The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-22

appropriated S14,0lS,46s 95. The total amount of
estimates was sl41S7 1881 45. The appropriations OF
the navy for the present fiscal year TO-
The Senate Committee on Appropriations added to
the House bill sS6500 making the total of the bill
reported to the Senate s6s 95. The items of
increase made by the Senate committee were fol-
lows:--
For the purchase of postage stamps. $4,000
For clothing and bedding destroyed ........ Loo
For gratuities and medals. Observation-Disclosures. 500
For repairs to the dome for the telescope ut
For changes in controlling derricks. &c .... 500
For provisions and clothing, water for
ships, &c,..................... $4,000
For the purchase of testing machine and
contingencies. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1000
Total. Ss6.5o0
Tho House appropriated 81 OPS 900 for the Bureau
of Provisions and Clothing, and the Senate Commit
tee increased the amount to Sl.10O.000.
All the amendments reported by the committee
above mentioned were agreed to without debate.
Mr. Whyte, of Maryland. submitted an amendment
to increase the pay of the plumber at the Naval
Academy from 50 to SO per day, and Mr.. Allison of
Iowa, submitted amendment grading the assistant
astronomers at tho Naval Observatory at $780,
ST. 700 and s2lOO per annum according to the length
of term Of SERVICE but they ruled on points
of order that they increased the appropriation.
Mr.. Window said the Senator from Maine (NIr.
but was not prepared to so to-day. The bill was.
therefore. laid aside until tomorrow.
Mr.. Blaine then gave notice Of the following
amendments to the bill which he would Offer
That board of three. naval officers from either
the active or the retired list be appointed by the
President, whose duty 1t shall be to consider
aud report to the next session of Congress
the number OF officers, hne staff and warrant, needed
for n navy with 1900 men, and that until hereafter
directed by law promotion in the navy above the
grade of ensign shall cease. And further, that the
same Board Of Officers shall consider and report
whether any of the present navy yards may be dis
pcnscd with, ana whether in any other way the
expenses of the naval establishment may be
decreased without impairD2 its efficiency; also.
that from and after July J. 1889. only such number
of the graduates OF the United States Naval Academy
in any one year shall be entitled to appointment
cies to be determined by the Academic Board on the
basis of their standing in the graduating class and
il the number of midshipmen shall not have been
previously fixed and limited by law it shall be the
duty of the Secretary to so fix and limit it Oh or
before July /, 1885,
1t was ordered that they be printed X
STHE ARREARS OF PENSIONS BIIL--AMoUNr
NECESSARY TO CARRY IT INTO EFFECT
At the Cabinet session to-day the bill for the pay
ment of arrears Of pensions which has recently
passed Congress was under discussion. The ques-
ton was not as to whether the bill should be ap-
proved or signed, but to the results of
its being carried out. Secretary Sherman and
Secretary schurz both made statements as to
the amount it was estimated the bill would
call for Secretary sherman placed the
figures at about $3.50 900 0OO and said if that amount
should go out of the Treasury 1t would create de-
ficit. Secretary Schurz's estimate, which from
Commissioner of Pensions Bentley, differed consid-
erably from that OF the Treasury Department. 1t
stated the amount that would have to be paid out
under the bill at s5O,OO0.0OO. There no discus
sion as to how the bill should be dealt with.
AMERICAN REGISTRY FOR FOREIGN BUILT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BEFORE THE HOUSE COM
MERGE coMMrrTEE--AN INDEFINITE POST
PoNEMENT OF THE BILL ANTICIPATED.
The House Committee Commerce to-day heard
additional arguments the bill proposing to amend
the navigation laws to authorize the issuance
Of American registers to foreign built ships pur-
chased by American citizens, being ad-
dressed by ex-Representative John Lynch.
OF Maine, and Representative Ward, Of Pcnnsyl-
vania. The latter in the course of his remarks.
said it understood that Glasgow was perhaps,
the greatest rival of the United States in iron ship
building and he desired to call the attention of the
committee to the relative rates of wages paid by
Glasgow shipbuders aud those paid by shipbuilders
in the United States. that it might be with
whom we have to compete in the matter OF wages.
According to table prepared in 1872 in Wilmington.
Del. and other shipyards. and in Massachusetts,.
the wages to ship carpenters run from SIG to
sa1 week, aud the relative proportions still
kept ups In Glasgow the wages of that class OF work
men were from 50 II TO $40 10 q week. In Delaware
and Massachusetts, blacksmiths from $13 TO $14 67
week. while in Glasgow the wages from S. II to
50 a. week. Boiler makers in Delaware and sfassa-
cusetts from $12 to $13 30 week; in Glasgow from
81 ~ TO s. II week. Laborers in Whining
ton and Massachusetts, from 81 80 to $40 81;
IN Glasgow from 81 20 TO SIS 81. The average pay
of the classes of workmen mentioned is in Glasgow
ass, or 50 SO in gold in our currency. Mr.. Ward
also read from the document to show that home, as
| known to American mechanics. unknown q
| mechanics in Glasgow. twenty thirty families
| there in some instances. living In tenement
| house Certainly, he said, this COMMITTEE,
would do nothing that would tend to rcduc,
| our mechanics 10 q similar condition, and he OK
pressed the hope that the committee would see tina
Il was best for the interests of the country that the
bin should be laid aside and not be held mp q dis
| turbing element.
When Representative Reagan. chairman of thu
committee said they would hear argument IL
| favor of the b responded.
! The committee will take action the bill mex
| Friday, when there Is reason to believe they will
recommend to the House that its consideration b,
indefinitely postponed.
| FIvE-TwENTIEs- -EGHry-r1rIRD CALL FOR RE
DEMPT1oS.
The Secretary OF the Treasury this afternoon
| the eighty third call for the redemption Of i've
| twenty bonds of 1865 and consols of 1867. The cal
Is for s200oo.O0o, of which s10,V0O0O are coupons
| and si0,0OoO0D are registered bonds. The principal
and interest will he paid ut the Treasury ON anc