The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-04-24
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SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April 80. The question
of extending the time for completion of
the Northern Pacific r. r. being under
consideration:
On motion of Mr.. Edmunds the words
''haYing due regard for the rights of said
company, were stricken out of the last
section.
The senate agreed to an amendment by
Mr. Bailey, that when the lands granted
to the company have become entitled to a
patent for the same they shall be subject
to taxation by state or territory.
Mr.. Christiancy moved that the rate for
mail transportation shall be the same as in
Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota. Agreed to.
Mr.. kernan's amendment that the issue
of bonds to aid in the construction of the
road shall require two thirds affirmative
vote or the written consent OF the holders
of uotless than two thirds of the entire
preferred stock, was agreed to.
After further amendment the bill passed
without division.
Mr. Saunders entered motion to recon
slider the vote by which the bill to provide
| for the appointment of eighteen additional
commissioners to the Paris exhibition was
| indefinitely postponed Objected to.
|
appropriations, reported without amend
ment the house bill appropriating 81
600, 900 to supply deficiencies in the appro-
priation for public printing and binding,
during the present fiscal year, aud asked
its present consideration.
Objection was made by Mr.. Edmunds.
Adjourned.
WASHINGTON, April 23,-The house,
by vote of l3l to l02, voted to table the
appeal from the decision of the chair re-
garding the presentation of the protest
against the passage of the river and harbor
bill. The protest was read.
Mr.. Conger objected to the words about
the combination of members for the spolia-
tion of the treasury and demanded that
they be taken down.
Mr.. Cox withdrew them, but Mr.. Couger
renewed his point and objected to Mr., Cox
speaking,
The speaker ruled that Mr. Cox might
proceed, but the uproar on either side pre-
vented him. Finally the house decided
l03 to 87-that Mr.. Cox might proceed
and be Gid so, Mr.. Conger interrupting
once, but the speaker ruled that the OBJ
lection was not we'll grounded,
MIR. Hale then submitted whether this
was question of privilege, and Mr. Rea-
gan defended his committee and declared
that he would not quietly permit assaults
on the committee on commerce. All bills
of the character of the river and harbor
bill had passed under suspension of the
rules for sixteen years. He reminded Mr.
Cox this was peculiarly working mans
bill. 1t gave them occupation anu reduced
expenses to consumers. The committee
had considered it most carefully, had heard
every member who chose to come before
it, had cut down from millions to hundred
of thousands, and some who had demanded
millions for certain interests before the
committee now resist the bill on account of
extravaganza.
| MIR. Cox disclaimed the intention to re-
feet on the committee, but claimed that
this bad process of legislation should be
reformed, This bill proposed surveys OF
rivers which for the most part were not
worth dam. The only means of making
them thoroughfare was to macadamiZe
them,
MIR, Ellis said he was one of the men Mr..
Reagan condemned, He had asked of the
committee of commerce an appropriation
for the harbor of New Orleans, and they
had voted $4,000 for it and given large
sums TO Pennsylvania river of no ippor-
tame. The river was the kieskiminitas.
The speaker submitted the question OF
entertaining the protest to the house, and
the house decided, $50 to SO, that the
paper did not in itself present question
of privilege, aud refused to enter it on the
journal as a matter of courtesy to those
who presented it.
The conference cummittee on the appro
pria,ion for treasury clerks reported ar
agreement, aud tie compromise report
was agreed to-
Mr.. Sparks, from the appropriation
committee, reported the Indian appropria
tion bill, Referred to the committee o
the whole.
Adjourned.