Daily Kennebec journal., 1877-11-22

The motion for an executive session was agreed
TO; yeas 80, nays 20.
| As soon as the Senate went into executive ses-
| SION at Z. NJ, the motion to adjourn was agreed
to without transacting any business.
Adjourned till tomorrow.
HOUSE.
Several bills were introduced and referred and
the House then went.into committee of the whole
on The deficiency appropriation bill.
roster OF Ohio called attention TO the fact that
this was the second deficiency bill brought before
lhe House, the former sPproPriatng S2,5oo. 900.
ustration of the economy of democratic House Of
last year.
Singleton called attention to the fact that Of
Sl,ooo,oO0 appropriated by the present bill $780,
VVO was re-appropriatIon.
Foster replied that that was one of the tactics of
the democratic party by which they hoped to de-
celve the country. Last year the democrats had
stated they saved $780, 900. The books were
mace dnaue up and showed saving Of less than Sl9,-
ooo,ooo; He thought that an item of $3.50 900
should have been inserted in this bill for the com
pletion of the new state department building.
AT the close of Fosters remarks the bill was
read by clauses for amendments.
Inc hrst paragraph was for the payment of the
1904 ,045.
amounts.
Garfield moved to strike out all Of the para
graphs except the total amount. 1t would seem il
the cases and amounts were specified as if Con-
gress were exercising revisory power over these
judgments.
Singleton replied no reason why cases and
amounts should not be specified, particularly a.
some OF the judgments drew interest.
uarneld-That Is matter for the Treasury De-
ment.
Singleton also gave as a reason why gross sum
should not be appropriated, that there an out
lnHsF a.. - n. 4
H. which by agreement WAS not to be paid until .
certain time, and if gross sum were Appropriated
IL might happen that this Judgment would be paid.
After further discussion the amendment was
withdrawn.
Yeates offered an amendment appropriating
SlI 900 for continuing the work of propagating
and distributing shad and other food fishes. Il
was agreed to.
The item for Postmasters' salaries having been
reached, Wsddel gave notice that the Post Office
CON- would report change Of the present law,
oy winch the compensation of Postmasters is
graded by the amount of stamps sold by them.
ne onered An amendment appropriating the sur
plus oil last years appropriation for "Stsr Serv-
zee, which means the carrying of the mails by
other than by railroad or steamer, to the same
service for the current year.
Blunt, member of the appropriation committee,
opposed the amendment.
After q long discussion Waddell's amendment
was agreed to.
Cox offered amendment making such appro-
praton as may be requii ed to pay the wages of
iaborers, workmen and mechanics employed BY
or in behalf Of the government, in excess Of eight
hours labor per diem prescribed by law.
Singleton opposed the amendment % without
head or tail, and utterly indefinite.
The amendment was rejected, only Fl members
voting.
Frye of Maine then brought up the question of
the alleged discharge by the door keeper of Grip
Piled and disabled Union soldiers the door
keepers roll, aud remarked in an impassioned
speech that when the President of the U. s. saw
fit to take men who had been in the confederate
them in positions of responsibility and power,
when the republican party of the country CON-
mended the President for 90 doing, it might possi-
bly, be that the door-keeper should in interest Of
pac hca,ion be allowed to discharge crippled and
disabled onion soldiers and put confederate sol
diers in their prces.
Cabell-Does the gentleman from Maine con-
slider that the President has done wrong in form
ing his cabinet
Frye-I do.
kiIlinger-So do |.
McMahan replied to Mr.. Frye and said that al
though there were SO 00U disabled Union soldiers
in his district, he heard of any of them get
ting position in any Of the departments Of ths
government. This talk about disabled U Mon sol
diers on the oor-keepers roll really only amount
ed to this: That some members had got some IA
vorltes OF their own appointed. Were there no
mon soldiers in the country, he asked, except
tnose VINO voted the republican tcketf In ms
district the boot had been put on the other leg.
The discussion was carried on for some time
amid great uproar and confusion, and finally .
proposition offered by Foster directing the reten-
tion Of these disabled soldiers ruled out Of
der, and the ruling on appeal sustained.
The committee soon afterwards rose and report
ed the bill and amendments.
vote on the amendment appropristing S700,-
for star service in mali contracts ordered, and
taken by yeas and nays, and resulted, yeas l0S,
nays l2s, so the amendment was rejected.
Adjourned.