Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-25
A Bill in the Senate to Connect
New York and Chicago with
a Pneumatic Tube
Appropriations Dis
eussed.
Neither Delarge nor Bowen Enti-
tied to Seats from South Car
Olina--A Large Number of
Bills Passed.
WAsHENGroN, January "a.
IN THE SENATE.

q qent pro rem, IN the absence of the Vice
IS President.
d Senator Wilson introduced a bill tc
authorize the construction of a pneu.
: matlc-tube road from New York to Chi
It eagO.
3 After the expiration of the morning
= hour, the Senate resumed the consider.
alton OF the legislative, executive and
: judicial bill.
/. Senator Sherman said there were
e questions connected with the cIIrrencv
question which it was indisnens 40 M
necessary for Congress to consider at an
, early day. There was already a law re-
r qulring transfer of twenty-five million
dollars Of banking capital from the East
TO the West, which the ComptroIIer
! claimed to be impracticable; and there
was also question of the right of the
, secretary OF the Treasury to reissue anv
, portion OF the returned and cancelled
United States notes,
Senator Edmunds offered an amend
ment to the Appropriation Bill. direct
ing the Secretary to withhold all pav-
ments to any railway company on ac-
count Of freight or transportation of anv
KIND, to the amount of any pavment
made by the United States for Interest
upon bonds, or by the United States is
sued 70 any such company and not re-
imburSed.
Senator Stewart made it a point of
order, that the amendment being new.
legislation was not in order upon the
I appropriation bill.
The President pro tenn. overruled the
point Of order.
Senator Edmunds advocated the
amendment, and said 1t was necessary
I ha 81
! people; and that if it violated in anv
way the legal rights of railroad comma
MES, they might seek redress through
4 the Court of Claims.
! Senator Sherman said the oues+ion
I involved in the amendment was one
! Whleh could not be readily determined.
ana as It was hardly pertinent to this
l Dlll, he regretted that the amendment
had been offered, and expressed a doubt
as 70 the jurisdiction of the Court of
/ Claims in the matter.
senator Edmunds offered the follow
ing IN addition to his amendment.
and any such company NAV bring
suit IN the Court of Claims to recover
price OF such freight and transportation
and in such suits the right of each COM |
pany to recover the same upon the law
and the facts Of the case shall be deter /
mined, and either party to such suit NAV
appeal to the Supreme Court.
Senator Sherman said he feared that
TINS amendment would narrow the no.
sltlon Of the United States Senate in The
matter.
Senator EdmOnds said that if he did
not know the great anxiety of the Sena-
TOR rom Ohio Sherman to keep this
money m the Treasury, he would be
tempted to suspect that, for some great
Puoilc reason, The Senator was trying to
ind cut how not TO do it.
Senator Stevenson offered a substitute
for Senator Edmonds's amendment di-
recting the President to institute suits in
the Court OF Claims against the Pacific
railroads to recover the interest paid bv
the United States on its bonds issued
ior the benefit OF said roads. In advo-
catng TINS amendment, Senator Steven
son said that the corporations OF the
country were gigantic powers, warning
upon the rights of the Government and
people, and warned them that if they
were not willing, in a disputed case like
THIS, to submit to a fair ADJUDICATION |
there was power in the land which
would rise up and put them all under its
feet.
Senator Trumbull said he was not the
of railroad companies. but he
wished them to be treated fairly. He
then reviewed the history of legislation
providing for construction of the Pacific
railroad, under the act of 1852, by which
all compensation for services rendered
TO the Government by railroads was
withheld. Nobody, he said, could be
found to build a road which rendered s
necessary the act of 1864, providing that u
only ohe-hal1 such compensation should '
oe retained ~ the Government. ToI
WlthhoId the whole of the compensation v
due 70 roads from the Government 8
would, therefore, be to violate the faith S
u the United States, pledged in the act
Df 1864. a
The Nice-President appointed as con- t,
erees on the part of the Senate on the St
Vienna Exposition bills, Senators Il
ochurz, Harlan and Casserly.
Senator Stewart presented an amend
nent, which he said be would offer at I,
he proper time, as a substitute for Sena-
or EdmOnds's amendment. It directs
he Attorney General to cause proceed
ngs TO be instituted in the proper courts q
Il the United States, for the purpose of e
scertaining if any obligation of the Z
Jnion Pacific, Central Pacific. or apv o
'ther railroad company, created by the z
ct Of July I, 1862, or the act of July 3. a
s64, in relation to interest on bonds a
emains unfulflled, and to enforce the 81
anne, if any there be, against said com q
any or companies. II
Senator Morrill, (Maine) presented an "a
mendment directing the President to u u
axe such steps as may be necessary to a
ecover from the Pacific Railroad Com e.
anies the interest paid by the United
tates on bonds issued for the use of
timer OF said roads, and confeFring ju- ~ ~
solctlon on the United States Circuit y
ourt for the NOrtheln District of New hi
'ork, 20 hear and determine the same ea
I6ject TO appeal as in other cases. "
Pending action on the amendment &c
ne Senate went into executive session. oi
nd soon after adjourned oc
ISTHE HOUSE. ii,
The House Committee on Elections
lade report that neither DeI,arge. nor qI
owen, contestant, are entitled to seats ae
Representatives from South Carolina. 81
fter an argument by Mr.. Bowen, the te
,ntestant, in his own behalf, and after ha
brief discussion, the report was adopted of
ithOut division. de
The House then went into a Commit W
e Of the Whole on the Naval Appro- ch
idliOu bAAl. OOl5luefaIlOn OF the Dill ~
as Interrupted by the business of the Of
istrict Of Columbia, which was specially Ju
signed TO this day. After passing a sa
rye number of bills relating to the Dis sts
let, the House adjourned. of
CREDIT HORILIER. AZ
At the sitting Of Poland's Credit Mo. Sn
lier Committee this morning, Repre- no
ntative William ID. Kelly cross-exana- for
ed Cakes Ames, witness, who reiter- Gu
ed his testimony that he held as the fla
operty Of Kelly ten shares of Credit spl
obilier stock. They became Kelly's err
operty in 1850, when he paid for them of
th the dividends. ms
Besides Credit Mobilier stock, the wit ari
ss holds for Kelly forty or fifty shares we
Union Pacific stock and some IN. All
me bonds. Mr.. Kelly then examined pu
mes as follows: Al
QuestiOn-Can yon furnish the COM 90,
lttee with a list of the property you
ID FOR me? he,
Answer-Yes sir, think can by to- Bo
Drr0w. Sto
Question-How did I pay you for nv cisl
edit MObllier stock? vet
Auswer-In the first place Won were ca
pay me one thousand dollars for the mn,
ok and interest kf