Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-12-11
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
FRIDAY, December II.
7 he SENATE is not in session 70 day.


HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE YES-On
motion OF Mr. Hooper (gass.) the Senate bin
aFFvIGtlng George B2oCIofG a Regent OF tle
Smithsonian IRsti. utlOn, vice VIM. L. sherman,
Iesiened, was taken up and passed.
The Senate amendme t. the bin for the
bihAlng oil extra copies OF the Revised Statu .es
Hss COncurred in.
Fir. orr, (IOWa,) from Committee on Public
a ds. reported bsCK the biii for tns relief OF
s5JiieTsOn public iards ID Iowa Minnesota, an 1
NetFAska. whose lands were devastated by
gTaS. .Eopptrs. Passed. Llt althOrizss tbs set
tiers 10 be absent from their lands without pre-
iud &C 10 Il cir titles or Claims
Ibe regular order was dem Ended aud the
Speaker announced that Jhe business ia order
vas The bill for the relief Of RO'lin Wnits.
which came over frCm last session.
hF. Holm IN (lnd-) rad read ths rule which
Ce eelaTes that all business coming over from d
previous session shaH lie considered after Ius
uCuse shalt be in session siNdays.
n 7. Kellogg Comm enqaiTed whether Mc.
Holman wanted TO oSstruct the bus ness OF the
House by aking this objection.
Mr.. Holman said he OEly desired - have the
rules of the House enforced.
The Speaker ruled that there was nothing in
the rule u prevent the Till being considered
nov.
The bill was tlon taken up. lit authorizes
the extension OF patent for firearms
PERSONAL EXPLANATION BY dg. GARF. ED.
Pending the confederation OF the bill,
Mr. Garfield (Ohi0) rose to personal expla-
nation and had read editorial from the
New York Tribune, in which tt was alleged that
the first steal of the session had CONE up in tue
shape OF the subsidy for the Pacific mail and
that it had come up in tne shape OF apprO-
PIiatiOn in the POst-Oaice appropriation bill,
coming from Gen. G1Fheld'S committee. Mr..
Garfield said lie did not presume that tue
editor OF the Tribune intended to do him an
Intentional wrong. lie was mlsied by
come cOTTesl OnGeut in New York. The declsra-
ton IN the article is that this is a half million
steal, and further down it is called robbery.
and lt is int!mated that the subject is nov
before the House. Ii did not need t. say here
the Committee on Appropriations had not vet
Te ported the Post OtiiCe bill; il has lot even
hesn taken up in the committee. and ne Gar
neid) had rot even examined the estimates of
tie Post Office department. The Committee
of Appropriations of the House met during the
recess and their attention was particularly
called to two matters. One was the great
cost attending the collection OF the customs
revenue, and the other WAS the deficiencies con
unuslly arising in the Post Office department.
SuO- committees were appointed to examine
both these matters; ana the Committee OF Ap-
pTOpristiOns will not act upOu either matter
until after the sub-co IOmittees shall have re-
ported. A few days ago Mr.. Tyner, who has
charge of the poet Office oil, requested that The
committee would not take il up Until after the
D hdag recess, In view OF this statement OF
facts he could not see how the Tribune could
charge that the committee was engaged in
half million steal, or that the four weeks OF
hard work wIlch ths committee was engaged
had been de Oted 10 meTcenary or 6ishOnOra bic
purposes, he made this statement to show on
what slight accounts members, were charged
with dishOnOFsbie actions.
MIR. TyneT (Ind.) said that last year the Post
master General in his annual report informed
the House that the Pacific Mail Company had
not complied with their contract, and canse-
quently no action was taken on the subsidy in
last years bill. This year the POstm aster Gen
eTal called attention to the matter by au opinion
which lie obtained from the Attorney General.
All that he (fyner) ever had to DO with the
matter at this session was TO move that the
cpiI ion OF the Attorney General be printed.
he had not even read the opinion.