Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-06-15
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS,
MONDAY, June Is.


petition of Hodges Bros, VIM. Fisher & Sons,
and others, merchants and bankers of Balti-
more, demonstrating against the tax on gold
and stock sales. Referred 10 Com HIttee on FIJI
nance.
Mr.. Scott presented similar memorials rron
Altoona and other cities OF Pennsylvania. Re-
feTred to Committee on Finance.
Mr.. Edmunds, from COMMITTEES on the Judi
ciaiy, recommended disagreement with House
amendments 10 the Geneva award bill. snd
that the House be asked for a committee OF
conference thereon. So ordered.
Mr.. Carpenter, from Committee on the ,Tud-
cisry, reported House bill authorizing the Sec
rotary OF the Treasury TO deliver to Connection;
hlstotlcal Society certain papers relating O.
the claim OF Silas Desne. Passed.
He also called up Senate bill 70 provide for
writs of error in certain criminal cases. Passed
Mir. Buckingham gave notice that on wednes-
Gay he would ask the Senate to consider bust
ness from the Committee on Indian Affairs
Mr.. Ramsey said he would object to any com
mittee being called before the business of the
Post ONCE Committee had been considered.
MI. Carpenter, from Judiciary Committee,
reported adversely on bill amendatory OF ACT
Tor removal Of causes In certain cases from state
courts; also adversely on bills relative TO juris-
diction or L. S. Supreme Court in certain cases;
ana ameDdstory of act TO further the ad minis
tration of JUSTICE ali OF which were indefinitely
postponed.
MIR. Carpenter also, from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported the House bill regu-
lating the removal of causes from state courts
to the circuit courts OF the United States with
an amendment In the nature of a substitute.
Mr.. Thurman moved to strike out the 18th
section of the substitute, which authorizes the
service of process upon the aeentof defendant
IN any civil suit not affecting the title to real
estate; which, after much discussion, was re-
jected-ayes 16, noes 40.
Mr.. Bayard moved to provide that the pro-
visions OF the l1tb section shall not apply TO
suits for libel or Islander. He said that this CITY
was the principal center OF the Newspaper cor
respondents, and under the provisions of this
section process could be served on any one OF
them on account of a libel suit brought again ST
the paper with which they were connected.
Mr.. Wadleigh said this bill was the most
alarming species Of legislation attempted since
his entrance Into the Senate. 1t offered the
opportunity for great fraud upon men doing
business in distant states. A man might be
ruined and not know 1t, for process could be
against him without his having any knowledge
that the suit had been brought.
The amendment OF Mr.. Bayard was then re-
ject d-9yes 20, noes SO.
Mr.. Carpenter said that to meet the objec-
ton of Mr.. Wadleigh, although he did not
think there was anything in It, he would move
to amend BY providing that a copy of the pro-
Gees shall also be delivered actually to the prn-
eipsl OF such agent anywhere in the United
States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Durham, (Ky.,) from the Comm ittee on Con
ference, on the bill amending the charter of
the Fro edman,s Saving Trust Company with
the recommendation that the Senate receis
from the amendment and agree to the bill OF
he House With sundry amendments. Tue
report was agreed 10.
Mir. Dawes (Mass.,) presented resolution
adopted by the Chamber Of Commerce, of New
YORK, re latiye to revision of the revenue laws
Referred TO Ways and Means Committee.
On motion Of Dir. OTme PAL a Conference
COMMITTEE on the pension bills was ordered.
MIR. Butler (Mass.) introduced bill to define
The jurisdiction OF the circuit courts of the
United states, to provide for the removal OF
causes from state courts and for other PURPOSES.
Referred 20 Judiciary Committee.
On motion OF Mr.. Garfield (Ohio) the House
vent INTO Committee u the Whole Oh the sGndry
civil appropriation bill.
Mr. Kellogg Comm offered an amendment
requiring the heads OF the several executive de
partmenls To prescribe and publish rules for the
examination OF applicants for appointment to
position, and distribution Of the appointments
as nearly as practicable among the several
states In proportion to population, preference
being given To soldiers and sailors.
MI. Stark weather Conn offered an amend
ment striking out states and inserting Congress
stonal districts. Adopted.
MIR. Keilogg's amendment as amended was
then adopted.
Mr. Butler (Msss.) offered further amend
ment extending the preference to the widow,
wife, daughter, sister or mother Of such soldiers
an3 sailors. Adopted.
MIR. Cobb (Kansas) offered an amendmen.
dlreetlng the proper accounting officers in the
settlement OF accounts OF laborers, iworkmen,
and mechanics employed by or on behalf of the
government, 10 pay fUr each days work per-
formed between the passage OF the eight-hour
law (oune Is, 1865, ana the passage OF this act.
without e yasion or subterfuge.
MIR. Cobb explained that tue law had not been
executed from Is passage, June 20, 1865, to May
~, 1869, the date Of the proclamation OF the
PRESIDENT In relation to the law, and said there
were just claims amounting to about 5000 900
which 1t was the duty of Congress TO make pro
vision for.
The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Hall Me- moved t. strike out the third
section, providing for the settlement OF the
Chickasaw and Choctaw claims.
Mr.. Parker (Mo.) defended the section.
MIR. Hale said this section involved the pay
ment OF over 50 800 600, and there should be a
careful examination whether this should now
be PAID, and II paid, to secure Its proper dis
tribu;ion.
MIR. Speer (Pa.) said never before had he,
since he had been in Congress, seen the floor OF
the House swarm with lobbyists as it did when, a
and make this an order was pending The bill
might be just, but IL was supported by men in.
famous in the history of the lobby. He wanted
the bill 10 stand on its own merits.
At two O'Clock the Speaker took the chair,
and declared the Committee on the District of
Columbia entitled TO the floor under the rules
1t was, however, arranged that the House 20
again into committee, debate on the bending
section being confined to fifteen minutes, and
That the District Com mittee take the floor when
the appropriation bill was got through with in
Committee of the Whole.
Mir. Parker (Mo.) defended Messrs. Pitch
lynn and GOlsom, who for fifty years had been
the authorized agents of the Choctaw nation
IL was provided IN the bill that not a cent
should be paid to these agents until the Coun-
ell OF the ChOctaw nation approve OF it.
FIRE AT THE ANTIErAM PAPER MILLS
One OF the large brick buildings of the Aatie-