The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL.
WAsHISGroS. January 81.
SENATE.

/ WAsHISsroN. January 81.
| The Vice President laid before tn,
Senate . message from the President
vetoing the bill for the relief OF thu
University of East Tennessee.
| Messrs. Window, Harlan and Ste.
venson were appointed committee oI
conference on the Indian bill.
Mr. Frelinghuysen. OF New Jersey
presented . petition from the sisters Of
George Catlin. asking Congress to pur.
chase the Cstlin Indian collection.
Mr.. Hamilton, of Maryland, intro
duced a bill to amend the act establish
ing national cemeteries.
Mr.. Edmunds gave notice that to-
| morrow he would ask the Senate to
take up the bill to dispose of the Ala
bama Claims award.
Mr.. Harlan, OF Iowa, moved to take
up the bill to repeal the bankrupt law,
taking it for granted that the Sena tors
had made up their minds on the sub
ject, and that the vote on his motion
would indicate the views of the majority
in regard to the object Of the bill.
Mr.. Edmunds, OF Vermont. said that
there were very important questions to
be considered in determining the dis
position to be made of this bill, and
protested against the Senate being
called to pass upon them on an undebat.
able motion like this.
Mr.. Harlan then withdrew his mo-
ton and gave notice that he would call
up the bill on Wednesday next.
On motion OF Mr.. Nye, Of Nevada,
the Austrian steamship subsidy bill
WAS taken up and Mr.. Nye proceeded
to address the Senate at length upon it.
Mr.. Nye argued at length in favor
Of the bill, and claimed that the line
was exclusively American, and said
that the British agents were now IN
der the roof Of the Capitol trying to de-
feat it.
Mr.. Buckingham, OF Connecticut, op.
posed the bill not because he did not
favor judicious subsidies, but because
the examination had satisfied him that
this was not a proper case where sub
sidy should be granted. The produc-
tions OF Australia and California were
the same, and hence there could be no
profitable commerce between them.
Mr.. Chandler, OF Michigan, offered
the Burnside bill az substitute for the
pending Webb bill, stating that he
was opposed 10 both.
Mr.. Anthony, OF Rhode Island, by
unanimous consent, offered resolution
extending the time for the selection and
presen tatiou of the models for the Far
ragut statue to March /, 1873, to allow
time for the arrival OF the models from
abroad, by Mr.. Randolph Rogers.
Mr.. Corbett, OF Oregon, said the
argument OF Mr.. Buckingham that
there could be no forfeitable commerce
between two countries producing the
same articles, was rebutted by the fact
that there had always been very profit
able commerce between the United
States and England. which produced
many articles in common.
Mr.. Frelinghuyseu, Of New Jersey,
opposed the bill. He took the ground
that the giving Of subsidies tended to
create monopolies, with which indlvid-
ual enterprise could not compete. The
only proper way to encourage and de-
velop commerce was to enact such laws
as would enable ships to be built in this
country as cheaply as in England.
Mr.. Thurman, Of Ohio. moved, as a
test, to lay the bill on the table.
Pending the action. the Senate ad-
journed till Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Donnsn, OF Iowa, moved TO re-
consider the vote of May "a, 1872, by
which the bill in relation to the Mon
tana war claims was recommitted to
the Committee on Military Affairs was
agreed TO-.
Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, made
point of order that the bill embraced al
appropriation and must be referred to
the Committee OF the Whole.
The Speaker sustained the point.
On motion, q conference committee
was ordered on the bill providing for
the building OF iron ships of war.
The House in the morning hour con.
sidered reports of private nature from
the Judiciary Committee.
Bills were passed relieving the politi-
cal disabilities OF Mr.. Forsyth, OF Ala
bama, D. C. Jumett, Of Virginia, Will.
liam A. Graham, Of North Carolina,
and Thomas Hardemsn, Of Georgia.
On motion, the Senate bill providing
for holding additional terms Of the
United States Circuit Court, in the
Southern District Of New York, was
taken from the table and passed.
Messrs. Scofield, Hall and Randall
were appointed committee OF confer
epce on the bill for the construction oi
the new iron ships Of war.
The House then went into Committee
of the Whole on the private calendar
and a number Of private bills were
passed.
On motion of Mr.. Tyner, OF Indiana,
the Senate bill extending the time tor
presenting models tor the Farragut
statue was taken up and passed.
The House, at AS P. NJ, adjourned.