Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-20

tee, reported back the West Point
Academy bill, recommending con-
currence i'm some of the Senate
amendments and non-concurrence
in others. One amendment in
which concurrence is recommended
was that depriving the President of
the power Of appointing ten cadets
year and allowing but ten during
his term.
The House agreed to the report of
the Committee on Appropriations
and then went into Committee Of
the Whole, Hunton in the Chair,
on the general deficiency bill. The
total sum recommended by the bill
is 81 ,3S6, 1855. Without any general
debate the Clerk proceeded to read
the bill by sections.
AT the clause appropriating S75,-
900 for constructing, repairing, en-
larging and renting vaults and
safes for the use of the Treasurer
and Assistant Treasurer of the
United States, Hanna inquired If
these vaults were for the purpose
of boarding up the silver coin
lately authorized. If so, he was
opposed to it, because he wanted to
see silver put in circulation instead
of being boarded.
Chittenden defended the course
of the Treasury in not paying out
silver for tho debts of the govern
ment. The Secretary could not
properly act otherwise, because
silver was receivable for custo ms
duties and was now within one
sixteenth of one per cent. of the
value of gold coin.
Hanna replied, quoting Chitten-
denis speech characterizing the sill
yer dollar as the clipped dollar. If
silver was worth gold by within
one sixteenth of one per cent. he
would like to know where the poor
man had been robbed.
Townsend remarked that nobody
cares for the poor man half SO much
as was pretended.
Chittenden defended himself
from the imputatlon of inconsist.
ency on the subject of silver.
Young offered an amendment
appropriating $4,000 for continu-
ing the survey of the Mississippi
river for the purpose of reclaiming
the alluvial lands of the Mississippi
delta and made an argument for 1t.
Amendment rejected.
The House passed the bill MAX
ing General Sherman q regent of
the Smithsonian Institute. Adj
journed.
q snA Gns
Pacific.
WASHINGToN, March 19th.-The
Senate Railroad Committee was
ready not only to recommend ia.
vorable report upon the Texas Pa
cillc bill but also to order an adj
verse report upon the Southern
Pacific bill, but the friends of the
latter agreed to make no further
opposition in committee to
favorable action on the Texas
Pacific measure, provided the
Southern Pacific bill should be
placed on the Senate calendar
without the accom- panying adverse
report. The bill recommended for
passage is almost copy of the
measure adopted by the majority
of the House Committee.
Nor.herm Pacific in Committee.
WASHINGTON, March l9th.-At
the sessi On of the Senate Railroad
Committee to-day Senator Mitch
ell submitted a report of the sub
committee on the North Pacific
Railroad bill. The report was re-
ceived and laid over for considera-
tion by the full Committee at a
meeting next Thursday.
The Bankruptcy Law-UImh Fan.
cnisc.
WASHINGTON, March 10th. THE
House Judiciary Committee to-day
authorized Chairman Knott to pre-
pare and report House bill re-
pealing the bankrupt law, to take
effect as to involuntary proceedings
Immediately after its passage, and
as to voluntary proceedings from
and after July l, 1879.
The House Committee on Terri
tories to-day agreed to report to the
House with favorable recommended
tion Representative LuttrelPs bill
to regulate elections and the elect
i've franchise in Utah. The bill
provides that, after its passage,
every male citizen of the United
States aged twenty-one and up
wards who shall have resided in
the Territory six months next pre-
ceding any election and ten days in
the ward, township or other elec-
tion precinct in which such person
shall offer to vote, and no other per-
son whatever shall be entitled to
exercise the elective franchise in
the Territory. The bill disfran-
chises women who now have ac-
cess to the polls in Utah.
Cabinet Meeting.
WAsHINGTON, March 19th.-The
general condition OF affairs in the
South, with Darticular reference