The Portland daily press., 1878-05-08
kLVth Congress-ReguIar Session.


ment is fatally defective in not giving his
Christian name.
XLVth C0ngress-ReguIar Session.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON. May7.
Mr.. Morrill, from the Special Committee on Census
reported resolution authorizing special committee
to act concuIrenty wit like committee OF the House
of Representatives. Agreed to.
Mr.. Howe from the Committee Foreign Rela-
tions reported without amendment Senate bill re!at,
States and foreign countries. Placed on the calen-
dar. He also reported from same committee a
substitute for Senate joint resolution in regard to
Chinese immigration a concurrent resolution on that
subject. Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Davis of I'll. from the Committee Judiciary
reported adversely Senate bill additional to Sect.
1000 OF the Revised Statutes in regard to wrs of
in growing out of deeds of trust and it
Indefinitely postponed
Mr.. Thurman introduced bill to alter and amend
the laws relative to filing reports of the Pacific Rail-
road and for other purposes and it reDealS Sect 20
of the Pacific Railroad act of June %, 1865 and
tablisbes office of auditor of the Pacific Railroads
as one OF the bureaus of the Interior Department,
auditor to be appointed by the Secretary of the
Interior with annual salary of $780, and to have
assistants bookkepper, an assistant bookkeeper,
a clerk aud copyist who is to be allowed travelling
expenses not exceeding $1,000. and to he furnished
with free transportation by the several Pacific rail-
road companies. Referred to the Committee on Ju-
dietary.
Mr.. Dorsey from the Committee on Appropriations
reported back the Postofice appropriation bill with
sundry amendments. Calendared. He also reported
from the same committee amendment submitted
Thursday by the majority from the Committee on
Postotfices granting subsidy for the Brazilian mail
steamship service without recommendation, and
said he reported it back that the Committee on Post
offices might submit it to the Postoice appropriation
bill when the Senate should take up that bill Com
mitee on Appropriations had not formally expressed
any opinion as to it, certainly not one averse to it.
Mr.. Edmunds reserved all points of order as to
the amendment. Y
Mr.. Cockrel moved to take up House bill to forbid
further retirement of United States legal tender
notes which was read the first time yesterday, and
said he mhved to take it up now that it might be
read second time. Agreed to-yeas 80; nays %. 2
Yeas-Messrs. Bailey, Beck, Booth, Butler, Cock
Hill, ingalls,, johnston Jones of Fla, Lamar, Nc
Creery, Mcdonald, Maxey, Merrimon, Morgan,
man, voorhees,, Wallace and withers~ SO.
Nays-Messrs, Allison, Anthony, Bayard, Cameron
# M Ho GSnkg Dw1s
thews Mitchell, Morrill,, Paddock. Randolph. Rollins
Sargent, Salisbury, Wadleigh. White and Window
Mr.. Morrill, moved it be referred to the Finance
Committee.
Pending discussion on this motion the morning
hour expired and Senate resumed consideration or
tue Pension appropriation bill.
Mr. Sargent in charge OF Pension bill, said he was
in error yesterday in stating that 22225 names had
been added during the whole year-lO,49l he'd been
added up to this time.
The pending question being on inserting as a sub
stitute for the second section of the bill the
ment adopted yesterday providing that the LIST day
of Jan, 1872 the term of office Of all pension agents
shall expire and hereafter honorably discharged
wounded or disabled soldiers or widows or daughters
OF such soldiers shall be appointed to said office.
Messrs. Conkling and Edmunds spoke against amend
ment and it was rejected 16 to 38.
Mr.. Edmunds moved to strike out the second Sec
ton of the bill which, as agreed upon, reads:
I at from and after the passage Of this act in
sion agent shalt be filled by wounded or disabled
Union soldiers or widows or daughters Of Union SOL
diels.'
In support of his motion Mr.. Edmunds said the
true policy was to leave these appointments with the
President and bis constitutional advisers. That they
ing past he had good reason to believe In the
New England States of the pension agents prior
to the cons olidaton, six of them had been soldiers
and one was civilian. In the consolidation of these
seven agtncies into the civilian was retained. The
With the President. and he 1EdmundsS was diseosed
to let it remain there.
Mr.. Merrimon thought that class legislation was
beneath the dignity OF the Senate
MIR: Wadeigh, referring to the remarks of MIR. Ed
munds, that civilian had been retained pension
agent in New England, said the agent retained hap
pened to have his office at Concord, N H., and was
retained on account of his office being convenient
Maine and Vermont
point for the pension agency. There five trunk
lines of railroads leading from Portland and one
of them passed through Concord. The Secretary of
the Interior could not have selected more naccessa
BILE point for the Office.
The motion of Mr.. Edmunds to strike out the Sec
ond section was reected-yeas 49, nays 3d. as follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Bailey, Bayard, Beck Booth, Coke,
Conover, Eaton Edmunds, Eustis Garland, Grover,
Harris, Hereford, Hill, Johnston, Jones Of Florida,
Maxey, Merrimon, Morgan, Randolph, Ransom,
Salisbury, Whyte and Withers-29.
