National Republican., 1877-03-04
FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
SECOND SESSION.
SENATE,


ing Of the Journal was dispensed with.
Mr.. CHRIsTIANCY presented a joint resolu.
tion from tho Legislature Of Michigan, asking
for survey OF Lake Michigan with a view to q
harbor Of refuge. Referred to Committee on
Commerce.
Several Senators endeavorcd to call up bills for
action, but MT. COCKRELL put brake on such
legislation and held 1t with frm hand, and de.
c,nred that under no circumstances would he
allow any legislative business until there was a
quorum present.
Mr.. SPENCER appealed to him to allow bill
to be taken up and read tor the Information OF the
Senate, aud as Il would take at least fifteen min
utcs to read IT,, q quorum would probably be
Mr.. COCKRELL asked what information the
Senate wonld get by having bill read to empty
they came In, than they would be II the bill Is
MT. SPENCER. l hardly think the Senator
Mr.. COCKREIL interrupting. 1t is no un.
Kindness whatever, to insist that a quorum shall
for WET Is pEn and ust SnS arS shS h n
sist firmly without yielding to any senator, and 1t
will do no good to appeal TO me.
was continued until 1880, when quorum was
found In the Senate.
h, pendiing i the call MT @ BAiME mi gave notice that
moment, and claim the right Of way over all other
Mr.. C0CkRELI. submitted Joint resolution
change of tax on tobacco.
MIR. DAVIS. shall object to any business un.
I'll tho business can go right along.
Mr.. ALLISON. Is there quorum m present yet1
When the CHAIR found a quorum present he
II was referred to Committee on Finance
The Clerk Of the House appeared and an.
nounced tho disagreement OF the House to tho
Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil bill and
asked Conference, and on motion of Mr.. WIN.
DON, the Senate insisted on It's amendments and
Mr. COOPER called up tho bill for relief of
Perez Dickinson, Of Knoxville, Tenn, q large
claim for cotton: Passed.
Mr. ALCURN presented the credentials Of i.
q. q. Lamar az U. $. Senntor.elect for six
years; from March I, 1877.
Read and placed on file.
The CHAIn announced as Senate members of
the Conference on the Sundry civil bill, Mcssrs.
WINDOW, DoRsEy and WALLACE.
Patents a bill for relief Of Z. NJ. Hoskins.
Placed on Calendar.
Mi. LOGAN called up the House resolution to.
water works for Galena, III. Passed.
Mr. DAVIS presented the petition Of ex.Sena.
arrears of pensions, Ii II on the table
Mr.. WINDOW presented the report of the Con.
ference Committee on tho Legislative Executive
and Judicial Appropriation bill, and 1t was
The amendment in relation to the reduction of
oS and Ma $cSea tbS the
Senate still insist add ask new conference.
Pho CHAIR announced as visitors to West
Point Academy on the part OF the Senate, Messrs.
Mr.. ELAINE called up the Army Appropria.
Mr.. MORRILL, withdrew motion, entered
several days ago, Tor reconsideration of the
vote passing the bill for the relief Of Redick
The army bill was then read through as 1t came
from the House, and Mr, BLAME offered an en-.
Mr.. WEST asked permission to make a report of
the Second Conference Committee on the dis.
mtees s it'd disagree S on amount to BE- sppro SS
priatcd for mail transportation. Tho Senate has
reduced the amount to $500 ,0Oo, and the House
difference letween them. The nate committee
s!ii insists upon apprSprlating tSoo each to the
Jansro % servse, while the House refuses @ to @
An hour was spent in discussing tho question
concerning the China mail service, and yea and
whether the senate should recede from the
amendment, and resulted In yeas 20, nays L., and
the Senate receded. The conference report was
The CHAIR announced as the Conference
Committee on the dsagreeing vote on the amend.
% sg ~ salary as Mss WIspoM rel aLIsos IL sss
MT. CAMERON twis), submitted the report
o. the subcommittee on the South Carolina elec-
The consideration Of the Army bill was then
resumed and MT. BLAME M "A M. asked that The tiye
Mr.. BLAINE said he submitted the substitute
the last session Of Congress, as the committee
were willing to accept Of that, while they were
confident that the House bill Of this session could
never @ be passed BY the two Houses. The substi-
Mr.. wALLAOE opposed the substitute and
sad the people had on right to %,,t have re-,
Of their money, and In the House bill provision
had been made against using the army towards
aiding the Packard or Chamberlain governments,
and he thought the Senate should have the
privilege Of passing upon those questions, which
The substitute denied to them.
Mr.. DAVIS submitted an amendment to re-
duce the army from o, 900 to 10000 by ceasing to
enlist men TN the army reached that number,
army in the South had passed away and the
army ought to he reduced.
nr, LOGAN said the army ought to be in.
creased instead OF diminished, and If It was in
creased to $4,000 II would then form nucleus for
respectable force in case of war with any other
nation.
said he was in favor Of following the provisions of
Mr. BLAINE said ho understood the Senator
to object to the manner OF using the army. He
was very desirOus Of having the bill pass without
any angry discussion. For himself, he had very
he was not anxious to conceal, but he did not de.
sire any fierce debate on the bill. He asked the
senator from Delaware II, as a lawyer, ho would
dent, or dictate 10 him, how he should use the
army.
Mr. BAYARD said he was very particular about
Insisting upon the constitutional rights of each
branch OF the Government, and he was not cer-
tain that he should have adopted the means used
by the House In this particular, he deemed 1t
rather questionable.
After some further discussion the amendment
was rejected on yea and nay vote Yeas -,
The Clerk of the House appeared and an-
nounced that the House had refused to agree to
the conference report on the Postoftice bill, and
asked further conference.
The army bill was resumed and Mr. HERMAN
claimed that II was competent to say how the
money appropriated should be expended.
Tho question was then resumed on the adoption
OF the substitute, on which the yeas and nays
were demanded, and the substitute was adopted
yeas, ~; nays, %. The bill was then passed 10
the amendments adopted and the bill was passed.
The bill was passed by party vote. Several
Senators were absent and paired, which accounts
for the light vote.
Mr.. WRIGHT called up the bill to extend the
Court OF Commissioners OF Alabama Claims two
years, with slight House amendment. The
amendment was agreed to and the bill passed.
Mr.. WRIGHT called up the bill to appropriate
the amount for claims reported by the Committee
on Claims, aad yielded for Mr.. SHERMAN to call
up the bill to aid the resumption Of specie pay.
ment. The bill was read when the CHAIR in-
terrupted to announce the new conference on the
Post office BILL asked fof by the House, and
Messrs. ALLISON, HEREFORD, and DAWES, were
appointed, The Resumption bill was resumed,
nor less than bill for contraction Of the cur.
rency, very slowly Of course, but nevertheless a
very slow and painful process of contraction. He
said the country would hnd this no relief to the
business interests Of the country even though 1t
would lead 70 resumption, and IN all respect to