New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-06-16
WASHINGTON.


y.px Fl. TrRFs OF THE RIII-PROTEsT OF DEMO
Gratis AND A REPUBLICAN AGAINST THE oBNoA-
yOJys sRcrIoN-HoPE THAT THE HOUSE WILL NE
JEcT THE BILL
lBY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUSE.l
WASHINGTON June 5-Conkhng and Carpenter
,oined hands to-day, and drove their party team
through the Senate with greater cracking OF WHIPS
than has been heard in that body for many uay'
Senator Carpenter from the Committee on the Ju-
a;cio,v introduced on Friday last a long bill to
5eermipe the jurisdiction of circuit courts OF the
limited States and to regulate the removal OF causes
from State courts and for other purposes" IL re-
peas certain parts of the Judiciary act of 1852 and
of almost every amcndatory act passed since, ana
makes many important changes in the rules govern
ing the jurisdiction of the United States circuit
courts The whole effect of the bill cen only be de-
termined by careful legal analysis.
This morning Senator CARPENTER reported from the
same Committee House bill on similar subject
with the Senate bill referred to above as substi-
fute and asked for its immediate passage. Section
II of this bill is as follows:
That process in any Circuit Court OF the
United States in any court OF any Territory oi 'ne
United States, Of the District OF Columbia, any CIVIL
suit not affecting the title to real estate not wthh the
state territory district where said suit is brought
against corporation other person residing I'D tue
United States and doing business in the State, Terri
tory or district said suit is brought and having
In State Territory, district where SAID suit is
brought agents in respect OF the matter out
OF which the case arises. be made by delivery 10
such agent either OF such agents. where there
more than one Of copy Of process and such ser
vice shall have the force and effect as II made
upon principal OF such agent in the STATE TERRITORY,
or District OF Columbia, where the suit is brought
Provided however, that this section shall not apply to
any suit cause Of action accruing before July
1874
oo11a d bvS a61 pip oh on
Republican side, and by Senator Bayard and several
other Democrats to the effect of this section Sena-
tor Bayard moved to exclude from the operations OF
the section cases of SANDER and libel. He showed
that unless this amendment agreed to, 1T would
be in the power of any person to begin SUIT Tor
libel or SANDER against any newspaper IN the cOun
try in the courts Of this District in any remote
corner OF the country, and if he could discover an
agent OF correspondent of the paper in washington,
or in the district where the suit was begun, and
serve a process on bin, the defendant would be
forced to answer to the suit there. Under the
present laws the process must be served Oh the
principal in person in the district where the suit is
begun OF the plaintiff must begin the suit where the
defendant resides What the effect of this act Will be
on the freedom of the Press can tell. If every
newspaper IN the country that criticises public
officer is to be required to answer to civil suit IN
the courts of the District of Columbia, instead of in
The courts of the district where the paper is pub
lshed public officers in Washington will have 1t In
their power to greatly embarrass newspaper pub
lshers and curtal the freedom of the press. 1t is
the belief of many that the main object of Senators
Conklng and Carpenter in sustaining this section
with the spirit they did, was to get the press, on
which neither wastes any love- more In their power
than ever. They desire to give the plaintiffs the
right to choose any court throughout the entire
I,chf trv IN N
yeniept OF EXPENSIVE 1t may be to the defendant.
The amendment of Senator Bayard was disagreed
to bv a large majority. Senator Wadleigh, who OPP
posed the section very ably from the Republican
side of the Senate, demonstrated that newspaper
publishers would not suffer alone should this bill
pass 1t would make it unsafe for man IN any
kind Of business TO employ an agent Suppose a
man in San Francisco or Texas should desire TO sue
n merchant ia New-York, and should begin suit in
the United States Circuit Court OF either OF those
remote States. all that would be necessary In order
10 force the NewYorker 10 go thousands of miles
from home to defend himself, would be to catch
some travelling salesman Of the latter and serve the
process on him.
Rnt all the exposures were of no avail COnk
ling and CARPENTER were determined to force the
thing through and they allowed only one amend
ment to be admitted-one to provide that copy OF
The process should also be served on the principal
anywhere in the United States. This improves the
bill by removing the possibility OF having judgment
pronounced against man In distant state With
out his knowledge that suit has been begun. 1t is
expected that this bill will be stopped in the House
PASSAGE OF THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPRO-
PRIATION BILL BY THE HOUSE.
THE CHoCTAw NATIONS CLAIM LAID OVER UNTIL
THE NEXT sEssIoN-AlEGED LOBBYING TO Sc
CURE THE PAYMENT OF THE CLAM-BUTLER
COMPLETES HIS VICTORY OVER CIVIL SERVICE
REFoRM-THE AMENDMENT REGULATING THE
WAGES OF PRINTERS IN GOVERNMENT OFFICES
REJECTED.
iBY TELEGRAPH THE TRIBUSEl
WASHINGTON June l5.-1he Sundry Civil Appro
priation bill which has been for four days in prog
ress through the Committee of the Whole, sue
ceeded to-day in getting through that crucible and
in finally passing the House. 1t apprOpriates about
S23OlOe0o being some S9,000,00O less than the like
bill Of last session.
The great point Of discussion to-day and on which
much feeling was manifested both sides, was
proposition TO pay the Choctaw Nation of Indians
S29OOOOO being an amount awarded by the Senate,
in 1883 as due 10 the nation for 100000 acres Of
land in Mississippi which the ChOctaws and Chicka-
saws ceded 10 the United States In 1880. There was
little or no question the intrinsic merits OF the
claim The objections to it were, first, that
IT should have been foisted into General Appropra
ton bin, which was done under suspension of the
rules. and second that the bonds in payment were
20 be delivered, not to the Choctaw Nation but to
two of its delegates by name Peter P. Pitchlynn
and Peter Folsom, il being asserted that the floor
and corridors we're swarming with lobbyists, among
whom the bonds were to be distributed to the
amount Of 100000 In view of these allegations,
winch formed the staple of the discussion, amend