The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-02-23
AN AND DEMOCRAT BLOOMSBURY, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.

Army Appropriation bill was reported,
calling for $50, ,5lS 900.
In the Senate on Thursday of last week
Mr.. Brownlow proposed 10 make per-
sonal alexplanation In reply to Mr.. Beck's
assertion in the House that Mr.. Brown.
low, while Governor of Tennessee, made
that State psndemonium. He was
proceeding to abuse Mr.. Beck in very
supplementary phre seology when he
was checked by the Vice President. The
Senate then resumed the debate on the
resolution to inquire into the sales of
arms to French agents during the
Franco German war. Lengthy speeches
were made by Mr.. Harlan, Mr.. Ere.
liughuysen, aud Mr.. Schurz, the last
named giving his powerful aid to Mr..
Sumner. The Senate adjourned without
reaching vote.
There was au exciting debate in the
House in committee of the whole on the
Naval Appropriation bill.
| The Senate on Friday last atter
adopting resolution to print $4,000
copies of the American tease" su bmit
ted before the Board of Arbitration at
Geneva, took up Mr.. Summers resolu.
tions on the French frauds, and discuss.
ed them all day.
In the House, Mr.. Beck, of Kentucky,
obtained permission to defend himself
against the attack Ex-senator Brownlow,
and he took occasion not only to black
en- that gentleman but to deliver a
powerful invective against the other
Governors OF Southern States. He s'id
they had put forward Brownlow to at
tack him because Brownlow was Grip
pie and an imbeciie, but that Blu lloclS
and Reed and Scott were not cripples,
and he was ready to back what he had
said in the House or elsewhere Not.
withstanding many interruptions, ht
was listened to with marked attention
by a crowded House and was warmly
congratulated at the close of his speech
In the Senate on Monday after som,
debate on the report of the Ku-K luz
Committee, the debate was continued
} on Summers French frauds resolutions
adjouruing without vote on the sub
ject.
In the House the bill repeating tn
1 duties on tea and coffee was passed by
vote Of 1j3 yeas to 33 nays, an amend
It ment putting salt and coal on the FREE
list failing to get the required two.third
$ | vote.
The Way and Means Committee Mon
( day decided to continue the epayment G
| the income tax for 1871, and its collec
o tion will be proceeded with.
The House Committee on Civil Ser
}. vice have agreed to report bill max
# ing it penal offence for any Congress.
man to ask for civil appointments, an
u allowing them to make recommends
y tions only when requested to do so i
y writing.
q In the Senate on Tuesday, Senate
= Schura delivered a magnificent oratio
d before the largest audience assemble
Q in the Senate Chamber for many a day
He abundantly demonstrated the con
plcity OF the Grant administration i
the sale of arms to the agents of Franc
=, during the Franco Prussan war, an
- denounced in scathing terms the ur
scrupulousness, selfishness, and corruT
tion of which the United States, b
their agency, had been made guilty
3 The speech was beyond comparison tn
;. most able and the most damaging to tn
administration that has been heard tn
II session.
: The debate in the House of Repr
y sentatives was both interesting an
IL amusing. Fernando Wood, critici
o ing the Committee on the Reorganiz.
70 tion of the Civil Service, made tellin
J. speech on decentralization existing i
IS public life national, State and munich
IL al, predicting that the great watchwor
Is would soon be universal purifcatio
and the elevation of the official stant
o ard ~