The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-29
43D CONERESS...-FiRST SESSION.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April

43D C0NGRESS..--FiRST SESSION.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, April 90.
The question being on Mr. Wright's mo-
tiCn to lay aside the Louisiana bill and pro-
coed to the consideration of the finance bill
and The Presidents message, Mr. Conkling
asked unanimous consent to have the sub
ject made the special order for Friday and
that vote bc taken then without debate.
The motion gave rise To- debate, which
incidentally involved the treatment of SEN
ator Sumner by the administration for his
position on the San Domingo question and
his displacement from the craftsmanship of
the foreign relations committee. The de
bate was participated in by nearly every
prominent senator present, but was finally
ruled out of order.
Mr. Merrimon objected to Mr. Conkling's
motion, and the debate was then confined
to the subject under consideration. A vote
was finally reached and Mr. Wright's mo-
ti'l dN'INuuf itdo cP my 80
The chair announced that the finance
bill was before the Senate, and the ques-
ton was, should it pass notwithstanding
the presidents objections. Upon this
question the constitution required that
vote should be taken by yeas and nays.
No one taking the floor, the roll was called
and the vote resulted, yeas 81, nays 30.
Two-thrds not voting in the affirmative,
the bill was lost.
After short executive session the sen
ate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Wood of New York, offered the fol-
lowing resolution, which was referred to
the committee on ways and means.
Resolved. That the committee on ways
and means be authorized and directed to
inquire whether any, and if so, whom of
the Unitcl States government officials of
the city of New York, have absented
themselves from their official duties, TO
influence and control by corrupt or improp-
er means state legislation at the capitol of
the state, and also whether for that object
they have offered to members of
the legislature as inducements, and also
places of profit connected with their Offices
in New York to be given after the adjourn
ment of the legislature.
The House then took up the legislative
appropriation bill, anu Garfield, chairman
of the committee, addressed the house, Civ
ing review of the provisions of the bill
and the changes made in it by the commit
tee of the whole.
The question of printing bank notes and
bonds, was debated at considerable length
by Messrs Garfield, Dawes, Hale of Name,
Potter, Randall. Maynard and others.
An amendment having been voiedby the
committee of the whole, increasing the APP
preparation for that purpose from 1900, 900
to 81 $50, 900.
The objection made TO that amendment
by Messrs Dawes, Hale and Potter was
that its object was to break up the present
system of printing the bank notes and
bonds which worked well and vas pro
perry guarded with all the necessary checks
and. to place the matter in tie hands OF
printing division of the treasury or virtual
" in the hands Of one man, and it was
charged in the course of the discussion
that one of the objects was to give the
work to the Columbia bank note engraving
company in Washington. At last the dis
cussion closed and the House proceeded to
| vote on the various amendments. The
amendment increasing the salaries of some
of the officers of the house was agreed &c
without yeas and nays.
The amendment appropriatng $4,000
! for the purchase OF official stamps for the
treasury department instead of 100000
the object being to break up the system OF
requiring each department to pay its owl
postage was agreed to yeas 1870, nays 30.
The House refused to agree to thu
amendments striking out the items fo
horses aud carriages for the department o
justice; yeas 100, nays 105
The amendmC mt offered by Mr.. Spicer o
Pa. requiring the encouragement to re
port IN detail the expenditures of the con
tingent fund was agreed to; also tn
amendment requiring clerks and marshal
of district courts to be residents of the DIS
trict. The amendment in reference to the en-
craving and printing of notes and bonds b.
the treasury department, increasing tn
amount from 500, 900 to SLIPS, 900, wa
agreed to; yeas 1853, nays 53.
The paragraph approprating S625,OO
for printing notes, bonds. etc, was stricke
out without division. The amendmen
exempting appropriations for river an
harbor improvements, lighthouses, an
certain public works from the law whic
requires uneXpended balances of approprif
tons to be carried to the surplus fund an
conveyed into the treasury at the cxpiri
ton of two years, was agreed to without
division. These were all the importan
amendments. The bill was then passed
aud the house at 5;15 adjourned.