The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-04-18
ADD CONGRESS....FiRST SESSION.
SENATE.
WAsHlNGroN, April Il.

for the purchase of bonds OF the Coursvillc
and Portland canal company.
Mr.. Conklng said he did not accept the
suggestion that this was local question,
1t fell to the lot of the state Of New York
to pay one sixth of the tax gathered in the
Union, as she had within her borders one
eleventh of the population of the country,
and he need not apologize for raising his
voice against buying the canal.
Pending the discussion, the morning
hour expired and the Senate resumed the
consideration of the Louisiana bill. and Mr.
Upton concluded his speech, began yester-
day. He says he apprehcnded the minds
of the Senators were all made UP on tho
Louisiana question, and should a vote be
taken tomorrow, the Senators would vote
as they now thought, and would not be in
fuenced by anything he might say. Never
theless he had his views and felt it to be
incumbent upon him to give expression to
them. 1t was a serious question for Con-
gress to consider whether in saving the
Union it had not lost states. People were
looking to the federal government as the
only power. But short time ago the peo-
pie of Texas were calling upon the United
States for protection, and the state of Ar
kansas was doing the same thing to-day
lie read from the report made TO the
Senate last winter by the committee on
privileges and elections deploriBg federal
interference in louisiana affairs.
HOUSE.
After some discussion az to the order of
business, in which the speaker remarked
that there was more private business at this
session than for fifteen years, the morning
hour was devoted to private bulls.
a bill was passed authorizing the Wash
ington City & Point Lookout railroad to
bridge the Potomac river above navigation.
Amended to request the removal of the
company's tracks from the grounds of the
Government insane asylum.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the legislative, judicial and
executive appropriation bill question, be-
ing on an amendment offered by Mr. But
Ter of Massachusetts, that after March,
1875, publication of laws in newspapers
shall not cease. Inserting the word mot
before the word cease" in the text.
The chair ruled that the amendment was
out of order
Mr. Butler appealed, bnt the committee
sustained the ruling.
An item appropIiating @50, 900 for post
aye stamps reopened the subject of frank
ing.
Mr. Butler proposed TO appropriate only
$4,000 for furnishing postage stamps. at
cost of manufacture.
Mr. Ward of Illinois proposed to have Of
fetal documents sent through the mails
free.
Mr. Garfield OF Ohio opposed both propo-
sltions and advocated the propriety OF each
department paying its own postage.
Mr. Butler stated that the post Office de-
partmcnt had a portion of its own business
carried through the mails free.
Mr. Dawes corroborated that statement
by the assertion that large boxes of postal
cards were sent every day from Springfield.
Mass, to all parts of the country, free
through the mails.
MI. Willard of Vermont, offered au
amendment to make the item read. Fol
furnishing officials postage stamps to an
dollars.
Garfield appealed to the committee either
to restole the iranking privilege openly
and squarely, or else take exactly the OPP
positc course and let the postoiicc depart
ment sell lis stamps to nil corners at thcil
face value.
After considerable discussion Willardl
amendment was adopted.
A long discussion occurred in reference
to the clerical force of the treasury de
partment. Garfield making an elaborate eX
PLANTATION of the bill in that respect, ant
Beck of Kentucky arraignng the admin
istration for extravaganza in the conduc
of public business.
Ward of Illinois suggested that no NOR,
pay should be given to male employees than
to the female employees for like service
while Niblack suggested that female EN-
ployes should be classified rs other clerks
All that was accomplished after long dis
the chief clerk and seven other principa
clerks of the treasury department, iron
SO, 900 to 50 800 The committee then, at
rose. and the House adjourned