The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-02-09
Hon-e Of Repre.cntntive..

The bill authorizing actions in cases Of
death resulting from wrongful act. neglect. or
default IN the District Of Couu bia providing
that tho amount recovered should not he above
$500 was amended by fixing the amount at
$1,000, and by inserting q section providing that
no personal action or right If action shall ter
inmate or abate By the death Of either party,
whether such right of action be authorized 10y
this act or otherwise. The lin was then passed.
Mi Hunton Dem, va, from the Judiciary
Committee. reported "a bill TO amend section sj8
OF the Revised Statutes by adding the following:
"In the adjustment Of the accounts Of sid
officers. IN appeal shall lie from the decision Of
the accounting officers OF the treasury TO the
ATTORNEY General. whose determination shall
MIR. Lynde dem. Wis from the same COM
mittce. reported the bill concerning cases in
bankruptcy commenced In the Suprc me Count
OF the several territories prior to the I'D Of
June. lsIi and now undetermined therein.
Also, the bill to repeal the Bankruptcy act
The ms section reTc1l- the liarkrurtcy act Of
March a. 1887, AMI ~ laws and parts ~ laws
hmcudaioTy thereof and supplemental thereto
The second section provides thai all SUITS and
proceedings now tending IN the United states
courts wherein an adjudication IN bankruptcy
has been made, shall he proceeded wiki ana
governed by the provisions Of existing laws,
pose OF closing M suits and proceedings now
pending. Tho act is to take effect from aud
Tie tillwas unssod-ycas rs. nars ~. After
its pas re it was discovered thai there was an
error ~ its reclt l. tie date Of the.orliual law
March. his mistake MIR. Lynde asked unnni-
nous consent 90 have corrected. but Mr., Kas.
son Niep., lowp) objected, saving that the B. III
placed The whole credit r clae, Of the luntry
IN tho power II the dehtOr class. The Tin there
lore goes to the Senate with that imperiocuon
TIE DIPLOMATIC APPROPRIATION.
The House then went into committee ~ the
whole on the Consular and Diplomatic Anpro-
ittIl AL mail
utep, Minn.l who declared That tine bill struck
at American commerce and at American honor
Mr. Hewitt dem, n. y expressed his regret
that he found himself, In Respect OF this bill, In
opposition to the Committee on Appropriations,
WIN whose efforts 20 reduce expenditures
he sympathzod SO fully The bil, he said,
you'd inhict serious, II not irrepara-
bio injury on the commerce Of the country.
lie reminded his own side OF the House that
st tesmanship did not consist in retreuchment
ohN, mat economy might easily travel within
the limits % parsinpDy. and that reform might
pc pushed beyond the limits Of prudence and
justice. He should not have differed with the
committee II n had confined itself to the reduc-
non OF the European missions. II It had abol-
ished or consolidated several Of them II would
nave nhd MS hearty concurrence. lie fuzzy ap-
proved 81 the discontnunnee Of the mission 10
Hrecce, whi9a was only land Of ruin, bandits,
ana goats. IL II had also abolished the mi ion
to switzerland although all his sympnthies
were with that ancient republc), no public in
terest would have suffered. Even II 1t had wiped
out mission whose very name WAS a scandal
lmeanlng the English MISSIONS he should have
telt that then "a patriotic American might visit
foreign lands with greater satisfaction. and
might escape that humiliation which once felt
would not down" until the cause was removed
~ NE same time, conlur compelled him to SAY
that the salaries Of American Ministers abroad
were entirely inadequate for their Legitimate
expenses, IN the style and in the social circle ii
which their position requires them TO move.
BLOW AT orr COMMERCE.
lie could not however, agree with the recon
mendations Of the committee In reference 10
the South American missions. The trade OF thOs,
countries with the United States was much large
than the trade Of several European countre
al winch American missions were maintained
IN regard 10 the proposed reduction Of consul
atea he also dissented most seriously from tn,
LecommendatiOns Of the committee. The mum
eber Of existing consulates WIS III, and of thes,
-, OF about 10 per cent, were To be abolished
re lelhlhued the House that where countries
nave no cousuls they can have no trade, anC
that trade IA developed and mere ased lust il
proportion to the extension Of the consular avs