Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1876-05-23
Forty.Four;b Congress First Session.
SENATE.

Washington, May %.
The credentials of II. w. Barnum were pre-
scnted, and he took the GA tn and seat as the sue
ccssor of Senator Ferry of Conn.
Mr.. Sherman presented petition of \. Nj.
Clapp Congressional printer, to the effect that he
was an officer of the Senate; that great injustice
had been done him by the committee on printing
in the House; that the books of the office de-
tanned from him by that committee.
Referred to the Committee on Privileges to in
quire into the truth of the allegations.
At > 90 o'clock tie Senate went into executive
session.
At l.3o the doors reopened, but Immediately
closed again and the Senate resumed consdera-
ton efehe articles of Impeachment against Bel
KNAPP.
At 40 the Senate again went into executive
session, and after short time when doors were re-
opened some important legislative business was
transacted, and the Senate adjourned
HOUSE.
The leave Of absence Of the Speaker was ex-
tended five days.
A message from the President yetong the bill
for the relief of q. B. Tyler and L. II. Luckitt,
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Tie discussion on the Navy Yard amcndu ent
was continued by Hale Banks, Willard and Har
ris of Massachusetts, against the amendment, and
Banning Blount and Mills in its favor. In the
course of kassons speech he declared that the
proposition struck a blow at the navy which no
naval war ever struck it, and that it slaughtered
officers as no naval battle ever slaughtered them.
lie repudiated on behalf of his constituents, the
idea that the people demanded the blow to be
struck at the navy.
Mills amendment, allowing longevity pay, was
agreed to.
Hale moved to strike out of Whitthorne's
amendment the paragraph beginning, And the
pay of all other off :ers on the active list, &c.
Agreed to.
Randall moved to strike out Of Whitthorne's
amendment, the provision requiring the discharge
# volunteer officers Of the navy. Agreed to.
Eames moved to strike out the paragraph in
Whuhorne's amendment fixing the number of
Ulcers in each grade. Rejected.
Whltthorne's anne ndment was then rejected.
The vote by letters being 70 to "A.
Danford moved to amend the paragraph in the
bill which fixes the number of men in the navy
Mt 900, by making the number $500. This was
rejected.
The section in relation to the discontnuance of
navy wards having been reached, NJ nils made point
of order that it was new legislation. and was not
in the line of economy, but the point Of order WAS
overruled.
Lewis, from the Committee on Naval Affairs,
offered the following amendment as substitute
That the navy yards at Brooklyn Kite y, Charles
town and Norfolk, be retained for general pur-
poses and those at Pensacola and Mare Island be
retained as naval RENDEZVOUS, and for temporary
repairs, and the yard at Washington be used only
for manufacturing purposes. under direction OF
the Secretary of the Navy, and the yard at League
Island ard New London be abandoned, and the
property thereto apper,a iug-where the same can
not be utilized or removed without too great ex-
pense-- be sold, and the proceeds turned into the
treasury for the civil establishment at the forego-
ing yards.
Kelley made point Of order on the amendment,
that it was new legislation, and not in the line OF
economy. lie argued that it would be matter Of
gross extravaganza TO sell League Island, much
more to retrocefe it after a long discussion in
which Randall and O'Neil argued in support OF
the point Of order
The point was overruled by the chairman.
tClymei) on the ground that abandonment of
those navy yards would retrench expenditures
even though their abandonment might not be a
matter of good policy or economy withou. further
action on the bill, the committee rose, and the
| House at o'clock adjourned.