Wilmington journal., 1876-02-11
WASHINGTON.

of the Mobile Marine Dock Company
which was referred to the Committe
on Claims.
The Committee on the District O
Columbia were instructed to conside
the propriety of providing a prOpe
form of government for the District.
Cragin introduced bill for the con
struction of the Southern Maryland
railroad. Referred.
The bill for the removal of restric
tions to the sale of public lands wa
resumed but gave way to the Dlstric
interest bill, which passed. q.
A resolution giving Sykes, the con
testant from A lab ma, mileage and S4n
ator's pay from 1878 to 1874, was re
ferred to the Committee On Privileges
and Elections.
The Louisiana Senator ial question
Eas called up just before adjournment
and comes up tomorrow as unfinished
| business, when it can only be set aside
by vote of the Senate.
The Judiciary Committee on tt {
Executive Session OF the Senate to-day
reported favorably on the nomination
of Billings as .. s. District Judge fo1
Louisiana vice Durel!. resigned. The
Senate remained IN executive session
only ten mEutes after the report and
adjourned without q vote. Tue vote
in committee cannot be ascertained.
The Senate judiciary Committee
had a long session and are still in con-
sultation.
HoUsE.-The Elections Committee
heard Bromberg in the contest OF
| Bromberg va. Haralson Repeating
and bribery were both proved, but
| whether the votes secured by bribery
| should be cast out il the question be-
fore the committee Bfomberg cIuims
that the throwing out of repeated and
bribed votes would give him majority.
Bromberg's argument was not con
sidered.
The Ways and Means Committee
considered the bill suggested by the
Treasury Department increasing the
number o1 per ceut bonds from
5000, OCO,O to $500. 900, 900 and the
Il inc to run frC N fifteen to thirty years
Young introduced bill providing
for a custom house at Memphis, which
was referred.
The Committee on Accounts sub
mitted bill to pay fourteen Union
soldiers on the rolls of the House
Fort of Illinois denied that there
were so many.
Holman and Williams maintained
hat there were. The bill WAS adopted.
By the Appropriation Committee
bill REQUESTING the President to ap-
point an experienced army officer to
investigate the causes of the deficiency
in the appropriations for the Sioux
Indians and to part ally take charge
Of the Red Cloud agency. Adopted.
N NIL l,,tr afi
Circuit and District Courts was passed.
The Judiciary Committee reported
advers ely on the bill allowing heads of
departments seats on the floor. Also
bill for the relief of owners and pur-
chasers of lands sold for direct taxes;
referred to Committee of the Whole.
4 $50 bill TO authorize United States
Courts to appoint commissioners to
take dispositions, affidavits and versi-
fica.ions of pleadings; passed.
The House then went into Comm
tee Of the Whole on diplomatic appro-
priations.
Singleton of Mississippi, who had
charge of the bill, in the course OF his
speech, accused the Republican poll
tIcians in the House with the effort to
create discord and thereby make poe
litical capital, but he knew that the
people nsw through that disguise. The
South, he said, had three schemes to
accomplish in this Congress: one was
to improve and protect the levees Of
the Mississippi, and to reclaim the
aIuvial soil of the Delta, which would
be OF more value than all the Black
Hills IN the country, az 1000, 900 bales
of cotton could be raised on this re-
Claimed land.
Hale asked him to state what the
other schemes we're.
Singleton replied that another was
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
Hale-Is not the refunding of the
cotton tax another?
Siugl-ton-I do not propose to dis
cuss that question now.
Willis, of N. Y.-Ihe Democratic
party does not propose to help the
South by building Southern Pacific
Railroad. We will leave il to our Re
publican friends t. do SO.
Douglass, of Va, asked Hale by
what authority he spoke of the gentle
l<men from Mississippi (Singeton) as
the representative of the Southern
Democracy
Hale replied that his authority was
| the ppslt on which that gentleman oc-
| cupled as q Southern man, because he
| spoke distinctly for the Southern De-
mocracy, and also because he (Single-
tou) had been selected as one of the
| Southern Representatives on the
money committee of the House-the
Appropriations Com mittee.
Holman, of Ind, declared that the
| Democratic party i'll the House was
neither for the Southern Pacific Rail
road nor for the refunding of the cot.
ton tax.
Drugia of Va, denied the right
of Hale or of any other Republican
member to designate the memb Der from
Mississippi, or q member from any
other State, as the representative ruaI
Of the Southern Democracy He
| (Douglass) represented pare of the
Southern constituency, but he was moi
prepared to inform the gentleman from
Maine what might be or Nigh: not be
the ultimate action of Southern Demo.
Gratis on this floor on these measures
| He was not me mber of the Southern
Democracy, but he was a member o
the National Democracy, which hat
come here to reform some of The abuse!
of the Government.
Hale-My friend from Mississippi
is more frauk than the gentle
man from Virginia, and has given u
the monltion of what we may expec
from that section. I did not expec
by simple question to stir up 81
much of hornets nest as [ seem t,
have done. My friend from IndianI
(Hoimanl. who opposes the Souther,
Pacific Railroad, wants this discussion
to op, aud [ have no wonder at IT
on, he mnst not hold -re re pon*ib!
fnr>it. He must settle with his col
league from NJ M,sslsslppi.
HoImau-I understood the gentle
man. from Mississippi surely to eS
press his opin On in .avor of the Sonth
ern Pacific Railroad, (several Demo
cratic members, "That is alPO and i
favor of the reimbursement Of tn
cotton tax. Now is not that all =?
Hale-No, sir.
Holman-Excuse ne, and also tina
, the government spend money in tn
, rebuilding of the Mississippi ievees
Does no. the gentleman from Main
| frnrp NJ