Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-22

mlGte, In view OF the estimates and cOmmu-
nlcations from the postcGice department, had
made the amendment in order to get the con-
ference committee of the two houses to come
to an agreement as to what was right. The
committee desired earnestly to do justice 10
the letter carriers.
These two amendments were non. concurred
in. The remaining amendments were con-
Cured in and the bill passed.
The senate then took up and passed bill
for the relief of Thomas Langton, of Dun
dee, Michigan.
The house joint resolution authorizing the
completion of the foundation of the Wash
ington monument was passed.
Adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
Mr.. Cobb, rising to a question of personal
privilege, sent to the clerks desk and had
read an extract from the indianapolis Jour
nal, of the thirteenth instant charging him
with having repeated a thread-bare lie
about Massachusetts e9iment interfering
with voters in Indianapolis in October, 1854.
He also had read extracts from other papers
and letters read in confederation of a state
ment which he had made in his speech, and
again reiterated the charge that the election
referred to had been interfered with by a
Massachusetts regiment.
Mr.. Warner, who had been stat oned at
Indianapolis in October, 1864, stated that it
had officially come to his knowledge that
OQ.
Mr.. Brown denied the truth of the state
ment made by bis colleague. The reason
why the Massachusetts regiment had been
quartered at Indianapolis was that con-
spiracy had b5 IN unearthf | having for its
object the subversion esetba Slate govern
ment aud the turning It over 10 tie ConFed-
eracy. He did not charge that it was a DEM
ocratic conspiracy; but all arsons who had
been tried and convicted had been Demo-
Gratis, and not a single Republican had been
implicated In it.
Mr.. Cobb asserted that Republicans had
been connected with that conspiracy.
Mr.. Baker also denied Mr. Cobb's state
ment, and alluded to the connection of the
Democratic party with the Knights of the
Golden Circle. He regretted to see that bis
friend from Ohio Warner had soforgotten the
lofty inspirations with which he mad been iu-
stigated, in that now, In order to get himself
on terms of good fellowship with those whom
he had fought against, he had got 10 hurl his
darts over his shoulders at the men whom he
had then commanded.
Mr.. De la Matyr entered his earnest pro-
test against uncovering the dead. He h I'd
given three years to the war-three earnest
years-and he had been fighting ghost ever
since. He despised aud loathed this fighting
of ghosts. Applause on the Democratic
side
Mr.. Warner, after a great deal of noise
and confusion, obtained the floor in order to
reply to the remarks of Mr.. Baker. He re-
pudiated the statement Fiat he stood on diff
ferent ground from that on which ne stood in
1854.
Mr. Baker said he thought the gentleman
from Ohio was in the condition of political
"Trip Van Winkle," who had gone to sleep
on the vanguard of liberty 10 the ranks of the
other side. Ulcers on the Democratic slde.l
The matter was then dropped.
Mr.. kenna, from the committee on en-
rolled bills, reported the army appropriation
bill. and it was signed by the speaker.
The house then resumed, in the mcrning
hour, the consideration Of the bill prohibiting
political assessments.
Mr.. Hostetter withdrew bis demand for
the previous question, and moved to refer the
| bill to the committee of the whole, and on
that motion demanded the previous question.
The Republicans, then, notwithstanding an
intimatlon from Mr.. Springer that the bill
would not be taken up for consideration at
| the present session, refrained from voting,
| thus leaving the house without quorum.
During one Of the roll calls message was
| received from the President announcing his
! approval of the legislative appropriation
| bill. The announcement was received with
applause on the Republican side, and Mr..
| Garfield remarked: 1--WE have provided for
ourselves, now let US provide for the rest of
| Inc
The supplementary Judicial bill as en-
rolled was signed by the speaker and sent to
the senate for the signature of the presiding
officer of that body.
The morning hour expired without any ac-
ton on the anti political assessment bill, and
| it went over till the next morniUe. hour.
| Daring the days session there was apathy
manifested SO that it was almost impossible
to obtain quorum or any vote, although In
one of the rol-calls one hundred and ninety
nine members answered.
The bill to establish post roads in certain
States was passed.
The senate amendments to the house bill
for the appointment of Mississippi river
| commission, after debate in which Mr.. Ba-
ker opposed the bill as introduced, as a gil
gantic scheme that would cost one hundred
million dollars, and in which Mr.. Garfield
sustained it as great work in which men
from the north aud from the south could
clasp hands together, the amendments were
concurred iu-yeas, l66; nays, IL.
The principal amendment is to make the
number of commissioners seven, and it was
announced by Mr.. Hooker that Prof. Hilyard
is to be the additional commissioner.
| Adjourned