Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1879-06-19

ing to which sensible man need reply.
True, a statement of facts had not satisfied
him, and he would make no other answer.
On motion of Mr.. Lamar, House bill for the
appointment of commission for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river was taken
up, but without acting thereon, the Senate
went into executive session, and afterwards
adjourned.
In the House, bill was reported from the
committee on civil service reform prohibiting
officers or claimants against, or contractors
under, the United States, from contributing
money for political purposes. Mr.. Stephens,
of Georgia, gave notice that during the day
he would report from the committee on coin
age bill in relation to the trade dollar, and
would ask action upon it. Mr.. Murch, OF
Maine, from the committee on public build
ings, reported resolution for the investiga-
tion of the mode of construction, &C., of all
public buildings of the Government, with
power to sit duriog the recess, at Washington
and other cities. Under the point of order
made by Mr.. Garfield, the resolution was re-
ferred to the committee of the whole. The
House then took up the bill providing for the
delivery to Samuel Lord, Jr., receiver, of
four 81 900 South Carolina bonds, now in the
Treasury, which were captured during the
war while hypothecated by the Bank of
South Carolina with the British Consulate
at Savannah. Referred to committee of the
whole. The Senate bill relating to jurors in
the United States Courts was then considered.
Mr.. Herbert, of Alabama, by instruction of
the judiciary committee, moved an amend
ment providing that in the selection of names
of grand and petit jurors, the clerk and COM
missioner shall not have regard to political
afiliation, race, color, nor previous condition
of servitude, but solely to the qualifications
prescribed by law. MI. Conger, of Michi-
gan, desired to move the reference of the bill
to the judiciary committee, but was prevent
ed by call for the previous question. The
Republicans then refrained from voting, and
after an hour spent in fruitless call Of the
House, it adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the army bill
was read second time and referred to the
Committee on Appropriations. The legisla-
tive appropriation bill was taken up as re-
ported from the Senate Committee on Appro-
priations. Mr.. Window said the House Leg
islative Appropriation bill was incomprehensi-
BILE. He preferred the form of the vetoed bill,
and to test the sense of the Senate, moved to
recommit the bill that the committee might
be able to report bill in the usual form.
Mr.. Houston opposed the motion on account
of the delay it would cause. The form of the
bill was also severely criticised by Allison,
Conkling and Blaine. The latter said that as
the bill came from the House it actually ap-
propriated nothing, and that if a person did
not know what it was he would think it had
been taken from some joke book. In its pres
ent form it was simply disgraceful and ought
to be kicked under the table. Mr.. Win
dom's motion to recommit was lost, yeas %,
nays 80. The bill was then read for action
on committee amendments. At the end OF
each clause the criticism of the form of the
bill was renewed, assertions being repeatedly
made that it was so vague and mixed that no.
body could tell what it appropriated or meant.
An amendment was adopted appropriating
fifteen thousand dollars for the Bureau of Ed
ucation, after which the bill was read the third
time and passed. Adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Morton, of New York,
from the ommittee on foreign affairs, re-
ported, by unanimous consent, bill to allow
any telegraph company to land ocean cables
on the coast of the United States. In the
course of brief colloquy it was stated that
this is the same bill as was reported by Fer
nando Wood in the last Congress, and that it
is a general bill intended to cut off all pre-
vious class legislation. 1t is subject, however,
to the terms of such grants as have been here
tofore made by Congress, for laying and main
tanning telegraph cables. The bill passed.
The bill authorizing allowance for loss by
leakage or casualty, ofspirits withdrawn from
distillery warehouses for expectation, was re-,
ferred to the committee of the whole; also,
a bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treas
ury to examine and settle the accounts OF
States growing out Of money expended for
military purposes during the war of 1872.
Adjourned.
In the Senate on the 18th, the army appro-
priation bill was reported back from the COM
mittee on appropriations with sundry amend
ments, and placed on the calendar. The
Senate took up the Mississippi river improve
ment commission bill. The morning hour
having expired, the bill went over, and the
Senate took up and considered in committee
of the whole the supplemental judicial ap-
preparation bill. Wallace explained the bill.
A long debate was had over the section re-
lating to the method of drawing jurors and
repeating the test oath, the points raised be-
ing substantially those discussed on the Ba-
yard bill, lately passed, containing the same
provisions. Wallace, having charge of the
bill, said he did not wish to force long ses-
sion and suggested that the vote be taken at
o'clock Monday. Conkling opposed the
naming of any hour for closing the debate.
There was no disposition to talk for the pur-
pose of delay, but the debate should not be
limited. The debate on the jury clauses was
renewed. 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 in the
highest courts of States, Federal judges take