New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-27
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l So4H 4H0ANCASSs
WASHINGTON. February 26-fennsylva.
| mia has petitioned against the restoration OF
| the duty on tea and coffee.
The bill authorizing the use OF the reve-
| nue. cutter Relief, in Mobile har0Or, as q
I boarding Institution. goes to the Eresloent.
Mr.. Gordon. from the Committee on
Commerce, reported House bill for the re-
lief of Henry 5. Wales, which authorizes
! the payment to him of $l96.000 for remOv-
| ing distractions in the Savannah Sivsr.
The bill was passed.
! Senator Cameron moved 70 take up the
| centennial bill.
Mr. Sargent moved to take up the naval
! appropriation bill.
| Mr.. Cameron thought the vote should be
| taken first on his motion.
| The Chair said, as the morning hour had
| expired. the question would first be on Mr..
1 Saryents motion. but If majority OF the
| Senate opposed it would be voted down,
| and the then question would be on The MO-
ton of Mr.. Cameron.
Mr.. Cameron said, very we'll, he hopedthat
| would be the understanding, and that the
friends of his bill would govern themselves
accordingly.
Mr.. Sargent made some remarks, showing
the necessity of proceeding with the apprO.
priation bills, not one Of which bad yet
| been considered.
Senator Sherman expressed his willing.
ness to have the finance question postponed
| until Tuesday next. He did hope on that
day the Senate would come to vote.
Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, would object 20
ANYTHING that would postpone the financial
matter later than Tuesday.
! Mr.. Sargent thought that two legislative
days would be sufficient to dispose OF the
naval bill.
Mr. Cameron said he would object to any
thing until the centennial bill was disposed
of.
| Mr.. Sherman moved that further oOns-
deration of the financial question be post
poned until Tuesday next. Agreed to.
Mr.. Cameron then moved to take up the
centennial bill.
Mr.. Sumner thought that the regular ap.
preparation bills should precede the irregu-
| lar appropriation bills.
Mr.. Thurman said he should vote against
the bill. He thought this idea of hOldin g
| an exhibition was entirely distinctive of the
| proper celebration of American independ-
| ence, and Congress could not do a worse
thing than to put its hand into the treasury
and take out money for this purpose.
Mr.. Cameron resented the styling OF the
bill an appropriation bill.
| Mr. Sumner read the bill, and said no
| candid person could deny that it was an
entering wedge to calling upon Congress
l for large appropriation. He read dis.
I patch dated February l6, 1874, addressed
| by Mr.. Cameron to Mayor Stokely, of Phil
1 adelphia, expressing his desire that Mr..
| Stokely should be reelected, and assuring
him of his qualification to know that in that
event any appropriations voted By Congress
would be properly expended.
The Chair called Mr.. Sumner to order for
! discussing the merits of the bill.
Mr.. Cameron said he had written the dis
| ta%ob and ha annrOyod oVprV word of it.
He intimated that if Mcclure had been
elected he would not have been SO we'll
! satisfied as to the manner in which the
1 money would be spent.
The Chair called Mr. Cameron TO order
for discussing the merits of the bill.
Mr.. Sargeantiread from the first act passed
by Congress on the subject OF the cen.
I tennia. prohibiting the appropriation OF
any money on that account.
! After further discussion the motion to
take up the bill was decided in the mega
| tive:
Yeas-Alcorn, Bayard, Boreman, Buck.
ingham, Cameron, Carpenter, Clayton, Fen
! Hamlin, Hitchcock, Logan, Merrimon,
Mitchell, Morrill, of Vermont, Pease, Ram
sey, Ramson. Robertson, Scott, Sherman
| and West-23.
! Nays-Allison, Anthony, Bogy, Bout
we'll, Chandler, Conkling Cooper, Davis,
Ferry ef Connecticut, Flanagan, Gold
thwaite. Hogan, Hamilton of Maryland,
Hamilton, Texas, Howe, ingalls,, McCreery'
Morrill, of Maine, Norwood, Oglesby, Pratt,
Sargent. salisbury. Stockton, Sumner,
Thurman, Window and Wright-2s.
! The naval appropriation bill passed with
amendments. and goes to the House for
! concurrence.
The army appropriation bill, as reported
! from the Senate committee, makes reduc-
j =, ~ ir, hn opriat fpp
| regular supplies and incidental expenses OF
quartermaster's department, and OF $2lS,-
900 in sundry other items. The clause
limiting the allowance for travelling to ten
cents per mile is expunged and the section
transferring to the Southern claims
commission all claims from loyal States
now pending in the quartermaster and
cOmmissary departments is also omitted
from the bill as reported; all bal.
ances of appropriations for the service
| of the Quartermaster and COmmissary
Generals department remaining undrawn
on July /. 1872. are by this amendment GOV.
cred into the treasury. while these officers
are to continue to examine and act upon
the claims. The effect is to require spe-
ciai appropriation by Congress to pay
claimants. instead of their being paid as
| now through the third auditore
Senator West and the chairman Of the
committee opposed this action. as imposing
) vexatiOus delays. but were overruled IN
i. committee. There will be Q fierce tight
| over it in both houses, but the vexatious
/ delays will doubtless become the law.
House.
| The bill to revive the frahkine privilege
clumsily disguised as plan for tributing
! public documents, was at length, after a
weeks debate, brought to vote to-day
First came a motion to lay it on the table
! and that was defeated by a majority O1
eighteen. Then came substitute to restore
the franking privilege, pure and simple, but
| only fifty members had the daring honesty
80 vote for that, while 200 voted against it
Then came the final vote, and it wal
amusing to SEQ the nervousness of member
about it. Many who wished the bill to pass
not desiring to appear on the yea and nay
list, not voting and so the result was thu
I rejection of the bill by one majority against
it-l30 to I3l. 1t will probably be revived
tomorrow. Some thirty Democrats gatei
i g. l. l..