The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-12
XLIID CONGRESS-.SECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 11.-Mr Edmunds, from
the Committee on Pensions, reported adversely
upon the bill granting pension of $4,000 year
to the widow of Admiral Farragut
Messrs. Howe, Hamilton and Stevens were
appointed as q second Committee ON conference
on the bayfield, and ST. Croix railroad bill.
Mr.. Hill introduced a bill to remove the po-
litical disabilities of Mr.. Toombs of Georgia
which was put upon its passage.
Mr.. Trumbull proposed to offer general
amnesty bill as an amendment SO objection
was made and the bill was laid upon the table.
Mr.. Sherman from the Committee on Finance
reported a bill authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury to allow rebate of taxes paid on dis
titled spirits destroyed by fire in the bonded
warehouse in Chicago and by other fires since
JANUARY, 1868, and moved its passage, but Civ
ing rise to debate it went over.
Mr.. Vickers introduced a bill amending the
war of 1872 pension act Of February IA, 1871, by
striking out the proyiso of the first section re-
lative to the re-marriage of willows and extend
ing the benefits of the act to females who mar
ried officers, soldiers and sailors within three
years after the treaty of peace.
The North Carolina senatorial election case
was considered. 4. Al s-..- sf.....
Mr.. Logan argued at length in favor of the
report of the majority of the Election Commit
tee that Abbott was not entitled to a seat.
Mr.. Carpenter got the floor but yielded to Mr..
Cole, on whose motion the consular and diplo-
matte appropriation bill was taken up.
An amendment was adopted providing that
IneTedIteI 10 allowance De maze TO any consul
lar or diplomatic officer after the termination
of his official functions other than for the time
necessarially occupied in his direct retuun to the
United States
An amendment was also adopted making the
interpreter of the American legation in Japan
also Secretary of the Legation and giving him
an additional compensation of S2500 per an
num-. The bill was passed after which the Sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
nxrfo 10 E., A..
ricultural College in Indiana to the first Of
March, 1873, was passed; also bill to prevent
cruelty to animals in transit, prohibiting the
confinement of animals in cars, &C., more than
"a hours continuously, after which time they
are to have five hours for rest. After discus
sion the bill was passed. E7 ssl.
The bill to encourage the planting of trees
and the preservation of woods in the public do
main, requiring all patents for lands to be the
condition OF keeping 10 per cent. of the land in
timber, and OF planting two acres with tmbe-
trees for every acre from which timber is cut.
Mr. Haldeman of Pennsylvania, explained
the bill till the conclusion of the morning hour,
when the bill went over and the House went
into committee of the whole on the Senate
amendments to the legislative appropriation
bill. ~. rs
The debate on the Senate amendment to ap-
propriate $4,000 to enable the President to per-
feet and put in force such rules regulating the
civil service as may from time to time be adopt
ed by the President, was resumed.
Mr.. Sargent of California, opposed the amend
ment, and remarked that some members would
support it lest the defeat of it might be made
use of at the Cincinnati Convention. He would
not be actuated by any such motive. He took
no counsel from enemies; he took none from
traitors of the Cincinnati Convention. The ad-
ministration of Grant he judged by its great
success, by its reduction of the national debt,
and by the economy that has pervaded every
department of the government. The admins
frafjOn had ma6a ifSaIf trio ~
peace throughout the South and by the reduc-
ton of the national debt. The Republican par
| ty would succeed at the next Presidential cleo
tion not by inscribing on it's banner Civil Ser
vice Reform but by pointing to real service
reform wrought by the administration.
During the discussion Mr.. Shanks of Indiana,
characterized the civil service reform and the
abolition of the franking privilege as two spec
linens Of regular Western humbuggery
| The discussion was continued by Messrs Pot
ter, Holman, Wakeman, Kellogg OF Connecti-
cut, Dunnell, Stevenson and Perry of Ohio.
! The two latter We're in favor of the amend
ment,
Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts, opposed and
declared the movement to have been shfewd
political trick to put the President in position
where, II he did not inaugurate it he would be
attacked, and if he would, it would be failure.
The thing had sprung from the late turned out
Secretary of the Interior,
MIR. Stevenson of Ohio, remarked that Mr..
Butler attributed too much honor to the late
| Secretary.
Mr.. Butler said it came from there and will
end there II began in Cincinnati aud viii end
| in Cincinnati
The discussion having closed the amendment
offered by MIR, Sargent of California, was adopt
| ed, 80 to 95, r.--..a
The next important amendment in the bill
was the extension of the capitol grounds north
and south, the estimated cost being about $500,
900.
Mr. Garfield, chairman of the Committee Oh
Appropriations, explained the subject and stat
| ed that the committee recommended non-con'
| currence not merely as formal matter but as
an expression of the sentiment of the House
so when the matter went to the conference com
mittee the House oonferers might understand
the wish of the House.
After long discussion the Senate amend
ment was amended by limiting the amount t,
100000, and by requiring within six months
the removal of the locomotive railroad tract
from in front of the west gate of the capitol
The next important amendment OF the Sen
ate was one increasing the salaries of the As
sistant Secretaries and their officers of the sew
eral executive departments to $4,000, and of thu
Judges of the Court of Claims and U. S. Dis
trict Judges to $4,000 The amendment was re
jected
The committee then rose, and Mr. Butler o
Massachusetts, raised point of order that thu
amendment forbidding the publication of law
in newspapers differed in the printed hill iron
the exact words in the engrossed bill
Much time was consumed in disentanglin.
this parliamentary snarl, but the Speaker final
ly succeeded in doing so, and then the vote oil
the various amendments went over until to
morrow.
Mr. Banks of Massachusetts, presented a re
port in the case of DIR. Howard, the Cuban DO
fitical prisoner, which report was ordered to b
printed,
Mr., Ketchum of New York, gave notice tina
on Tuesday next he would present the confer
ence report on the st. Croix 81 Lake Superio
Railroad bill,
The House then adjourned.