The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-12
THE CONGRESS.
How Speeches Are Fixed IN the Congress
sional Record.
THE SENATE.

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introduced and referred.
Mr.. Garland, from the Committee on Epi.
dnmic Diseases, reported bill to- provide an
office and rooms for the National Beard c1
Health and Tor the publiea& &tun 1f ttaxaecets
Placed on the calendar.
Mr.. Eaton called up a bill to pay Mr.. E. w
O. Brinck for bearing dispatches between this
country and Mexico In 1869; passed. Also, q
bill to reimburse the widow OF Henry g. Con.
rad, late Consul at Haytf, for the property
lost In 1868 while assisting negro refugees
The sum appropriated is $1,000. The bill was
passed.
The Senate then took up the Mcdonald
resolution, to allow Mr.. Hill to make some
remarks
Mr.. Hill said that he begged indulgence to
speak on this question, a step made necessary
by the attack made upon him in his absence,
by the Senator from Maine, Mr.. Blaine. On
the nineteenth OF May that Senator had seen
fit to read an extract from his (Mr. Hills)
speech, In which he depicted his sorrow at the
passage Of Georgia's ordinance of secession.
wherein he said: Il would consent to dissolu-
tion Of the Union as would to the death OF
my father" Mr.. Blaine had added that the
Senator had voted himself for the ordinance,
and therefore he had as well as said to the
Old man, I will join them"
Mr.. Hill-That Ii by this statement Mr..
Blaine intended to represent that he (Mr.
HID on the test question as to whether GeOr-
gia should secede or not he had voted for 1t
then, he had said what from the evidence he
had In his hand he knew to be untrue.
THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Poehler of Minnesota, from the Com
mittee on Indian Affairs, reported adversely
on the application for the passage of a law to
allow the citizens OF Kansas to settle on the
lands In the Indian Territory. It was laid
upon the table.
Mr.. Stephens, Of Georgia, from the Com
ut1h cd ba
metric system, and 1t was ordered printed
and recommitted.
On motion Of Mr.. Atkins, the House in
sisted upon It's amendments to the joint reso-
luton to repeal certain clauses on the sundry
civil appropriation bill and committee OF
conference was requested.
On motion OF Mr.. Carlisle, OF Kentucky, the
House took up and passed Senate bill relating
to vinegar factories established and operated
prior to March |, 1879. It authorizes such
holic vaporizing process, and which were es-
tablished before The date named, to continue
to manufacture the same within 600 feet Of
any distillery or rectifying establishment
Mr.. Rice Of Massachusetts, from the Com
bill iip to authorize Che Secretary Of the Treas.
ury to make q final examination OF the
charge against the steamship companies Of
excessive tonnage dues. Ordered printed and
recommitted.
Mr.. Kimmel! Of Maryland, from the Com
mitted on Public Buildings and Grounds, sub
mittee q report In reference to the Baltimore
Postoffice, and 1t was ordered printed and re-
comitted.
Mr.. Cox, Of New York, rising to personal
explanation, said that the report Of Mr.. Kei-
Abbot and the Electoral Commission, as they
appeared in the Record this morning, were
not the remarks made on the floor. He sent
up and had read a transcript Of the reported
notes to show that Mr.. Keifer had added
some words which made his own speech ap-
pear ridiculous. It put him In the attitudeof
replying to what was not uttered on the floor.
He did not wish to be placed In false posi-
tion and he wanted the speech published as
spoken and not as corrected.