Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-28
FortY.SecOnd CanQress
sENATE. .WAsHrneroN, March q.
SECOND SESSION.

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The st. Croix Bayfield, railroad bill
was called up, and after some discus
sion the house amendments were re-
jected-yeas Is, nays 30.
Senator Casserly offered an amend
ment providing that settlers along the
line Of the road shall be entitled, at
their option, either TO receive back
from the United States moneys paid
on or for their lands, or to receive
eighty acres in addition to the amount
now beld by them.
At the expiration of the morning
hour the bill went over.
The house bill to repeal the duty on
tea and coffee came up, and Senator
Sherman gave notice that he would
ask the senate to sit to-day until the
bill should be disposed OF.
Senator Sherman said that the
adoption Of the amendments to the
tea and coffee bill had changed some
what the plan of the committee, and
ne believed that il the senate would
now pass the bill with these amend
ments the house would concur, and
there would be an end Of the tariff
question for this session. The bill,
mittee of the whole, was then report
ed TO the senate, and the amendment
providing that IL shall go into effect
on the first of July was cOncurred in.
Senator Trumbuli said that having
failed yesterday to get salt put on the
free list he would now move as an
amendment to the provision in the
first section OF the bill ss reported
from the committee on finance reduc
ing the duty on salt one half.
Senator Blair moved to make salt
duty free. He denounced the tax
on salt as a most unjustifable
aud oppressive one, and spoke
at length against the protection
policy. Speaking of thesalt monopoly,
he stated, on the authority of MIR.
Wells, that the Onondags salt COM
psny had in one year made six diyi-
dends, one of which was twelve and
one-half per cent.
Senator Conkling denied the state
ment and said thatcapital invested in
the manufacture Of salt paid but seven
per cent.
Senator Fenton had read the sworn
statement Of the officers of the On0n-
daga salt company showing that their
profits for the last two years has been
only three, and a-half per cent.
Senator Blair said that whenever
m0nopolIsts came to ask congress for
laws that would enable them to live
at the expense Of the rest of the peO-
pie they were always ready to make
statements of this kind.
Senator Conkling asked Senator
Blair how many OF his constituents
had petiti0ned for repeal Of duty on
salt?
Senator Blair replied that his con-
and the people of the West |
generally were less In the habit Of |
troubling congress about their griev- |
anees than others, but were neverthe- |
less conscious of them.
Senator Blair said he did not be-
hevs a word of the statement made |
by the secretary and treasurer OF the
Onondaga salt company, and argued |
tho question at length.
Senator Chandler replied thet Sem |
al or Buckingham argued that the pro- |
tsctiye system was more beneficial TO |
Labor than to capital. The amendment |
V7as rejected
Senator Hamlin offered a resolution
to pay five Thousand dollars from the
contingent fund of the senate for ex-
peDses in the arms investigating COM
mittee. Adopted.
Bills were introduced ss follows:
Senator Logan-To incorporate the
Union Soldiers and Sailors orphan in
dustriaI training school; to assure the
wright OF comforting entries by actual
settlers on railway grants, where the
same has been allowed through mis-.
takes of government officers.
SENATOR Wilson reported without
the house bill prohibiting
the enlistment of minors in the mill
tary service OF the United States.
without the consent Of parents OF
guardians.
Senator Pool reported without
the bill requiring all
votes for representatives In congress
to be by ballot.
Senator Pratt reported the bill au-
thOrizing suits in the court Of claims
for the recovery of the proceeds of
Northern credits deposited in the
banks of New Orleans by the Confed-
crate States authorities and after
wards seized by General Butler.
Senator Morton said that at the re-
quest of some friends with whom he
be was accustomed to act in the SEN
ate, he had decided to withdraw his
for the abolition Of inter-
cal revenue taxes, intending, howev-
sr, TO seek the same object by another
bill.
Without further action, the senate
Adjourned.