The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-17
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The House,

WASHINGTON. March 1e.-On motion of Mr.;
O'Neil. of Pennsylvania. the, Attorney General
was directed to report to the House whether the
Military Academy or to Annapolis were made
In compliance with law. or merely as matter
" Mr.. Finley. of Ohio. asked leave to report
from the Committee on Agriculture q bill ap-
the rayages Of grasshhopDerss IN New Mexico.
est ablish a mint at indianapolis;. Referred.
bill III for the reei Of the Soksbarg and Meridian
Railroad from taxes illegally paid. Referred.
MIR. doode,, Of Virginia; introduced 9 bill for
lieutenant Of the line in the revolutionary
army, and afterwards President Of the United
States. Referred
In the morning hour. q large number of
private bills were reported from committees
and referred to the committee of the whole on
the private calendar. j.,
House 60 into committee of the whole on the
private calendar, and pending that motion
moved that all debate on unfinished business
Mr.. Conger-W is unfinished business2
The speaker-The bill in relation to the pay
ment of Southern mail contracts.
Mr.. Waddell. of North Carolina. would inform
the eman That Ia he od haye to
After further debate. the House. by vote OF
112 yeas to 1o6 nays agreed to the motion to
The House then went into committee Of the
Immediately took up the bill for the payment Of
sq9rnsFa Mr. Wadde of Norh Carolina said he had
not intended to speak on this bill, and he only
wanted now to say that the Committee on Post
claims before them; they only had the
Joint resolution to appropriate the, pro-
ceeds of an. appropriation. The bill was
e., ohnr rff fIn
Confederate Congress, Mr.. Atkins. and he had
passed. nor had others on his eide Of the House
le,I the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conger) to
say the other day that the gentlemen in Il the
South must have known Of this legislation. The
shelves of all public libraries in Michigan had
he supposed. the statutes of the United States,
but he doubted whether, even the gentleman's
constituents could recolect all the laws that had
related % tome to measures ] Of the administration in
regard to the Confederate archives. It had
ea @ h o them bsH sns on op9P s to pon all The
Gov. Gov Vance, Of North Carolina. and Mr. J. Don
Cameron; late Secretary OF War, to show that
The clerk commenced to read the cores
pondence, when Mr.: Conger inquired ~ re II Il the the
naes fGned or debate occupy all the
Mr. Waddeil proposed to occupy time enough
to have the correspondence read.
r. COnGoT SuDmllLou budt oil pal y
rules gave the opponents Of measure or
proposition one-half the time allowed for de-
bate.
Mr. Waddell wanted the document read, and
if it occupied all of the time he could not help IT,
country % would take notice Of who was resDon-
sible for that
Without concluding the reading the ten min
Mr. Conger asked for FIVE minutes to reply to
Mr.. Waddell.
Objection was made on the Democratic side.
Mr. Eden, of Illinois, moved to strike out the
enacting clause of the joint resolution.
Mr. Conger said that he thought the Chair
should have recognized him to move an amend
ment SO he could have spoken. because the mo-
ton OF Mr.. Eden was not debatable.
Mr.. Edens motion was agreed to: and In COM
pliance with the rule in such cases. the commit
tee imm mediately rose and its action was re-
ported 20 the House..
Mr.. Eden moved that the action Of the COM
mittee be concurred in. and demanded the pre-
yious question, which was seconded.
Mr.. Waddell moved to recommit the bill to the
Postof1ce Committee. The motion was ruled
out OF order. The only question was to concur
In the action of the committee. If the main
question had not been ordered. MIR. WaddelIs 3
motion would have been in order.
Mr.. Waddell then moved to reconsider the
vote by which the main question was ordered.
but the House. by q vote of rs yeas to 121 nays.
disagreed TO the motion.
The enaeting clause of the bill was then
stricken out, and 1t was accordingly defeated.
Mr.. Money. of Miss issippt, asked for five
minutes to speak, and said it was due to him