The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-08
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CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.

WASHINGTON, Jan. I'm the Senate to-day
Mr.. Gordon presented the petition OF Ste
phen D. Lee, OF Columbus, Miss, for the re-
moval of his political disabilities. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
WASHINGTON Jan. THE Committee on
Claims report adversely on the bill for the
relief of L. Madison Day, OF New Orleans.
The memorials of the Arkansas Legislature
were presented, asking the refunding OF the
cotton tax, and the construction Of national
leyees for the reclamation of the alluvial
lands of the Mississippi River. y
Mr.. Gordon presented the memorial of the
Grocers' Association Of Atlanta, Ga. against
the restoration of the duty on tea and coffee.
The Senate went into executive session,
and adjourned to Monday.
Combinations Minister to China;
Merrill, Minister to Belgium Carpenter, Sec
ond Comptroller Campbell, Collector Of In
ternal Revenue Third Texas District Ma
thews, Supervisor Internal Revenue, vice
Mum resigned Mosey, Postmaster, ITALIA
dega, Ala. Muller, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
The Postal Committee OF the House will
vote Tuesday on the bill reducing postage On
newspapers and third class matter.
The members Of the House Committee on
Foreign Relations called at the Executive
Mansion to-day and paid their respects to
President Grant.
The Ways and Means Committee will pay
their respects to the President tomorrow.
DR.. j. P. Hambleton, of Georgia, has been
elected Clerk OF the Committee OF Ways and
Means
Ex-Congressman A. Bowman, of Louisiana,
is here.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.-Representative Hale's
bill now before the Committee on Commerce,
provides that no owner, agent, master or con-
signee of any ship or vessel duly registered
or enrolled, shall, by virtue OF the laws OF any
State be compelled to take, employ or pay
pilot not voluntarily employed on entering or
departing from any channel, passage or strait
within the waters Of the United States.
The House Committee on Appropriations
had a long session this afternoon on the mill
tary appropriation bill, and completed it for
report to the House next Monday. This will
reduce the pay OF the cadets from about $5OO
to $3.50 per year, which will diminish the item
for that purpose some $4,000. The pay Of
the professors is reduced twenty per cent,
and numerous small reductions are made in
other items.
The total amount of the bill is reduced
about $50 900 from last year of 1920, 600. The
pension appropriation bill was also finished,
and will be reported to the House by Mr..
Atkins, of Tennessee, an ex Confederate. No
reductions Was made from the Department
estimates for this bill, it being $29, 500, 900.
The report of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, made yesterday by Senator
Morton, has Just been printed. Although
the conclusions have already been announced,
the following extracts may be of general
| interest:
The committee did not understand that
they were called upon to report upon any
question of propriety or EXP ediency in pro-
ceeding to an election of President pro tenn.
for the Senate on the day named in the reso-
luton, but inquire into the character and
tenure of that officer.
The language Of the Constitution deslgnates
the Speaker as an officer of the House, and as he
is chosen by the House, he sustains the same
relation to that body which the President pro
tenn. does to the Senate The committee did
not think it necessary to extend the argument
to prove the President pro tenn. is an officer
Of the Senate 1t appears that Mr.. Jeffersons
proposition that the Office of President pro
tenn. of tho Senate is determined at the meet
ing of the Senate of the first recess, IS not
only sustained by usage of the Senate. but is
Overwhelmingly contradicted by it.
| The four instances referred to sustaining
Mr.. Jeffersons theory have been reversed by
the unbroken usage of the Senate from 1903
down to the present time.
The committee therefore, assume the rule
to be we'll established that al President pro tenn.
of the Senate, chosen at the expiration of one
session, does not cease to be such with the
be ginning of the next, bat continues until the
Vice President appears and takes the chair, or
until the President pro tenn shall himself fail
to appear in the Senate and take the chair,
and thus require another to be elected. or until
the term of Office as Senator of the President
pro tenn. shall have expired.
| The committee are of opinion that the
death of the Vice President does not have the
effect il any way to cnange the tenure OF
office of the President pro tenn. 1t ID true
that, under the act of 1892, the President pro
tenn. it, upon the death OF the Vice PRESIDENT,
placed in the line of immediate succession TO
the performance of the duties Of President in
case of the death. resignation or inability OF
that officer, but as yet the duties OF the
President are in nowise changed. The Presl-
dent pro tenn. and the other officers Of the
Senate are at all times under the control of
the Senate, and may be changed at pleasure
Col. B. w. Frohel, of Georgia, appointed
by the National Board OF Transportation and
Commerce, has arrived here. His object is to
meet the other members of the committee
soon to arrive, and present to Congress the
action of the Convention at Chicago, held last
December, and urge the construction of the
water lines recommended by the Senate Com
mittee on Transportation Routes
The view Of the Convention was that the
expenditure OF liberal appropriations along
these lines would not only result in the revi-
val of commerce, but relieve the present ne
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