The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-22

the Spofford and Kellogg case and all the evi-
dence was n now In aa and before many days the
Now comes the motion to discharge the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections from The
c M Ga Rs Which bss een hs gs
pending. He said he believed this motion was
made because circumstances outside OF the
Senate made the other side feel that they would
gain some advantage by pressing the question.
That was the reason. and not that the committee
had not fully done it's duty,
tee had not used diligence that this motion was
made for the committee had been unusually in
dustrous and had given the usual time to the
consideration Of these cases. What, then. caused
the Senator from Georgia to suddenly Grange
his mi nd about the duty of the committee? :,
Mr.. Hoar believed it was because the commit
Rsselred That i becomes necessary in deter,
saas s%RaE ns yahh hed G sseSn G r
which was the law ul Legislature at that time,
and that no other authority is competent to
determine that question.
Mr. Hoar in conclusion moved to lay the mo-
ien of Mr.. Thurman on the table, and on this.
OF motion of Mr. Cenking, the yeas and nays
Mr.. Bayard asked Mr.. Hoar to withdraw the
motion. to enable him tMr. Bayard) to submit
some remarks. and he would again yield the
floor to Mr.. HOar to renew his motion.
This was agreed to, and Mr.. Bayard addressed
the Senate. reeiting the circumstances not be-
fore within the experience OF those who had not
seen quite so much service as the Senator from
Ohio. The Senators had engaged in wordy
alterations here over W hat had taken place in
the committee. even giving the exact words
used: This was entirely unprecedented and
unbelievable,
He proceeded to discuss the merits of the mo-
ton to discharge the committee, when Mr..
Thurman made the point of order that it was
not in order for Senator to discuss the merits
of @ question when discussing point of order.
right than he is now. He said they had wit
messed extraordinary proceedings here to-day.
Mr.. McMillen moved that the Senate adjourn.
Carried on q yea and nay vote. division
was demanded. and resulted in the adapion of
the motion to adjourn. most of the Democrats
voting against the motion. and 3:45 .. m. the
The House.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21.--Mr. Hewitt introduced
a Joint resolution in regard to duties. Referred
to the Committe' on Ways and Means. Also Il
bankruptcy. Referred to the Committee on the
On motion of Mr.. Singleton the House went
appropriation bin. with Mr. wright in the
chair.
Mr. Singleton explained to provision of the
pill. The total sum appropriated by the bill is
Mr.. Foster said that the minority of the com.
mlttee did not propose to antagonize th9, bill
tention to the fact that this was the second de-
iiciency bill that had been reported during this
extra session. 1t afforded splendid illustra-
House. He predicted that more of these defc-
iencies would be continually coming In from
time to time.
Mr.. Beebe inquired whether the navy def
cheney did not arise in consequence of misap-
preparation of money formerly appropriated.
of opinion on that question. He was not sur
prised that the gentlemen on the other side
writhed under an allusion to the deficiencies
Mr.. Singleton inquired if it was not q fact that
9. good deal of this money was q reappropria-
ton.
Mr.. Foster said that was SO. but the matter of
reappropriation was an old dodge. The money
had TO be- paid. and it might as well be directly
app hL as to cal 6a Pro
claimed to have reduced the expenses of the
government 10000, 900. Well. the books We're
now closed ana it was shown that the real re-
duction was less than S19. 900 900.