Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-03-08
FORrY-FIFTH CONGRESS-.
WASHINGTON. March 7.
SENATE.

SENATE.
n7ll. wee ntr ,duced relating to telegraphc
Commune At ons bet seen the L liteI States aud
fDIc'gn CDuutrics.
To provide Pr the organizl tion Of Mississippi
river improyeBe Mt com mission, and for deepen-
ing Of chan lol and improvement of navi sation.
The house bill for tle relief OF w iltin ii.
Hammond, late surgeon general, was discussed
and laid aside.
Sargent called up the joint nti-Chine-e resolu-
ton aud spoke 10 opposition to Chinese immisra-
ton.
The senate committee today agreed to report
hill providing for comp'lance win james Gordon
Bennett, request that the Pandora he allo we'd to
sail und the American II AZ, and that naval otf
GERS be detailed for servlc, on tina vessel in tae
proposed Arcuc expiration.
hamu called up he house bill 10 further sus-
pend operations IN section 1914 Of revised statutes
of the United states, in relation to the guano
.lauds.
The bill was passed.
The vice president submitted telegram from
the chief OF bureau Of engraving add pruning of
the treasury department, notifying the senate that
the exhibit repaired by the bureau for the Paris
exhibition would be s1ipJel 5,tntd,y ami lnvi.-
Ing the senators to call aud examine it before that
time.
Cameron of Wisconsin, called up the senate
bill referring the claim OF "a amin Ii lliidiy to
the court Of claim, for adjudication,
Pending the discussion the senate at five o'clock
adjourned TILL Monday.
House..
BIZ removing political disabilities of Robert Ii .
Hilton oil Georgia, vas passed.
Resolution calling on the secretary of the treas
ury for copy of the report of the special agent
cha rged with the examination OF charges against
ga nuel McCul ock, superintendent of public
buildings OF San Francisco, was adopted.
Resolutions providing for appointment of ex-
petts for committees were adopted.
The pendinf amendment Delny the one offered
yesterday by Hanna, increasing the number of
temporary clerks authorized o be emp oyel 10
the treasury department from twenty to eighty
five, AMI making proportional increase in the
amount appropriated for tue pay oil such clerks,
Wa. discussed I'd rejected
Baker Of ludiaDa Oh red an amen lment req Iir-
Ing clerk ship IN all the deputm INT, to be distr
butcd among the ci zens of the yar lus states aud
territories in proportion to the population, but on
objection by ID irhtm 1t wa, rlled out of order.
Cox Of New YORK tNItt,d the repub lean lille
of the house " tn ~ opposition to reform and
economy, and saii that in the first session of the
last congress there had been a reduction Of thirty
mdllou dollars, an IN tle second isslJn a reluc-
ton Of ten III Hons
Foster asserted nat the books moved only re.
dactlon of S0O1,01J N the last congress, and
that against that there was ed:iency OF is6,-
600 900.
Haze sad he would discuss the question of
economy on the ncXt appropriation bl bu. now
be would only refer to ode case If an expert in
the at congress, where cousin OF the chairman
of the committee on prlntn! Vance OF Olio)
wa, app jined "eNpert IN printing to that com
mlltee, and was paId Is such.
Singleton who had been member of that com
m tee, denied ali knowledge of any such expert
and a>sertek that nothing could he found 10 the
minutes OF tue comm e in regard TO him.
Hale replied that that made the matter still
worSr, Il, theh 4 man was pay /, expert who
never had don apyrhing to earn paw. His ac
count at the treasury A. certified Dy the chair
man Of The commit
An item of go 900 for clerks detailed to inyes
tga'e fraudulent aud entities, uespas,es on pub.
liz lands. and case, Of Off lal misconduct, wa,
subject of considerable discussion in connection
win the timber frauds.
Foster returned t. the question of the relative
merits of OF republic N amt demoC attic houses IN
tue matter of economy, and he asserted that the
reductions made a. the first session of the last
Cnngu - did not exceed So 600, 100. instead of
SO 900 900, a claimed nv Cox of New York.
Rardili Uhe Speaker asserted that the figures
given hy him in the last Goa gress. as CHAIRMAN of
the comm ttee on approp ia'i n, and fro u VII lch
Cox had quoted to dav, were exactly correct, and
the House had succeeded, notwithstanding the
opposition OF the republ can side of the House,
and OF the Senat , IN cutting down the annui ap-
proprial ionS $50 900 900 The Sec'y of the Treas
ury himself confessed in hi recent report TO Con-
grc>s that the House was right in that reduction,
and claimed the me- rit of having 10 the clerical
expense Of his department., kept under the appro-
pralion. The Secretary had also warned the
House that it must keep IN that ue of economy.
or else i would be ne essary to raise eleven mil
lion, additional, from taxation. He hoped the
gentleman from OhiD (Foste) would stand by bis
fellow a izen, the Sec'y of the Treasury. There
never was a time when economy wa. more neces
sary in the public expenditures than the present,
when there was 50 much distress ia the country.
(Appiau,e.)
Alter further Discussion on this point by Messrs.
Randall, Foster AID Cox the consideration of the
bll WA, proceeded WITH aud finally the committee
rose and reported the bill it passed the llouse.
II ap,roprate- $500 for temporary clerks in the
treasury, 10000 fr clerks to investigate fra ldu
lent land entues, &C., $4,000 for clerks in the
general land off e. to priug into market public
lands IN A kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Alabama
and Florida, and $4,000 for heating and lighting of
the Pension office.
Adjourned.