Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-10
Provide for n Revision OF Existing
LaWs-The Bill TO Amend the
Revised Statutes Taken
Up and Discussed
A Bill TO Make Standard Silver Dollars
Equivalent TO Gold COins-A State
ment OF Gold and Silver Bull
lion Called FOr-Ete,
In the Senate.


patent office had become an institution of op-
| preston; and therefore directing the COM
mttee on patents to consider the expediency
of some other mode of compromising invent
! ors In place of the present system. He gave
| notice that he would submit some remarks
| thereon.
At the expiration of the morning hour
| Senator Cameron submitted q resolution re-
questIng the President Of the United States
to furnish the senate with copies of the re-
| ports u the United States marshals or other
| officers, and such other CORES pondence as be
may have relative to the recent elections In
South Carolina and Louisiana. Agreed to.
| A resolution of the house of repres entatives
in regard to investigating the yelow-tever
epidemic was read, and Senator Harris SAID
as the senate had already appointed a COM
! mittee 10 inquire into that subject which had
commenced work, in the hope that the house
would appoint q committee with the ore
already appointed by the senate, he moved
that the senate now concur in this resolution.
| Agreed TO.
Senator Garland submitted the following
resolution:
Resolred, That the committee on Indian
affairs be Instructed toiuauire whether 1t will
be not wise and expe6ient by appropriate
| legislation,
First-To provide for a revision of the ex-
existing laws regulating intercourse with the
Indian tribes in the Indian territory.
| OCCOnu-lO lsSuc H0u uCliNeE 10 JDG iEtd5
urer, or ether proper auth rites of said ma
tions, boz DIS of the United States, bearing
four and hall per cent interest, in lien of
all moneys held IN trust tor them by the Uni
ted States, except funds fer educational pur-
poses, and of the capital OF annuities at the
| annual payments due and made to them un-
der existing treaties and laws, and of all
| bonds of any State held in trust fer them,
! and all other moneys due any of them by viz
tue OF express stipulation IN treaties, with
directions to the secretgry of the treasury to
| ascertain he amounts for which such bonds
! should issue, and in case of disagreement
between himself and the authorities or dele
gates of either of said nations as to the ex-
tent or amount Of such Indebtedness, shall
refer the same to tue court of claims for adj
Indication, to be there Proceeded upon ike
other claims upon contracts against the Uni.
| ted States.
| Agreed to.
Senator Bayard submitted the following
| resolution:
Hesoired, That the President of the Uplted
| States be requested t0 transmit TO the sen
ate, if not incompatible with the public in
terest, copies of all cores pondence which
has recently been had by the department Of
state with any foreign power or Its legation
| In this county, respecting the immunity of
! diplomatic agents OF foreign governments
| from judicial proceedings against them while
| received as such and residing Ia tha United
States. and also whether, IN his opinion, the
| laws OF the United States in that regard as
contained IN the revised statutes, require
| amendment.
| Agreed to.
A message was received from the house
announcing the passage CT the bill to correct
an omission in the sundry civil appropriation
/ bill of last session, In regard to the Hot
| Springs reservation. Senator Dorsey asked
its present consideration, but on motion of
Senator Edmunds the bill was ordered
! printed and referred.
At the expiration Of the morning hour, the
| bill to amend the revised statutes relating to
! the Presidential elections aCt TO provide for
I and regulate the counting f. v ties for Presi
dent and Y .ce.Pr9sident, and tle decision of
| ques / ms arising therefrom, was taken up.
| Senator E1munds then addressed the senate
/ In favor OF the bill. SeDa or Edmunds ex-
| planned the provisions OF the bIiI, ami sa
/ the only thing the two hou-es of congress
| had to do was to count and declare the
/ suit of the vote of States which was the vii
of the State, and could not be overtlrnt d,
| Senator Elmunds having finished his speech,
an executive session was held.
When the doors were re-opened the senate
| adjourned.
Among the bills introduced during the
| morning hour was one to compel the national
/ banks to receive standard silver dollars as
| equivalent In value to gold CONS Ii the
United States, and directing the secretary of
| the treasury to use ten million dollars OF legal
tender, held for redemption OF fractional cur
rency, in payment of the amount Of the five.
/ twenty bonds.
By Mr.. Buckner: Amending the silver re-
monetzltion act.
By Mr.. Cummings: To provide for the re-
| demptiOn of subsidiary coin of the United
States and for their reissue.
By Mr.. Page: To enforce the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments Of the constitution.
The bill recited that in the late election In
South Carolina large number of male citi-
zsns belonging to one political party were, by
law enacted by the legislature Of SAID State,
and by concerted system Of terrorism and
fraud denied rights secured to them by the
constitution; and enacts that after March 4,
1879, the State of South Carolina shall be al
lowed two members of the house of repre-
sentatiges on q basis of the whole number Of
white inhabitants of said State.
! BY Mr.. Marsh: To reimburse the State of
Pennsylvania for moneys paid for losses to
citizens of the State during the war of the
rebellion.
The molten to suspend the rules an
the bill prohibiting further coinage OF trade
dollars and directing their exchange for and
their recoinage into the standard silver dol
lar was defeated-yeas, 154; nays, 81; not
the necessary two thirds vote.
Mr.. Atkins denied the published state
meut imputing to him any responsibility
for the go called Hot Springs omission.
Mr.. Hewitt N. Y. introduced a bill to
maize the silver standard dollars interchange
| abls with colo
Mr.. Sayler fOkiol asked leave to ofIer a
resol 4tion calling on the treasury department
for a statement as to the exact amount of
gold and silver coin and bullion received at
the treasury from the thirty first of January
TO the first of December, 1878; the amount
received fEoE2 customs duties, four-p cent.
| ~, a., n~.A oh NJ -
out for interest, amount of four per cent.
bond subscriptions, amounts OF currency re-
deemed, exact amount of cciu owned by the
gogerIE,ent on the first of December latter
deductinR all liabilities payable ia coin, ex-
cept the principal Of the national debit, and
percentage of this amount to the aggregate
OF ,ccsal-tendeg and national bank notes out
standing.
Mr.. Garfield objected on the ground that
it would be imposing large gpognt of IN
necessary work on the department.
Mr.. Sayler-Then the county Is not to be
informed of the condition of the treasury.
| Mr.. Foster suggested that the resolution
should be accompanied by an appropriation
of twenty-five thousand dollars to cover the
expense.
The resolution was not received.
Mr.. Burchari offered a resolution FIR
holiday recess from Saturday. December 2lst,
till Monday, January 9th Referred to the
committee on ways and means.
Speaker Randall laid before the house to-
day a communication addressed to him oftici-
ally by Postmaster General Key, in which
he informs the house that. in order to keep
the total expenditure within the amount of
the appropriation, he will be obliged to cause
the railway postal-cars to be discontinued on
and after the first of next January, unless
, congress shall in the mean time, make an ad-
ditloncl appropriation.
Mr.. Fort moved 10 suspend the luies and
adopt resolutions declaring the legal tender
quality of sllvJr dollars of4i215 grains shall
be maintained and enforced, aud that any
discrimination against them by any national
. bank in refusing to receive them and treat
them as legal dollars shall be deemed de-
! fance to the laws; and instructing the bank
ing committee to report the bill for the with