Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-06-14
THE DEADLOCK AT WASHINGTON.
Programme Adopted by the Joint Demo-
cratic Caucus.

Programme Adopted by tho Joint Demo-
cratic Caucus.
WARRINGTON, June 3.-The Demo-
cratic members of the House and Senate met
in joint caucus this afternoon in the hall Of
the House of Representatives to receive the
report of the Joint Advisory Committee in
regard to appropriation bills. After several
hours had been devoted to its consideration
it was adopted with substantial unanimity;
The following Is the programme agreed
upon: The House Committee upon appropri-
ations will forthwith prepare for introduce
tion three bills as follows:
1. The Army Appropriation bill, which
was vetoed by the President, with the fol-
lowing new section to take the place of the
section upon which the President based his
veto:
SEC. 8. That no money appropriated by
the s subsistence. sut eanipmens, % transpdrtation
or compensation of any part of the Army of
the United States to be used as police force
to keep the peace at the polls at any election
held within any State.
2. A bill extending the Legislative, Exec
utive and Judicial Appropriation act Of
July 10, 1878, for one year from the 3Oth
inst, for the same sums and purposes there
in specified, except in regard to the appor-
tionment Of the clerical force in some of the
Executive departments, which is left to the
discretion of the Committee on Approprta-
tions. Provision will also be made in this
bill for the salaries of certain offices created
fn'e IS to 'ns Be easssa ee1tenaed $ The A'S bill % will
contain no general legislation ex
cept that portion of the recently
vetoed bill, known as the "McMahon
peal of certain laws regulating the payment
Of pensions, and directs the Secretary of the
Treasury to pay out for arrearages of PEN
sions the remainder Of $10,e00,OOO hitherto
held as special fund for the redemption Of
fractional currency: Last years Dill, which M
salaries of all United States Judges, District
Attorneys and United States Marshals, but
made no appropriation for judicial ex-
penses," which, however, were sub
Civil Appropriation bill. Hence it
was agreed by the caucus that the Com
mittee on Appropriations shall report:
3. A bill making appropriations for the
expenses of the courts Of the United States
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, and
bill will appropriate, in detail, about s., ,700,-
900 fer all estimated judicial expenses, such
as fees of jurors and witnesses, the safe
keeping of prisoners, and all other ordinary
items of expenditures under the Depart.
ment of Justice except for the compensation
of Supervisors and Deputy Marshals OF
Elections. The bill will neither mention
nor make provision for any such officers.
Attached to this section will be proviso
fixing the pay Of Jurors at 81 per day, to
same terms, those sections of the vetoed ap-
preparation bill which provide for
amendments respecting. the method
Of drawing 1uries, and for the total
abolition of the jurors test-oath.
The second section of this bill will provide
that no portion of the money therein appro-
priated shall be used for fees, salaries, COM
pensatioh or expenses of any person en-
ployed under and by virtue of Title 26 of the
Revised Statutes. This title comprises the
Federal Election laws which authorize the
appointment of Supervisors and Deputy
Marshals of elections and provide for their
compensation. The third section will read
as follows:
The sums appropriated by this act are in
| full for the persons and public service en-
braced in its provisions for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1880, and no officer OF the Gov
ernment shall during any fiscal year make
| any contract or incur any liability until q
sum sufficient to meet such contract or to
pay such liability shall have first been ap-
propriated by Congress.
The foregoing prohibition embodies the
language of the existing law, with the addi-
| tion of an explicit reference to liabilities
| as well as "contracts."
The Committee on Appropriations will
| cordance with the determination of the eau
Gus above described. The proceedings to-
| day were unexpectedly harmonious, there
being no material difference OF opinion, ex-
cept in regard to the Army bill, and the Ad-
visory Committees recommendations on
this subject were opposed by only few
present were unanimous in sustaining the