National Republican., 1878-06-19


the resumption act were then taken up.
Mr.. FORT moved to concur In the amend
ments.
Mr.. EDEN, at 1885 o'clock, moved that the
House adjourn.
Mr.. FORT insisted upon his motion.
Mr.. EDEN asked II II was not necessary to
adjourn Mondays session.
The SPEAKER said he had known legis-
lative day to extend over several calendar
days.
Mr.. EWING objected to the passage of this
bill, which he characterized as the substitute
Of the Treasury Department for the House
bill to repeal the resumption act.
Cries Of Vote! Vote!
The yeas aud nays were ordered, and the
Chair decided that, under the order made to
go to the Speakers table, two-third vote
would be required to concur.
The House, by vote Of 40 yeas to 105 nays
mot two thirds, refused to concur In the Sem
ate amendments
Mr.. EWING inquired whether, as the House
had refused to concur by a two-third vote, II
was such non-coucurrence as would authorize
a committee Of conference.
The SPEAKER did not think 1t would, be-
cause the House was acting under special or
der. Tho bill would go back to the Speakers
table.
The House then, at 11:55, adjourned the
legislative day Of Monday, to meet again at
1915, as of Tuesdays session.
Upon reassembling, there was a struggle
for the floor, and the ,chair recognized Mr..
POTTER.
Mr.. TowNsHEND Ull.) said that the
Speaker had q list of membcrs who he would
recognize, and he TowSsHENDl had been
waiting three weeks for recognition.
The SPEAKER said no made 1t rule to
recognize the first gentleman who wanted to
bring up public business.
Mr.. TOWNSHEND said he had public bill
| which he would like to have action on.
Mr.. POTTER then reported from tho Com
mittee Oh Civil.Service Reform, and moved to
suspend the rules and pass bill providing for
the judicial ascertainment Of claims against the
United States.
The rules were suspended and the bill was
passed-l6i to "a.
The Senate resolution extending the session
| to six o'clock Wednesday evening was concur
| red in.
motion to make the hour four o'clock was
| previously rejected.
Mr.. CANNON reported further disagree.
mcnt oil the post-routo bill. Tho conicreos
state that the House confcrccs refuse to waive
what they regard as privilege, in that as the
| House had refused to concur in the Senate
| amendments there was really no question oi
disagreement for a conference to consider.
The report Of the conierccs was adopted.
= Mr.. WADDELL then moved to suspend the
rules and and adopt resolution authorizing
| the appointment of a new committee of confer
encc; and that without waving any of the
rights or privileges of the House, that the con
| fcrces tbc authorized to consider the bill the
same as though there had been adisagrccmcnt
Mr. CARLISLE made q point of order
against the resolution, that as there was nC
disagreement there was nothing to confer
about.
Mr.. WADDELL said his resolution proposed
| IN allow the committee tn confer.
The resolution was rcjccted-yeas, 20; nays
s..
Mr. DEAN wanted to know when he could
| get the floor to offer bill unanimously recon-
mendcd by the Committee on Expenditures o.
the State Department. 1t was to mako all ap
preparation to enable the committee to bring
some witnesses here from China.
Several members said they did not want any
Of that business.
Mr.. HALE offered resolution to suspend
the rules, so rs to enable the House to go t.
business on the Speakers table, under the SAINT
limitations rs under the order Of last night
which was that it should require two-thirt
vote to pass any bill to which there was objec
tion. RCjccted-yeas, 1870 nays, 90; two-third
not voting in the affirmative.
| Mr.. DANFORD moved to suspend the rule
aud pass q bill reported from the Naval Com
mittee, making appropriation for. an eXpedi
tion to the Arctic Seas. Reiected-yeas, 50
nays, l2S.
Mr. REAGAN moved to suspend the rule
and pass the Senate bill to so amend the rive
and harbor act of March 3, 1879, ~ to authoriz
payment to James b. Eads for work on tn
jettics of the Mississippi, The bill was passe'
yeas, 1913 nays, %.
Mr. WILLIS (Ky.) reported, from Commit
tee on Education and Labor, bill appropriat
ing S250,OOO rs a permanent fund TO promot
the education of the blind and for the bencii
| Of hn A mn
Passed-l2i to %.
Mr.. SPRINGER rose to what he said was
question of privilege, and he would first sent
up and have read resolution requesting tn
Senate to return to the House the bill whicl
was passed this morning for revision and cor
rection OF special assessment taxes IN the DIS
trct of Columbia. That bill was passed unde
u misapprchension.
Mr.. HENDEE inquired If that was a ques
tion of privilege.
The SPEAKER said 1t was If wrong wa
done, but the wrong would have to be shown
Mr.. SPRINGER said the bill was passe
through thin House. aud under misappre
/. hension, and he would show that a grea
wrong had been done.
The SPEAKER said the bill was passe'
practically by unanimous consent The gen
, tleman from Tennessee (Mr ATKINs) objccte
once and subsequently withdrew his objection
The gentleman must show that great wrOn
has been done before he can claim question
OF privilege under his motion. Otherwise an
member might move to recall any bill fron
the Senate.
Mr.. SPRINGER asked that the bill be read
and also letter which Commissioner Brya
had written on the subject, and it would the
, be shown that wrong had been pcrpetratct
The bill was not u measure of relief, but 1t wa
q tax, and it only went through in const
quence of u misapprchcnsion. The gentleman
from Tennessee Mr.. ATKINS objected to IL
, and he only withdrew the objection when h
was assured by the gentleman from Vernon
(Mr. lIENDEE) that the gentleman from ker
r lucky (Alr. BLACKBURN) approved oil the bll
+ Mr. IIENDEE said that was not true. ii
did not mention Mr.. BLACKBURN's nam'
/ What he did say was that the committee Wa
unanimously in favor of the ill.
Mr. SPRINGER said If the House wOul
hear the letter Of Commissioner Bryan rcaC
|, | II would be shown that in this bill we hu
-, legaliZcd taxes which were clearly Illegal
Several members objected to the reading
: and insisted that Mr.. SPRINGER had nj
shown that he was OH the floor on u questio
c OF privilege.
- The SPEAKER said that the gentlema
must show that n wrong had been done.
Mr.. SPRINGER said Mr.. Bryan's lett,
would show it to be wrong Besides Il
a manner of its passage was Il wrong. The gel
tleman Mr. HESDEE) called 1t up when the
Il were very few members in the House, and gel