The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-10-17
The Presidents Message Confined TO
Appropriations for the Army, Navy,
Courts and Repairing OF the
Interior Department.
The Attention of Congress Invited to the
PrOprlety Of Adopting the Necessary
Legislation to Enable American
Participation In the lnterna.
tlonal Exposition at Paris.

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WASHINGTON, October 10 --Seator
Gales, of North Carolina, son of tn,
late Joseph Gales, one of the proprie'
tors of the old National Intelligencer
has been appointed superintendent Of
the folding room of the house.
senate.
The senate met at noon and soon
afterwards the clerk of the house an.
nounced the organization of that body,
and also the appointment of the com.
mittee to wait upon the president, with
the committee on the part of the SEN
ate, and notify him of the quorum OF
the two houses, etc.
A resolution instructipg the secre-
tary to notify the house of the quorum
of the senate and that II was ready for
business, was agreed to.
During the morning hour large
number of bills and petitions were
presented and referred. Among the
petitions were many favoring an in.
crease of compensation for letter car
riers.
Among the bills was one by Mr..
Beck, for the removal OF all disabii-
ties imposed by the fourteenth amend
ment. Referred.
Mr.. Thurman introduced q bill to
amend the Pacific railroad accounts SO
rs to create sinking fund for the LID
uidation of the Indebtedness due the
government by the Pacific railroad
companies. Referred. In explana.
ton he sail it was the same bill report
ed by the judiciary committee In July,
1876.
A resolution providing that the COM
mittees existing at the close of the
last session be continued until further
orders, was agreed to.
The memorial of the Missouri legis-
lature in favor of the removal of the
national capital to the Mississippi val
ley, was referred.
The memorial in relation to
national system OF levees for the Mis-.
sissippi river, was referred.
Mr.. Sargent submitted resolution
requesting the president Of the United
States to transmit to the senate, If not
incompatible with public in terest,
statement of the appropriations and
expenditures of the navy department
from March 4, 1889, to June 30, 1876.
Passed, with an amendment of Mr..
Davis, OF West Virginia, to have sim.
liar statement from the war depart,
ment.
The house was opened by prayer by
the new chaplain.
After the reading of the journal, Mr..
Hale (Maine) called up the Colorado
election case.
Mr.. Cox raised the point Of order
that disputed elections must he con-
sidered in the order objected to, and
Colorado was the last.
A long discussion took place on the
question of swearing in the two South
Carolina members, RAINY and Cain,
whose names were put on the roll by
the clerk.
Mr.. Cox wanted the question refer
red to the committee on elections, but
1t was commended, among others by
two democrats, Mills and Potter, that
rs the gentlemen had the usual legal
certificates of election they should be
sworn In, then their right to seats
might he referred. This view prevail
ed and Rainy and Cain were sworn in.
The Presidents Message.
Fellow-citlzens OF the Senate and the use
of Representatives.:
The adjournment of the last con-
gress, without making appropriations
for the support Of the army for the
present fiscal year, has rendered nee
essary suspension Of payments to the
officers and men the sums due them
for services rendered after the Both day
of June last. The army exists by vir-
tue of statutes which prescribe its num-
beers, regulates its organization and
employment, and which fix the pay OF
its officers and men, and declare
their right to receive the same at
stated periods. The statutes, how
ever. do not authorize the pay
ment of the troops in the absence
of specified appropriation therefor.
The constitution has wisely provided
that no money shall be drawn from
the tire sury but in consequence of ap.
propriatiens made by law, and 1t has
also been declared by statute that no
department Of the government shall
expend in any one fiscal year any sum
In excess of the appropriation made
by congress for that fiscal year. We
have, therefore, All army In service
authorized by law and entitled to be
paid, but no funds available for that
purpose. 1t may also be said, as All
additional incentive to prompt action
by congress, that since the commence
ment of the fiscal year the army,
though without pay, has been con
stantly and actively employed In ar