The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-06-26
CONGRESS SUMMARY

SENATE, June 1I.-Ihc president of
the Senate announced his signature to the
supplemental appropriation bill which now
goes to the President. The army appropria-
tion bill was taken up, and a long and spirited
discussion followed, amendments were pro-
posed and rejected, and much partisan feeling
was eliclted on both sidcs the main point Of
scusson being the use Of troops at the polls
on days Of election to keep the peace No
vote on the bill was reached and the Senate
adjourned.
House, June 17.-Mr. Atkins reported
back the legislative appropriation bill and the
Senate amendments thereto, with Il report
recommending concurrence in some and non
concurrence in Others. The report was agreed
to. 4 report Of the conference committee on
certain clauses Of the sundry CIVIL apprupria-
ton bill was agreed to- The judicial expenses
bill was received from the Senate and referred
to the appropriation bommittcc. The House
then resumed consideration of the bill Dro-
hibitng political assessments This led to a
long, very bitter, acrimonious and exciting
debate, and further consideration of the bill
went over till tomorrow. The jury bill was
taken up, the previous question moved, but
there was no quorum, and call of the House
was made. After various roll calls, further
proceedings for the call of the House were
dispensed with.
SENATE, June lS.-Tllc army appro-
priation bill WAS taken up, Il large number of
Senators participated in its discussion, and
there wa> the most angry and exciting scene
eycr,WitncScd i'll the United States Senate The
majority attempted to reach vote, the mi
nority resisted. Senator Conklng denounced
certain clauses of the bill as specio,,s and dc
ccptivc, and the attempt Of the majority to
ride rough shod,ov the minority as outrage
Gus, and during the angry storm, Lamar, of
Mississippi dcnouccd Conkliny charging him
wit, falsehood, and Conklng rctortcd by de-
nounrin@ Lamar as a BLACKBOARD, coward and
y liar The end is not yet At ) o'clock,
Thursday morning, June 10 the Senate was
down every motion to adjourn.
House., June rs. The bill relating to
political assessments WAS before the House.
The morning hour was consumed by datory
motions, and the bill went over. The judicial
expense bill, with Senate amendments w:,,
reported. Some of the ancnttn, nts were
agreed tn, others not rnncGrrcd in. Mr. At
kins submitted the conference report on the
Legislative appropriation bill. MIR. Atkins
explained that the House confrcrcs had con
ccdcd most Of the points Of difference. The
amount TO sl57So0oO or '::}}::!., ,ko in excess Of
the current legislative act. In that excess
Was includcp $l3OO0O hcrctofocc appropriated
in the sundry civil appropriation bill, and
S15O,O0O for the payment of gauycrs and st ,rc-
keepers ncccssiatcd by an increase in the
number of distillcrics in the Southern States
Aftcra short debate the report was agreed to.
Debate on the coinage bill reported by Mr.
Stephens was then opened, and consumed the
remainder uf the session. The previous oucs
tion WAS seconded and Mr.. Stephens closes
the debate tomorrow. Adjourned
SENATE, June l9.-Thc session of the
Senate which commenced June 1S, continued
/ all night, when, without breaking the dead
| lock, at 1::O Il. III. the Senate adjourned, and
in ten minutes thereafter, the regular session
OF Thursday June ~, commenced and was
opened by prayer, and the reading of the
journal. The dead lock of the previous scs-
sion continued, and The angry excitement
| also. Senator Conllliny denounced the course
Of the majority as oppressive. tyronical and
| unconstitutional. In his service of 25 years in
oath houses, he had seen nothing SO outrage
| Gus. On various motions the Republicans
! refused to vote, and no qourum appeared,
| An attempt was made to arraign Senators
present who refused to vote. Tic morning
hour expired, and Senator Compenter took
the floor and commenced by saying, that he
supposed by this time the majority had dis
covered that they could not cause the minori-
ty to do what they thought they ought not to
the course of the majority, the minority
| thought it was an outrage, parliamentary
oppression and they thought they ought to
show that they could not be treated that way
After O'Clock last night it was declared by
the majority that the minority must proceed
with the debate on the bill. The minority
were driven to stand on their reserved rights
and they were the exclusive Judges Of thcil
conduct, they had their rights and wouli
stand by them. Every motion to adjourn was
defeated by the majority, till the lcgisla
tive day expired at noon: If the Democrat:
would now agree to adjourn so that al
could have sleep and rest, he had no doubt
Withcrs Ocm.) wished to say that the Senator
from Wisconsin had stated the Democratic 20
sition with perfect fairness. He admitted that
! great portion of yesterday was consumed h,
Democratic Senators. Mr.. Hill, of Georgia
protested against the doctrine laid down b,
MIR. Carpenter. After further and excited dc
bate the Democrats acceded to the proposition
of Mr.. Carpenter and adjourned.
HOUSE, June 19.-Thc conference re
port on the judicial expenses bill was submit
ted Mr. Monroe intimated his purpose t
Garfield spoke at considerable length agains
the, report Springer, McMahon and other
took part in the discussion Finally discussion
was closed, and vote taken on the report, an
it was adopted by strict party vote, yeas 10s
noes 79-CoX not voting on either side. Th
trade dollar bill was then taken up, discussc
and passed without division and the Hous
adjourned. The following is the tex
OF the trade dollar bill rs passed
Be 1t enacted, ETC.: That the secretary of til
treasury shall cause to be exchanged at til
treasury and at the sub-treasuries Of the Unite
States, legal tender silver dollars for trade dol
lars at par, provided the weight Of said trad
, dollar has not been reduced below the stand
ard weight and limit of tolerance provided b.
law for the single piece and shall rccoin sail
trade dollars into legal tender dollars, as nov
provided by law, and shall stop further coin
lars rccoincd under this act shall not b
counted as part Of the coinage of silver re
: quired by The act of February 2S, 1878, an
provided further, that trade dollars that hav
hppn ch0rnr6 0r sfano nod for circulation l.