The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-08-01
NIGHT REPORT.
WASHINGTON.
lSiqned Under Protest.

Signed Under Protest.
Washington, July 31.-The President
sent special message to the House to-
day, insregard to the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill, which he says he re-
luctantly signs. He calls the attention
of the House to some of the main fea-
lures of the bill which are injurious to
the public service in several important
particulars. The appropriations made
in the bill are inadequate,n in that
they do not appropriate according to the
existing law, and fail to provide for
some branches of the service at all
The bill is inadequate in that it SER
iously cripples several branches of the
service, notably the signal service corps.
Attention is called to the fact that no
appropriation is made for the District of
Columbia, which is a great injustice to
its citizens, who have no government of
their own but are dependent upon Con-
gress.
Comment is made as to the action of
Congress in failing to provide for the
payment of judgments against the gov
ernment, allowed by the Supreme court
and the court of Claims, amounting to
about two million dollars. Special at
tention is directed to this omission of
the bill and the President dwells upon
the fact that the tribunals which al
lowed these claims were established by
Congress, one of them for this special
purpose, and that the claimants, after
having been to great expense to get
judgments against the government, are
now met with the refusal of Congress
to pay them.
The Presidents Intention.
A personal friend of the President is
authority for the statement that Grant
has said be does not intend to rely upon
the efforts of his friends to defend him
against Bluford Wilson's history, but
will himself prepare statement to be
submitted to the committee, in which
he claims he will be able to controvert
all that has been brought to his dis
favor
The Currency Cogitators.
The committee on banking and cur
rency this morning failed to come to a
vote. Goode was absent which left the
hard money men in the majority. A
proposition is under consideration to ap-
point subcommittee sit during the
recess and refer to it the entire subject,
including imitation, resumption and the
currency and silver question, with in
structions to make a thorough investi-
cation of the whole subject.
" n Dental.
The Indian Rureau desires the state
ment to be made, that the criticisms to
which the Office has been subjected, in
reference to the supplying of arms and
ammunition to Sitting Bull, are unwar-
ranted. In January last an order was
issued prohibiting the sale of arms, etc.
to Indians, and since then no complaint
has been received from the military or
agents, that the order had been viola
ted. No doubt supplies have been fur
nished secretly to the Indians, but the
government force was not sufficient to
prevent such traffic.
The Presidents Recreation.
The President has become disguised
at the long continuance of the session
of Congress, and being unable to go to
Long Branch, has arranged for a cot
tage at the Soldiers Home, where Presi-
dent Lincoln used to stay, and his FAM
lily will move there tomorrow.
Grant is said to have remarked the
other day that he should go to England
in March to visit his daughter, and he
thought he might travel in Europe for
year or two, and then return home
by way of Chill and California.
adjournment Prospects.
There seem to be no indications of
adjournment this week. The Senate
will have long discussion over the
Belknap verdict, and the House is
likely to have eleven investigating COM
mittee reports to act upon, each of
which will provoke more or less discus
sion.
That Financial Resolution.
The full text of the joint resolution
introduced by Representative Gibson
to-day, and referred to the committee
on banking and currency, is as follows
Be it Resolved, etc., That commits
sion is hereby authorized and constitu-
ted to consist of three Senators to be
appointed by the Senate and three men,
bers of the House of Representatives,
to be appointed by the speaker, and ex-
be selected by and associated with them,
with authority to determine the time
and place of meeting and to take evil
quire first into the change which has
taken place in the relative value Of gold
and silver, the causes thereof, whether
permanent or otherwise, the effect
thereof upon trade, commerce and
finance, and upon the standard of value
in this and foreign countries.
Second, into the policy of the resto-
ration Of double standard in this
conntry, and if restored what legal re-
lation between the two coins, silver
and gold, should be.
Third, into the policy Of continuing
legal tender notes concurrently with
metallic standards, and the effects there
of upon the wealth ofthecountry, and
Fonrth, into the policy and best
means Of facilitating the resumption of
specie payment. And said commission
is authorized to employ a stenographer
and shall report before the 10Th of jan
uary, 1877, with the evidence taken by
them and such recommendation for leg
islation as they may deem proper.
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