The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1879-05-01
xLvITH CONGRESS.


Mr.. Ingalls, introduced bill in the
Senate on the 22d for tho relief of the desti
tute oolored persons now emigrating from the
Southern States. 1t was referred. The army
appropriation bill was then further discussed
The subsidisry coinage bill passed the HOUSE
on the 22d. 1t provides that silver coins OF
| smaller denominations than one dollar may be
| exchangeable into lawful money, when pre-
sente1 in sums Of twenty dollars. It makes
lawful money exchangeable into silver coins
in like amounta, and makes the subsidiary sill
yer coins, legal tender for all debts public and
private, in sums not exceeding twenty dollars
and makes minor coinage receivable at post
Offices to the amount of three dollars. The
deficiency bill for about e25, 5000 was report
| cd and passed. The attention of the House
was then engrossed by the army appropriation
In the Senate the discussion of the army
bill was continued on the 23d by Messrs. Viii
liams, Jones of Florida, and Others.
In the House . resolution was adopted ap-
propriating $4,000 to meet the expenses Of the
labor committee, and granted the committee
leave to sit during the recess. Mr.. Frye made
the speech Of the day on the Legislative bill,
regarding the election laws, after which Mr..
Robson took the floor.
In the Senate on the 9th Mr.. Conkling
had the floor. He said the vast revenue of the
country In paid for three uses, to pay the debt
in which We have been involved by the rebel
lion, to pay pensions of widows and orpans
and of cripples made by the rebellion, and to
maintain the government, preserved 1t an ex-
pense, not to be estimated. Of life and treas
ure. To exact money and then to forbid the
use for which the people paid it, would indeed
be per6dious and abominable. There was only
one mode in which it could reach such uses,
and that is An appropriation by Law. The
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mits no discretion to majority or to Congress,
whether it mako needful appropriations or
not The constitution, however, dues commit
to Congress the discretion to ascertain how
much money is needed, but that done, the
command to appropriate is positive and abso-
lutte. The command to make the appropria-
ton is plain and peremptory and . refusal to
do 80 il revolutionary and reasonable.
In the House Mr.. Gillette said that he did
not consider that there was any pressing ne
cessity for placing the proposed legislation in
the appropriation bills and he should. there
fore, vote to strike it out. But if it was re-
tanned, he would vote for the passage of the
bill, not with . view, however, of forcing the
executive approval Abiding to Republican
rule in Louisiana, he said, that, according to
what he had heard, he thought that he'll must
be better governed than Louisiana. He de-
nounced the Connecticut anti-tramp law, and
declared that before saying to the Chinese that
they must 60, he would say to every Law on the
statute book, which oppressed the laboring
classes, that it must 60. The national banks
must 20, the national bonds must 20, the
mountains of idle money in the treasury must
60 into the channels of business, the millions
absorbed by coin bonds must goout once more
to make glad the heart of the toiler. What
the people wanted was bread, not blood. Mr..
Haxelton denounced the Greenback Represen-
tatives for the fol de roll in which they had
been indulging. He said that they appeared
to him to be prepared to stab the national
like the chattering of some maudlin individual
at funeral. He then proceeded to argue in
favor of the constitutional power of the gov
eminent to use the army, If necessary, at the
polls.
In the Senate, on the 25th, considera-
ton was resumed Of the resolution re-
lsting to the appointments by the secretary
and sergeant-at-arms. Amendments declaring
that no Union soldier shall be removed except
for cause, and no Confederate soldier shall take
the place of any dismissed Union soldier, were
defeated by . strict party vote-26 to "a. The
resolution was then agreed to. The posse
comitatus clause was sought to be amended 80
a. to allow the army to be used in case of In
dim troubles, but the amendment was laid on
the table. The section forbidding the use of
troops at elections, was adopted by . strict
party vote. After repeated attempts to amend, |
the bill passed n it came from the House
yeas, Al; nays, 80. |
In the House, the debate on the legislative
bill, wss continued by Messrs.
Sherwin, Williams, of Wis, Hooker and Ew-
ing.
| The Senate was not in session on the |
26th.
On the 26th the legislative appropriation bill /
passed the House-ayes l4O, nays 49,