The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1874-04-30
HOUSE.

| Under call of States many bills were in.
| troduced and referred, including one BY Mr.
| Lawrence to facilit ate the resumption OF spe'
Gle payments and prevent fluctuations in the
value of U. S. notes. 9.
BY Mr.. Grassland, repeating all laws i'm.
| posing tax on State banks.
By Mr.. Ford, to impose five per cent. on
\ all incomes Of individuals and corporate ns
exceeding 5000.
BY Mr.. Bright, declaring it oppressive TO
impose additional taxation, and IDeHpedient
| to retrench on necessary appropriations al
ready made in the interest of commerce. ard
providing as a measure of temporary relief
| for the issue of an additional fifty millions
of legal tender notes.
A message being received from the Senate
in reference to the death of Senator Sumner,
E. X. Hoar offered resolutions similar to
those adopted by the Senate, which were
agreed to, and Z. X. Hoar addressed the
House in eulcgy of Senator Summer.
Mr.. Hoar alluded to Mr.. Summers life
and gave brief history of his career TO the
hour of his death, which he attributed to the
| assault of Preston Brooks. No doubt be
died q martyr TO the cause of liberty az well
az those who fell on the field of battle. The
bludgeon preceded the bayonet, and the
battle in the civil war, which began long be-
fore 1861, and did its work OF death IS sure
ly if more slowly.
Mr.. Hoar paid high trihl,e TO Mr..
Summers grea: honesty aud IN gritty and
summed up by applying 10 him Iie euiogy
that had been pronounced on Milton. He
alluded to.Sumner's dying remark, that "be
was 30 weary; and closed by saying, the
"weary are at rest" The good and faith
ful servant has entered into the Joys of his
Lord.
Speeches were also made by Lamar, Orth,
Rainey, Dawes, Potter. Kelly, Nesmith, G.
II. Hoar, Conger and Phillips.
Washington, April 2s-Mr. Garfield from
appropriation committee reported a bill APP
propriating $50. 900 for to purchase rations
for the relief Of persons suffering from the
inundation of the lower Mississippi river
passed.
The House then took up the legislature
appropriation bill, and Mr.. Carried, chair
man OF the committee addressed the House,
giving resume of the provisions of bill and
charges made in it by the Committee of the
Whole.
The question OF printing bank notes and
bonds was debated upon at considerable
length by Messrs. Garfield, Dawes and Hsle
of Maine, Messrs. Potter, Randall and 9th
era. An amendment having been voted by
the Committee of the Whole increasing the
appropriation for tina; purpose FROM 500
600 to 81, 100000. Objections were made to
the amendment 10y Messrs. Dawes, Hale and
Potter, that its object was to break up
the present system OF printing bank notes
and bonds, which worked we'll and was pro-
4 St..
and so placed the matter in the hands Of the
printing division OF the Treasury or virtual
~ in the hands of one man. And IT WAS
charged in the course of the discussion that
one of the agents was to give work 10 the
Columbia Bank Note Engraving Company
in Washington at last. The discussion closed
and the House proceeded TO vote on various
amendments.
An amendment increasing the salaries OF
some OF the officers OF the House, which was
agreed to without the yeas and NAYS. The
amendmen, appropriating $500 for the
purpose of official stamp. for the Treasury
Department instead of $500, 600, the object
being to break up the system requiring each
Department to pay Its postige was agreed TO,
yeas $50. nays 80.
The House refused TO agree to the amend
Dlent making maXlmum pay OF udpeiH 10
seven dollars per day instead of i've. Also
refused to sgree to amendment striking out
item for horses and carriages fcr department
OF Justice Yeas 100, nays l03. An amend
ment was offered by Mr.. Speer requiring the
Attorney General to report in detail the ex-
pendi:ures OF the contingent fund. Agreed
to. Also amendment requiring clerks
and marshals, district collectors to be resid-
enis OF the district.
The amendment in reference TO tn, en-
craving and printing of notes and bonds by
the Treasury Department, increasing the
amount from $500 600 to 81, IL, 600,
was agreed to; yeas 155, nays So.
The paragraph appropria,ing SG25. 900
for the printing of notes, bonds, etc. was
striken out.
The amendment striking out the para
graph requiring the Department clerks 10
work seven hours day instead of six was
strnck out.
The amendment exemp'ing appropriations
for river and harbor improvements, light
houses and certain public works from the
law which requires unexpanded balances of
appropriations to he carried to the surplus
fund ard covered into the Treasury at the
expiration of two years was agreed to. TLese
were all the important amendments. The
bill then passed. and the House adjourned.