The Morning herald., 1876-02-22

(Ohio), Mr.. Window (Minn.) Mr.. Key
(Tenn.) all of which were referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Various bills, memorials, ETC., were pre-.
sented, and were referred.
The Committee on Appropriations re.
ported West Point Appropriation bill, with
amendments.
The Senate voted to adjourn from to-day
until Wednesday.
Mr.. Morrill, submitted the conference re.
port on District SOS bond bill, and urged
its adoption. After considerable debate
the report was adopted by = vote Of 81
to 2e.
The Senate then went into executive sss-
sion and adjourned.
The Speaker laid before the House two
Executive communications, which were r.
ferred to the appropriate committees.
Under the usual Monday morning hour
rule, large number Of bills wereintroducsd
and referred, among them the following:
By Mr.. Plaisted (Me.) resolutions Of the
Legislature of Maine against compulsory
pilotage.
By Mr.. Frye (Me.) giving jurisdiction in
certain cases to commissioners Of the UNI
ted States district courts.
By Mr.. SCHUMACHER IN. ~ authorizing
the Secretary Of the Treasury to condemn
suitable lot in the city Of Brooklyn a. a
site for public building.
The bill to re. organize the Judiciary was
taken up and passed. Yeas 14S, nays 1Oe.
After disposing Of . number Of bills from
the District Committee, Mr.. Springer. ILL.,,
rose to . personal explanation, and had
read an article from the New York
Herald" Of Saturday last, in which 1t was
charged that the amendment offered to the
Centennial bill by Mr.. Springer, and which
was intended to make the Government .
preferred creditor, was really in effect
to give the Government second mortgage,
only that the stockholders must bs paid
first at the close Of the Exhibition, that
construction was put upon the amendment
by the Centennial Board Of Finance. If
this was true, the "Herald" added, this
was a job, and the Centennial stood dis
graced before tho world. He also had read
an extract from the Philadelphia "Ttmss,"
which put the same construction upon
the amendment, and added that Mr..
springer's measure Of intelligence was not
equal to his illlberality, that he did not
know the use of language and that in his
opposition to the Centennial he had over
reached himself by his stupidity and malice.
Mr.. Springer went on to argue that his
in offering the amendment was 10
provide that the Government should bs
paid in full befo.e anything was divided
among the stockholders and if the other in.
is put upon it, it is contrary to
the spirit and intention Of the amendment.
He believed the Centennial Board of
Finance was composed of honorable men,
and he could not believe they would put a
wrong construction upon the amendment.
II the Government Is not to be paid until
after the funds are distributed among their
the people should know the
fact at once, and they will stamp the
exhibition as huge fraud and a
swindle, for 1t would be apparent
that the Commissioners had put
upon the appropriation not
warranted he therefore offered a resolu-
ton referring tho whole subject to the Com
mittee on Judiciary with directions to re-
port upon the true construction Of the
amendment.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, objected to
the reference of the resolution, and said
that Mr.. Springer had attacked the Centen-
oial Board Of Finance because in his hot
haste to get in an amendment he had
blundered, the Centennial Commission did
not ask the gentleman to put in that am
endment, and enlarge their privileges. 1t
was Mr.. springer's act, and he (Kelly) pre-
ferred to accept the construction OF such
eminent jnrists as the late Reverdy John
.on and the Hon. J. 8. Black rather than
that of Mr.. Springer, and they put upon the
clause construction, the reverse Of that OF
Mr.. Springer. It Is possible the gentleman
lid potintend to do what he did. It 10
possible he did not know what he wal
writing about at the time, but the law as 1t
ID must be interpreted by the courts and not
bv the statement Of the gentleman himself.
The weather To-Day.
IN the South Aslantse and <AaddA
States, rising baronsHssr, '0snd' 'Mt'*'e to