report of the
conference committee on the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation BILL and
after discussion the report was reJected-S0
to 81. TheIprincipal obj lection to it,being the
provision for increase of the salaries of sew
cral executive officers and of the judges of
the court of claims, it was recommitted to
the same conference committee.
Mr.. Townsend Of Pa, from the committee
on public lands, reported a substitute for the
Senate bill releasing to the State of Indiana
the lands known as the bed of Beaver lake, in
Newton county, Ind.
The House at 80 P. NJ. went to the bust
ness on the Speakers table, and disposed
thereof as follows:
The Senate amendment to the House bill
for the employment of surfmen at alternate
life saving stations on the New Jersey coast,
was concurred in.
The Senate amendment to House bill au-
thorzing the commission on Southern Claims
to appoint special commissioners to take tss-
timony; the Senate amendment to the House
bill for relief of settlers on Usage lands in
Kansas; the Senate amendment to House bill
extending for two years the time of payment
by preemption settlers in Minnesota. Wis
consin, Michigan and Dakota; the Senate
amendment to House bill to promote the de-
velopment of the mining resources of the
United States; the Senate substitute for the
House bill to perpetuate testimony in the
United States court; the Senate amendment
to the House bill for the relief of the pur-
chasers of lands sold for direct taxes in in
surreetionary States, were severally con-
Cured in.
The Senate amendments to various rate
bills were also concurred in.
The Senate resolution accepting from the
State of Connecticut statues of Jonathan
Trumbull and Roger Sherman, after re-
marks by Messrs. Starkweather and Kellogg
of Conn, was adopted
Mr.. Hamilton of Marylan presented the
conference report on bill for a railroad bridge
across Arkansas river, which was agreed to.
Adjourned.