The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1874-07-01
Adjournment Of Congress.

Congress adjourned on Tuesday off
The past eK:~The appropriation
bills, as finally passed and approved,
give $4,000 for the Improvement of
Charleston harbor, Sl0o, for the
Charleston Customhouse, 4s156,oO0
|for.tha, Courthouse at Columbia, $780,
600 for the lighthouse on Morris Is
land, and $4,000 for the lighthouse
on Hunting Island only.ss4oo, 900
were appropriated to q the; t; L Louisiana !ia-p
sufferers. The new currency bill'proi
viding for the re distribution of the I'll
National Bank currency. has been
signed by the President, and has be-
come a law. Neither house would
concur in the others action regarding
| the civil service commission appoint
mcnts. 80 the section relating to- this
subject is ,altogethcr omitted. The
law under which the civil service
commission exists is not repealed, but
|no appropriation is made ,f5r continu-
ing its work or paying its. expenses.
The Senate rncedes from its amend
ment proposing to repeal last years
law, Which appropriated six hundred y
thousand dollars for replacing worn
out national bank ,nots, &C., So the
balance Of that appropriation is still
available. Tho House concurred lin
the Senate provision for the relief Of
the sufferers by the overflow of the
Southern rivers, with an amendment
reducing the amohnt from FIVE :hun-
drcd to four hundred, thousand
dollars. The Senate recedes from its
proposition to increase tho appropri-
alton for the new stato,,f war and
navy department. building from lsevcn
hundred ttos niae hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, so no provision is
made for the, commencement OF. ). the
north wing of~isaid, building. The
following Senate amendments are
agreed to by the House, and there-
fore become law: Appropriating
s342I3O4 for establishing, = new, life
saving stations on the sea and Jake:
coasts cf the United States; appro-
priating $4,000 for tho. erection Of
an equestrian Statue Of Nathaniel
Grcene; $4,000 for observing, the
transit of Vcnus; $4,000 for. collcc-.
ton of information regarding the fur
trade of Alaska !" s32,22O for, the
board of health Of tho District Of
Columbia; 100000 for surveying pub.
lie lands in Oregon, being an increase
I of $4,000; 100000 for improve
mcnt of the capitol grounds according
to the plans of Frcd. Law Olmstcd +;
$50, 900 for Columbia Deaf and Dumb
Asylum Building; 100000 for build
| ing of Women's Christian Associa.
tons; s25, GOO for Little Sisters Of
the Poor; $4,000 for lighthouse al
Rock Port Harbor, Maine; $4,000
for Lighthouse in Rcdgc's Strait,
Chcrapeakc Bay :;is15, 900 for build
ling a relief H. ightship for general ser
iSicc; 5000 for experiments regard
ing fog bells, and $4,000 for expert
ments with brccch-loading cannen;
$4,000 for the National Association
for. the relief coIorod women and
children in the District of Columbia.
The compliments of the New York
HcraM upon the action of Congress
arc of negative character. 1t says:
"Thcy might have passed a currcn-
cy bill over the Presidents veto
They might have endowed the North
ern cr the Southern Pacific railways
with a new grant of LANDS. They
could have irretricvably dishonored
The country in this Geneva business.
They had it in their power to have
confirmed tho usurpation of 1he
Brooks faction in Arkansas. They
could have increased the Pennsyl-
vania branches Of the tariff or voted
a largcd subsidy To the Centennial.
whey might have confirmed the
Washington government in its pccu-
liar and extraordinary aggregation
of power, and they were sorcly tempt
ed 70 passia railway law in the inter
est of the rgrangers. They could not
have .oserlooked the Sanborn affair
and confirmed tue moiety laws. Not
|tohhave done these things, required
the manifestation OF extreme self
depial. This Congress may be hon
orcd forsthec cpossessionain' an, eminent
degree Of that most precious of Budd-:
hist virtues" .;,..,,.,..5. "a, a..
( The ,e same paper presents also the
following summary, .rto n.-;,o
Tho unfinished business embraces
first the Civil Rights bill, an untime-
III and perniciousl measure of senti-
mental qequality, which has beon.
wisely kept on the table intheiHousei;i
next, the bill for. the, refunding of
| tho cotton tax collected during sever
Iaal years from the Southern States,
I and amounting in' the aggregate to
some .as70iooO;000.' TGAlso, various
[ steamship. subsidy and ocean tele-
graph cable schemes; and new pen,
sion bills and q variety of Southern
claims, amounting to many million Of
dollars and the general Territorial
railway bill, cut down in the Senate
to a, comparatively harmless affair
but still left over in tho House as a
stupendous job. -. ...:.,...,'.......,+r
The reconstruction" Of tho District
of Columbia is one Of tho most wide