The Portland daily press., 1874-12-19
SENATE.

There was an immense crowd in the galleries
and corridors Punctually at quarter past
twelve the door keeper announced the presence
of the Senate, aud thereupon the members OF
that body, headed by Vice-Presdent Wilson,
fled into the hail. In ten minutes Afterwards
the fall of the Speakers gavel announced the
presence of the King at the main door, and
then. after the Senators and members had risen
to CHER feet, and while they remained standing,
the King, supported by Senator Cameron and
Representative 9th. walked down the aisle
and took position on the area in front OF the
Sneakers chair. Senator Cameron then SAID,
81 have the honor to present to the speaker
the King of the Hawaiian Islands -f
The Speaker, addressing the King, said: .
Your Maiesty-In behalf of the American
Congress, 1 welcome you to these mails. Inc
Senators from our states and the Representa-
tiyes of our people unite in cordial congratuia-
tiops upon your suspicious journey and on the
expression of the qualification and pleasure
afforded by your presence in the capital OF tne
nation as the nations guest. Your Majesty
appearapce among us is the first instance IN
which reigning sovereign has set foot upon
the soil of the United States, and it is signih-
liant circumstance that the visit comes to us
from the west and not from the east. Probably
no single event could more striklngly typity the
country's progress in your Majesty's country
and in our own than the scene here and now
;ranspiring. The rapid growth OF the Repub-
lie on its western coast has greatly enlarged our
intercourse with your insular kingdom, and has
led us all to acknowledge your wisdom and
beneficence as ruler and your exalted virtues
as man. Our whole people cherish for your
subjects the most friendly regards. They trust
and declare that the relations of the two coun-
tries will always be as peaceful as the great sea
that rolls between US, uniting and not dividing
u.s." .'' -"' 4'
The King had momentary conference with
one of his attendants, Judge Allen, and then
the latter. expressing his regret that the King
was so afflicted with a cold and hoarseness that
he was unable to read his reply to the Speakers
address, be proceeded to read it for him, as
follows: .....,... - ..r.
come most cordially thank you; for the dis
tinguished mark of confidence, tender to the
honorable Senate and House of Representa-
tives my highest sentiment of regard. Its IN
accord with the very courteous and generous
treatment have received from the executive
department of the government and from all
the people whom have had the pleasure to
meet since landed on the shore of the Pacific.
l appreciate the complimentary terms in which
the honorable Speaker has referred to me per.
sonally, for our success in our government and
for our progress in the higher civilization. We
are very much indebted to the government and
people of this great country. Your laws and
YOUR civilization have been in a great measure
our model 1 reciprocate most cordially the
hope for the continuance and growth of friend
ly relations between the two countries. am
mosr happy TO meet you, gentlemen, on. this
occasion.
The Speaker came down from the char and
was personally intr oduced to the King. After
an exchange of courteses the Speaker returned
to the chair, knocked with the gayel, calling
the members again to their feet, ana the king
retired as he had entered, followed by members
of the Senate, the spectators dispersed, and the
Houee proceeded with the business.
A bill for the relief of certain settlers upon
the public lands. who suffered from grashop-
pers passed.
roads, reported a bill for chartering double
track freight railway company from tide water
ir the Atlantic to the Missouri river, and to
limit the rates of freight thereon. Ordered
printed and recommitted.
The House then went into Committee OF the
Whole on the legislative appropriation bill.
A paragraph in relation to mileage of U. 5.
marshals and deputy marshals gave rise to a
long discussion, in the course of which the
Department of Justice was characterized by.
the Western district of Arkansas and the dis
trict of North Carolina were alluded to by Mr..
Speer of Pa. as being run by political thieves,
vampires aud scoundrels.
On the other hand the Department of Justice
wos defended by Mr.. Hale of Maine and Mr..
Maynard of Tenn.
The result of the discussion and vote was that
the provision in the last army appropriation bill
Prohibiting the allowance of mileage is not to
be construed as applying to legal travelling fees
of U. S. marshals. No fees however, are to be
allowed for constructive mileage, and all claims
for mileage are to be accompanied by sworn
proof that the distance for which mileage IS
claimed was actually and necessarily travelled
by the officer. .n .-..-,..
When the paragraph for the Department Of
Justice was reached, Mr.. Beck of Ky. moved
to strike it out, and renewed his attack upon
that Department, declaring that the Attorney
General was more guilty man in connection
with the affairs of Louisiana than Judge Dureh
himself, who had resigned and confessed his
guilt. He charged that the Department of
Justice had appealed from the decisions of the
courts of claims in the cotton cases and had
dismissed the appeals whenever the friends OF
the Department were employed and had their
fees arranged; that the Department had used
the army for the basest of purposes, and was a
department. of injustice instead of depart
ment of justice. When the proper time came
he would, if he got an opportunity, make good
what he had said about the Attorney General
and the Department of Justice.
Mr. Speer of Pa also criticised the fact that
the Attorney General had not complied with
the laws which required report to be made of
the expenditure of the contingent fund of the
Mr.. Garfield of Ohio replied to Messrs. Beck
and Speer, and criticised theluse of such words
as vampires, thieves, robbers and swindlers"
ment. He declared that, while the judiciary
DEPARTING ut had not always been as economical
as it ought to have been, there had been a
steady, earnest work done in cutting down
the expenses of that Department not alone by
the Committees of Congress. but by the
Department itself. The Republican majority in
Congress had on his (Gartield's) own motion
made the appropriations for contingencies de-
finite and precise, instead of appropriating, as
the Democrats had done in their rule, millions
of dollars in lump. Against what particular
thing in the bill he asked had the gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Speer) directed his thun-
der. That gentleman had been kicking against
the sky shooting at stars. His fuSil rOared ard
the skies re-echoed. Where were his birds?
Mr. Cox of NY, from his seat-The election
brought them down.
Mr.. Garfield (eautioning) If that gentle
man (Speer) sees anything wrong in the bill let
him point it out and will help him to set
right, but / cannot answer an lndictmeat
against the universe. am tired of this ever
lasting clamor, of this vagueDess and mere hur.
rah to which we are treated every hour, and II
we do not get up roar in answer, we are told
that there is no economy in the House. They
say we will show you our economy. The
country did wait and let you show your econo-
my for many years until the government had
run down and touched bottom in bankruptcy
and protest. In that broken condition the Re-
publican party saved the government from de.
graduation and slavery and ruin and treason and
rebellion, and lifted it up into the light of free
dom and into respect for the rights of man.
'.Bark, bark" said he, to the Democrats, "but
remember the glories you bark att
I. "Mr. Speer of Pa, replied to Mr.. Garfield
that he would not submit to rebuke from
that gentleman or to lecture from him on his
(Speer' 81 past course or that of his party. Per-
haps they had erred but the man who lifted
the rod of correction over them shonld be man
along whose pathway the light alone had shone
and not one who had come out of the mists and
clouds of suspicion if not of guilt
Mr.. Garfeld-(to member beside him.
What is that?
Mr.. Spear Overwhelming the question: say,
sit should not come from gentleman whe
came out of the mist and clouds of suspicion,
if not of guilt" If was fighting the stars
beg the gentleman to believe that was not
fighting him. If was discourteous. with
draw the remark which would bear that inter.
probation, but 1 am here not to be rebuked
while in the line of my public duty, and say
that it is not the right of gentleman on this
floor having charge of sncb important interests
as the gentleman from Ohio has, to answer SUI
perciiously at least, in the manner and in the
tone if not in the language, question proper
ly nat by a person properly authorized to put