The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-06-07
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
WAsH1SeroN, June 6.

During the morning hour Mr.. Voor-
hees spoke In favor Of an early consid-
Grafton Of the bill TO repeal the specie
resumption aet, and said the Senate might
IS we'll look this matter in the face. II
II was not going to repeal the act let /.
say 90 BY il vote. No greater question
had ever engaged the American Congress.
BE would take every opportunity from
now till the close OF the session 10 insist
that Il should be discussed. The Senate
had the time to pass all sorts Of bills TO
bridge riyulets, but had no time TO meet
the question which involved more peril
and distress than has ever been produced
by war and pestilence. He thought the
bill could be disposed OF in sixty minutes.
At the expiration Of the morning hour,
and after long discussion, the Senate,
by vote OF yeas IS, nays q, took up the
army appropriation bill.
By unanimous consent the Eve minute
rule was spilled to all the amendments,
except that In regard 10 the transfer Of
the Indian Bureau and forbidding the
use Of the army q = posse comitatus.
After debate the amendment Of the
Committee on Appropriations, increasing
the army 70 5000, was agreed to; yeas
80, nays 10!
Pending the further discussion Of the
bill Messrs. Dorsey, Sargent and Withers
were announced n the conference com.
nittee on the postofice appropriation
bill.
After an executive session the Senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
The Senate bill granting the use Of ar
tillery suits and caps to the soldiers re-
union at Centerville, Iowa. Passed.
Sessions were ordered for Friday and
Tuesday evenings next.
Mr.. Upton introduced bill authoriE.
ing Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana 70 prose-
cute suits against The United States, in the |
Supreme Court. Referred.
The Committee on Printing reported
back the bill for printing agricultural re-
port for 1877, with Senate amendment |
providing for the printing Of 8 900 copies |
and recommending concurrence in |
the amendment.
Mr.. Frye moved to concur. Agreed
10 yeas 122 nayes 1l5, and the bill passed.
The consideration OF the bill amending |
the internal revenue laws was resumed.
The pending question being on the amend
ment OF Mr.. Covert rs amended by Mr..
Tucker. The amendm ent reads as fol-
Iowa: That on and after the passage Of
this act there shall be levied and collect
ed upon all snuff manufactured Of tobac.
co or any substitute for tobacco. ground,
damp, picked, scuted or otherwise, Of all
descriptions, when prepared for use, and
upon all chewing aud smoking tobacco,
tine cut cavendish, plug or twist cut or
granulated Of every description and
Of tobacco twisted by hand or reduced
into condition 10 be consumed, or in
any manner other than the ordinary mode
Of drying and curing, prepared for sale
or consumption, even II prepared with
out the use Of any machine or instru.
ment and without being pressed or
! sweetened, and on all fine cut, shorts and
refuse scraps, clippings, cuttings and
sweepings Of tobacco, tar Of sixteen
cents per pound.
On cigars oil all descriptions, which
shall be manufactured and sold or re.
moved for the consumption or use made
Of tobacco or any substitute therefor,
there shall be levied and collected tax
Of Eve dollars per thousand; on cigarettes,
not more than three pounds and
, half per thousand, 81 % per thousand;
On cigarettes weighing more than three
pounds per thousand, s. per thousand;
ind all the laws and parts Of laws, incon-
,istent with this section, shall be and are
hereby repealed on and after date herein.
'pecifed. The aforesaid amendment was
adopted. Yeas, 1877; nays, 103.
Further action on the bill was suspend
ed, and the House went into Committee
of the Whole, Mr.. Beele in the Chair, on
he general deficiency bill. The amount
appropriated was $500 ,12o.
After general debate upon the bill,
he committee rose and the House ad.
ourned.