Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-16

| nOunclnS inc passage Vi Tue couCurLenG resO
| luton extending the session till Thursday
! next Shouts of mo, no."
On motion of Mr.. Cole the amendment adopt
ed some days ago on motion of Mr.. Vance,
repeating the provision of the taxing law for
| the transfer of revenue causes from State
courts to Federal courts, was reconsiaered anC
struck out of the bill.
Mr. Sayler offered an amendment pr5vid.
| ing that the reduction of the tax on tobacco
shall take effect September 1, 1873, instead
of from the passage of the bill, as formerly
provided. Adopted.
Mr.. Foster offered an amendment provid-
ing that the tax on tobacco shall be collected
at tuenty four cents per pound until 1900
He said it was perfectly evident that the bill
could not pass this session, and II this mat
ter were carried over to next year the result
would be a disaster to that interest. He ap-
pealed to the gentlemen who favored the re-
duction to settle this question.
Mr.. Sayler-We intend to settle. We pro-
pose to pass this bill before we adjourn.
Mr.. Fcster-It is impossible to pass it.
Mr.. Sayler-It is not impossible.
The vote by tellers resulted-59 to 81.
Mr.. Foster called for the yeas and nays.
Mr.. Sayler-The gentleman means to carry
out his threat of defeating the bill by filibus-
tering. | tell him we will stay here all sum-
mer If we have to pass this bill.
Mr.. Foster-The senate will not agree to
that.
Mr.. Sayler-The senate has postponed the
adjournment until the middle of the week.
Mr.. Foster-We won't agree to that.
Mr.. Sayler (shortly)-Won't wep
The yeas and nays were refused, and the
amendment was rejected.
Mr. Burchard offered an amendment to the
former part of the bill, providing that no
special tax shall be imposed upon winners
who sell VINE of their own make at the place
where the same is made. Adopted.
Mr.. Turner offered an amendment permit
ting every producer who cultivates not ex-
ceeding one acre of tobacco to sell one hum
dred dollars worth of leaf tobacco per year
for 1873, 1879 and 1880, without taxation.
Defeated-yeas, IL; nays, Isl.
The consideration of the bill was then sus-
pended, and, on motion of Mr.. Cannon, a
conference committee on the post-route bill
was ordered.
Mr.. Wood called up the senate resolution
fixing the final adjournment on Thursday
next, and moved to non concur. Agreed to
yeas, 148; nays, 10S.
MIR. Knott, chairman of the judiciary COM
mittee, presented his views In oppos ton to
the report of the committee on the Kimmel
bill and resolutions of the Maryland legisla-
ture on the subject of the Presidential cleo
ton. He said he would be content to have
the paper printed In the Record, but some
gentlemen desired to have it read, and if
IL.
He then stepped to the clerks desk and
was about to read his report (quite volumi-
nous) when Mr.. Tucker objected to that con-
sumption of time uutll after the tobacco bill
should be disposed of.
Mr.. Springer proposed to suspend the rules
in order to extend that privilege to Mr.. Knott.
The motion was agreed to, and Mr.. Knott
thereupon read the paper. the tenor of which
has been already indicated. Mr. Knott holds
that the great underlying question to be de-
termined was not the one which the commit
tee seemed to consider paramount to all 9TH
ers. 1t was not merely whether the present
incumbents of the Presidential and Vice-Pres-
idental offices should be disturbed, but it had
a wider range, and reached to an in
might incidentally affect the title of
couple of citizens to the honors and
emoluments of certain high and important
offices now claimed by them, but it also in
volved the dignity and sovereignty of thirty
eight independent and co-equal States as
well as the rights and liberties of forty mil
lions of people. The conclusion of the report
is in these words: "Let the representatives of
the people teach the people by solemn resolu-
ton that possession is better than right, and
usurpation stronger than law; that return
ing boards are supreme, and that the law is
voiceess. Then, indeed, will the people
realize that law has abdlcated, and that force
has been enthroned. Then, indeed, will the
country have become Mexicanized; force will
then be resorted to to redress wrong as
well as to sustain it, and recourse will
be had to the sterner arbitram emit of the bull
let; and after usurpatlon shall have succeeded
usurpation, anarchy will come like the night
and seal the fate Of this great republic for
ever.
Mr.. Hewitt IN. Y presented the report
of the conference committee on the army ap
preparation bill. He explained the report.
and said, in regard to the posse cOmitatus
clause: 1--WE have this day secured to the
people of this country the same great prov-
sions which, after struggle of two hundred
years, the commons of England secured for
Great Britain 1Derlsive laughter on the
The report was agreed to-yeas, 142; nays,
55.
Recess.
At the evening session Mr. Wood offered
resolution providing for a final adjourn
ment on Tuesday next, at four o'clock in the
afternoon. Agreed to.
The speaker laid before the house a mes
sage from the President transmitting a COM
munlcation from the secretary of state in
closing the documents called for by the reso-
luton of the Potter investigating committe
Ordered printed and referred to that COM
mlttee.
The speaker appointed Messrs Cannon,
Morrison and Waddell conference commit
tee on the post route bill.
Mr.. Atkins, from the conference committee
on the legislative, executive and judicial APP
preparation bill, reported a disagreement,
and stated that the rock upon which they had
split had been in regard to the pay of the
senate employees. and on this point the house
conferees were directed to yield-yeas, III;
nays, 81.
The report of the conference committee
was then adopted, and the speaker appointed
the same conference committee.
The house then resumed the consideration
of the internal revenue bill, when Mr.. Hewitt,
IN. Y. offered an amendment for the es-
Enlistment of a bonded warehouse for the
export of tobacco. Adopted.
MIR. Harrison offered an amendment estab-
fishing an income tax ranging from one per
cent. on incomes of over two thousand dol
lars up to ten per cent. on incomes of one
hundred thousand dollars.
Points Of order were made against the
amendment, but were overruled by the chair
man.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
amendment, Mr. Harrison inquired whether
if he withdrew the amendment the house
would allow a separate vote to be taken on
the income tax bill. [Shouts OF Regular
order!" Never" 81 object to its with
drawal!"
After lively discussion and amid much
COnIuslOn, lne vote was taken on the amend
ment, and though Mr.. Harrison encouraged
his friends with exclaiming up, friends of
the people," it was defeated on a division By
SO to log.
The yeas and nays were demanded and
ordered by the Republican side of the house
and resulted-yeas, 81; nays, 139.
This cannot be considered test vote. as
many Democrats who otherwise would have
voted for the proposition, voted against it,
fearing that it would endanger the passage
of the bill.
Mr.. Burchard moved to strike out section
Is of the bill, prohibiting the assessment of a
tax upon insolvent banks.
Pending action and amid great uproar and
confusion, the house adjourned.
Poor Stanley Mathews.
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