The Portland daily press., 1878-05-11
XLVth Congress Regular Session.
SENATE.

The Senate passed the House joint resolution au-
thorzing the expenditure of $4,000 out of $780, 900
appropriated by the act of August 3D. 1876, to give
greater stability to the foundation of the Washington
Mr. White called up the Senate bill granting site
for dry dock in Baltimore upon certain conditions.
Mr. Edmunds submitted an amendment providing
the property shall revert TO the United States in
shall be used for any other purpose, if shall
| at any time become unfit for as dry dock for
the period of six monehs. Agreed to and the bill
passed as amended.
The President pro tenn. submitted communica-
ton from the chief of the ordinance bureau renew
ing his recommendation that $50 be appropriated
to complete the development of the water power at
Rock Island arsenal Ordered to be printed and lie
| on the table.
Also communication from the Secretary of the
Treasury, inclosing report from the chief of the
bureau of statistics in answer to recent resolution
of the Senate, in regard to the total consumption in
the United States of manufactured articles on which
tariff duties are paid, etc. Ordered to be printed
The bill to repeal the bankrupt law was resumed
| and Mr.. Maxey made an argument in favor of the
| The pending question being on the amendment of
| Thurman to strike out "January 1872 and insert
September LIST, 1872 the repeal would take eff
feet on the first Of September next it was agreed
Yeas-Messrs. Bailey, Barnum, Bruce, Butler,
| Davis of ILL.,, Davis Of West Virginia, Dorsey,
Eaton Eustis, Ferry, Gordon. Grover, Hoar, john
sSs% %ermon Pateson sandoph
Sargent. Salisbury, Spencer, Thurman, and Win
NdyS-MtsSTSs fAuUuOuy,iDeCk, cameron vi WIS.,,
Cock-rell, ConklEng. Dawes, Garland. Harris, Hill,
Howe, Kellogg, Herman, McCreery, Mcdonald Max
sy Morrill, ogesOy Saunders, Whyte and
Messrs. Allison, Bayard, Booth, ingalls,, Lamar
Edmunds, and Mitchell, who would have voted in
the affirmative, were paired with Messrs. Plumb,
Morgan, Hamlin, Burnside, Coke, Christiancy and
Wallace, who would have voted in the negative:
said be pare m %
the repeal of the bankrupt law, and also in favor
of having the repeal take effect Jan. l. He did not
hnrr that Gam
ment and therefore he (Wadleigh) RETAINED from
voting His colleague Rollns) was paired with Mr..
Chaffee under the same circumstances.
Mr.. Beck moved that September LIST be struck out
o the repeal may take effect Immediately.
The amendment OF Mr. Beck was rejected as fol-
lows:
Yeas-Messrs. Anthony, Bailey, Beck, Cameron
Of Wisconsin, Cockrell, Davis, Garland Harris,
Hill Howe. Johnston Kellogg, Rsrnan McoTeery
Voorhees, White and Withers-23.
Nays-Messrs. barnum, Bruce, Butler, Conover
Eustis, Ferry, Grover, Hoar, Jones of Florida,
Kirkwood, Mcmillan Matthews, Merrimon, Patter-
son, Ransom, Sargent, Salisbury, Spencer, Thurman
The question REQUIRED on agreeing to the amend
ment Of the judiciary committee amended by Mr..
Thurman, and it was agreed to, yeas, rs, nays 81,
1t goes back to the House of Representatives for
concurrence.
MIR. Sargent called up the post office appropriation
bill that it might be unfinished business at the next
meeting of the Senate.
the doors reopened adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Wood introduced a bill providing that the indebt-
ednes of the United States to importers for excess of
deposits for unascertaned duties or other monies
paid under protest when ascertained under the pro-
visions of the law shall be paid from time to time
regardless of the time of the original payment under
Secs $3.50 and 966 the Revised Statutes from per-
manent annual appropriations for that purpose in
Sec 1863 of said statutes Referred.
Willis, chairman Of the naval expenditures
Tnf tod NOR tak nv fkof
tee, accompanied by resolutions recommending an
appropriation OF $s217 736 for the payment Of GER
ing the Secretary of the Navy to cancel certain con-
Made special order for May Is.
Garfield, from the committee on rules reported a
resolution amending the rules of the House as to
provide that bills touching and public debt
reported from the committee on WAYS and means
may be made special order by majority vote; also
resolution providing that all bills originating in the
Senate which appl oprlate money, lands or property
ton in the committee OF the whole, and all Senate
amendments to House bills not german to the sub
ject matter of the bill as passed by the House shall
have the same consideration.
After short debate, in the course of which Mills
complained that the rules of the House too OBJ
structve and placed the majority often at the mercy
of a single member, the resolutions were ordered
printed and laid over for future consideration.
The House went into the committee of the whole
on the private calendar, the pending business the
William and Mary College bill, beng passed over
without action: MIR. Goode stated that he did not
The next bill was one approprating $500 for the
payment to Richard Herter of Virginia for the value
of stores and supplies taken and used by the u S.
army.
Keller advocated the passage of the bill, stating
that Herter was loyal all through the war and had
son in the Union army.
Bragg Of Wisconsin opposed the bill. He had been
in Virginia during the and never heard of cit
izen Of that state being loyal to the Union. Loyalty
in virginian meant loyalty to Virginia, and not
loyalty to the Federal government.
Hunton stated that curing the war there had been
number Of people in Virginia who remained as
loyal to the Union as any north of the Potomac
Finley called attention to the fact that these war
claims were all defeated because the Republican
party seeking to make party capital in claiming
that the Confederate House was going to paw enor.
nous claims.
Thornburg advocated the BILL There had been no
distinction made by the Union army during the war
between loyal persons in the South and Confederates
He in favor of paying the claims of the Southern
men who had remained loyal when to be loyaI meant
something All the claims Of loyal citizens of theSouth
that have been paid Or that were now pending wouId
not amount to one-enth of the losses sustained by
such men
Taking that admission as basis, Mr.. McMahon
proceeded 10 make speech in regard to the subject
of war claims. He read from speech made at
Marietta in August 1876 by John Sherman in
which he stated that 00000.OO0 had been paid by
the Republican party for loyal war claims. Taking
that statement in connection with the admission lust
made that one-tenth of the claims had been paid it
would be seen that if the Republicans obi aimed