The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-09
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT.
TO THE DAILY LNTELLIGENCER
ooN C r E S S.
HOUSE.
WAsH1NaroN, February 5.

mittee, reported back the Dill anthoFlzlng
action in cases OF death resulting from
wrongful acts, neglect or default in the
District OF Columbia, provided the amount
recovered should not be above 900.
Mr.. Townsend (Pennsylvania) moved
to amend by substituting $4,000. Agreed
TO.
Mr.. Lawrence moved to amend by in.
serting a section providing that no per-
sonal action or right Of action shall ter
inmate or abate by the death OF either
party, whether such right OF action be
authorized by this act or otherwise.
Agreed TO.
The bill, as amended, then passed,
Mr.. Lynde, from the same committee,
reported back adversely tho bill extend
ing the jurisdiction Of the Circuit Courts
in suits against corporations. Laid on
the table.
Also, bill concerning cases in bank
ruptcy commenced in the Supreme Courts
Of The several Territories prior to the 22d
Of June, 1874, and now undetermined
therein. Passed.
Also, bill to repeal the bankruptcy
-act. The first section repeals the bank.
ruptcy act Of March 81, 1867, and all
laws and parts Of laws amendatory there.
to and supplemental thereof. The sec;
ond section provides that all suits and
proceedings now pending in the United
States Courts wherein an adjudication in
bankruptcy has been made, shall be pro-
cecded with and be governed by the pro-
visions OF the existing laws, which are
continued in force only for the purpose
Of closing up suits and proceedings now
pending. The act is to take effect from
and after the lst Of January, 1871.
The bankruptcy bill after some discus
sion was passed.
Alter the passage Of the bill it was dis
covered that there was an error in its re-
cital-the date OF the original law being
given as the I'd Of March. This mistake
Mr.. Lynde asked the unanimous consent
of the House to have corrected, but Mr..
Kasson objected, remarklng that the bill
placed the whole creditor class OF the
country in the power Of the debtor class.
The bill therefore goes to the Senate with
that imperfection in il. :,
The vote on the bankruptcy bill stood
yeas, 1856; nays, 81.
The House went into Committee OF
the Whole (Mr. Haskins, OF New York,
in the chair) on the consular and. diplo-
matte appropriation bill and was ad-
dressed by Durell, who commenced his
remarks By repeating the statement made
some days ago by Singleton, to the effect
that the treasury was exhausted. No
member, he said, had right to make
such astatement and TO send it out to the
world. While the financial matters Of this
country might not be precisely what they
should be, still it was matter Of pride
and self.satisfaction that after passing
through war Of such magnitude there
was in the treasury, at the commence
ment OF this Congress, Sl25, 100000 where
with 10 respond to the demands that
might be made. There was time, how
ever, when this government had exhaust
ed the treasury and when it had lost
credit ut home and abroad, il was when
the Republican party received tho gov
ernment from Buchanan's administra-
ton. In conclusion he declared the bill
struck ut American commerce and at
American. honor, that it was unworthy the
House. The Government was not bank
rupt, and he appealed to the other side
OF the House not to write across the fair
forehead OF the country the word Shame"
He said he should not have differed with
the Committee II it had confined itself to
the reduction OF the European missions.
Even il 1t had wiped out the mission
whose very name was scandal, (alluding
to the English misslon), he should have
felt that then patriotic American might
visit foreign lands with greater satislac-
ton, and might escape tina. humiliation,
which once felt would never "down" until
the cause was removed. At the same
time he dissented from the reduction OF
the salaries OF ministers abroad, also from
the proposed reduction Of consulates.
The United States was the only country
whose consular system was selt-support-
ing, and American merchants might well
demand that the money actually collected
from them in consular bills should be, to
the last dollar, expended in extending
and protecting that business.
Mr.. Wood, Of New York, reviewed the
consulate System and spoke in opposition
10 the Recommendation OF the Committee
on Appropriations, and said touching the
question Of Consulates should be work
great care, Of great deliberation and OF
careful examination; not only on thequ
tion Of dollars and cents involved, but in
reference to the consequences that would
follow n withdrawal Of the cOnsulates.
As 10 foreign missions he regarded them
as secondary 10 the consular system and
did not attach so much Importance to
the necessity Of keeping them up, but 80
long as they were kept up American
ministers abroad should be paid enough
to enable them to live respectfully as
foreign consulates understand il, and to
maintain their representative character.
The committee rose without action on
the bill when message was received
from the Senate announcing the action ot
that body in regard to the death Of senS-
tor Ferry.
Eulogies in his honor were pronounced
by Messrs. Phelps, Seelye and Garfield.
An interesting feature in the proceedings
was the fact that Mr.. Garfield in lieu OF
any remarks OF his own, reau speech
prepared on the subject by Mr.. Stark
weather, himself since dead.
AT the conclusion Of the enlogies the
House adjourned.
SENATE.
The Chair laid before the Senate a
number Of House bills, which were re-
icrred. Among them was a bill making
an appropriation to pay fourteen crippled
and disabled Union soldiers from the 9th
Of December, 1872, to the SOth of June,
1875.
Mr.. Edmunds inquired what these sol.
dicrs had done. 49,.
Mr.. Sargent said the billshould be re-
ferred to the Committee on Appropria.
tions, as there were some circumstances
| in regard to the bill which he desired to
examine.
Mr.. Edmunds said he did not know
but what these soldiers were those whose
services had been dispensed with.
The bill was referred to the Committee
on Appropriations.
Mr. Sherman, from the Committee on
Finance, reported adversely on the Sen.
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