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ing the use of artillery, tents. &C., to the sol
diers' reunion at Centerville. Iowa, passed.
Sessions were ordered for Friday and Tuesday

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Sessions were ordered for Friday and Tuesday
evenings next.
Mr.. Upton introduced bill authorizing
Ohio, Illinois and Indiana to prosecute suits
against the United States in the supreme
courts. Referred.
A resolution appointing committee to act
with Senate committee, to receive the ed of
February, 1878, the United States centennial
safe and its contents, was adopted.
The committee on printing reported back the
bill for printing the agricultural report for
1877, with the Senate amendment providing fo-
printing 5000 copies of the colonial charters
and constitutions and recommending non
concurrence in the amendment.
Mr.. Frye moved to concur. Agreed to. yeas
122, nays lis, and the bill passed.
Mr.. Smith, of Pennsylvania, submitted the
conference report on the bill making appro-
priations for the payment of invalid and other
pensions. Agreed to.
ference committees: On the legislative appro-
priation bill, Messrs. Atkins, Durham and Por-
ter. On the pOstOffice appropriation BILL
Messrs. Blunt, Clymer and Baker.
With Mr.. Carlisle in the chair, consideration
of the bill amending the internal revenue laws
the amendment of Mr.. Covert as amended by
Mr.. Tucker.
On tobacco twisted by hand or reduced into
a condition to be consumed, or in any manner
other than the ordinary mode of drying and
curing prepared forsale or consumption, even
instrument, and without being pressed or
sweetened, and on all fine cuts, shorts and re-
fuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and sweepings
of tobacco tax of 16 cents per pound.
On cigars of all descriptions which shall be
manufactured, sold or removed for consump-
tion or use made of tobacco, or any substitute
therefor there shall be levied and collected a
tax of SIS per thousand. On cigarettes weigh
ing not more than three pounds and a half per
thousand, $l.25 per thousand. On cigarettes
weighing more than three pounds and half
per thousand, $l.25 per thousand. On cigar
cites weighing more than three pounds
per thousand, $5 per thousand and all
laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this
section shall be and are hereby repealed on and
after date herein. The amendment was adopt
ed, yeas 81; nays 1O3.
Further action on the bill was suspended,
and the House went into committee of the
whole, Mr.. Beebe in the chair. on tie general
deficiency bill. The amount appropriated is
$4, $40, 100.
Mr.. Blount explained the provisions of
the bill. The total deficiency for 1878 amount
ed to Sl,97OO0O. The remainder of the amount
was made up of appropriations and appro-
priations prior t" 1876.
million dollars for payment of claims against
the navy department. He congratulated the
country and particularly the gentlemen on the
Democratic side of the House for the reduc-
tions made last year in the expenses of the
government. There was difference of thirty
SIX million dollars between the appropriations
for 1876 and 1873, 80 that even counting
in the deficiency bills for the latter year and
the deficiencies accruing prior to 1870, there
would be shown to be a saving of twenty-three
million dollars. If the appropriations for de-
fciencies accruing prior to 1876, were deduct
ed, it would appear incontrovertlbly that the
saving to the government had amounted to
over twenty-eight million dollars.
Mr.. Foster denied that the books of the
treasury would show saving of nineteen mil
lion dollars.
MIR Blount replied that the annual statement
of the register of the treasury would bear him
! out in the statement he had made.
| Mr.. Clymer explained the appropriation for
pay of the navy. This deficiency arose from
| the fact that under the last administration OF
the navy, the fund for pay of officrrs
} and seamen was ruthlessly seized upon and
used in different bureaus of the navy for the
purpose of allowing the secretary Of the navy
| to enter into large contracts. The navy was in
debt for years prior to those legislated for by
the Forty-fourth and Forty-ffth Congress as
nearly the sum of 81 900, 0OO which had been
granted in defiance of law by the secretary OF
| the navy, and appropriated to pay his pei
| contractors or works not authorized by law.
Mr.. Herbert spoke in opposition to the Texas
| Pacific railroad.
Mr.. Willis of New York, chairman of the com
mittee on naval expenditures, explained the
provisions of the deficiency bill in regard tc
the payment of claims against the navy de
partmeut. The committee on naval expendi
lures had closely examined the contracts fol
which payment was asked and hac
recommended to the committee on apppropri
ations the payment of claims to the amount o
$3,217,0O0. It was true that in entering int
contracts the government officials had in many
cases ignored the law, but did that in any wa,
interfere with the rights of men who had rem
dered services to the government? Whethe
the members of the committee on naval ex
penditures defended his action in re
fusing to give assent to tn
report of the committee recommending
the appropriation of 1921, 900, for the pay
ment of claims against the navy department
he undertook to say that eight out of ever.
ten Of the contracts for which payment wa
asked had been entered into without lega
sanction.
General debate upon the bill closed, the
committee rose, and the House adjourned.
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