, 1873-01-11
HOUSE.


CREDIT MonlLsEn.
On motion Of AIr. NlDLAOK Cndiana), tic
Select COMMITTEES, No; ., OF, the Credit Mo5ilior
n,attor was was 1'ocmtttca to sit during sessions
Of tha House, aud employ clerk.
TIE APPROPRIATION BILL.
Tho House won't into Committee Of tho Whole
Oh tho Legislative, Executive, aud Judicial Ap-
proprtation hills.
for the Bureau of Education was dis=,1sBed at
nome lougth by MeBars 911EIl.ABAhdER,
cHAllD,. --FARNbWonrl1, DINdHAoE, md
otliern.
Mr. BECK denounced tho principle OF the
Bureau rs apart Of the aciomo Of Capitalization
and consolidation, by Which already ono-tllirt Of
tho statcs wore controlled by Feaoral authority,
md by which sonators ind Representatives., 30
calod, occupied their positions by Federal
authority: It waa part Of tho general scheme,
which looked to the absorption Gy tho Qovorn-
mont Of the railroad and telegraph and oxpross
lines Of tho country, and which would lnnko tho
President Of tic United States aa thorough an
Of Rusaln. Ho argued that tllis was not the
tin1o to eng&ge in such vast enterprises,
and that CoEgross ought rather to bo
eudcavoring to roauco TAXATION, ligiton burdens,
and onforco economy and honest administration.
He showed That in scyen years, from 1906 to
1879, tho Government had COLLECTED from cus-
toms and informal royenuo noar $4,000, 00,000,
and had roelfzed from tho aalo Of atoroB $685.
1/NlliH kH0 kl9Flpu lIl0 lNSb OlllCC
Department had collected 3l25000, 900. and The
Patent Oflico Department 81 sou, 900. The total
amount received into tho Treasury during tint
porod ho slated to 10 e3,4o3, $50, ,452, out OF
which the debt had beon reduced BY tho payment
of 9427 1896, 54l leaving the sum Of ,975 19o I'll
to bo accounted Tor, being ut tho rate Of :A25-
ol9,o87 . year; mud yet. no said, gentlemen
tailed about economy, reduction Of oxpondi-
turos aud honest administration.
Tho debate wAB f,1rthor continued by AFcssrR
SARGENT, KERR, STEVENSON, sTonaI,
PIERCE, MAYNARD, lIOAR, IIAWLEY {Con-
necticut), aud GARFIELD. Finally Il vote was
| takon, and tho amendment was rojectod-71 to
~.
After tho 11sual struggle over tho appropria-
tions for the Agricultural Bureau, which ro-
Bu1ted in tho increase OF tho itcm for tho pur-
chase and distribution Of seeds, from. $50 oJo to
| 975,0U0, thoro was no question until tho item
judsmenta Of tic coart Of Claims. ~ '"' '''
| Mr. SMITH IN. ~ offered MI amendment
to that itoln, providing that no part Of it shall
bo implied to tudmonta for tho proceeds Of Of
fStureaa p or abandoned d proRsy s seized bH,f FIRE
! no auch Judgment shall be paid, excopt
Smith explained tlto object Of md tho reauona
for tho proposition. lIe had cansually looked
Of Claims, and his eye rested on ono itom for
| oyor 100000 for one mnn III Qeorgin, who hnl
| not only not boen loyal to the Government, but
hal boen ono Of tho Commission to negotiate a
loan of SIT, ,O1O, 900 for tho Confederate Govern
I mont. Ho also found on the docket Of tho Court
claim for 81, QUO, 900 in tho name Of G. d. Lit
| mar Of Savannah, a man Who was celebrated II
not notorious US ono Of tho most daring and ill.,
tropid blockade runnera during tho rebellion.
Mr. YOUNG (Ga.) explained that the notori.
ouH blockade runner referred to wnH son Of
thia c!Rimant, md had boon killed in tho last
battlo Of tho war.
hIr SMITH reported that he lind roliablo III.
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