Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-14
Important Opinion of the Attorney Cen
eral Regarding the Lawful Trans
port Of Certain Goods in For.
eign Vessels River
Transportation Reg
ulatiOns.
The Ungallant Senator's Won't fave WO-
man Suffrage-The Bill to Repeal
the Specie Resumption Act
Passed the Senate-Civil
Appropriations in
the House.
General Joseph E. Johnston at the Head
Of Delegation of Virginians Look
ing after a Reduction of the
Tobacco Tax-The Ma
ti0nal Greenbackers.
In the House.

In the House.
WASHINGTON, June 13.-There was
great deal of confusion this morning as to tn
order of business, Mr. Ellis endeavoring T.
call up the contested election case of Richard
son rs Rainey, of South Carolina, and MI
Reagan endeavoring to call up the river AM
harbor bill for the purpose of non concurrin,
In the senate amendments. Finally boil
propositions were voted down, and the hous
determined to go into committee of the who'll
on the sundry civil appropriation BILL ant
closing all further debate on the bill ant
amendments.
Mr.. Eden moved to suspend the rules an
put the bill on its passage just as it came
from the committee on appropriations.
| Mr.. Atkins am astonished that the gen.
tleman is so anxious to pass bill without
| understanding it.
Mr.. Eden [excitedly You might as well
put it through under a suspension of the
rules as to pass it through in committee with
| out discussion.
Mr.. Cox IN. Y.l-If we pass the bill unde,
suspension of the rules, we will suspend
ourselves. Laughter and great uproar. ]
| move to adjourn, SO as to give members time
to come to their right senses
The motion to adjourn was lost-ayes, IA;
| nays, 1877.
By this time nearly every member was on
his feet. Messrs Cox N. Y. ], Hooker and
kenna were raising points of order amid
| cries of ''order!" and ''votel" from all parts
of the hail. Finally the speaker succeeded in
| obtaining order, and the vote being taken on
| MIR. Eden motion to suspend the rules and
| pass the bill as originally reported, it was
defeated-ayes, 4S; nays, 95.
| Mr. Wiggingtop, from the committee on
public lands, reported back the memorial of
M 'Garrahan, together with favorable report
thereon. Ordered printed and recommitted
The house then went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Carlisle in the chair, on the sun
dry civil appropriation bill.
Mr.. Williams Mich offered an amend
ment appropriatlng ten thousand dollars for
the improvement of the Yellowstone ma
tional park. Adopted.
On motion OF Mr.. Sayler the appropriation
for the Hayden survey was increased from
fifty Thousand dollars to seventY-fVe thou
sand dollars.
IUfa ,t 1fe .Fowe11 survey was increased from
thirty thousand dollars to fifty thousand dol
lars.
After very noisy session the committee,
without coming to any final action on the
bill, rose.
Mr.. Blount submitted the report of the
conference committee on the postofhce ap-
preparation bill. Agreed to.
Recess.
EVENING SESSION.
committee, reported joint resolution for the
interposition of the President to obtain re-
hearing of the case of Edward O'Meagher
Condor, an officer of the One Hundred and
Sixty-fourth regiment of New York volun-
teers, who was wounded before Petersburg.
1t asserts MS innocence OF the charge OF fell
ony IN resculng prisoners at Manchester,
England, and recites his long incarceration.
Passed unanimously.
| Mr.. Waddell moved to suspend the rules
| and pass concurrent resolution resembling
the adjournment resolution, and fixing upon
| Thursday, the twentieth instant, as the time
| for adjournment. Amid good deal of noise
the resolution was defeated-44 to liz.
The house then went into committee OF the
| whole, Mr.. Carlisle in the chair, on the civil
sundry appropriation bill. When the Sec
tions in regard to public printing, changing
the law in relation to the number of docu-
| ments to be printed, etc, were reached, from
section 2 to section Al and last, Mr.. Hale
raised the point of order on the second Sec
| ton that it changed the law, and was not In
the direction of economy.
The point of order was sustained, and IN
order to save time and facilitate business, the
remaining sections were considered in bulk,
and all ruled out on the point of order.
| The committee then rose and reported the
bill to the house.
Immediately after the chairman reported
the bill to the house, MIR. Atkins demanded
the previous question.
Mr. Ewing came to the front and asked the
gentleman from Tennessee to yield to him,
| and allow him to offer an amendment pro-
hibiting the sale of bonds for resumption
purposes. Cries of "No, no" and Regular
order
Mr.. Atkins am in perfect sympathy
with the gentleman's amendment, but can
not yield in this bill. Applause and confu
| sion.
Mr.. Ewing (excitedly) 1.-The gentleman yes
terday agreed to yield to me.
The Speaker-What the gentleman said
yesterday does not avail if he does not say 81
now.
The previous question was then ordered
| amid such great disorder as to call for the re-
mark from the speaker that he would not al
low the public business to be conducted IL
such confusion, and the gentlemen might as
well make up their minds to that. Finally
the tumult having been allayed, the house
proceeded to vote upon the amendments.
The first amendment on which yea anC
nay vote was demanded, was that increasing
the appropriation for the Atlanta custom
house from twenty to sixty thousand dollars
and it was agreed to-yeas, al; nays, 81.
The amendment increasing the approprla
ton for the Chicago customhouse from thre'
to four hundred thousand dollars was re
jected-yeas, SO; nays, Ill.
The action of the committee IN increasing
the appropriation for the postofhce at Evans
vile, Indiana, from twenty to forty Thousand
dollars, and the appropriation for the post
Office at Grand Rapids, Michigan, from TWEEN
ty to forty-seven thousand dollars, was con
Cured in.
The amendment increasing the approprla
ton for the signal service from three hun
dred and twenty-five to three hundred an
| fifty thousand dollars was agreed to, as wa
also the amendment increasing the approprl
alton for military telegraph lines on the south
western frontier from twenty to fifty thousan
, dollars.
The amendment increasing the appropria
! ton for the Rock Island arsenal to abou
three hundred thousand was agreed to-yeas
: 12l; nays, 81.
, The amendment striking out the paragraph
, refunding to the State of Pennsylvanl
twenty-nine thousand dollars for expenses II
CURED In raising volunteers during the lat
insurrection, was defeated-yeas, 81; nay
l03. The paragraph stand as originally n
ported.
At night the civil sundry bill passed an
> the house adjourned.
In the Senate.
y The bill fixing The salaries Of the surveys
b of customs at Baltimore, and Portlan'
n Maine, at forty FIVE hundred dollars per al
K mum each, and the surveyor of New Orleal
thirty five hundred dollars. was passed.
IS Senator Mathews, from the committee {
q railroads, reported without amendment ar
r without recommendation, the senate bill
aid In the construction of the Corpus Chris