New-York tribune., 1872-02-27

hill provides for the appointment OF ~, scetsrv Of tbd
Si e"retary Of the Secretary Of tho Int
ir and the Postmaster. General, to enforce the oD
Of contracts for the promotion OF commerce.
and 70 seaPeg aRd 70 S%se, taSs1 CoH
merce to provide for line Of iron steamships to
British port one TO port Of continental Europe one TO
the West India Islands and Mexico and one 70 husa
payment OF bounty to these and other lines OF steam
ships the plan Of bounty being on the plan suggested pr r
sented by him TO the Committee on Commerce. ,.,,o,
Also, bin to promote immigration 70 the uhlted
States, and for the protection Of Immigrants. .,u
Mr.. BROOKS Dem, n. Y.)-T0 authorize tne conlinu
ance OF the mail steamship service between the on'ea
States and Cuba.
REMOVING DISABILITIES.
large rdnber of bills for the removal OF ere
presented and at the suggestion OF the speaker " "'i'
Included in the one bill. ..,o IN Nth
Mr. GARFIELD rep. Ohio moved that the bill' VIII
out further reading OF the Names be paSsed unu'
Mr. MAYNARD CRep., Tenn) called for the Yeas ana
| Mr. Garled's motion was then agreed TO- and the
| MI BROOKS Dem., ". ", from the Committee on
Ways and Means. reported bill repeating the REQUIRE gn
canned and preserved fruits, Vegetables ana meats, @G
enumerated and taxed in Schedule OF the interna @
| Mr. MORGAN CDem Ohio introduced bill TO snbstl
ths te spanish S in the " Vest Point Military Academy
| bIr. BANKS suggested that the bll be mOdihea 10
make the teaching Of German additional 10 that oi
Mr. MORGAN modified the bill accordingly, and 1t
| was passed. 1900 - -
Mr. LYNCH ReP, MeJ offered resolution nstraetGg
tn nGnre into the sale OF ordnance in the late
FrenchGeman war, with power TO SEND Tor persons anu
Mr. cox tDem, N. " moved to suspend the rules
and adopt resolution instructing the committee on
Ways and Means to report bill reducing the duty on
pig iron TO s5 a tun or less.
Mr. DAWES desired to make a remark
Mr. DAWES suggested, satirically that the Committee
c Ways and Means had better be abolished entirely.
| mitee OF Ways and Means, but the House had voted
last Monday other tariff matters, and lie now wanted
Mr L. MYERs~You don't Ike tea and coffee.
| Mr.. CoX-rhat was Pennsylyanla protection meas
| ure. insist on a vote, on "A cOuut by division.
| The sPEAKER announced that the vote was 80 to SS
! two-thrds IN the negative.
ordered The motion TO suspend the rules and adopt the
resolution was rejected. Yeas "a, Nays 49, ,,,..
aud adopt resolution declaring It to be the Judgment Of
the House that the tax on manufactured tobacco should
be "A Uniform tax OF sixteen cents pound. --
Mr. DAWES remarked that that would take sl6;OOOGOo
out of the Treasury. The rules were not suspended, by
50 TO 6, than two-thirds voting in the affirmative.
| THE DEFICIENCY BILL.
| The House. at 8 O'Clock p m. went Into Committee OF
the Nhoe on the Deficiency bill, Mr. scOheld In the
Mr.. GARFIELD made statement explanatory of the
lions lie accounted for the bill chiefly by the fact that
for the time law requiring unexpcnded balances
at the end year be covered into the Treasury
went into effect on the lst OF July ISL: -.
Deficiency bill 10 speak of the coalition in the House
between the representatIves OF the iron interest and
portion OF the Democratic side OF the House. He sent 10
the Clerks desk and had read petition which he SAID
was Of the important petitions presented
to the House-being petition from tne Wool mahuiac'
urert OF NcwEnglaId praying for the removal of the
duties WOOL and on bitImnOus coal, salt, iron,
lumber required for machinery, and promising in
THAI event that they will not only not ask protection for
| wooden manufactures but viii raise the wages
| Of their wOIknen. If there was to be any
| discrimination, he was in favor OF rehey-
| Hg the wool manufacturers of New-England.
Tie petition IL siCd by the representatives O the fol-
loving mills: Delaware WOolen CO., Blackstone, Mass;
E5ans Seagrave Il Co., and Nccdham. Mason IL Co.. Of
Mass John c. scott Lipptt WoOen Co. OF WoonSocket,
l.; William Fnkham OF PrOyidence the St1li Wat T
Wooden Mil, Owen & Clark, Pierce q Paine, james
Hartley d Co., OF San Francisco Fred. W. Whpp.e,
c. OF Providence, l. l. Edward Harms Of WoonSocket
| tie Ray Wooden Co. OF Bengham the Peacedale Man
ufscturing Coz James Legg & Co., Mapeyle, X l.; the
Ggudale Manufacturing Go. of MOhegan, x. l.; +. X.
| White GO. OF Chepaehet' r. IT, j, D. NICHOLS " son
| Mthcgan; Horace 4. Kmban, james .. inman, aud T.
T. Hopkins OF PascOag, RI Harris Woolen Co Of WOon-
| socket r. l.. and 5. b. Hunt OF Bennington, Vt.
Mr. DUELL Qscp., y. ", as Set-OH to the petition
prcscnted by Mr. Brooks, sent to the Clerks desk and
had read "A petition from workingmen III Syracuse III
| yOr OF protection to American labor.
The Gill proceeded with until clause was reached
the law which the publication OF the
| laws newspapers That being ruled out or order, on
the ground OF iis being general legislation the Commit
| rules to make 10 in order.
| Pending that motion, Mr.. COBURN, Chairman Of the
Committee on Military Affairs. desired to report and
have day assigned for the consideration OF bill To
aide discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows
OIDhdn children, to acquire hOmesteads the public
| lands; but objection was made.
The House, without taking n vote Mr. GaTfeld'e
| mttIun, adjourned at 4:i0 D..