Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-03-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
Conclusion Of Sa,m-dnv,s Proc~~s "a
MON DA Y

HOUSE,-Aftero our report closed
HE House being in committee of the ,,bai.
TO consider the hill 10 pay sou ,hern mail Coz
Mr.. waddcu. chairman az tbo ms, .e..
committee, said he had hoped thai witbort
iulther discussion the hill might be reporIed
10 the House and recommitted TO the post
Office committee in order that il might he ner
fected and objections 20 il obyiated In
reference TO the question as to whether tbs
war department had refused access 20 con
federate records he sent 10 the Clerks dab
and had read from the New York Herald AZ
March q, 1871, certain correspondence be.
,Nween secretary Cameron and Governor
vance, OF North Carolina.
While this correspondence was being read
MI: longer interrupted the reading and
canned ,En ior the opponents of the bilD half Of
ni ne zen minutes TO which general debate was
Ilnnieu; The claim, however, was not SUD-
ported oy the chairman, and the reading WAS
before u S,S Null Ill., me ten minutes expiring
enacting clause of the bill WV wv"
Inc motion was agreed 10.
The committee rose and reported tba, a.,,ior
10 the House. The previous question was
seconded, and the main question ordered on
cohcurrlng In the recommendation of the
committee. As this. under parliamentary
ruling, cut on motion Ia recommit which
MIR Waddell desired 10 make), a motio1 TO
reconsider the vote ordering the main ques-
tion was made and defeated-yeas IS NAYS 49,
The report OF the committee was concurred
IN without a division. and 81 the enactins
MIR. Money, member of the post Office com
mittee, repudiated for himself the intimation
made the other day by Mr.. Conger against
gentlemen on the democratic side Of the
House. especially those from the south He
tMr Money never had an intimation of any
leglSlatton by the confederate congress 10 pay
Nuch claims, and any such declaration, state
ment, assertion, iEtimation OF inSinuation III
i referred to him. was totally false and SLAM
derous.
Mr.. CGager repeated what he had said he
lore, that he thought IL exceedingly strange
that such legislation by the confederate con-
sre>s and such action by the confederate post
master general had not been remembered by
any member on the other side of the House,
although some of them had been members of
ma, very confederate congress, and that no
lntlmation thereof had been given by any OF
Them; He had paper in his hand which he
would have printed in the Record. showing
!iat out OF The eighteen claims now on file in
the auditors Office, fourteen had been paid by
The confederate government.
lhe House, at Top. M, adjourned.
TREE FEELING BY MACHINERY.-An English
paper has an interesting account of the re-
cent trlal OF new machine for cutting down
trees, at which Mr.. Gladstone. who has at
tdlhea lame "a an amateur chopper. was pres
ent. The machine consists of steam cylinder
plEoted on cast iron bed plate and having n
long stroke, which puts saw in motion. The
steam Is supplied from a portable boiler
through flexible tube. and is chiefly admitted
into the cylinder at the piston end only a lit
lle steam passing in behind the piston TO serve
as a cushion. The effect of this arrangement
is that the saw cuts in the return stroke and
not in the thrust, the teeth being all curved
accordingly. The apparatus. which can be
carried 10y four men, is laid on the ground near
The tree, TO which il is fixed Ivy two laws and
by chain placed round the tree lust below
the saw-cut, and drawn taut 10y a screw From
TINS IL VIII be seen that the machine cuts close
10 the ground, thus ecOnomiSing the timber
The first tree felled was an elm, feet in
ches across the cut, which came down in less
man four minutes. When the work goes on
unlnterruptedly the task is accomplished with
great rapldlty. In private trial five trees
were ielled, inclusive of the time occupied in
moving and adjusting the apparatus in 3
minutes. In the heart of one OF these trees by
the way, was found an entire brick The saw
was not made to cut bricks, but as il was
driven by steam IL had no time 10 debate tho
point, and so went right through the impede
ment, with the loss OF a tooth. As the saw cuts
well into the tree, wedges are driven in, as is
usual in Telling. The pressure of steam required
for the Telling of such trees as were operated
upon is about 80 pounds from a three or four
horse power 1t was the general opinion OF
the gentlemen present at the trial that the
machine was perfectly successful, and that
where there was much wood TO fell il would be
OF great service, particularly in American
Indian and colonial forests, which ii was de-
sired to clear.