The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-03-21

NUltE TOutt W tThueDOTtdllOu Dt-
tween Lakes Michigan and Erie. BY Mr..
pervise the construction OF works to improve
the navigation of the Mississippi BY Mr..
Williams (Mich. TO establish board of
fish commissioners to regulate and protect
the fisheries on lakes. BY Mr.. Potter--To
regulate immigration; also to authorize
bondhoders and other creditors OF railroad
corporations to elect receivers in suits OF
equity pending in the United States courts.
Adjourned.
In the house, on the 9Th, on motion of
Mr. Eden, the senate amendments to the
house bill making appropriation Tor the pay.
ment OF claims reported allowed by the
sc ecretary of the treasury were cOncurred in.
reports. Mr.. Crapo, from the committee on
foreign affairs, reported back the bill sup
Elementary to the act to carry into effect a
convention between the United States and
China Concurred in, and to give the court
OF claims jurisdiction in certain cases. The
bill authorizing any person or persons hav,
ing any claims against the balance of fund
designated as the Chinese indemnity fund
for losses sustained by the plunder of the
bark Caldera in 1854 to commence within
twelve months next after the passage of this
act proceedings in the United States court Of
claims. Passed The committee then
went into a committee OF the whole, Mr..
Porter in the chair, on the fertilization ap.
preparation bill. The bill appropriates one
hundred thousand dollars ior the protection
Of Notifications and other works of defense,
one hundred and twenty-tour thousand dol
lars for the armament OF Notifications, and
fifty thousand dollars for torpedos and for
harbor defense. The bill was read, and, with
the amendment, laid aside to be reported to
the house committee. Mr.. Kelley took the
floor by unanimous consent, and proceeded
to make a speech ON the resumption ques.
ton. The speech was in reply to Mr.. Gars
field some months ago. He denied Mr..
Garfeld's statement that the year 1868 was
prosperous one, and quoted from various
authorities to sustain his position. In reply
to Mr.. GarGeld's assertion that no president
or statesman had favored any money but the
standard Of gold and silver, he said that
Jefferson and Madison were exceptions to
that sweeping assertion, and Alexander
Hamilton had favored resort to greenbacks
under the name of treasury notes. He also
c0ntradicted the assertion of Mr.. Garfield as
to the hesitation and unwillnguess of sena-
tors and members to pass the legal tender
act, and he quoted Thaddeus Stevens, Hoop.
er aud Senator Sherman in cOmmendation OF
that measure. He denied Mr. Garfields
assertion that greenback currency was
forced loan, and said the forced loan is a
debt, and greenbacks is the money with
which we pay the debt. If the gentleman's
assertion had been made in 1862 it would
have been denounced as the kissing of q
venomous cOpperhead. Coming down to the
question of specie resumption, he said with
sixty.tive million dollars of gold in the treas.
ury, with none in the hands of the people,
and with seven hundred million dollars to
be redeemed the proposition was measure
of insanity. 1t was this proposition which
was driving the people TO pauperism, to
lunacy, TO suicide, and was creating a mon.
eyed oligarchy whose wealth, compared with
The body of the people, would be greater
than that of the moneyed oligarchy of Eng.
land .....Mr. Garfield rose to reply to him,
and is to have an hour for that purpose,
when the house again goes into committee
on the bill The committee rose, and Mr..
Fort Introduced a bill to authorize the pre-
paratiOn of fine or standard silver bars of
value of $l0lWl, deposit the same in the
United States treasury, and issue of certif.
oates therein, Referred. Adjourned.
In the house, on the 9th, at the con.
clusion of the morning hour the speaker
laid before the house n message from the
president, returning, without approval, the
house bill authorizing special term of the
circuit court of the United States for the
southern district of Mississippi, to be held
at Scranton the second Monday in March.
The message stated that there was not suf'i.
cient time to give notice of the holding Of
the said special term, and the government
nnuII mot for tho triul a thp gpiu
term, because no funds would be available
for that purpose. The bill and message
were referred, Adjourned.
The house, on the 7th, went into COM
mittee of the whole on the deficiency appro-
priation bill. After further discussion on
this point by Messrs. Randall Foster and
Cox, the consideration of the bill was pro.
ceeded with, and finally the committee rose
and reported the bill and it was passed. 1t
six thousand five hundred dol.
lars for temporary clerks in the treasury;
twenty thousand dollars for clerks to inves-
tigate fraudulent land entries, etc.; tweuty>
five thousand dollars for clerks in the gen.
cral land office to bring into the market
public lands in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippl, Alabama and Florida, and four
dollars for heating and gas CT the
pension office. Adjourned.
o. A.,
In tne mouse, Oh the ON, inc commit,
tee on fdcihc rallr0aas agreed 10 recommend
the passage OF Dlll approprlating twenty
thousand dollars lor tne survey OF arailroaa
from Austin, lex's, througn ohihuahaa aha
sonora 10 T1poioValnpo narpor, gun Oh M oal''
fornia'.'.ihe mouse then went into COM
mlttee OF the whole, MI. Irice IN .ne ;lha Gnalr
upon the private caieuuar oi uhnnlsnet
of certain ante bellum southern mail cons
tractors. Without action on the bill the
house adjourned.
SENATE.