The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-12
CONG B E s S.
HOUSE.
MAgnINoroN, FObruarY 1l.

a. room to the Committee Of Patents.
The discussion developed the fact that
the number Of committee rooms in the
Capitol is entirely inadequate, one or
more committees having to put up with
ono room. The Capitol is entirely too
small for the numberless committees; and
no result was reached in the matter.
The Speaker called tho committees for
reports Of private nature.
At Ids the House went into Committee
OF the Whole (Haskins in the chair on
the consular and diplomatic appropria.
ton bill resuming ut tho paragraph Of
fixing the salaries OF Ministers 10 Portu.
gal, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, and
Norway at S6,5O0.
Mr.. Hewitt NOV ed an amendment to
provide only one Minister at $500 for
Denmark, Sweden and Norway 10 reside
at such places in these States as the Pres.
ident may from time to time advise.
Agreed to.
MIR. Hale moved to insert in the para
graph q provision for a Minister to
Uruagay, also to Paraguay. Rejected.
Mr.. Tucker moved 10 strike out the
mission to the Hawaiian Islands. The
amendment was adopted-9S to So.
Mr.. Tucker then moved to insert the
Consul General at Hawaiian Island,
$500. Adopted.
The next paragraphs were for ministers
to Chill and Bolivia (ore mission), Peru,
Ecuuador and Columbia Zone mission),
the Argentine Republic, Paraguay and
Uruguary Zone mission), and to Guauta-
mala, Costa Rico, Honduras, Salvador
and Nicaragua, Zone mission, $500
No amendments were offered 10 the sue
ceeding paragraphs, appropriating $4,000
to the Minister Resident and Consul Gen.
to Liberia, $50 900 for charges ad interim,
and diplomatic officers abroad and $40, 500
for secretaries OF legations at London,
Paris, Berlin and st. Petersburg, at
$2,625 each.
The next item, being an appropriation
for the salary Of tho secretary OF legation
at Japan (when acting also as inter
preter), was sought TO be amended by
Seeleye and Conger by a separation Of the
duties Of secretary and interpreter, but
no change was made.
Mr.. Seeleye moved to increase the sal
ary OF the secretary OF legation at China
(when acting also as interpreter) from
$4,000 to $4,000. Agreed to.
Mr.. Kasson moved to insert Beirut
among the Consulates in class Q, salary
S1,5O0. Agreed to,
The remaining items in the bill were
for various contingent expenses. That
for loss by exchange in the consular
service was reduced from $4,000 to
$4,000.
This finished the bill as far as the Com
mittee of the Whole is concerned. The
committee rose and reported the bill. All
the amendments adopted by the commit
tee were agreed to in block, except that
abolishing the mission to the Hawaiian
Islands, on which seperGte vote was de-
manded BY Mr.. Hale. The amendment
was agreed to, Eyes l30, nayss 81. A vote
by the ayes and noes was then taken on
the passage Of the bill, which resulted,
ayes 10l, nays2. 1t appropriated about
S9l4000, being a reduction Of about
$470,O00 from the bill last year.
Adjourned till Monday.
SENATE.
Mr., White moved that when tho Senate
adjourn to-day it bC ito meet on Monday
next. Agreed to.
Mr.. Withers, from tho Committee on
Pensions, reported bill granting PEN
sion to Elizabeth Thomas, widow Of Cen
eral Lorenzo Thomas. Placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Boutwell, introduced a bill fur
nished by the Treasury Department to
correct errors and supply omissions In
the Revised Statutes Of the United Statea.
Referred.
Mr.. Bayard called up the concurrent
resolution submitted by him on the Goth
Of January last in regard to amending
the 22d joint rule providing for count
of the vote for President and Vice Presi-
dent.
As the measure was being discussed,
but before final vote was reached, the
morning hour expired, and the Chair
laid before the Senate the unfinished
business, being the Centennial bill, upon
which Mr.. Randolph was entitled to the
floor.
Mr.. Frelinghuysen, from the Judiciary
Committee, reported bill. relating TO
the transportation OF animals. II is,
with some amendments, the measure in.
troduced by that Senator at the beginning
Of the present session. The only amend
ments Of consequence are the following:
That the length Of time that animals may
be confined without unloading is limited
to "a hours instead Of % hours, and they
must remain unloaded for rest, water and
feeding at least seven instead Of I've con-
secutiye hours. The fourth Of July next
Is inserted as the date, when the bill, II
enacted, is to take effect, and q new sec
ton is added providing that the number
Of hours that animals are confined while
being transported through Canada must
be taken into account by all railroads or
vessels connecting with tho American
lines as part Of the "a consecutive hours
above limited.
After debate by Messrs. Jones, Caper-
ton, Alcorn, Frelinghuysen, Ransom, Con.
over, Merrimon and salisbury, the bill
passed with tho preamble by vote Of
yeas IL, nays Is.
The question then recurred on agree.
ing to tho preamble, and It vas agreed TO
by rising vote Of yeas 81, nays 10. go
the bill was passed as it came from the
House without amendment.
Mr.. Thurman, at his own request was
excused from service on tho conference
committee on the bill to pay the interest
on tho S.65 bonds OF tho District Of Co
lumbia, and Mr.. Davis was appointed In
his place.