Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-05-22

senate COlllillCloo Oh HppIOpIldtlOIlo
to-day, claimed the house made an adj
equate provision Tor the necessary ex-
penditures of their departments.
OBJECTION TO PACKARD. III
In the senate executive session OBJ
lection was made by Senator Salisbury
to the confirmation of ex-Gov. Packard,
as consul at liverpool; and by Senator
Thurman to Geo. A. Sherman, as re-
corder Of deeds for the district. These
nominations consequently went over.
THE FRANCO-AMERICAN TREATY.
The senate in executive session to-day
ratified the treaty between France and
the United States, providing for a con-
vention at Paris the present summer,
with a view to the adoption of the met
rical system of weights and measures.
THE NEW ARMY BILL. "' ..-
A Washington dispatch under
date of the 14th inst, states that
the total amount recommended in
the bill reported from the house for the
committee on appropriation for the
support of the army for the fiscal year
ending June 3Oth, 1879, and for other
purposes is 500, 929,671. Ofthls amount
there is recommended for pay and al
lowances of officers who may retire I'M
der its provisions, $2.S97 ,O0O. Total of
regular sum, 1924, O32, 664. Total amount
appropriated by last loan, $25,712,5OO.
Total sum of estimates, $31 ,292, 232; de
creased from the estimates, %,159,565.
The estimates in the bill are fer
10000 enlisted men. Cavalry regi-
ments , are reduced to six
and the number of infantry regiments
to Is, and those are to be effected by
transfer and consolidation. The presi-.
dent is authorized in his discretion hon
orably to discharge from the army Off.
GERS who may apply therefor on or be-
fore the LIST of January next with certain
allowances of pay. 50 Officers unfit for
service are. to be mustered out on re-
ports of the commanding officers of the
several military geographical divisions
and departm ents and heads of the vari-
Gus staff departments, and all vacancies
now existing or that may occur by rea-
son of the transfer or consolidation
shall be filled in due proportion by SUI
-pernumerary officers, having reference
to rank, seniority and fitness. 7 Wo-
men are prohibited hereafter
from accompanying troops as
laundresses. +, The e, bill regulates
officers pay, and provides for board
report to the president upon the organ
ization, practical working and efficiency
Of the corps Of engineers, ordinance.
medical, quartermasters. subsistence
and pay, departments of the signal and
artillery service, bureau of military or
justice, adjutant generals departm emit
and inspector generals department,
ard to make such suggestions as in the
Judgment of said board will increase.
the, usefulness or reduce the cost of
maintenance of the army and of the
several departments of the service
above specified. The report so made
shah be submitted to congress by the
president, and until otherwise ordered
by law, no new appointments nor pro-
motions shall be made in any Of said
departments of the military service ex-
cept to fill vacancies occurring in grades
provided for in this act
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS.
Mr.. Lapham, of New York, on the
18th inst, in the house. offered Joint
resolution, which was referred to the
committee on Indian affairs. The pre-
amble sets forth the danger Of an. out
break on the part of Sitting Bull in the
west, of Mexican raids on the Texan
border, and. lastly and particularly, that
there are just grounds to fear repeti-
ton of the labor instructions of last
year in all or most of the states, which
sad experience shows that the state mil
litary authorities are unable to suppress,
therefore be it resolved by the senate and
house of Representatives that the prcsi-
dent shall be authorized, il, in his judg-
ment it shall become necessary, during
the recess of congress, to increase the
active force of the army by the enlist
ment of volunteers, to a number not
exceeding seventy-fve thousand men,
for such period as may be considered
in his judgment necessary to effect the
purposes for which such enlistment was
authorized to be made, such an increase
of the army to be subject to the provis-
ions Of the Revised Statutes IN relation
to the organization Of the army, and
state militia, unless called into the SER
vice of the United States. The resolu-
ton was referred to the committee on
Indian affairs, the committee on mill
tary affairs being committed against any
increase of the army. .- e. 81 -
PROPOSED SUBSIDIES.
The senate post-office committee has
reported an amendment to the post
office appropriation bill giving mail
contract to the Pacific Mail Steamship
line at rate not to exceed $50 per mile
per annum for period of ten years.
The same comm tee also agreed to re-
port favorable a bill granting subsidy
to a line ofsteamers carrying the United
States mails from San Francisco to
Hong Kong, China; also a monthly
line from San Francisco, CAL, to Sid
ney, Australia, touching at New Zea-
land. The bill is to be reported as an
amendment to the post office appropria-
ton BILL 5 @2ss.s =
sCHLEICHER's BOND BILL. E.s.
The bill introduced by Mr.. Schleicher
on the 18th inst, in the house author
izoS tho SacrotarV Of tho troa CI1rv TO ic