Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1877-11-24
HOUSE OF, REPRESENTATIVES,.

iA In the House, on the 18TH the army
bill passed without division. A cOmmunca I
tion was read from the secretary OF war de
Tending his department from charges made
in Saturdays debate in regard to.unauthor'
lied recruiting. He claims the right on the
mart OF the president to authorize recruiting
even were there was no appropriation, and
eXplains that il was authorized under urgent
circumstances by Gen Sherman in the'Pa-
cihc department to carry on the Indian war.
Adjourned go,
In the House, on the 18th, bills were
introduced and referred by Mr.. Banks to ex-'
tend. facilitate and cheaper land and water
TRANSPORTATION of freight and passengers and
to promote industry and labor without
further appropriation of the public debt
The house then went into committee of the
whole, Blackburn (Ky.( in the chair, on the
deficiency bill. The total amount appropri-
ated by the bill is $3,250.665, of which SIS
446,6sS is for the navy, $3ll ,653 for amount
due Selgman Brothers, London, $4,000 for
marine corps bill; also provides for the pay
ment L. S. Judges, etc. After considerable
discussion, ii which Mr. Blount, who had
charge of the bill, Promised inquiry into the
( division of the pay fund, and Mr., Hale said
the late secretary might be scrutnized from
cellar to garrett, and there wonld not be
found single dollar OF all themillions that
had been appropriated to a purpose outside
of the maintainauce of the American navy
in a.proper form, the bill passed without di'
! vision. The house then proceeded to the
! consideration Of the bill to repeal the re,
sumption act. At close of discussion the
house adjourned
| The House. on the 18th, resumed the
consideration of the bill for the repea, OF the
Y resumption act After lengthy debate the
| matter went over without action, and the
house adjourned,
In the House, on the 18th, the follow
lowing bills were introduced and referred
! Nv Mr., Haskell: Providing for the payment
| of duties OH imrOrtsin gold, siverand legal
render notes. BY Mfr. Schleicher; Provid
\ ING for cheap transportation between tide
water on the Atlantic aud Ohio and Mlssls
sippi valleys. & By Mr.. Mills;, A memorial Of
| tbe state grange of Texas tor the appoint
ment of A commissioner of agriculture as q
cabinet officer. BEMr. Sapp: For the con
Struction of railway from New York tc
Council Bluffs, Iowa. '4'he house then re
sumed the repeal Of the respmptoR2st. Mt
Kelly read from an article in the NorIf
American Review, over the signatufe o.
: Hugh McColoch, which he said exhibited al
/, IGNORANCE discreditalgie to the country whos'
secretary of the treasury its author had been
and mendacity which invoked all the op
probrious epithets that ever had been hafleC
} from reporter sdesks I, He went on TO say
that congress, in legislating Tor the resump
tion of specie payments, was egiklahng al
) impossibilty. The laws OF trade could no
: he controlled BY the wisest government
C;rsenbacks hAd been denonlinated as tn
, curse oi the country, and yet it was green
J bqcks-the I" rag. .baby''-Lha had saved tn
union. When gold had disappeared and ha'
5 LETT the country, then the rag-baby had steT
. ned forward and had keptarmies IN the he'll
and supplied munitions, food aud transports
| tion That which had served SO well in wa
4 was not deserving the'.contempt which wa
= being heaped upon it in peace; that whlc
: gsye the nation credit to the. amount
20 7OO. .O0OO 600 was certainly enough, to SUI
J. tain 4 credit OF $1,000, ,000,0OQ.N He pre-
n d;cted @ in spite Of ieers and SCOTS, that If tn
J. yeI,mntien act WIS to be maintained, tn
a ssSrsrincs Of .tAe past two years when CON
v pared with the sufferiugs yet % COME, wou.
he as light as the chill that; alights on tropl
. cel nlants when compared with the Arctl
4 coid Ihat bnilds IN the mountainous iceberg
|, Te asked the house to wine out that rninou
s statute as it stood il was a menace 10 co
iidence, the steady destroyer OF creol"