Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-24
House of REPRESENTATIVE,

House of Representatives.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The Senate bill was
passed authorizing the sale of public property
in Cincinnati.
Inc committee on ways and means reported
back the sugar bill so as to have it printed and
made the pending order. So ordered.
MIR. Wilson moved that the privilege of the
fioor be extended to the Speaker and members
| OF the West Virginia House of delegates in the
city. Adopted.
MIR. Willis (Ky.) asked leave to take fron,
the Speakers table, for the purpose of cencurr-
ing in the Senate amendment to the bill to re-
strict Chinese immigration. Mr.. Lapham OBJ
jected.
Mr.. Hale moved to go into committee of the
whole on the legislative bill. The motion was
antagonlzed by Messrs. Tucker and Harris
who desired the morning hour to take up the
tobacco bill.
vote by tellers on Hale's motion resulted
llO TO luz. The Speaker voted in the negative
thus tlelng the vote and defeating the notion
The yeas and nays were then ordered and re-
suited, yeas III, nays 109. Messrs. Cutter and
| Morse voted with the Republicans in the
affirmative, and Messrs. Butler Jorgensen,
Wren, Page, Davis Ittner, Cole, Metcalf, and
Pollard with the Democrats, in the negative.
Bya non-rarty vote, yeas 1877, nays 81, was
laid upon the table bill reported from the
committee on claims, reimbursing Magill,
Barron and others, of Tennessee for supplies
taken by the union army during the war.
MIR. Springer, chairman Of the committee on
expenses in the state department., submitted
| report with resolution requesting the Speaker
to issue warrant for the arrest of George f.
Seward as a contumacious witness. Ordered
printed, and notice given that the matter will
be called up for action Monday.
Business on the Speakers table was then
| considered, the first bill being the House BILL
with Senate amendments, to amend the act to
no Low and to-
moleties were agreed to.
The second bill on the table was House bill
TOR repeal of the resumption act as amended
| by the Senate, providing that after the passage
OF this act United States notes shall be re-
celvable the same as coin in payment of per
cent. bonds, which, after October LIST, 1873
shall be receivable for duties on imports.
Mr.. Ewing, acting under authority of the
committee on banking and currency, submitted
amendments, first striking out October LIST,
| 1878, 80 as to make United States notes imme-
| diately receivable for payment of customs du-
| ties. The second amendment offered by him
| is as follows: Provided That money hereafter
| received for any sale of United States bonds
shall be applied to the redemption of other
bonds drawing the highest rate of interest and
| subject to call; and provided, that whenever
| bpnds shall aggregate $3,000,000, the secretary
of the treasury shall issue a call for that
| amount of bonds, and interest on bonds called
| for redemption shall cease in thirty days from
| the date of such call, and all United States
| notes received into the treasury shall be re-
| issued and kept in circulation without change
| IN the aggregate amount of the several
denominations existing on May l, 1873, and
| 1T shall not be lawful to issue legal tender