The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-08-05
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
TO THE DAILY LNqELLIGEN0ER
c o N G r E S S.
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HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, August 4.
The House Committee ON the Re-
sumption Act.
The House Committee on Banking and
Currency to-day decided by a vote of six
against four 10 report and recommend
the passage Of the bill providing for the
repeal Of the resumption clause Of the
third section Of the specie resumption act
OF 1874. They also agreed to report with
only verbal amendments to the joint res.
olution introduced last Monday by
Representative Gibson, Of Louisiana, pro-
viding for the appointment Of commits
sion ofthree members OF the House, three
OF the Senate, and three experts
10 investigate the silver question and
general policy and best means Of facili-
tating the resumption OF specie payments,
and the result Of their inquiries to be re-
ported 10 Congress on or before the 18th
Of January next. The favorable action
Of the committee on the resumption re-
peal bill was secured by the change in
the position Of Gibson, who had hereto
fore voted with the Republicans against
1t Mr.. Hubbell, (Rep.) Of Michigan,
did not vote in the committee, but says
he win vote in the House tortbe repeal.
The. vote In detail was as follows:
For repeal, Cox, Payne, Goode, Gibson,
Raymond and Burchard, OF Wis; against,
Mike, Townsend, Of Penn, Kasson and
| Eamos. not vntinp. Huhbell
Mr.. Dunnell, from the Committee on
Commerce, reported back Senate bill es-
tablishing the port Of St. Paul as port
OF appraisal. Passed.
Mr.. Hurlbut, from the Committee on
Civil Service Reform, submitted the re-
port Of the committee in regard to the
Chicago Pension office, the evidence Of
which was ordered to, be printed.
The committee recommend the passage
OF a resolution declaring gthat the accept
ance or demanding Of money by any per.
son-as consideration for real or pre-
tended influence in procuring an appoint.
ment to public Office is disgraceful to the
individual and prejudicial to the public
interests, and that such misconduct Is a
good cause for removal, and directing
the Judiciary Committee to report bill
for the punishment OF such ofienses..
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.
Mr.. Hereford moved that the HOUSE
now concur in the Senate amendments to
the River and Harbor Appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Holman said he was opposed to
the whole bill but he understood the Sen.
ate amendments reduced the House ap.
propriations and he therefore moved
they be confirmed in Congress. He said
the measure was the bill OF the people,
par excellence, the bill that the grangsrs
and farmers desired to have passed, that
they might have change of. Transports.
ton. ....f'Is 7.-'
Mr.. Holman's motion was rejected and
he then moved to lay the bill on the table.
Rejected; yeas 40, nays 143.
Mr.. Hereford's motion was agreed to
and a conference committee was appoint.
ed as follows: Messrs. Hereford, Reagan
and Dunnell.
Mr.. Banning, Chairman Of the Com.
mittee on Military Affairs, submitted
report on the matter. Of CONTRACT for
soldiers headstones. The report declares
the contract was irregular in Its cfarac.
ter and il reflects somewhat severely on
ex.Secretary Belknap but recommends no
action, Ordered printed. - '.''i
Mr.. GARFIELD ON GENERAL POLITICS.
The House went into Committee OF the
Whole, Mr.. Eden, Of Illiuois, in the
chair, and was addressed by Mr.. Garfield
on the subject OF general politics. Mr..
Garfield expressed his regret that he had
not been able to see Mr. Lamar's speech
in the Record, but still it had been so
clearly stated and so logically connected
that he could scarcely err in comment.
ing on II. The speech was an earnest
attempt to make progress in the direc-
tion OF a return to good feeling, and so
far It met his (Garfeld's) earnest concur.
renee. The gentleman had complained
OF two great evils and obstacles to reform
first, tho generally corrupt state OF the
administration OF affairs; and second,
the serious corrupt state Of the civil SER
vice. The deductions OF the speech were
that the Republican party was incapable
OF eifecting the great reform needed, and
that therefore
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. is.
ought 10 be brought into power in the
coming election. This had been the main
logic Of his speech. d-.4s,rs q y
lie (Garfeld) Ahould attempt u Show
that the good which the gentleman sought
was not TO be secured by the ascehdancy
Of the Democrsticparty atthis time.
He had noticed one striking omission
in the logic Of the speech, and that was
that It made no attempt to provo the fit
ness OF tho Democrats to accomplish the
needed reform, and without that proof OF
fitness the arguments must Of course be
an absolute failure. Was the gentleman
Lamar correct in tho statement that the
party
CONQUERED IN THE LATE CIVIL WAR
had adopted or acquisced in the results Of
the war. He( Garield) went further and
asked whether the results Of war had
been adopted? Great ideas, he said,
travel slowly and often times noiselessly,
like the footsteps Of the Gods whose feet
were shod with wool.
1t would not do to speak ot the gigantic
revolution through which the country
had lately passed, as thing TO be bound
upby mere change OF administration.
Il was an epochal century, and one to be
looked at in It's broad and grand'prospec-
tive. rtI
SENATE. .--ie..
A concurrent resolution, providing for
final adjournment on Monday next, was
read, and Mr.. Window moved II be re-
ferred to the Committee on Appropria-
On motion of Mr.. Insalls, The Senate In
sisted on It's amendments 10 the bill TO
provide for the sale Of the Usage ceded