The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-03-15
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CONGRESS.
The Senate Passes the Bill
Reducing the Presi-
dents Salary.
The House Calls Loudly for
Pure Air.
Extensive Floods in North
ern New York.
Snow Slides and Jail Break
ing in Utah.
Big Bank " Bust up |" in
New York City.
Disastrous Gale in Foreign
Waters.
The Worlds News in Brief.
rhe Worlds News in Brief.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SEN Ale
Washington, March 14.-The bill
to amend revised statutes so as to per-
init National banks to organize with
capital of $4,000 in towns irrespec-
tive of population was stricken from
the calendar and indefinitely post
poned.
Thurman presented memorial for
the release of L. o. NJ. Condor. Re-
ferred to the committee on foreign
affairs.
Logan presented petition OF three
thousand eX-soldiers, asking for the
passage of a bill for the equalization
of bounties, similar to the one passed
by last Congress. Referred.
On motion of Frelinghuysen the
bill fixing the salary of the President
at $25. 600 per annum was taken up.
Sargent said he thought 1t would
show ineffable meanness on the part
of this Government to pay its Presi-
dent salary far below what is paid
the representative of the British Gov
ernment residing IN Washington.
He did not consider the present salary
any too large.
Without further debate the ques-
ton was put and the yeas and nays
demanded. Following is the vote :
Yeas, Allison, Bogy, Christiancy,
Clayton. Conkling, Cockrell, Dawes,
Ferry, Goldthwaiie, Hamilton, Har-
vey, Hitchcock, Herman, Key, Lo
gan, McCreery, Mcdonald, Maxey,
Morrill,, of VT, Morton, Patterson,
Stevenson, Thurman, Wallace,
Whyte, Wright-2e; nays, Bayard,
Boutwell,, Cooper, Davis, Dorsey,
Frelinghuysen, Hamlin, Howe. In
gals, Jones, of Ala, Jones, of New,
Mcmillan, Mitchell, Paddock, Robert
son, Sargent. Sharon, Spencer. Win
dom, Withers-nays 90; and the bill
was passed. After executive session
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, March H. Atkins
reported back the Senate amend
ments to the pension appropriation
bill, which were concurred in. Kas-
son said that in view of the increas-
ing illness among members of the
House, and of the extraordinarily
bad ventilation which every one felt
in the hall, this morning, he asked
leave to offer resolution instructing
the committee on public buildings to
examine into the causes OF the had
ventilation, and to direct such i'm
provements therein as may be found
expedient 10 increase the purity of
the atmosphere. Kelly said that his
object in coming to the House this
morning was to bring to the attention
of the members what he regarded as
the murderous atmosphere of the hall.
He understood that no less than nine-
teen members of the House were de-
tained from it by illness. Harrison, of
the committee on public buildings
and grounds, stated that the sub-com-
mittee of that committee was now
considering the subject, aided by GER
tain scientists, who proposed to make
and of the remedy. The ventilation
was utterly defective, and something
must be done to remedy it, and done
Immediately, even if the cost were
very large, and if there had to be rad
ical change in the construction OF all,
1t ought to be made. Saylor, White,
Young, Banks and others spoke on
the subject, and Kasson's resolution
was agreed to.
Sparks reported substitute for the
OIL 10 tTatSier tne lIulau bureau
from the Interior Department TO The
War department, and asked thai it
be made the special order for Satur-
day next. A long and somewhat
heated discussion took place between
members of the Indian committee
and of the military committee as to
which of these committees had the
more legitimate jurisdiction of the
matter.
The bills Of both, committees were
made the special order for'Thurslay,
March 30th; the bill of the Indian
committee to have precedence over
that of the military committee.
Glover, chairman of the select COM
mittee on the real estate pool and J /.
Cookies Indebtedness, made a report
on the contumaciousness of a witness,
Hallett Kilbourne, who refused to
produce the books of his firm or to
answer certain questions as to who
composed the real estate pool.
Glover moved the adoption of ar
order that the speaker issue his war
rant to the sergeant-at-arms, com