Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1874-05-28

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SENATE.
!, WAsH1NaroN, Msy LA resolution
of the House for final adjournment on
the 22d of June, was received and
agreed to. 4
Pending further discussion of the
civil rights bill. the Senate adjourned.
. HOUSE.
The House at - 30 went into Com
mittee of the Whole ON the Postofflce
Appropriation Bill.
Mr.. Tyner, who had charge Of the
bill, replied to certain remarks of
Messrs. Holman and Wood in criti-
cism of the bill. He said the average
increase of the expenditures Of the
Postofice Department was only seven
per cent while there was an average
increase In business of ten per cent.--
He denied that the rates paid the rail-
roads were too high, and showed, ia.
king the Erie railroad as . criterion,
that the mails were carried atless than
4 second and third class freight.
Mr.. Mills moved to amend by max
ing the agricultural report free Of pos
tage. 'q a ,8
After discussion the amendment
was adopted by vote of 68 to 40.
Tho Committee rose and the House
adjourned
SENATE.
WAsH1NGrox, May 2l.-At one
O'Clock, after reading the journal, Tip
ton moved that the part relating to
the adjournment yesterday be struck
out as 1t disagreed with tho record.
Carpenter said the Journal was cor
rect. M4tt M
Upton moved that tho reading be
adjourned till one o'clock tomorrow
on account Of the marriage in the
Presidents family"
Hamlin and others said no such
reason was given yesterday. w
Upton thought the reason should be
given for an adjournment when the
Senate has business 20 pressing.
On motion Of Hamlin Tipfons mo-
tion was tabled.
Mr.. West, from Committee on Trans
portati0D, reported two Senate bills
for the Improvement of the mouth Of
the Mississippi, which were plsced on
the calendar.
The Senate then resumed the con.
sideration Of the Civil Rights bill aud
Mr.. johnson spoke in opposition and
Mr., West in favor.
Mr.. Frclinghuysen gave notice that
he would tomorrow ask the Senate to
remain in session to finish the bill.
The P0st0fice and Pension ApprO-
priati0n bills were received from the
House and referred to the Committee
on Appropriations. The Senate then
adjourned.
HOUSE.
The amendment adopted yesterday
in Committee of the Whole providing
for the free transmission through tho
mails Of certain agricultural reports,
was agreed to.
The following Western members
voted in the negative: CrOunse, Ne
braska; Hawley, Morrison, Robinson
and Ward, of Illinois; Kass0n and
McCrary, of Iowa; Stannsrd, Wells
and Stone, Of Missouri.
The bill then passed.
The House then took up the bill TO
repeal the moiety contract system.
In reply to suggestion, by Mr.. Po-
land, that the bill be postponed until
| Mr.. Butler, of Mass, was able to ap-
pear, Mr.. Foster said he had heen in
formed by some of Mr.. Buffers
friends that it would be several days
before he would be able to attend the
sessions OF the House, and that he was
willing the subject should be proceed.
| ed with. ss~aS ss
Mr.. Foster then addressed the House
| in review of the questions contested
| with the Sanborn contracts. He de-
nounced the system under which they
were made, and severely criticised tho
carelessness and general loose man.
agement of the Treasury officials In
| the matter, and said their attempts to
shift the responsibility from one to
the other was discreditable to all OF
them. It was impossible to determine
exactly where the responsibility for
ed, bnt 1t was somewhere in the Treas
ury Department; but at the same time
there was nothing to show that any
Treasury official had any corrupt con
nection with Sanborn. In conclusion
he complimented the Republican party
for it's courage in purifying itself, and
said that the Republicans wore deter
| mined to have 1t understood that
whenever and wherever corrupt Of
l fetal head presented itself there should
be Republican club raised to hit
The matter went over without action.
The bill for the admission Of New
| Mexico as State came up as special
order, and after discussion by
AIessrs. Nc. Kee, Haskins and kasson
| in favor, and Messrs. Potter, &. +
Hoar and Cox in opposition, II passed
by vote Of l60 to 81.
| Mr.. Maynard from the Banking and
Currency Committee. presented re- i
port ON the Senate substitute for the
Currency bill and gave notice that he
The House then adjourned.
HOUSE.
| WAsHnGroN, May 22-Lawrence
from the Committce on War Claims,
reported bill making appropriations
| for the payment OF claims reported A.
lowed BY the Commissioners Of Claims
under the act OF March. 1871. He
stated that tho hill SLOWED claims az
| fgregating GIG thOusaud dollars. He
moved 10 strikG out the claim OF 40
thousand dollars to William Baily, OF
Rapids Parish, Louisians, for cotton
destroyed, arguing that proofs existed
Of his disleyalty in the early part OF
A-fter discussion the House refused
to strike ont tho claim.
The House thcn wont into Commit
tee OF the whole ON private calendar. i