The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-04-12
42d CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, April II.
HOUSE.

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.s.rq .y17s HOUSE.
On motion OF Mr.. WILSON, from tba
Committee on Agriculture, q bill passed
extending the time for providing an Az.
ricultural College in Indiana to the firstoI
March, 1873; also bill to prevent cruelty
to animals In transit by railroad and other
means Of transportation, and prohibiting
the confinement Of animals in cars for
more than twenty.four hours continuous.
lY, alter which they are to have five hours
for rest, with food and water . Z TYT /
Atler some discussion the bills passed.
ayes 97, nays71.
MIR. HALDEAtAN, from the same Com.
mtttee, reported q bill 10 encourage the
planting OF trees for the preservation OF
woods on the public domain; recurring
all patents for lands TO be on condition Of
keeping ten per cent Of the land In tim.
Der, and Of planting two acres with timber
trees for every acre from which timber Is
cut, &c.
Mr.. HAIDEAIAN proceeded to explain
the bill, and advocated II till the morning
hour expired, when It went. over until
Monday next. ~ v J-4--l---. ~, q !
The Senate amendments TO the legisla.
tiyejudicial appropriation bill were taken
up in Committee Of the Whole, and the
debate was resumed. They appropriate
$50. 900 to enable the President TO perfect
and put in force such rules regulating the
civil service as may from time to time be
adopted by the President --,.- -
Mr.. SARGENT opposed the amendments
and remarked that some members would
support 1t lest the defeat of 1t might be
made use Of at the Cincinnati G Convention.
He took no counsel from his enemies He
took none from the traitors The admin.
istration of General Grant would be
judged by It's great success; by It's reduc.
tlon Of the national debt to the amount Of
nearly $500, 900 900, and by the economy
that has penetrated every department
The administration had made itself illus.
taious by restoring peace throughout the
South and by the reduction Of the nation
al debt. The Republican party would
succeed at the next Presidential election
not by inscribing on its banner the mere
words Of civil service reform, but by point.
ing to the real civil service reform
wrought out by the administration q I
MIR. SHANKs character the civil ser.
vice reform and the abolition OF the frank.
ing privilege as two specimens Of regular
Western humbuggery. .,E.,ssg IN I
Mr.. Potter reminded Mr.. SHAERs that
the civil service reform movement had
been inaugurated by the President, and
the franking privilege by the Postmaster
General, one Of the Presidents constitu-
tional advisers. ,-..--- ..., -.
i" The discussion was further continued
by Messrs. HOLMAN, WAKEMAN, KE1,-
LoGG, oi Conn, DUNNEIL, STEVENSON
and PERRY, of Ohio, the two latter in
favor of the amendments.
Mr.. BUTLER, Of Mass, opposed it, and
declared the movement had been shrewd
political trick, TO put the President in a
position where, If he did not inaugurate
he would be attacked, and If he did. II
would be failure. The thing had sprung
from the late turned out Secretary of the
Interior. -'t~ ~ Ii..- Fl
Mr.. STEVENSON remarked that Mr.
BUTLER attributed too much honor to the
late Secretary. A,g.IHi $40 7.[5- .5.5
Mr.. BUT1ER-It came from there and
will end there. 1t began in Cincinnati
and will end in Cincinnati. ---e
The discussion having closed, the
amendment offered by Mr.. SARGENT to
reduce the appropriation to $4,000 was
adopted by vote oil % to 80.
a. The next important amendment on the
bill was that for the extension Of the
Capitol grounds north and south, the
estimate OF the cost being about $500 900.
MIR. GARFIELD, Chairman Of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, explained the
whole subject, and stated that the Com.
mittee recommended a non.concurrence
not merely as formal matter, but as an
expression Of the sentiment of the House.
so that when the matter went to the Con.
ference Committee the House conferees'
might understand the wish Of the House.
After; long discussion, the Senate
amendment was amended by limiting
the amendment to 100000, and by re.
quiring the removal within six months
Of the locomotive railroad track, in,iront
oil the west gate OF the capitol. AS thus
amended, the Senate amendment was
concnrred in. s g. 2'ghs9 g
/, 8 The next important amendment was
one increasing the salaries Of the Assist
ant Secretary and the officers of tic
several Executive Department to $4,000,
and Of the judges of the Court of Claims
toI$ 900, and fthe .. s. District Judges
to 5000! The amendment was rejected
and the Committee then rose.
MIR. BUTLER, Of Mass, raised the point
oforder that the amendment forbidding
the publication Of laws in newspapers,
differed in the printed bill from the exact
words in the engrossed bill. ga
The SPEAKER succeeded in disentanC.
ling this parliamentary SNARE, and then
the votes on the various amendments
went over until tomorrow. -
Mr.. BANKS presented a report in the
case of DR.. Howard. Ordered printed,
Mr.. KETcHuSt gave, notice, that he
would present on Tuesday next, a confer
ence report on the ST., Croix & Lake. .Su.
perior railroad BILL " Sjs..;s. - S5tS .5
= Adjourned. - ss1 i
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