Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-27
HOE z.

HOUSE.
Mr.. Hunter offered resolution in
structing the naval committee toinquire
into the propriety of removing the navy
yard from Washington to Alexandria.
Adopted.
Mr.. Thornburg introduced bill to re-
duce the army. Referred.
1t proposes to leave the cavalry and
artillery at the present force, but to re-
duce the infantry by five regiments.
Mr.. Packard, from the committee on
private land claims, reported bill to ex-
tend the time for filing suits in the
court of claims to establish the title to
the Hot Springs reservation in Arkansas.
Recomniited.
The following was unanimously
adopted on motion of Mr.. Dawes.
ResOlOed, That the committee on
banking and currency be instructed to
inquire into the necessity and expedi-
eney of requiring by law that United
States notes and other securities of the
United States be printed in parts, and at
different places, in order to promote
greater security and economy in their
preparation and issue; and that they re-
port by bill or otherwise.
Mr.. Speer, from the committee on
contingent expenses in the department
of justice, offered a resolution instruct
ing that committee to inquire into the
charges against clerks of the United
States courts in the middle district of
Alabama and the southern district of
Illinois, for not making returns of fees
received, with power to send for persOns
and papers. Adopted.
The house then proceeded to vote on
the bill to regulate commerce by rail-
road among the several States. The
bill was passed by the following vote:
yeas, III; nays, 116. The bill as passed
is, with but slight modification, the
same as reported by Mr.. McCrary, of
Iowa, from the committee on
railways and canals, on the
nineteenth of January. 1t enacts
that all railroad lines carrying freight
and passengers between the different
States, whether owned by one or various
corporations, shall be regarded as en-
plOyed in commerce among the several
States, and shall be liable for any viola
tiOn of this act. They are forbidden TO
charge more than a fair and reasonable
rate for the transportation of freight or
passengers, such rate to be ascer-
tanned and fixed by a board of
railroad commissioners to be appointed
by the President, with advice and con-
sent of the senate, and to be residents of
each of the nine judicial districts of the
United States. They are to be disinter-
ested persons, and not to have any inter-
est in the stocks, bonds, or property of
any railroad or any transportation COM
pany. This board of railroad commits
siOners is to institute thorough investi-
ofiO7n aT0A innT1irxy info fhn ord
tolls and compensation charged for trans
porting freights and passengers over
each of such lines of railroads, and of the
thereof, and as soon as
practicable after such an investigation
and inquiry, TO prepare for the owners
and operators of each of such
lines a seperate schedule of reasonable
maximum rates of charges for the trans
poTtation of passengers and freight on or
over said lines, respectively. The sched-
ule is to be duly authenticated by the
board of commissioners, and to be print
ed and kept posted up in each of the
offices and departments of such railroad
corporation or person. They
may, from time to time, as often as cir
may require, change and
revise their schedule, and shall give no.
tice of such changes or revisions in the
same manner.
The following is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Averill, Barrere, Barry, Boegle, Bun
dy, Burchard, Burrows Butler Mass, Cain,
Cannon, Cason, Clark IN. J.h Clayton, Glenn
Cotton, Crounse, Crutchfield, Curtis, Danford,
Darrall. Dawes, Dennan, Dunnell, Elliott,
Field, Fort, Foster, Freeman, Frye, Garfield.
Hogans, Hale Mel, Havens,
Hawley- uILI Hazelton [Wis.l HazeltOn
y. J.l, G. F; Hoar, Hodges. Holman, Haskins,
Howe, Habbell, Hunter, Hurlbut, hyde,
Hynes, Karson, Kendall, Lamport, Lewis,
Lowe, Luttrell, Lynch, Martin,
McCrary, MsDAl wis McDill GIowal, Mac
Dougall, Mckee, McNutt, Munroe, Num-,
Orr, Orth, Packard, Page, Parker Mol, Pei
ham, Phillips, Poland, Pratt, Purman, ,Rainey, /
Ranser, Rapier, Ray, Richmond, Robbins,
yer, Saylor [Ind.l, Scofeld, Sessions, Shanks,
Sheats, shelton, Sherwood, Smart, Shoe,
maker, Smith IN. ", Smith tohiol, smith n.
TayIor, Thornberg. Todd, Tyner, wallace,
Walls, Whiteley, Williams [Wis.l, Williams
Mich.b Wilson IIowab Wilson lInd.l, and |
Nays-Adans, Albert, Archer, Arthur, At
kins, Asche, Banning, Barber, Barnum, Bass,
Beck, Berry, Biery, Bland, Blount, Bowen
ton, Caldwell, Cessna, Clark Mol, Clymer, |
Cook, Cox, Creamer, Crooke, Cross
iings, Glover, GoOeh, Hamilton, Hancock, |
Harman, Harris Mass. Harris lGa.l, Harris |
tls oDp Ta HsF5ison Ha4San' aS5Saer' Hswlfy
HOar, Hooper, Houghton, Hantsn, Jew
ell, Kelly, Kellogg, Knapp, Lamar, Lansing, |
Mills, Mitchell, Moore, Myers, Neal, |
Negley, Nesmith, Niblack, Niles, O'Brien, !
O'Neii, Parker. IN. HI, Parsons, Pendleton, |
r. Roberts, Robinson IL. vSayler [ohiol Schu- |
der IN. VI Scuder IN. j., Senor, Shloss, |
Southard, speer, Standeford, Stone, Storm, /
Waldron, Ward [Ill.l Ward N. J.l, Wheeler, |
Whitehead, Whitehouse, Whithorne VIII |
ard IXtL willard lAieh.l Willie, Wilson
Mr.. Butler Mass. presented a new
set of credentials certifying to the elec- |
lion of Pinchback as representative-at-
arge for Louisiana. Referred.
The speaker granted the use of the /
hall of the house of representatives, ON /
Sunday evening, May 18th, to the /
American bible society, for the purpose
Of holding their fifty-eighth anniversary. |
The currency bill being the special
order for To-day at half-past one O'Clock,
4 question of precedence rs between it
and the legislative appropriation bill
came up.
Mr.. Garfield desiring a stipulation
rom Mr.. Maynard that the debate
would be closed and q vote taken within
time-say on Tuesday of next
Mr.. Maynard declining to
put such limit on the debate, because
here were very many members who
had prepared themselves and desired to
peak on the subject, Mr.. Garfield
moved to 90 into committee of the
whole on the legislative appropriation
1in.
The motion to go into committee of
he whole was rejected-6l to 93-and
hen the house proceeded to the consid-
sration of the bill to amend several
acts relating to the currency, and to es-
.ablish free banking. The debate was
opened by Mr.. Maynard, chairman of
5he banking committee, in advocacy of
.he bill. Speeches were also made by
Messrs. Durham and FarwtD, both
members of the banking committee.
Mr.. Cox suggested, facetiously. an
that every dollar green
back now in circulation shall be legal
tender for three dollars, and that every
two-dollar, five-follar and ten-dollar