Nays-Messrs Allison. Anthony, Blaine, Burnside,
Davis of ILL.,, Davis of W. Virginia, Dawes, Dorsey,
Ferry, Hoar, ingalls,, Herman, Kirkwood, Mcmillan,
Mitchell, Morreli, Oglesby Plumb, Rollins, Sargent,
Saunders. Spencer Teller. Voorhees,, WaQleiph and
The bill as reported to the Senate with amendments
OF the Committee of the Whole was concurred in,
read the third time and passed.
Nc. Paddock of Neb. submitted resolution re-
quesiug the President to furnish information in rela
ton to a land grant subsidy to the st. Joseph and
Denver City Railroad. etc. Agreed to. ~
Mr.. Allison called up the Indian appropriation bill
and in explanation thereof said the Committee on
Appropriations had made very few amendments to
the bill as 1t came from the House. The amendments
were unimportant. He moved that the ive-minute
rule be applied to the discussions of amendments
Agreed to.
A large number of amendments reported by the
Committee on Appropriations increasing tue Appro-
priaon for some agencies few hundred dollars and
decreasing it a few hundred dollars 10 other cases
were agreed to; also an amendment authorizing the
Committee OF Indian Affairs TO employ two special
Indian agents at large at compensation not exceed
ing $1,000 each per annum.
Mr.. Maxey moved to amend House bill so as to
provide for the removal of the Nez Peces Indians of
"Joseph's" ban now held prisoners of war at Fort
Leayenwort Kas, to Idaho Territory instead of to
Pending the discussion Senate went into executive
session and when the doors were reopened adjourned
HOUSE.
The District of Columbia bill was taken up.
The bill passed for the establishment of perman-
ent government for the District of Columbia.
Several amendments offered and and rejected
but one proposed by the committee providing for the
payment or interest by the United States on 3.e5
bonds of the District provided that the same be cred
tied as part of the appropriation for the year by the
United States toward the expenses of the District
C0dn rfa1
in this act contained shall be construed as an &C
knowledgement of any liability on the part of the
United States to pay the principal of said bonds 9TH
erwise than provided in the 7th section of the act
Of Congress entitled act for the government of the
District Of Columbia and for other purposes approved
The House decided by vote of 100 yeas to 1Os navs
to 60 into committee of the whole on the tariff bill
1t was very close vote and the result was only OBJ
tanned by four Democrats changing from no to aye.
Yeas-Aiken, Atkins, Banning Beebe Bell, Bene-
Dict Blackburn, Bland, Bount, Boone, Bouck,
well OF Tenn, Caldwell of KY, Gambler, Cameron,
Chalmers, Clark Of KY. Clark Of Mo-, Cobb, Cook,
t tNS Cox OF OHIO Cox Of n " Cravens Crit
Forney. Fort, Franklin, Fuller, Garth, Cause Glib,
son. son, Giddings, Glover, Hamilton, Harris Of Ga,
Hatcher, Henckie. Henry, Hewitt Of n. T.. Hewitt
of Ala, Herbert Hooker, Huston. Kelley, Ke ma,
Kimmell, Knapp Knott, Landers, Lyon, Linde,,
Reagan, Riddle, Robbins OF N. Robertson, Of La,
0ayler, olngietOn, oleInOns, SmallS smith OF Ca,
Southard. Sparks, Springer, Steele, Throckmorton.
Townsend of ILL.,, Tucker, Turner, Vance, Waddell,
Warner, WhltthOrne, WggintoD, Williams of Mich,
Williams of Del, Williams of Ala, Willis KY,
Willis of N. Y, Wood and Yates-109.
Nays-Messrs. ,Aldrich, Bacon, Baker of Ind,
Bayne, Bicknel, Blair, Boyd, Brentano, Brewer,
Bridges, Briggs, Browne, Bundy, Burdick. Butler,
Of New jersey. Clark Of Iowa. Cole Collins Conger,
Grape, Cummings, Cutler, Davis Of CAL, Deering,
Dunneli, Dwight, Eames, Errett Evans, of Penn,
Evans OF Indiana, Freeman. Frye, Gardner, Har
denbergh Hammer, Harris Of Mass, Haskell, Hen
dee, Henderson, Hiscock, Hunter, Hungerford,
timer, Jones of Ohio, Jorgensen. Joyce, Keghtey,
Killinger.. Lapham, Lathrop, Lindsey, Mash,
March, MCGOWAN, Mckinley, Metcalf, Mitchell,
Monroe, Morse, Neal Norcross, Oliver. O'Neill,
Overflow Page, Patterson of n. Y, Peddie, Ran
doph, Reilly, Rice Of Mass, Roberts of Md, Rob-
inson of Mass Ross. Ryan, Sampson, Sapp, Sexton,
Shelerbarger, Snnickson, Stenqer, Stewart Stone
Strait, Swami, Thompson, Thornburgh, Upton,
Townsend Of O., Townsend of N. T., Tunney,
van voorhees,, Wait, Walsh, Ward, Watson, WEIGH
Mnite OF Penn., White of Ind, Williams of Wis.
Williams OF Oregon. Wren, and Wright-l09,
AS soon as the result of the vote was announced
motion to adjourn was made by Mr. Conger and de-
feated, yeas 49, nays 1lS.
House at 2.30 O'Clock went into the committee of
the whole, Sayer in the chair on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Banks took the floor and smoke nearly two
hours and his speech attracted much attention. and
was occasionally applauded At its Conclusion the
committee rose.