Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-07-20
FOrty.F0urth Congress- First Session.
SENATE.


WashnQto July 10.
Windham, from the conference committee on
the sundry civil appropriation bill. submitted
port which he read In explanation of the report
he said that the bill as it originally passed the
House, appropriated Sl5, 256. 73l .56. The Senate
added 81 1876 $50, and as now reported it APP
propriated SIG 229777 50. The total amount OF
| reductions made from the bill as it passed the
Sc was $3, l53,747 40. The sundry civil bill
of last year appropriated SIG GA 5000 or $40,
4H4 51225 more than the present bill. He was
unable to see any great saving to the government
in the reductions made in the conference commit
tee from the bill as it passed the Senate.
Among the items constituting the reduction are
the following:
For the library of Congress, $i40O; public
printing and binding, Sl9l,770; lithographing
and binding $500; general expenses of the Dis
t,ict of Columbia 100000; board of health for
the District of Columbia, SlS27; revenue cater
service, 25,Gi0; courts 10 Utah. 1913 '00; col
lection of claims due the Enn.J ;, .tt~, 500 4,
defending suits against the SEC oi the treasury,
50 coo; repairs to insane asylum, $1,000; Smith
sonian Institute, $4,000; examination of rebel
archives, $4,000; L. S. postal guide, $4,000;
minis and usury Offices, 1854, 600; public building
at Boston, $50 600; at Cincinnati, SS0,900; at
Chicago, $25O,00O; at Trenton, n. j., so ,000
appraisers building at San Francisco, $50 900 ;
new state war and pavy department building
$s250,000 new building at Albany, $50, 900; navy
yards and stations, $5S5,000; improvement of
capt. oil grounds, 100000; temporary clerks in
the Treasury department. 100000; signal offices,
,000 testing iron aud stee,. so 900; survey
Of public lands, S72, 400 collecting receipts from
sales of public lands $l66, PIG; purchase of freed
mems bank building, 1925 900; committee of res
ovation in Washington, d. c., $4,000.
House.
The Senate bill extending the duration of the
court of commissioners of the Alabama claims I'M
til the first of January next was passed.
The House proceeded to the consideration of
the South Carolina contested election case. The
unanimous report of the committee being that
neither the sitting member (Mackey) nor the con
testant (Butts) is entitled to the seat. After
speeches by hackey in his own cause, and Thomp-
son of Mass in support of the committees report,
the report was agreed to without division.
Mr.. Walling of Ohio, asked leave to offer a
solution authorizing the committee public
lands to prosecute through sub committee dur
ing the recess, the Investigations into the Des
Moines River land grant, the Northern Pacific
Railroad Co.'S transactions, and those Of Lake
Superior and Puget Sound Land Company; but
objection was made by Mr. Hale of New York,
who express ed his intention OF objectng to all in
vestigaiions during the recess.
Mr.. Atkins of Tenn, made conference report
ON the army appropriation hill. The report was
agreed to, and the bill goes to the President for
signature.
The House at o'clock went into committee of
the whole MIR. Monroe of Ohio, in the Chain on
the bill for the protection Of the Texas frontier.