Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-03-16

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Elementary to the act to carry into oaect r
convention between the United States and
China: Concurred in, and TO give the court
OF claims jurisdiction in certain cases. The
Dl'l authorizing any person or persons hay,
ing any claims against the balance of fund
designated as the Chinese indemnity fund
for losses sustained by the plunder of the
bark Caldera in 1854 to commerce within
| twelve months nest after the passage of this
| act proceedings in the United States court Of
claims. Passed ed.....The committee then
went into a committee of the whole, Mr..
Porter in the chair, on the fortifcation an.
preparation bill. The bill apprOpriates one
hundred thousand dollars for the protection
OF Notifications and other works Of defense.
one hundred and twenty-four thousand dol.
lars for the armament of Tortifcations, and
fifty thousand dollars for tOrpedos and for
harbOr defense. The bill was read, and with
the amendment, laid aside to be reported to
the house committee ..... Mr.. Kelley took the
floor by unanimous consent, and proceeded
to make speech on the resumption ques.
ticn, The speech was in reply to Mr.. Gar
Held some months ago. He denied Mr..
Gartield's statement that the wear 1868 was
prosperous one, and quoted from various
authorities to sustain his position. In reply
to MIR. Gariield's assertion that no president
or statesman had favored any money but the
standard Of gold and silver, he said that
Jefferson and Madison were exceptions to
that sweeping assertion, and Alexander
Hamilton had favored resort to greenbacks
under the name of treasury notes. He also
contradicted the assertion of Mr.. Garfield as
to the hesitation and unwillingness of sena>
tors and members to pass the legal tender
act, and he quoted Thaddeus ateVenr, Hoop.
or and Senator Sherman in commendation Of
that measure. He denied Mr.. Garfeld's
assertion that greenback currency was a
forced loan, and said the forced loan is a
debt, and greenbacks is the money with
which we pay the debt. If the gentleman's
assertion had been made in 1852 it would
have been denounced as the h!ssine of a
venomcus copperhead. Coming Gown TO the
question of specie resumption, he said with
sixty.tive million dollars of gold in the treas.
ury with none in the hands of the people,
and with seven hundred million dollars to
be redeemed the proposition was measure
of insanity. 1t was this proposition which
was driving the people to pauperism to
lunacy, to suicide, and was creating mon.
eyed oligarchy whose wealth, compared with
The body of the people, would be greater
than that OF the mOneyed Oligarchy of Eng.
land,.".. Mr.. Garfield rose to reply to him,
and is TO have an hour for that purpose,
when the house again goes into committee
on the bill..,"The committee rose, and Mr..
Fort introduced bill to authorize the pre-.
paration of fine or standard silver bars of
value Of $lOl,00l, deposit the same in the
United States treasury, and issue of certiti'
Gates therein. Referred. Adjourned.
In the house, on the 9Th, at the con.
clusion of the morning hour the rpeater
laid before the house a message from the
president, returning, without approval, the
house bill authorizing a special term of the
circuit court of the United States for the
southern district OF Mississippi, to be held
at Scranton the second Monday in March.
The message stated that there was not sutli.
cient time to give notice of the holding of
could not prepare l6r the Ntrial at the said
term, because no funds would be available
for that purpose The bill and message
were referred. Adjourned.
The house, on the 7th, went into COM
mittee Of the whole on the deficiency appro-
piation bill, After further discussion on
this point by Messrs. Randall, Foster and
Cox, Il Q consideration of the bill was pro.
ceeded with, and finally the committee rose
and reported the bill and it was passed. II
apprOprlates six thousand five hundred dol,
lars for temporary clerks in the treasury;
twenty thousand dollars for clerks to inves.
tgate fraudulent land entries, ETC.; twenty>
five thousand dollars for clerks in the gen.
eral land office to bring into the market
public lands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippl, Alabama and Florida, and four
thousand dollals for heating and gas CT the
pension office Adjourned
In the house, on the 6th, the commit
tee on Pacific railroads agreed to recommend
the passage OF a bill appropriatng twenty
thousand dollars for the survey of railro d
from Austin, Texss, through chihuahua and
Sonora TO TopOovampo harbor, gulf of Cali.
fornia..mThc house then went into com
mittee of the whole, MIR, Price in the chair,
upon the private calendar of unfinished
business, it being the bill for the payment
OF certain ante bellum southern mail cons
tractors. Without action on the bill the
house adjourned.
The house, on the 9th, went into COM
mittee of the whole on the consular and di.
plomatic appropriation bill, Mr.. Cox, of New
York, III the chair. The bill appropriates
81, ,0S6 935, a reduction of $102439 from the
appropriation of last year, and a reduction
OF $l7i, ,462 from the estimates Of the state
department. The salaries of ministers to
Great Britain, France, Germany and Russia
is fixed Mt fifteen thousand dollars each to
Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan
and China at ten thousand dollars each; to
Chill and Peru at six thousand dollars each;
to Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Venezuela,
Hawaiian islands, Argentine Republic and
United States Of Colombia, seven thousand
five hundred dollars each; to Bolivia, FIVE
thousand dollars to Guatemala, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua, one
minister, ten thousand dollars to Hayti,
five thousand dollars; to Liberia, two thou
sand five hundred dollars. Mr.. Singleton, a
member of the committee on appropriations,
explained that the committee had reduced
the salaries of the four principal ministers
abroad from seventeen to fifteen thousand
dollars, an amount amply sufficient, consid.
ering the work to he done by them. lie
fbltIItu 10 lllt ldIl lllhb lllO Nuloul uN 1AOll-
don received two dollars q head for each
American shipped at that port, and every
dollar of that large tax on commerce was
used at the consulate, and not one covered
into the treasury That was what made the
position of consul so much sought after,
After speech by Mr., Hubbell in favor oI
the extension OF our foreign commerce, the
committee rose, and the house adjourned.
SENATE
In the senate, on the 4th, Mr.. Cockrel
introduced bill to authorize the deposit oi
silver bullion or bars, and issue certificates
therefor, and it was referred to the commit
tee on finance. 1t authorizes persons to
deposit such bullion or bars, and issue Of
certificates therefor by the secretary of the
treasury in sum not less than 500, in the
same form as certificates now issued by gold
bullion, such certificates to be receivable al
par for duties on imports and all public
duties..... When the senate bill was reached
amending the laws granting pensions to Off
GERS and soldiers of the war Of 1879, Mr.
Stephens moved to pass the bill, 1t place'
on the pension rolls the names OF suct
officers and men as served fourteen days in
the war with Great Britain, and directs the
restoration to the pension rolls OF thost
names stricken therefrom on account of dis
loyalty, but provides that no back pay shal
be allowed The bill was then passed-yeas
217; nays, 2l..."".All the business on tht
speakers table having been disposed of, th'
house adjourned.
In the senate, on the 9th, Mr.. Becl
called up the resolution submitted by hin
in January declaring it inexpedient at th
time to levy and collect taxes for the main
tenance of the sinking fund, and spoke a
length in favor of the resolution Referred
to committee on finance, Adjourned.
In the senate, on the 9th, consideration
was resumed OF unfinished business and tn
long bond bill. After long debate the bill