Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-06
FORTI.FIFT CONG RESs.
March =.

SENATE.-A large number of petitions for
lhe appointment of Il commission on the alco-
hollc liquor traffic We're introduced and re
ferred. Also another food OF memorials pro
testing against the transfer Of the life saving
service. We're received and laid on the table,
The bll being before the Senate.
Mr.. McCreery presented resolutions Of the
kentucky legislature in favor of the cOnStruc-
tion of the Texas Pacific railroad
Mr. Thurman presented remoHStrance
against the reimpOsitOn of the income tax.
>, Mr.: Paddock, from the committee on pub
lie lands.reported resolution authorizing that
COMM tee to send for persons and papers
and employ stenOgrapher in examining the
claim ann OF h,n Mm m Metiarahan. Agreed to.
Sioux Falls Railroad company TO extend its
road into the territory of Dakota, to the vii
lage OF Sioux Falls, was passed.
The Senate then resumed. as unfinished
business. the bill to provide long bond for
the investment of savings
HOCSE.-Mr. Gibson introduced n bill for
relief of the families of the officers and seamen
OF the dredge boat McAlliSter, lost off the
mouth of the Mississippi river on January I'd.
Reierred to commtte on commerce.
MIR. Davis On. c. introduced bill making ap-
y. Referred.
Mr.: Bliss introduced a bill to establish an
export bonded warehouse at the port of New
York for the storage OF manufactured tobacco
Referred.
MORE CLERKS WANTED.
MI NdcktN. from committee on pensions.
submitted report in relation to the employ
meht OF clerks. to bring up the business of the
pension office. They report that the commits
,ioneF iom fp OF pensions M does not reIuire an addi
that additional clerks are required in the
surgeon generals office, To finish military
records. etc, of applicants for pensions The
report goes into a detailed statement showing
the number OF applications for pensions pre-
SenIed annually. and the number remaining
!, nndlsposed OF at close of fiscal year. The whole
# n ~ ~ tI,.a,r for,
SlOnS, is 1855 and the number Oh hand and
MndlSpoSed OF on February Isl. 1873, was IS 767.
lhe committee recommended the employ
ment of forty additional clerks in the surgeon
generals office, and that an appropriation be
made for that purpose. The report was re
leTred to the committee on appropriations.
Bill for erection Of public building at Kan
SaS City. Missouri, was passed.
Mr.. Young, from committee on public build
lngs and grounds reported back the bill au-
thOriZIng the erection of a fire proof building
for the National Museum Referred to com
mittee OF the whole.
Mr. Briggs. from the committee on accounts.
rep0rteda resolution authorizing the employ
menl OF an additional messenger i'll the fold
ing room.
Mr.. Cox (OhiO) said he was member of a
committee which had had occasion to inquire
INTO the matter of assignment of messengers,
and he was prepared to say that there were
more messengers on the rolls than were re
qulred 1t was not necessary that any new
appointment should be made for all purposes
could he served by a transfer from the regular
roll, and he was opposed to increasing the
number.
Pending further consideration the morning
hour expired and the resolution went over
The Speaker laid before the House a mes
sage from the President returning with his
objections the bill authorizing the holding of
a special term of the United States court in
Mississippi for the trial of persons charged
with depredatlonS or the timber lands.
The veto message was read, and
with the bill. was then referred TO the com
mittee on the judiciary, with leave to report
at any time.
The House then went into committee Oh the
bill to authorize the employment of temporary
clerks: MIR. Potter in the chair
IN accordance with the arrangement made
yesterday, Mr.. GARFIELD proceeded to address
the House for an hour, in reply to the speech
made by Mr. Kelley yesterday.
Mr.. Garfield said he would not have asked
to make a speech now, but for the fact that
Yesterday Mr.. Kelly had renewed and criti-
cised a speech made by him (Garlield) one
hundred and nine days ago. There was moth
ing in his speech which trenched upon per-
Sonallty,. and there was nothing, there
fore, which had more surprised him than the
speech of Mr.. Kelley yesterday, which was
filled with Sneering. unkind personalities and
which closed with statement which was
cOarSely unchriStian, if not profane, and had
branded him (Garfeld) as an arrogant con.
ceited and egOtiStical member. Such a state
ment coming from gentleman whose cOllOS-
sal self cOnceit, has always been a theme for
jOcularity, need not be reDlied tO on This floor