Daily globe., 1879-06-16
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Extra Session.
Senate.
THE ARMY BILL

I THE ARMY BILL.
WASHINGTON, June 14-The army appropri
alton bill was reported back from the commit
tee on appropriations with sundry amend
ments and placed on the calendar.
The committee struck out the fifth section
which provides that each member of the grad
uating classes of tho military academies O
l879-S0 may elect to receive $3.50 and mileag'
to his place of residence, and thereby becom,
ineligible to an appointment in the army, ex
cept in the event of war, until two years afte
graduation; and clause is inserted in the bill
l by the committee to repeal the existing Law
which prohibits any promotion IF the corps o1
engineers to fill any vacancy above the rank O.
colonel.
commerce, reported favOrably on the House
bill authorizing the secretary of war to use
certain moneys appropriated by act of March
| 3, 1879, for the protection Of high sand banks
| on the Chippewa river in the completion and
protection of Improvements on and near the
mouth of said river. Passed.
Senator Mcdonald, from the committee on
public lands, reported favorably on the Senate
| bill to grant additional rights to homestead
| settlers on public lands within railroad limits
| in Missouri and Arkansas Passed. It pro.
| vides that in certain cases where railroad COM
| panies have taken even numbered sections of
| land settlers may take odd sections.
| tion: -%
Resolued, That the committee on education
and labor is instructed to inquire whether it
is practicable and beneficial to aid in the es-
| tablishment and endowment of schools of
! science and teohniques in several States and
territories, and in the District of Columbia for
the education of females in appropriate
branches uf science and useful acts upon Llan
similar in it's principles to that upon which the
agricultural and mechanical colleges have been
aided by the United States that said commit
tee have leave to report by will or otherwise.
Adopted. ~
Senator Cockrell presented joint and
concurrent resolutions of the Missouri
legislature, urging the passage Of an act to
allow certain Missouri regiments of volunteers
their bounty. Referred.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER IMPROVEMENTS.
The morning:hour having expired, the Mis-
sissippi improvement commission bill went
over and the Senate considered in committee
of, the whole the supplemental judicial appro-
priation bill.
senator Wallace explained the bill.
Senator Oonkling having said there would
certainly be difficulty, Senator Beck replied
the government record would show a genuine
reduction in expenses under the Democratic
rule. DEFICIENCIES we're generally caused by
such misuse of money as that just mentioned.
He didn't propose to give the department a
slnsh fund to run political machine. In
reply to questions by Blaine, Wallace said the
intents Of the bill is to prevent the use of any
money appropriated for expenses of deputy
marshals, and to prohibit the appointment of
such marshals.
Senator Baine-ln other words, the President
having vetoed the bill which repealed the same
thing permanently, we are going to ask him to
write himself down an ass, by signing bill
which repeals it for year.
Senator Wallace-If refusing to sign the bill
because it does not contain the same thing ex-
cuses him from being SO written down, then he
may not be.
long debate was had over the section re-
latipg to the method of drawing jurors and re-
pealing the test oath, the points raised being
those discussed on the Bayard
bill lately passed, containing the same pro-
visions.
Senator Cameron, (Pa.,) Moved going into
executive session. Lost, yeas 81, nays ~.
Senator Wallace, having charge of the bill,
said he didn't wish to force a long session to-
night, and suggested that it BE taken up Mon
day.
Senator Conkling opposed the naming Of any
hour for closing debate.
Senator Allison moved to adjourn. Lost,
Voorhees, being the only Democrat voting yea
and several representatives voting nay. De-
bate on the jury clause was renewed. The SUBJ
stance of the Democratic argument was that
while the present law provides that jurors in
United States courts are to be chosen as far as
practicable in the same manner as the highest
courts of the State, federal judges take ad-
vantage of the exception las far as practicable
to make rules of court on the subject to suit
their views, and Judge Bond was especially
spoken Of as one who invariably chose upon
jury commissioners under his rule of court.