Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1878-02-12

resolution to print copies of the
memorial address on the late
Edward Young Parsons, Represen-
tative in Congress from Kentucky,
and appropriating 5000 to have en-
graved at the Treasury Department
a steel portrait of the deceased to
accompany the memorial. Agreed
to.
Saunders presented resolutions of
the Omaha and Council Bluffs
Boards of Trade demonstrating
against the passage of the pro rata
bill recently introduced by Chat
fee.
Bills introduced and referred:
By Voorhees,, to authorize the
Secretary of War to issue ordnance
stores and equipage for the Use of
students in colleges and other insti-
tutions OF learning where military
instruction is given. Referred.
By Mitchell, making an appropria-
ton for the construction of a steam
tender for light house and buoy
service on the Columbia river.
Referred to the Committee on
Commerce.
Booth presented the joint resolu-
tlons of the California Legislature
favoring an appropriation for the
Improvement of the harbor of Will.
mington, California. Rsferred to
the Committee on Commerce.
HOUSE. Cox, Chairman of the
Committee on the Library, made
a report ia connection with the
presentation OF the painting ten
dered to Congress by Mrs. Thomp-
sou. 1t provides that the Senate
and House shall meet in the hall of
the House at 2 p. NJ. on Tuesday,
there to listen to remarks by Gar
field and Stephens, the donor of
the gift and the artist to be granted
the privilege Of the floor during
the occasion. Report adopted.
The following bills were intro
duced: By Joyce, declaring forfeit.
ed all grants Of public lands to
railroads or other corporations
when the conditions of the grants
have been violated, and appropri.
ating such lands to the use of ac-
tual settlers; by Hooker, q memo
rial of the Mississippi Legislature
for q southern line railway from
the Mississippi river to the Pacific
ocean; by Jones, of Ohio, making
customs duties to the extent of one
fourth thereof payable in legal ten
der notes; by Clark, of Missouri,
giving the thanks of Congress to
Col. Miles, for his gallant cam.
paign against the Indians of the
Northwest; by Mills, resolution
making inquiry into the action of
the treasury officials in regard to
seized cotton; by Martin, for the
sale of all government property at
Harper's Ferry.
The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole, Blackburn in
the chair, upon the Military Acad-
envy appropriation bill, the pend
ing amendment being to strike
out the sections which allow addi-
tional pay to First Lieutenants act
ing as instructors at West Point
and other institutions. Defeated.
Aiken moved to amend SO as to
reduce the pay Of cadets from $40
to $500. He criticized the action of
the Appropriation Committee in
several of its appropriations. West
Point was an incubus on the people
of the country. If the people knew
for what their SIZE, OUO was appropri-
ated annually, in less than thirty
days the House would be flooded
with demands to put West Point
undar the hammer or rive IL TO
New York.
Hewitt, of New York-'No
doubt of that, but West Point has
vindicated itself in the history of
the country and the people will
never allow it to so under the ham.
mer or be closed up" (Applause.
Ham (excitedly)-"I think it
would better become the gentleman
from New York to answer the ar
guments of the gentlemen from
south Carolina than to make the
ad cdptandum appeal of a dema-
gogue, which ISLANDERS the repre-
sentatives of the whole Southern
people," Applause on Democratic
side.
Durham defended the West Point
Academy. Congress should stand
by it for it had turned out the best
and bravest men that had ever
been seen in this or other countries.
[Applause.]
The amendment was rejected and
without further action the Com
mittee rose and the House ad-
journed.