Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-01-16
FORTY SECOND CONGRESS.
This Afternoons Proceedings.
TUESDAY. .Iannary 16.

SENATE--Mr. Sumner presented various
memorials from Massachusetts,, asking the sup
preston of the manufacture, importation, or
sale of Intoxicating liquors.
Also, various memorials asking the pas e re of
his civil rights bill.
Also, petition of American Reform League of
New York, asking for national system Of pub
Mr.. Scott presented petition of citizens OF
Pennsylvania, asking the passage Of an amend
ment to the Constitution prohibiting any man
rom being elected to any federal ONCE who In
duiges In intoxicating liquors, or, as the pc
titloners express it, who drinks. Mr.. moved
that the petition be referred to the Committee
on the judiciary.
MI. Trumbuli thought IL a proper matter to
go before the Committee on Elections and Priv
leges.
Mr.. Pomeroy thought that it had better he re-
ferred to the Committee on Disabilities Laugh
teri
Mr.. Morrillof ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS il be bet
ter TO send II to the Committee on Revolutionary
Claims? Renewed laughter.l
After some further expressions of merrment.
the petition was referred TO the Committee on
Elections and Privileges.
Subsequently. during the temporary absence
of MIR. Trumbnll, Mr.. Fenton presented several
similar petitions from citizens of New York
which, on his motion, were referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary.
Mr.. Hamilton Md presented a memorial of
influential citizens of Baltimore asking the pay
ment OF the French spOliaton claims. Referred
TO Committee on Foreign Relations.
reported House bill TO repeal
The DUTY ON coal AND SALT,
with amendment, and asked for its recommittal.
Mr. 1rumbull objected to any recommittal.
and urged that the bills to repeal the duty on
coal and salt should be acted on without endan-
geTlng action on them by seeking TO amend.
MI Sherman said the object in reporting the
bill was TO let the people see what the committe.
had done, and its recommittal was asked for in
order TO give Representatives of the interests to
oe anected an opportunity to be heard before
Mr.. Trumbull said the subject was not a new
one, and those who were interested had before
this had ample opportunity TO be heard. Ii the
senate was to wait until everybody was heard
before the committee, there would be no action
on the bill at this session. He also thought il
questionable whether the committee had the
power to introduce, by way of amendment to
this bill, what was substantially tariff bill
After further discussion, the motion to recon-
NIT was carrieC-yeas 80, nays Is
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Speaker. in accordancewith resolution adopted
yesterday ordering a committee to investigate
into the condition of affairs in Louisiana ap-
pointed the following gentlemen as such com
mlttee. viz NJ essrs. Scotield, pa McCraFy
(lowa,) III. b. Smith, N. Y.,) voorhees, lind
and Marshall, (Ill.)
large number of executive documents were
laid before the House by the Speaker, and re-
fcITed 10 appropriate committees.
MIR. Wilson, (Ohio,) on leave, introduced a
resolution directing the Committee on Agricul
been made by the several states of the agricul-
tural land scrip issued 10 them under the act of
July "a, 1852, and If sold, how sold, and whether
agricultural cole ges have been established in
accordance with the provisions of said act and
10 what extent. The resolution was adopted. d.
Mr.. Garfield (Ohio) presented a letter from
Ihe secretary of the Treasury, enclosing state
ment OF the amount refunded TO the states on
account Of EXPENSES incurred in raising vOlun-
teers; which was ordered to be printed and re-
committed to the Committee on Appropriations.
from f1.sl( -nt 90
pIiations, reported a bill authorizing the Secre-
tary to expend an appropriation of $40, OSD al
ready made for the employment OF men at the
ife-saving stations on the coast OF New Jersey:
which Was passed.
Mr.. voorhees, lind. }, from the Committee on
The judiciary, presented Il report in the case OF
r. {. Boudinot, Cherokee tobacco manufac-
turer; which was ordered to be printed and laid
On the table.
Mr.. Biggs (Del.) introduced joint resolution
tequesilng the Secretary OF War TO cause to be
made by lac engineer bureau a survey OF the
Delaware river at Newcastle Del. in order to
ace rtain the IN acticablity and cost of improv-
ng The harbor at that place. Referred to the
% mmittee on Commerce.
MIR. Dawes, Mas. } from the Commit e on
Way and Means, reported a bill for the relief
81 sufferers by the fire in Chicago, admitting
ioI ations from abroad free o duty, and allow
ng drawback upon building materials i'm
poItcd at Chicago for one year from q ctober
10, is j, under such regulations the Secretary
1f the Treasury may establish, audit was passed.
The mo ming hour having commenced
Mr.. Packard, (ind., y from the Committee on
Foreign Affairs, reported bill authorizing the
proper officers of the Treasury Department TO
ettie the accounts OF f. NJ. Cordsero, late consul
1t Rio JantriO. which was passed.
MIR. Banks, Mass from the same committee,
reported bill to fix the salary of the u s. con-
-ul at Tien Sin, China, 1t s. 500 per annum
Mr.. Shellabarger (Uhio) advocated the pas
age of the bill, and regretted that it was not a
bill revising the salaries of all the consuls whom
he claimed were as a class paid wholly INSULT
Gent salaries, anC he portrayed the absolute
poverty Of many Of our cOnsuls in foreign coun-
rTies.
Mr.. Brooks IN. W spoke of the importanc.
IT the consulate, and in the course OF his re-
marks alluded to the ascendency which Ameri-
ans had gained i'm the Chinese waters prior TO
The late war. This he attributed to the peculiar
kill, industry, and enterprise of the American
hip builders and workmen, the latter of whom
rad been taken to the English ship yards In
Great Britain, and even to China to work on
British vessels, and he attributed the present
decline Of American commerce in Chinese wa
-ers, the rivers of which closely res embed the
Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers in their
requirements for navigation, TO the high dntS
which bad been imposed by this country on
hip-building material
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