Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-08
IN CONGRESS-.
Closing Out the Business Of the Session
Special Bills Passed and De-
feateds
Poland ReVlTes the Senate Civil Rights
BilI-Defeated, Elghty-six Noes
TO SeEeHty.three Yeas.
The Senate Kuklux Bib Defeated again
By o Decided FOte-Eigbty-eight
Noes TO Fifty-slx Yeas.


WASHINGTON, June THE Vice
President appointed Senators Stewart
and Stewart and Stockton members OF
the Board Of Visitors TO West Point, IN
place of Senators Wilson and Blair, de
clined.
Senator Boreman called up the Senate
bill to reimburse United States Marshals
for moneys necessarily expended by
them in taking the ninth census, IN
excess of compensation allowed them
under the law in force before the passage
Of this act Passed.
Senator Trumbull moved that the Ju-
dietary Committee be discharged from
the further consideration of the House
bill to regulate the seizure and examina-
ton of invoices of books and papers in
custOmh0use cases, and that the bill be
placed on the calendar.
Senator Conkling objected TO the mo-
ton, in the absence Of Mr.. Edwards.
Senator FentOn expressed the hope
that the committee would be discharged
and that the bill to regulate the service
in the collection Of customs at the vari-
Gus ports Of entry in the United States,
and the disposition Of fines and forfeit
ures incurred under the laws relating to
customs, ETC., which was made the
special order for January Sth, would be
taken up and passed. The exigencies
of the public service require its consider
alton. He charged that the bill, which
had now been delayed for several
months, had been purposely delayed.
After further discussion, Senator Ed
munds moved TO lay Senator TrumbVlPs
motion on the table. Not agreed to
yeas 20, nays 80.
The morning hour expired, and the
subject went over.
Senator Bayard asked unanimous
consent TO have the vote taken on his
motion to allow the minority of the
g Custom-HOuse Investigating Commit
tee to print their views during the re-
cess.
Senator Cole objected.
Sundry civil appropriation bills were
then takeu up.
The motion of the committee to strike
out the sixth section, allowing pay to
mail contractors in rebel States prior to
May 81, 1861, was carried by vote of Is
to q.
The amendment Of the committee to
allow a credit to the Collector of the
Port of Chicago in settlement of his ac-
counts, of such sums in coin and curren-
CIV as may have been lost during the fire
in that city, was agreed TO.
The amendment of the committee ap-
propriating two hundred and fifty-one
thousand and fifty-five dollars to restore
to the Creek orphans of 1882 certain
funds to which they are entitled under
the treaty, was discussed at length, and
rejected.
A message was received from the
President returning without his APP
proval the bill for the relief of Thomas
Wallace, and giving his reasons there
for, which was read and referred to the
Committee on Claims. The bill is of
the same character as the claim of j.
Milton Best, Of Kentucky, and vetoed
for the same reasons as that.
Senator Cole moved an amendment
authorizing the Secretary Of War to eX-
tend the signal service to take Observa-
tiOns for the benefit Of agriculture.
Agreed to.
The committees amendment pro-
siding that the Secretary of the Navy
shall pay the unliquidated debt now due
the Corliss Steam Engine Company for
steam machinery furnished under a
contract with the Navy Department,
amounting to two hundred and fifty
seven thousand six hundred and eighty
eight dollars, was discussed with refer
ence to its admissibility as an amend
ment to the bill under consideration,
and il was ruled out.
Senator Morrill, Vermont moved an
amendment modifying the provisions of
the act of July 3, 1870, requiring all
unexpended balances Of appropriations
for public buildings to be turned
over to the treasury at the end of the
year for which they We're appropriated,
so as to allow such balances to be ex-
pended during the year following the
period Of limit mentioned in the law.
Pending action ON the amendment
the Senate proceeded to consideration of
Executive business, at the close ofwhich
a recess was taken.