Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-24
xLIIId CONGRESS.


The Judiciary Committee Of the Senate. re-
ported back the House Bankruptcy bih with
amendmenta.
Mr.. Bogy addressed the Senate ON the fnan-
eial question, favoriDg an initiation Of the cur
rency. He thought there had been an unequal
distribution Of the currency. The six New
England States had received Sll0,000,0 900,
when they were entitled TO but $50 600, 900
the Middle States had received an excess OF
$4,000, 600, while the Southern States were
deficient in their portion S5l ,000, 900, and the
Western States S2l, 000, 900. he advocated the
reissue of the S44 600, 900 legal tender reserve,
an additional issue Of 100000 900 in legal tend
ers, and an issue OF 25,OOO,OOO in national
bank notes TO Western banks.
A petition OF citizens of Pennsylvania was
presented asking for the appointment Of
commission to regulate the sale Of alcoholic
liquor
During the salary bill debate, Mr.. Flanagan,
Ct Texas, said if there was guilt pertaining to
any Senator who advocated the passage Of the
bill increasing salaries he was guilty. He
favored the passage and voted for 1t out of the
purest motives, as he believed Congress had
right to enact said law. He thought $500
not an excessive salary, and had remarked
when the bill passed that it should have been
$4,000. Since then he has not changed his
opinion. He had drawn the money (producing
the greenbacks from his pocket); Here they
are, sir; this is my pay; am goingsto fight
for it till the last" (Laughter) "Ihaye not
stolen that pay; l have done nothing that
preys upon my conscience; have endeavored
to earn it." (Renewed laughter) Carpenter,
of Wisconsin, said he had spent the back pay
drawn last session faithfully and thoroughly,
and he knew of no power under the Constitu-
ton to get it back. 1t would be question be-
tween the Government and his creditors, and
he would leave them to fight it out" laugh
ter.)
Mr.. Sumner presented petition of 1919
persons of Ohio against the proposed theo-
logical amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. He said the total length of the
petition was 953 feet. Referred to the Com
mittee on Judiciary
Mr.. Pratt's amendment to the Salary bill
which provides that the pay for the balance of
this Congress shall be such amount as to make
the total, with that already received ($1O, O0O).
$4,000 for each year, was rejected by As nays
to IA yeas.
HOUSE.
Over 100 bills were presented on the open
ing day of the House.
Mr.. Dawes offered resolution directing the
Surgeon General of the army to detail one or
more medical officers of the army to visit the
towns at which cholera prevailed during 1873,
or such of them as the Surgeon General may
deem necessary and confer with the health
authorities and the resident physicians of such
towns and collect all facts of Importance with
reference to such epidemic, and to make de-
tailed report on or before January, 1875. He
stated that his attention and that of the Sur
geon General had been called to the great i'm
portance Of tho subject by letters from Mr..
j. Proctor Knott, formerly q Representative
from Kentucky. The resolution was adopted.
Mr.. Wheeler from the Committee on Appro-
priations, reported the Army Appropriation BILL
oYNriot i,oer Oh, l.
special order. The original estimate called for
$34, SS1 ,61S The Secretary of War, on the re-
vision ordered by the House, reduced them to
$780, 768, TIC. The Committee on Appropri-
alton has further reduced them by the sum of
"a, 319, 799.
Mr.. Stephens made long speech on the
civil service BILL in which he admitted that his
opposition sprung from no prejudice on ac-
count of color.
The House Committee on Railroads and
Canals agreed to a bill regulating charges by
railroads for transporting passengers and
freight.
The Military Committee is about equally
divided as to the course to be pursued in the
case of Gen. Howard.
The Civil Service Committee have begun an
investigation to determine whether the bust
ness of the Government cannot be managed
more economically.
Mr.. Sypher of La, asked leave to introduce
joint resolution, which he said had the ap-
proval of the President 1t recited that well
authenticated reports specifically brought to
the capital by Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana
shew that in certain localities of the South the
people are destitute and in condition OF
starvation owing to the failure of the crops
and it directs the Secretary of War to issue
army rations in such quantities as may be re.
quired to alleviate the immediate suffering OF
the inhabitants of those destitute communi.
ties
| Mr.. Butler of Massachusetts spoke in favor
of the supplementary Civil Rights bill, closing
| the debate; the bill was recommitted witt
leave to report at any time.
The resolution for the relief of destitution ii
the South was reported upon adversely.
A bill appointing Asa Gray, J. d. Dana
Henry Coppee, John Mclean, and Peter Parker
regents of the Smithsonian Institution wal
passed.
In discussing the House appropriation bill
Mr.. Archer of Maryland, said the difficulties
with Spain had not passed by. There had beef
a probability that the relations with Spail
might remain peaceful while CASTELAR, was a
the head of the Spanish Government, for Gas
telar was known to be friend of the American
republic. But that very friendship had caused
his deposition, and in his place is now TIN
bloody Serrano, who had nothing but hatre,
and dislike to the United States, and yet tn
proposition was that the navy should stand
not on the usual peace basis, but one-fourtl
below the usual peace basis. No greater mis-
take can be made than in cutting down tn
navy in the cry of economy. The true econo
my was to keep up strong navy in order tina
war may be averted, not to be economics
until war comes, and then launch out into viii
expenditure.