The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-06-13
CONGRESSIONAL,
HOSSE,
" ASuINErn

AsHISGTOS. II. C., june 8.
The Senate bill granting the Use OF ar
tiilery suits, &c, to the soldiers reunion AT
Centerville, Iowa, was passed.
Sessions were ordered for Friday and
Tuesday evenings next. The resolution
! appointing committee 10 act
| with the Senate Committee to receive ON
the I'D OF February, 1879, the United
States centennial safe and Its contents, was
| adopted
The Committee on Printing reported back
the bill Tor the printing of the agricultural
report for 1877, with the Senate amend
ment, providing Tor the printing of 5000
copies OF colonial charters and constitu-
siOns and recommending non-concUrrence
III the amendment.
Nr. FRYE moved 10 concur: Agreed To.
Yeas, l22; nays, lis, and the bill passed
.Ir- SMITH, Of Pennsylvania, submitted
a conference report on the bill making ap-
Preparations Tor the payment OF invalid
and other pensioners. Agreed TO.
Ihe STEAMER appointed the following
conference committees: On the Legislative
Appropriation bill, Nessrs. Atkins, Dur
nam, oster; on the Post-ofice Appropria-
Ton bill, Messrs. Biount, Clymer and Ba-
ker, with Carlisle in the chair.
Consideration Of the bill amending the
Internal Revenue Laws was resumed.
Inc pending question being on the
amendment OF MIR. Covert as amended by
Mr. Tucker
The amendment reads as follows: THAT !
on and alter the passage of this act, there !
should be levied and collected upon all |
snuu manufactured OF tobacco or anv sub ]
shtute lor tobacco, ground up, picked, |
scented Or othefWle, OF all descriptions,
when prepared y use and uron all chew |
ing and smoking tobacco, tae-cUt. Cdven- |
dIshy ypiug or twist, cut or granulated, of |
every description
On tobacco twisted by hand or reduced |
into condition 10 be consumed, or in |
others than the ordinary mode of !
drying curing and prepared without the |
Use OF any machine or instrument or with
out being pressed or sweetened, and on all /
line cut, shoots and refuse scraps, clippings,
cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, a tax Of
sixteen cents per pound.
On cigars OF all descriptions, which shall
De manufactured and sold or removed for
Of Use, made OF tobacco or
INV substitute therefor, there shall be elevled
md collected tax of y per 1000.
On cigarettes weighing not more than
pounds per l 900 Sl25 per
900. On cigarettes weighing more than
hree pounds per | 200, s. per 200 and all
avs or parts OF laws in consistent with this
Ict, shall be, and are hereby, repealed on
md after the date herein aforesaid.
The amendment was adOpted-yeas, l37
lays, l03.
Further action on the bill was suspended
ia II..,a., mt. ~. = l.. |
Whole, with Mr.. Beebe in the chair, on the
eneral deficiency bill, the amount appro-
'riated being ~, go, ,I2O.
Mr.. BLOUNT explained the provisions
1 the bill. The total deficiency for 1873
My amounted to Sl,9.O,O00. The remain
er OF the amount was made up of reap ,
rOpriations and appropriations prior 10 ,
SO.
There was also an appropriation of over
million dollars for the payment of claims
gainst the navy department. He congrat- q
lated the country, and particularly the !
On the Democratic side OF the !,
louise, for the reductions made last year =
L the expenses OF the Government There I
as difference OF S36,0UO,0O0 between the
for 1916 and 1873, to that, :
zen counting in the deficiency bill Tor the q
liter year, the deficiency occurring prior =
loI6, there would be saving OF twenty
Tree million dollars. Ii the aprropria- 3,
ons iOr the Deficiencies occurring prior 10 |
'1j, were deducted, it would appear IL
that the saving 10 the Gov
nment had amounted to over twenty-eight
illiOn dollars.
Mr.. FOSTER denied that the statement
AT the BOOKS Of the treasury would only Z
low savings OF nineteen million dollars.
Mr.. BLDUNT replied that the annual
atement OF the Register Of the Treasury
OUli bear him cut in the statement he
nj made
Mr.. WILLIS, chairman OF the Commit !
{ on Naval Expenditures, explained the :
DIVISIONS Of the dciiriCncv bill in regard
the payment of claims against the navy
.partment. The Committee on Naval TX ! ="
mixtures had closely examined the con-
acts Tor which payment wa asked, and ! :
~ recommended to the Committee on n
the payment Of claims 10 II
e amount Of S3,2l7,OJO. Ii was true
at in cutgriE. into the contracts, the gov
um-a. officials had, in many cases, ic- aC
red the law. but did that in anv way in- '"
riyrc with the rights OF the men who had III
nd red services to the government. 'e
Ar. NIilIIiOENE, 4 member Of the ~
,hmiltce or Naval Expenditures, defend ac
his action in refusing TO give assent to W
q report oi the committee recommending ll
E appropriation of S.},2I7 GOO for the pay 10
snt OF claims against the Navy Depart &C
ent. lie undertook to say that eight out Du
every ten Of the contracts Tor which pay "i
ent was asked, had been entered into sa'
thout legal sanction. en-
General debate upon the bill closed, the or or
mmIrtt. rnse and the Hnn.e adinnrned IL