The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL
SENATE,

hcScoodIy atldubtlutIIo lOI llc luiueu-
ration of President elect Hayes on the
9th of March. Agreed to.
Sargent, from the conference COM
mittee on the deficiency appropriation
bill, Submitted a report, and it was
agreed to. Morrill,, Howe and II Don
aid were appointed a committee on in
auguration ceremonies.
West, from the conference committee
on the postofice appropriation bill, re-
ported that the committee had been I'M
able to agree, and moved that the Sem
/, ate insist on its amendments aid ask
for q new conference. So ordered. In
submitting the report he said the points
of difference were in regard to the ap-
preparation for transportation of mails
by the China and Japan mail service
and the Brazilian mail service, but the
House conferees would not concur.
Ransom presented the credentials Of
NJ. 5. Butter as United States senator
from South Caaolina. They were
signed by Wade Hampton as Governor,
and had the seal of state attached.
Placed on file.
Mcdonald, at his own request, was
excused from service as member of the
special committee to make arrange
ments for the Inauguration of the
President elect, and McCreery was APP
pointed to fill the vacancy.
Jones, from the silver commission,
submitted a report. Ordered printed.
McCreery presented the petition of
Gen. A. Buford, removing his political
disabilities. Referred.
Kelly presented the credentials of l..
F. Grover, U. 5. senator from Oregon.
Filed.
Howe, from the subcommittee on
Louisiana elections, submitted a por-
tion of the report now finished, and
moved that it be printed. So ordered.
salisbury was granted permission to
file and have printed the views of the
minor!ty-himself and Mcdonald.
Whyte submitted Il resolution calling
upon the Secretary of War to furnish
the Senate with a copy of the opera
tons of troops in the Modoc country
under Gen. Gilhin. Agreed to.
The Senate adjourned until evening.
HOUSE.
Washington, March AFTER pray
er, Walling demanded the reading Of
the journal in full. The speaker stated
that the journal clerk had been taken
sick and the journal had not been COM
pleted. Thereupon Wilson moved to
suspend the rules SD as to dispense with
the reading of the journal. Democrats,
by declining to vote, left the House with
out Il quorum and the speaker ordered
a call of the House.
The roll call showed 1874 present and
the reading of the journal was dispens-
ed with.
Immediately nearly all the members
congregated, shaking bills in front of
he speakers desk. A number were for
the payment of clerks and pages and
were put through under suspension of
the rules.
Waddell moved to suspend the rules
and adopt a resolution that Wells, An
derson, Casanave and Kenner, members
of the Louisiana returning board now
in custody of the House, are, in the
Judgment of the House, peers of the
majority of the electoral commission,
who have greater contempt for the
privileges of the House and for the pnb-
lie opinion of the country than had
been exhibited by them; that justice
demands that each of such returning
board should occupy same position and
that the House has no power to confine
the majority of the electoral commission
and therefore resolving that Anderson.
kenner, Wells and Casanave be forth
with set at liberty in order that they
may assist the majority of the electoral
commission in inaugurating the person
whom they have jointly counted into the
Office of President of the United States
over the votes of a large majority of the
legal voters of the country.
Conger said that if it was necessary
to exhibit such a specimen of spite, he
had no objection.
The motion to suspend the rules and
adopt the resolution "a defeated, there
being only IS votes in the affirmative.
Waldron made a conference report
on the deficiency bill and explained it.
He said that by the conference report
the bill showed IN increase of 81, 152,-
900 over the amount appropriated by
the House, including an item of $780,
600 for u deficiency in the pay of the
navy, and an item of $4,000 for the
deficiency in the Department of Justice.
The report was agreed to.
Clymer made Il conference report on
the military academy bill. Agreed to.
Atkins, from the committee on ap-
preparations, moved to suspend the
rules and put upon passage the army
appropriation bill. lie stated that this
session was so far advanced that it is
the only practical method of dealing
with the bill. The bill was read. 1t
provides, among other things, for Il re-
duction of the cavalry regiments to
eight, the artillery regiments to four.
and the infantry regiments to sixteen;
that the officers of the discontinued
regiments may be assigned to other
regiments of their respective arms, and
that any officer, on his w application,
may be ordered IL discharge, with one
years pay for every eight years. service
from date of commission. Also, that
there shall be no distinction in the SER
vice on account of color. Also, that
there shall he nc new enlistments in
the army till the number of enlisted
men shall be reduced to 1900. Also,
that no part of the appropriation shall
be used in support of the claims of
either of the governments in Louisiana
or Florida until such governments shall
have been duly recognized by Congress.
After some discussion, Il motion to sus-
pend the rules and pass the bill was
agreed to.