Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-13

A resolution on the death of eX-mem-
Der Erastus Corning was adopted.
The Senate amendment to the Legis-
lative Executive Judicial appropriation
bill, on which no separate amendment
was asked, was concurred in as a whole.
An hour was consumed in the discus
sion of and amendment to extend the
capitol grounds, including collateral
points, and of the removal Of the capi-
tol and the locomotive railroad track in
! front Of the west gate of the capitol,
and of an amendment appropriating
| fifty thousand dollars to perfect and
carry out the proposed eivil service re-
| form.
Mr.. Garfield, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, opposed the
! first and advocated the last. He re-
minded the Republican side of the
House that it was their own President
who, in his annual message Of December
/ s. 1870, called the attention of Congress
10 the necessity for civil service reform,
as the present system did not secure the
best men. He also quoted from later
message of the President, in which he
asked for all the strength that Congress
could give him to enable him to
carry out the reform of the civil
service, and the debate and action yes
terday were evidences of the strength
which the Republican side of the House
were giving to the President. In con-
ciusion, he appealed to the House to re-
ject the amendment of the Committee
of the Whole, which reduced the amount
TO ten thousand dollars, and to concur in
the Senate's amendment, which appro-
PIRATES fifty thousand dollars.
The action of the House on important
amendments was as follows:
Prohibiting the publication of laws in
treaties in newspapers. Negahved-I
yeas 81, nays 81.
Striking on the allowance to the Reg
lister of the Treasury for signing bonds.
Negatived. .-... ~
Reducing the salary of the AssayeF at
New York from forty-five hundred dol
lars to thiFty-five hundred dollars, was
concurred in.
The bill appropriating fifty thou
sand dollars to enable the President
to perfect and put In operation the civil
service reform was amended by reduc-
ing the sum to ten thousand dollars
yeas lie, nays IS.
An amendment for beautifying the |
Capitol grounds was coneurred in; yeas
81, nays So, with limitation of the ex-
penditures to four thousand dollars, and /
a requirement that the locomotives on |
the railroad track in front of the west |
end of the Capitol be removed within |
two years This concluded the action of |
the House on the bill. r.sE
Mr.. Merrick, from the Committee on 1
elections made report in the DaeOtah |
contested election case that Armstrong, |
the sitting member, is entitled TO his |
seat Ordered printed. A itft
Just as the morning hour expired, |
at half-past three, and Mr.. Banks had |
presented some private reports from the |
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mr. Gar
field rose and stated that he had voted |
against the amendment to extend the
Capital grounds, and that his vote
had not been recorded. If it had |
been, there would have been tie vote
on the question. At the suggea ion of
the Speaker, the difficulty was got over
by reconsidering the vote and taking |
the vote ever again by yeas and nays. |
This time the vote resulted: Yeas, 95;
nays, SO. So the amendment was con-
Cured in.
A Conference Committee was then or
dered on the disagreeing votes. -
Mr. Brooks New York offered res
olution reciting the fact of the present
ment by the Grand Jury at Brownsville,
Texas, declaring that since 1865 Mexi- /
can armed bands, under Mexican Off
GERS, have invaded the United States,
ETC., and calling on the President for i'm
formation on the subject of the Mexican
Outrages in Texas, California, New
Mexico and Arizona. Referred to the
Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Schofeld remarked that the
resolution read like an extract from
message Of President Polk.
The Speaker laid before the House a
message from the President, vetoing a
bill for the relief of the children of John
NJ. Baker, by allowing him salary as
active Charge d'Affairs at Rio Janeiro,
in 1884. The President states that
Baker never did act as such Charge
d'Affairs, but, on the contrary, was ex-
pressly forbidden to enter into diplo-
matte correspondence with the Govern
ment of Brazil.
The message was referred to the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs. es,s
The session Tomorrow VIII be for de-
bate only AANA rrI
1t Is an interesting fact, not generally
known, that all the flags for the Navy,
War and Treasury departments are now
made seamless, the fabric being woven
in white bunting, and the red stripe
and blue field being dyed in pattern.
They are much brighter than those
sewed in strips, and, by test, have been
found to outweer the eold-fashioned make.