The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-03-15
The Forty-Fourth Congress.

ordered printed, and further consideration
postponed to Thursday, at o'clock.
On motion of Mr.. Frelnghuysen the bill
fixing the salary of the president was
taken up.
Mr.. Sargent said he thought 1t would be
ineffable meanness on the part of this gov
ernmont to pay the president salary far
below what is paid the representative of
the British government residing in Wash
ington. He did not consider the present
salary any too large.
Without further debate the question was
put, and the yeas and nays demanded, as
follows Yeas 20, nays 90, and the bill
was passed. After executive session the
senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Atkinson of Tennessee reported
back the senate amendments to the pension
appropriation bill, which were concurred
in.
Mr.. Kasson said that in view of the in
creasing illness among the members of the
house and of the extraordinary bad venlil-
alton which every one felt in the hall this
morning, he asked leave to offer resolu-
ton instructing the committee on public
buildings 10 examine into the causes of the
bad ventilation and to direct such improve
ments therein as may be found expedient
to increase the purity of the atmosphere.
Mr.. Kelly of Pennsylvania said that his
object in coming. to the house this morning
was to bring to the attention of the mem
bers what he regarded as the murderous at
mosphere of the hall.
Mr.. Sparks, from the committee on In
dian affairs, reported substitute for the
bill to transfer the Indian bureau from the
interior department to the war department
and asked tina, 1t be made the special order
for Saturday next.
MIR. Glover, chairman OF the select CON-
mittee on the real estate pool and Jay
Cooke Indebtedness, made a report on the
the contumaciousness of a witness, Hallett
Kilbourne, who refused to produce the
books of his firm or to answer certain ques-
tions as to who composed the pool. The
proceedings of the committee were read,
from which it appeared that the real estate
pool consisted first of five persons who had
contributed $4,000 each and who we're SUBJ
sequently assessed 5000 each. and of Jay
Cooke & Co., who had contributed S25,
600, but did not pay any assessment. His
firm was the agency through which opera
! tons was to be conducted, and had subse-
quently purchased one of the original So
900 shares, paying for it the exact amount
with interest which it had cost the
owner. He declined to give the name
of the person whose interest had
been thus purchased. He also declined
giving any testimony relating to the indi-
viduals composing the pool. He said that
| it it could be shown in any way that the
government was interested in 1t or that his
testimony would promote the interest Of
the government in any wsy he would tell
everything it. In reply to this the chair
man informed him that the committee did
not propose to examine into his private
affairs but only into those that affected the
public interest. In further response to
his counsel the witness stated that the
matter had no relation whatever to any
public affair that it was purely private
Transaction that there was no officer of
the government of the United States or of
the government of the District of Colum-
bia, directly or indirectly connected with
it. The conclusion of the committee is
that it is necessary for the efficient prose-
cution OF inquiry that Hallet Kilburne
shall be required to respond to the sub
pgna duces tecum and to answer the ques-
ton which he had refused to answer.
Mr.. Glover moved the adoption of an
order that the speaker issue his warrant to
the sergeant-at-arms, commanding him to
take into custody Hallet Kilbourne and
bring him 10 the bar of the house to show
cause why he should not be punished for
contempt The order was made and the
warrant Issued.
Mr.. jerks offered resolution calling on
the secretary of the interior for informa-
ton as to the defslcation of VIM. J. Col.
Inns, late pension agent in Washington city.
Adopted.
Mr.. Hinton from the Judiciary commit
tee reported resolution calling on the at.
torney general for copies OF all letters, tele-
grams and papers, asking for the removal
of Judge Bedford of Colorado. Adopted.
The house then at o'clock went into
committee Of the whole, Mr.. Cox in the
chair, on the legislative appropriation bill
AMI was nd lressed by Mr. Bennett of Iowa.
Mr.. Kelly rising 10 a personal explana.
ton, sent TO the clerks disk and had read
an article in the New York World charg
ing him with having obtained contracts fOi
a MIR. Dotson, owner of wooden mill Oh
the Schuylkill, to furnish blankets for the
government, and with having taken t.
himself 20 per ceHt Of the profits, thereby
receiving about $l,000,000 The article
was written by one Martin Powers. He
said he deemed an explanation due more +,
Mr. Dobson than to himself. He said Mr.
Dolan had built up magnificent works by
his own industry. As for himself he sale
if there was any man who knew him wei
who attached auy importance to the state
ment, then he had lived in vain.
The sergeant-at-arms appeared at the bal
with Halett Hilbourn, the recusant wit
ness, IN custody. On being asked whether
he was prepared TO answer the questions
put 10 him, he asked leave to be heard
orally by his counsel, Messrs. Black snd
Dudley Field. During the consideration
of the question, Mr.. Glover intimated thai
he understood from witness that he would
be satisfied by having read written argu
| ment nrnnared by his counsel