Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-01

cause he thought, out of respect to
the President, the message should
be laid over until tomorrow.
The President pro tenn, in an
nouncing the vote, said: Two-thirds
of the Senate having voted in It's
favor, the bill is passed and has be-
come law.
Allison withdrew his motion to
reconsider the vote by which the
Senate agreed to adjourn over until
Monday.
A motion to adjourn and another
| to go into executive session were
both rejected and the Senate re.
sumed consideration of the bill to
authorize q special term of the Cir
cult Court of the United States in
the district of Mississippi, and it
was passed, Notwithstanding the
adverse report of the Judiciary
Committee. Ayes 80, nays 15.
The Senate adjourned until Mon
day.
Observation-Disclosures, from the
Naval Committee, reported back
the bill requiring detailed appropri-
ations for the the object being
to prevent improper use of appro-
priations. Passed.
Willis, from the same Commit
tee, reported back the bill appro-
priating $500 for the expenses of
establishing temporary colony
and expedition to the Arctic Sea.
Referred TO the Committee of the
Whole.
The Presidents veto message was
received, which the Speaker laid
before the House.
| Stephens moved the previous
question on its passage, which was
seconded enthusiastically. During
the discussion Fort wanted the
message read again, but the others
objected.
Cox said it was charge of fraud
by fraud. Words which McCook
objected to and demanded that they
be taken down, but the Speaker
ruled him out of order and said
they would not go on the record.
| The last three votes were cast by
Bragg, Cook and Kelly, all of whom
had been absent from the House by
| illness, but came up in time, by
unanimous consent, to record their
votes, which they did in the affirm
alive.
The vote was then taken, with
the following result: Ayes, 1875;
Nays, 70.
The Speaker announced the vote
and said: In obedience to the re-
quirement of the constitution, two
thirds have voted in the affirma.
tive and the bill has passed, the
objections of the President to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
The announcement was received
with general hand clapping and
other marks of jubilation. The
bill and veto were then sent to the
Senate.
The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole and resumed
consideration of the bill to pension
:. soldiers of the Mexican and Indian
wars. After speeches by Williams,
of Oregon, Ryan, White and Rid
die, the committee proceeded to
consider the bill by sections. Dur
ing the speech made by Singleton,
he sent to the Clerks desk and had
read letter from Jefferson Davis
requesting him (Singleton) to in
form the friends of the bill that If
the success of the bill depended on
excluding him (Davis) from its
benefits, he hoped that such provis-
ion would be inserted in it. Sim
gleton proceeded to eulogiZe Davis,
declaring that this was but another
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and explained that that gentleman
had been in favor Of delaying as
long as possible the act of secession
passed by Mississippi, in hopes of
reconciliation with the North.
The committee then rose and the
House adjourned.
| A Democratic caucus was an
nounced to be held Immediately.
The yetO-th,nese Inlmis ration.
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 2Sth.-The
passage of tie silver bill over the
Presidential veto was almost uni
versally considered foregone con-
clusion, but the actual accomplish
ment OF the result and especially
the emphatic promptitude which
characterized the action of both
Houses, caused great excitement at
the capital to-day and little else
is talked about tonight through
out Washington. The Presidents
unqualified denunciation OF the bill
as fraud upon public and private
creditors sOlidified those who had
previously voted for it and the
only legislative effect of the mes
sage was to cause several members
of the House to vote for the meas
ure who had previously voted to
lay it on the table. Townsend,
from the Troy, New York, district,
was one of those who came over to
the silver men under this pressure.
Davis voted to sustain the veto.
All the other Pacific Coast Repre-
sentatives voted to override it.
There were no changes from the
former vote of Senators on this
question, except that of Hill, who |
made speech against the bill, and |
was therefore announced as paired |
against it, voted for it to-day. Sar-
gent and Mitchell voted to sustain
the veto. Jones and Grover were
recorded against sustaining the
veto and Booth would also have
voted for the final passage of the
bill, but was paired. Taking into
account the three opponents of the
bill and six OF its friends against |
whom they were doubly paired and |
assuming that Christiancy and
Sharon, who were absent without |
pairs, would have voted on
opposite sides, the full vote
of the Senate on the question of
overriding the veto would have
been SO against %. The unpreco-
dented features of the days pro-
oeedings concerning the veto, was
the entire absence of any effort or
apparent desire to debate 1T. Horace