The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-05-26
AID CONGREss....rIRsT SESSION.
WAsHNaToS, May 20
SENATE.

road to mortgage portion of its completed
road, provided nothing in such act shall bt
construed as cnlarging present obligation!
Of the United States TO said road wa
passed, MS was also a bill providing that al
soldiers or sailors who lost an arm aboy,
the elbow shall receive 1914 per month.
The conference report of the committee
on naval appropriations was called up an,
agreed to.
A resolution excluding all persons from
the marble room and corridors vino are moi
entitled to the privileges of the door was
passed
Messages were received flom the Pres
dent transmitting the answers from the
heads Of departments in regard to tho
working of the civil service commission,
and the papers and correspondence in re-
lation to the trouble in Arkansas printed
and laid on table.
The senate then resumed the discussion
of the deficiency appropriation bill.
Pending the discussion the chair laid be-
tore the senate. a resolution of the house
announcing the death OF Hon. David B.
Mellish of New York. and inviting the
senate to attend his funeral in the hall of
the House at four ococl; tomorrow after
noon.
Mr.. Conkling said that the time and oc-
casion was not suitable to notice the life
and character of him whose funeral the
Senate had been invited to attend. The
circumstances of the death of Mr. Mellish
were peculiarly distressing He came to
Congress with health and strength on the
first of December last, at the beginning of
the present Congress, and his labors wore
away his existence. He died of those per-
plexites and harrassirg demands of which
so little is known except by those who en-
counter them. Commercial disaster had
wrecked the country, and Mr. Mellish adj
dressed himself with all his arlor and all
his energies to schemes financial in char
acter which week after week crowded both
houses Of congress. These problems alb
soibed his whole mind, and after few
months his nealth was unfortunately over
eXerton and he sank and died.
MIR Mellish was painstaiing. con-
sistent, industrious man, enjoying the
regards of all those who knew him. and
they were many, and his death would carry
deep distress to a large circle of friends.
In conclusion he offered resolutions of
respect to the memory of deceased, accept
ing the invitation Of the House to attend
his funeral, and declaring the Senate adj
journcd.
The Senate at 4;50 p. m. adjourned.
HOUSE.
The bills for the gradual reduction of
the army set down for Thursday next.
Mr.. Maynard, chairman of the commit
tee on banking and currency reported
back to substitute for the Senate the cur
rency bill for present consideration. After
reading the bill Mr.. Maynard moved for
to suspend the rules and take up the bill
for consideration. Lost; yeas, 1872 nays,
l0l; not two-thirds in the affirmative. Mr..
Maynard gave notice that he would call up
tie bill tomorrow.
Butler of massachusetts, moved to
suspend the rules and take up the Senate
supplementary civil rights bill and refer
it 20 the judiciary committee with leave to
report at any time Lost; yeas, 1913 !;
nays, 81; not two-thirds in the affirmative
Those who voted no were Benning of
Ohio, Bromley of Alabama, Butler of
Tennessee, Lorondes of Maryland Smith
of Virginia, Smith of North Carolina.
Strait of Minnesota and ThOrnbury Of
Tennessee.
Mr.. Treman of New York rose to an
nounce the death of his colleague Mr.
MelliSh and request that the usual and
proper action be taken by the House in
connection with that event.
In The course of his remarks he intimated
his belief that the death of Mclish was the
result of malady sprlngng from over
work. lie concluded by offering resolu-
tons for the appointment of committee
of five to take the order for experimenting
the funeral of Mellsh at four o'clock to-
morrow that the remains be removed to
Auburn, Mass. in charge of the sergeant
alarms and attended by the committee and
that the house now adjourn.
Remarks appropriate to the occasion
were made by Messrs. Wood Kelley. Law
renee, G. f. lloar and Cox.
Mr.. Kelley referred to Mellish as hay
ing learned the printing trade in the Office
of the Worcester Spy, Journal which he
he said had sent 50 many representatives to
the house, and he spoke in eulogy of his
simplicity and honesty of character as
shown by the fact that while he had
gathered knowledge and had sought spheres
of usefulness, had not gathered about him
the good things of this world. lie charac-
terized him as worthy man in every sense
of the word
Mr.. Hoar also commented on Mellish 5
contcntment with honorable poverty and
said that his public career was brief but
long enough for him who had ripened and
matured such truitage.
Mr. Cox spoke OF the event as one Of
double sadness, for Mr. Melish's mind was
gone before his body. 1t was therefore
double death, which the House deplorod to-
day. God had put out a light and then
put out the life. Resolutions were adopt
ed and the speaker appointed as commit
tee to superintcnd the funeral Messrs
Smart and Cox of New York Clement of
Illinois Harris Of Massachusetts, and Ma
gee of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Wood referred to Mr. Mellishs brief
public career, more productive of personal
fruit than had ever filled on his or any other
deliberaIive body within his life. lie trust
ed that the lesson taught by this would i'm