The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-02-23
FORTY-F0URTH CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, February %.
SENATE.

SENATE.
At the expiration of the morning hour
the railroad sinking fund bill was laid
aside with the understanding it should
not lose its place as unfinished business
and the Senate took up the deficiency ap'
preparation bill.
The amendments reported by the Com
mittee on Appropriations were agreed t.
as follows: Appropriating Sos, ,449 fol
the transportation OF notes, bonds and
other securities; increasing the appro
pristion for the pay of officers and men
of the navy from S500,O00 to 81 400, 600
appropriating $4,000 tor the care and
support of Indians at Fort Peck Agency.
The committee reported various
amendments for the expenses of U. S,
Courts, including the payment of bail
ifs, District Attorney and witness fees,
jurors, etc amounting in all to $780, 900,
Agreed to.
Other amendments Of the COMMITTEES
were agreed to as follows: Ap-
propriating $4,000 to pay the expenses
of the silver commission; $4,000
to defrsy the expenses incurred by the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
of the Senate in making Investigations as
to the elections in various southern
states, and S2,0l2 for the payment Of the
investigation in regard to the immigrs-
tion of Chinese by the joint committee OF
the two houses OF Congress.
Mr.. Blaine moved to amend the clause
of the House bill to purchase Barclays
Digest, so as. to provide that in future
publications of the Digest by the Journ al
clerk of the House OF the text or substan-
tial portions of Barclays Digest be used,
the author shall be compensated for the
copy right. After debate it was agreed TO;
yeas, %; nays, Il.
Mr.. Allison submitted an amendment
sppropristing $1,000 o pay the expense
OF the Electoral Commission. Agreed to-.
Mr.. Morton submitted an amendment
appropriating S772 10 pay the costs IN
the case of Milliken, Shooner and others,
tried and decided in the Circuit Court of
the United States in the State of lndi.
ana. In explanation of the amendment,
Mr.. Morton said that in 1864 tribunal
WAS organized in Indiana for the trial of
certain persons Tor conspiracy against
the United States. Mllliken was con-
vlcted and sentenced to death !;
but subsequently the Supreme Court
decided that the military tribunal
by which he was tried was not legal. and
he was released. He then brought suit
against the officers who served on the
court which convicted him, and this sp-
preparation was to pay the defence of
those officers. The amendment was
agreed TO. The bill was then reported
TO the Senate and the amendments made
in the Committee OF the Whole concur
red in. The bill was then read three
times and passed.
Mr. Boutwell, called up the House bill
to perfect the revised statutes of the
United States and of the District OF Co
.mbis, and explained that it WAS an ex-
act copy Of the bill which recently
passed both houses, but which wa,
returned by the President with lis
objections to one clause in regard to
advertising; the clause objected to, had
been struck out in the House. The bill
then passed.
Mr.. Sargent reported with few
amendments the naval appropriation bill,
and gave notice that he would call it up
tomorrow for consideration. Ordered
printed.
The Committee on Appropriations
add to the amounts appropriated by
the House as follow: For pay of
the navy, Sl,070,0O0, for the equipment
of vessels $270,O0O, tor construction and
repairs $4,000, 900, for steam engineer
ing sl.200,0O0, for expe nses OF recrnrt
ing $50, 900, for naval laboratory $4,000
for nsysl hospitals $40 900. The Senate
then went into executive session and
took recess till 10 o'clock tomorrow.