Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-21

Barry, Beatty, Bigiey, Bingham, Buckley, But
Ter OF Massachusetts, Butler of Tennessee, Cobb,
Coburn, COngeri Cotton, Dunnell, Elliott, FRYE,
Hays of Alabama, Hazeton of Mississippi Haz-
elton of New Jersey, HOar, Hooper, Kelley, Ken.
dali, Lowe, Lynch, Maynard, Mckee, Merriam,
Orr, Packard of Indiana, Peck, Pendleton,
Pierce, Perry, Poland, Rainey, L. H. Roberts,
Rusk, Sargent, SAWYER, Sessions, Shanks,
Smith of New York, Smith of Ohio, Sprague,
Stevenson, Turner, Tyner, Wallace, Walls, and
Wilson of Indiana.
Mr.. Gets, from the committee on public build
iugs, reported bill appropriating 81 500 900 for
the purchase of a lot and erection of a building
III Philadelphia for post Office and United States
court purposes. Passed under suspension of the
rules.
Mr.. Coburn, from the committee on military
affairs, reported bill recitng the disappearance
from the files of the war department of the re-
cords of the court of inquiry in the case of Ma
lor General Buell., and directing the secretary of
war to employ Benjamin Pitman, photographic
reporter OF that court who has retained his
notes thereof, to furnish two TRANSACTIONS, one
for the war department and one for congress
passed.
The senate bill to allow the Potomac and Pied
mont railroad company to operate its line within
the District of Columbia was passed.
Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts moved to Sus-
pend the rules and pass the preamble reciting
the recent statement of Sir Stafford NOrthcote,
that the understanding of the British commits
slVueiS WIS tudI u pTOIulsS ndu DctU given Tl1J
the claim for indirect damages should not be
presented, ETC., which statement,'by member
of the joint high commission on the part of
Great Britain, deeply concerns the good faith
and integrity of the American commissioners
and OF the government, as well as the honor of
the nation. Therefore,
Resolved, that the president of the United States
is hereby requested, il not detrimental to public in
terests to inform the house whether the executive
mas any knowledge of any promise being made by
any official person that the claims for indirect dam
ages shall not be presented to the tribunal of arbi-
tration; and if so, by whom such promise was made
or understanding given; and II any, what arrange
ment was made with the British commissioners or
British government by which the American senate
should not be placed In position requiring a CON
tession that wrong has been done, or whether any
arrangement whatever has been made with the gov
eminent of Great Britain, or with any official
thereof by which the action Of the American senate
is TO be controlled or influenced in this belief, and
II so by whom, and when, and by what authority,
such arrangement was made.
While the house was dividing, Mr.. Cox said
The honor of our country is involved in the
resolution If there has been disl,onorabe
humiliation, let us know the worst, and who is
responsible"
A motion to suspend the rules and adopt the
resolution was rejected; yeas 100, nays 7s-less
than two-thirds in affirmative.
The resolution was then referred to the COM
mittee on foreign affairs.
All the democratic members voted for MIR.
Buffers resolution.
Mr. Cox offered a resolution requesting the
president to join with the Italian government in
its protest against the intolerance and cruelty
pracIiced towards the Jews of Roumania;
adopted.
Mr. Bingham presented report of the con.
ference committee on the bill to regulate
criminal practice in federal courts agreed to.
The house then went into committee of the
whole on the sundry civil service appropriation
bill, which appropriates SIT ,541 ,6T8.
Having progressed as far as the tenth page of
the bill, the committee rose and the house took
recess, the evening session to be for business
OF the committee on foreign affairs.
AT the evening session Mr.. Banks reported
the bill authorizing the president to appoint one
or more commissioners of the International eX-
position at Vienna in 1873; passed. Also to pro-
vide for the appointment of a secretary of lega-
ton at Japan, with salary of S35 ,000 and
OF two American student interpreters, not to be
over seventeen years of age, who shall receive
the first year $500, the second year $1,000 third
year S1400, and the fourth $500, and who shall
be required to serve three years after their grad
uation. Interpreters are to be hereafter selected
from such student interpreters, and are to re-
ceive $4,000 year.
The bill passed, and also bill providing for
the payment TO the Japanese government from
the indemnity fund of the sum due for therent
of lands and buildings occupied by the diplo-
matte and consular reprePreseNtatirep OF tho
United States i'll Japan; passed,
MIR. Packard reported bill for the appoint
ment Of a consul at Santarem, Brazil; passed.
Mr.. L. Meyers reported the French spoliation
bill, which, after discussion, was postponed uu-
til December.
Mr.. Wood reported bill relating to telegraph
ic communication between, the United States
and foreign countries; passed.
Mr.. Conger addressed the house in favor of
Mr.. Loomis' arial telegraph bill, incorporating
a company with a capital of $780, 900, which
may be increased to $2,00000O, to develop the
principles and powers of natural electricity.
Mr.. Bingham spoke on the, same side, and
Mr. Willard commended that congress had no
right to pass bills of incorporation.
Without action, adjourned.