Wilmington journal., 1876-02-18

the Secretary of the Treasury repor
the amount of gold owned by the gov
ernment available for the resumption
of specie payments. Adopted.
The Notifications bill was reported
1t appropriates $50. 900.
Tucker, fl ON the committee on way
and means. reported the bill relating
70 the execution of custom house
bonds. The bill provides tina wher
ever a bond is requir cd of a firm fol
the payment of custom on goods i'm
ported for their use and he bond il
executed by one member of the firm
in the name of suci, firm, it shall be
equally binding on all the members OF
the firm. After discussion the bill was
passed.
| Walker of Virginia, from the com
Mite on education aud labor, report
ed back the bill to apply the proceeds
of sales Of public lands to the educa
tion of the people Referred to com
mittee of the whole.
| The levee committee have resolved
| TO ask. under a suspension of the rules,
t" add the levee appropriation bill as
an amendment to the river and harbot
bill, when that bill shall be reported
| also for permission for asub- -oomnoittee
TO visit at their own expense the flood
ed district, to leave about the 25th
| inst.
Among the cadets at large appointed
by the President is Britton Davis Of
Texas.
Thurman, Bayard, Merrimon and
Mcdonald were appointed a committee
on the part of the Senate to act with
the House committee in shaping the
financial policy of the Democratic
party.
The Secretary Of War asks an appro-
prlatlOn of half million to pay the
troops in advance of the regular de-
ticiency bill.
All persons forwarding legal tenders
or fractional currency to the Treasury
must prepay it. The contract rate is
l24 cents on sums under five hundred
dollars and twenty-five cents per thous-
and d'llars on larger sums.
WASHINGroN, February 16.-SEN-
ATE. .-Alcorn of Mississippi made a
personal explanation, ana denied that
he had been in any conspiracy with
Senator Spencer or others to influence
the opinion of Chief Justice Waite in
regard TO the enforcement act, as re-
cen ly charged in dispatch to a West
ern paper.
The claims commission reported ad-
versely on the bill to settle claims for
advances by several States for the
war of 1912.
The judiciary committee reported
adversely on MerrImon's bill to pay
the claims for carrying the mails be-
fore the war.
The bill authorizing the sale of
timber land in California was dis
cussed.
Pending the discussion, Edmunds
said he was about to inquire what be-
came of the regular order of business
of yesterday-the case of Pinchback.
The chair replied that it was not
called up yesterday and that it had
be en- succeeded by other business.
Edmouds moved to postpone the
pending bill regarding the sale of
timber land, and take up the resolu-
ton for the admission of Pinchback.
He agreed with the Senator from In
ditna (Morton) that the question was
one of high privilege and already had
been too long delayed.
Morton said he did not press the
resolution for the admission of Pinch
back yesterday for several reasons, one
of which was that several Senator's
were absent and he desired that there
should be full Senate when the vote
was taken. If the Senator from Yer
mont (Edmunds) desired to have the
resolution taken up fer the purpose of
making speech, he (Morton) would
not object.
E1munds said he had never moved
to take up anything for the purpose OF
making a speech. He desired to get
the case to a inal determination. The
little he had to say would not occupy
thirty minutes, and it was probable
that he would not speak at all.
Morton said if Senator Edmunds did
not desire to speak he hoped the reso-
luton would not be taken up. There
was one Senator sick and he desired to
be here.
Edmunds said when the case of
Pinchback was left on Monday the
Senator from Indiana (MortonJ was in
the midst of some observat oDs. A H..
seemed TO be indisposed, he (Edmunds)
moved for an executive session yester
day aud the matter got displaced i'll
some way during his (EdmundsO alb
sence. If the Senate was to wait until
the whole number of seventy three
Senators were present before taking
vote, the case of PinchbacE would
never be settled. 1t any Senator was
i'll who desired to vote on she side Of
Pinchbacis, he Q1dmunds) would
pair with him with pleasure as he did
not intend to vote on that side. He
believed the Senate Was as full as it
would ever be in an ordinary course of
events. He did not know how the
case would be determined, and he did
not care how it would te determined
except il the interest Of the law, the
constitution and the facts. The ques-
ton being On the taking up OF tie
res Tuition a division vas called for
and re5ulted: Yeas 26, nays a
Logan of Illinois demanded the yeas
and nay4 and the motion to take up
the resolution was lost, yeas 80, nays
80, rs follows:
ton, CockrelI, Cooper, Davis, Dennis.
thwaite, Johnston, Jones of Florida.
Herman, Key. McCreery, llcponald.
Maxy, Merrimon, Norwood, Handolph,
man, Wallace, West. Whyte and
Withers
NAIs-Alcorn, Allison, Boutwell,,
L. use. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Cam
eron of Wisconsin,. Clayton, Conkling,
Couover. Dawes, Dorsey, Frelinghuy-
sen, Hamilton, Hamlin, Harvey,
| Hitchcock, Howe, Ingalls,, Jones of
Nevada. Logan, Mcmillan, Morrill, of
| Maine, Morrill, of Connecticut, Nor
ton, Oglesby. Paddock Patterson, Sar-
gent. Sherman, Spencer, Wadleigh,
Niudom, Wtight-33.
Ferry of Michigan, who would have
voted in the negative. was paired with
Gordon of Georgia, who would have
voted in the affirmative. Those not
voting were Anthony, Burnside, Chris
tiancy, Cragin, Kelley, Mitchell and
| Robert tsOn.
On motion of Merrimon the vote by
which the bill to pay for carrying
I mails before the war was indefinitely
postponed WAS reconsidered and the
bill placed on tue calendar.
After an executive session the Sen
ate adjourned.
HoUsE.-The bill extending the time
for filing claims for additional bounty