The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-02-08
xLIId CONGREss..sECOND SESSION.
SENATE.

| OENAIE.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 7-Mr. Hamlin who was
charged by the Chicago Tribune with having
suppressed his suggestion that the Senate shoEld
sing "Old Hundred before voting on an amend
ment offered by Mr.. Summer said he had
made the suggestion as rebuke to MIR. Summer
for having made motion which he thought a
| bit of legislative buncOme.
Mr.. Sumner said this remark was no worse
than the original suggestion.
Mr.. Edmunds from the Committee on Ap-
preparations, reported the pension appropria-
| ton bill with an amendment providing that
navy pension and other expenditures under that
head shall be paid from the income navy PEN
sion fund SO far as it could be. The amend
ment was adopted and the bill passed.
| Mr. Sherman, from the Finance Commute,
| reported, without amendment, the Heuse bill
extending the privileges of the act of July IA,
| 1870, to the port of Toledo, Ohio; also the
| House bill authorizing the transfer from one
car to another of goods in bonded Transports
ton under the regulations of the Secretary Of
| the Treasury.
Mr.. Sherman, from the same committee, re-
ported adversely on the bills raising the salaries
| of clerks in the Executive Departments, and
authorizing the purchase of secured obligations
| of real estate of the Bank of Virginia.
Mr.. Cragin, from the Committee on Naval
Affairs, reported, without amendment, bill
| fixing the rank of professors of mathematics in
the United States navy.
Mr.. Scott, from Committee on Claims, report
press Co., replacing United States bonds de-
stroyed by fire.
Bills introduced: by Mr.. Wilson, to estab-
lish the pay of enlisted men of the army; by
Mr.. Pomeroy, to provide fer the appointment
of commission on the subject of prohbtory
legislation for the suppression of intemperanee.
Mr. Chandler offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
ResolUed, That the committee of investigation
be directed to inquire whether any United
States received money under cover of counsel
fees or otherwise from the Treasury of the
United in violation of law, and report the result
of inquiry as early as practicable. i
The amnesty bill was taken up, pending the
question OH Mr.. Carpenters substitute for Mr..
Summers bill
Mr. Sumner called attention to the difference
between the substitute and the original, and
urged the Senate to support the latter.
Mr.. Ferry, of Connecticut, said that for three
years he had been trying to get vote of the
Senate for the removal of political disabilities,
and now, when the time had come when a bill
for that purpose might be passed, an attempt
was made to assassinate it by proposing amend
ments which were not only not german to the
bill but in fact its deadliest enemies. The bill,
if hampered by either of these amendments,
must surely fail
Mr.. Conkling asked why he Ferry thought
that the bill, if amended, must fail X 4
Mr.. Ferry replied that the constitution of the
House between the two political parties. was
such that the bill could not pass if encountered
with this amendment.
Mr. Conklng said that the House had al
ready passed this BILL and it would not require
a two-thirds vote to concur in any amendment
that might be made by the Senate, and, said he,
sis the Senator from Connecticut authorized to
say that the party to which he and / belong in
the House, will fail to pass by majority vote
a proper bill insuring civil rights?'
Mr.. Ferry.-I don't agree with the Senator
from New York. As to the Parliamentary law
do not believe that the amendment if adopt
ed here, can become a law without two-third
vote of the House; but if 1 am in error in this
respect, I say further I do not believe that as
the House Of Representatives is CONSTITUTED,
majority vote cannot be obtained for the amend
ment proposed by the Senator from Massachu-
sets. The Senator (Conkling) asks whether
proper bill securing civil rights cannot pass the
House. That is very different question. The
amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts,,
(Sumnerl is not proper bill to secure civil
rights. 1t strikes down the very bulwark of
civil rights throughout the country. 1t takes
away the foundation principle upon which our
federal system rests by striking at the principle
of local self-goyernment, the most fatal blow
it ever has received.
Mr.. Carpenters substitute was rejected-yeas
II, nays 80.
Mr.. Sherman moved to strike out the It'll
section of Mr.. Summers bill, which would re-
peal all laws whether State or national, which
discriminate against race or color by the use of
the word white.
After some discussion Mr. Sumner, at the re-
quest of the friende of the bill, consented that
the section be struck out
Mr.. Harlan objected to striking out the Sec
The amendment was discussed without reach
ing vote till 40, when the Senate went into
executive session and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE
Mr.. Cox, of New York, presented a petition
from the National Bureau of Immigration for
the incorporation of the bureau by an act of
n Nof 6a1
grant Savings Bank, Loan and Trust Company.
The House proceeded to vote on the educa-
tional bill and amendments. The amendment
of Mr.. Griffith, providing that nothing in the
bill shall be construed to limit or abridge the
the power of Cognress over the public domain
or to interfere with the granting of bounty
lands to the soldiers and sailors of the late war;
was agreed to.
Mr. Holmans amendment, that after the
passage of the act no public lands, except min
eral, shall DO sold except under certain condi
tons, was rejected.
The amendment by Mr. Butler of Tennessee,
that the distribution be made ON the basis of
schoolage population, was agreed to-
Mr.. Hereford's, of West Va, amendment not
requiring mixed schools, was agreed to-yeas
ia, nays 80.
An amendment BY Mr., Taffee, of Nebraska,
providing that the bill shall not effect the ex-
isting laws and regulations in regard to the adj
justment and payment to States upon their ad-
mission into the Union of five per cent. of the
net proceeds of sales of public lands within re-
spective limits, was agreed to without division.
The next amendment was one offered by Mr..
Poland, of Vermont, that the act shall not re-
peal, impair or suspend any presumption or
homestead law, which was agreed to without
division.
The House then proceeded to vote on the va
rious substitutes offered by Messrs. Mcintyre,
Burchard, Wing, Bright, Campbell and Co
burn. All the substitutes on which votes were
taken were rejected, but motion was made
by Mr.. Perez to reconsider the vote by which
Mr.. Burchard's substitute was rejected.
Pending that resolution the House, at 4.45,
adjourned-l15 to 9-The Democrat generally
voting against adjournment so as to defeat the
reconsideration of Mr.. Burchards substitute,
preferring the original bill as amended OH the
subject of mixed schools.