The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-03-05

clapplng OF naDus ny every oouy, tue TWO
sides seeming to vie With each other as to
which should be the hcarticst in its applause.
The Maine delegation just previous to adj
tournament presented the Speaker with &
handsome silver gayel. TIMoN.
xLlII. CONGREss--Second Session.
WASHINGTON, March 4, 1875.
SENATE.
The amendment to the appropriation bill
giving $4,000 to ante-bellun mail-con-
tractors, was ruled out of order.
The bill appropriating money for awards
of the Southern Claims Commission, after
striking out nine cases, involving Sol, 900,
was passed.
The bill to pay awards for quartermaster
and commssary stores taken during the war
was tabled.
The Fades bill for the Improvement of the
mouth of the Mississippi river was accepted
by the Committee of Conferenceas an amend
ment to the river and harbor bill.
The report of the committee of conference
on the bounty bill was laid on the table, and
the bill is therefore lost.
Among the bills which remain on the Sen
ate calendar at the close of the session to-
day, and which therefore failed, are the fol-
lowing: House general amnesty bill, which
reached the Senate in December, 1873; House
bill for the protection of elections, &C.,
known as the "caucus force BILL" which got
no further in the Senate than its second
reading.
All the various postal.telegraph bills intro.
duced in the Senate failed in the Senate.
The following bills were also left on the
Senate calendar and failed at adjournment:
Senate bills for the payment of the French
spo!ation claims; TO protect the navigable
waters of the United States from injury and
obstruction; declaring the true intent and
meaning of the Union Pacific railroad acts
to pay the two.per.cent. claim of the States OF
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; to establish
bureau of internal commerce; to make gene
raj provisions in regard to cable telegraphlc
communication; to grant pensions for SER
vice in the war with Mexico; to amend the
act granting pensions to survivors of the
war Of 1872; to regulate the counting OF
votes for President and Vice-President; the
bill of the joint committee to frame bet
ter government for the District of Colum.
ba, and many other Senate bills OF minor
Importance. Also, House bill, known. as the
" McCreary BILL" to regulate commerce by
railroad among the several States House
bill TO repeal the presumption laws and Sc
cure homestesds to actual settlers on the
public domain, and House steamboat bill.
MIR. GORDON called up the bill to amend
the act for the erection of public building
ut Atlanta for the Use Of the United States
court, and it was passed. The Secretary OF
the Treasury has discretion regarding the
material.
lNoTE.-Tbere ale various rumors about
the bounty bill, but it may be positively
stated that it is not law.l
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
All of the Senate amendments to the ap.
preparation bills were agreed to.
All the postal.teegraph bills originating in
the House failed in the House.
The House adjourned at II NJ.
Speaker BLAINE, in announcing the ad-
journment sine die, spoke as follows:
Gentlemen,-I close with this hour six
years service rs Speaker of the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES.. period surpassed in
length by but two Of my predecessors, and
equalled by only two others. The rapid mu-
tations of personal and political fortune in
this country have Limited the great majority
of those who have occupied this CHAIR to
shorter terms of office.
"It would be the gravest insensiblity to
the honors and responsibilities of life not to be
deeply touched by so signal mark of public
esteem as that which have thrice received
at the hands Of my political associates. de-
sire in this last moment to renew to them,
one and all, my thanks and my gratitude.
"To those from whom differ in my party
relations (the minority of this House,
III, LODI ont q
courtesy with which they have treated me.
By one of those sudden and decisive changes
hitch distinguish popular institutions, and
which conspicuously mark free people, that
minority is transformed in the ensuing Con-
,ress to the governing power OF the Heuse.
However it might possibly have been under
other circumstances, that event necessarily
renders these words my farewell to the
chair.
"The Speakersbip of the American House
If Representatives is d post OF honor, OF dig-
lity, Of power, Of responsibility. Its duties
ire at once complex and continuous; they
ire both onerous and delicate; they are per-
ormed in the broad light Of day, under the
we of the whole people, subject at all times
o the closest observation, and always attend
ID with the shsrpest criticism. L think no
,ther official is held to such instant and such
'igid accountability. Parliamentary rulings
n their very nature are peremptory: almost
Ibsolute in authority and instantaneous In
fleet. They cannot always be enforced in
'uch way as to win applause or secure pop.
llarity; but i am sure that no man OF any
party who il, worthy to fill this chair will
EVER see a dividing line between duty and
policy. .i-.r
Thanking you once more, and thanking
you most cordially, for the honorable testi.
nonial you have placed On record to my Gre
lit, perform my only remaining duty in
that the Forty-third Congress has
cached Its constitutional limit, and that the
House Of Representatives stands adjourned
delay" ..
Legislation of the Session.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-Among the other
prominent failures of the session are the
bills for the equalizations OF bCunties, for the
admission of New Mexico, and the Pexas
md Pacific and Northern Pacific railroads
oill, aud all other land grant or subsidy bills
except very few which proposed grants
merely Of rights ofI.Way. i. III
Aside from the regular appropriation bills
comparatively few bills Of general Interest
have been enacted this session, but they N