The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-06-14
CONGRESS.

l Congress has got along so well with its bus
mess during the past week that there is now
fair prospect OF an adjournment next week, 81
that the president may yet have an opportunl
ty TO make his second longed for summer tou
of inspection of big squashes and cabbages II
the agricultural fairs
The president having been obliged unwll
hngly, as il was intimated, to veto the repca
of the Jurors test oath embodied in tue lcgis
latlve appropriation bill, Mr.. Bayard present
ed a bill in the senate as separate measure t.
accomplish that object and pushed it through
on the 9Th. CnexpAdly Edmunds and Conk
ling opposed it, ra specious objections t.
the language of q SNn clauses. The demo
Gratis consented to amend the language, not, a,
Thurman sand, because the objections amount
ed 10 anything, but because, judging from pas
experience they might have weight at The
other end of the avenue, The thrust cut Sc
deep that Edmunds frothed over for while
and wanted Thurman rcprimanded for making
such an allusion to poor Hayes. The billpass
ed % TO lG.
The House passed the legislative appropri
alton bill as a separate measure emitting the
political clauses, so that II went through with
out opposition
The judicial appropriation bill was then al
SO introduced as a separate measure, but from
it were omitted all clauses to pay the marshals
and supervisors of elections and stringent
clauses inserted that none of the money appro
priatcd should be diverted from its specific OBJ
iccts to pay those officers. The president will
hardly dare to veto the bill because it don't
contain all the appropriations he would like to
see IN il.
The house also passed the army BILL but in,
stead of retaining in it the clauses repeating
certain sections of the revised statutes allow.
ing the use of the army "tO keep the peace at
the polls" inserted the following clause:
SECTION 6, That no money appropriated IN
this act is appropriated or shall be paid for
the subsistence, equipment transportation or
of any portion OF the army OF
the United States to be used as a police force
to keep the peace at the polls at any election
held within any state
''d' il''N' iA''N4' - No. ''''''''- w. ~
card this a. a back down On the part of'thc
said they should Cheertully vote for
il; and Hayes Is understood to have said he
would sign the bill in that shape; the stall
warts, however opposed it, maintaining that it
all the democrats had aimed at
IN the bill the President vetoed, and there is a
no, brOil between the mOdcrates and stalwarls
Of the republican party accordingly llowcv-
er, the army bill passed by the help of some Is
republican votes, and will probably be approx
ed by the President.
Thus have been happily fixed up, by dodge
or compromise, or both, the difficulties that led
to the extra session and which for so long a
time seemed to be Irreconclable between the
President and his perverse democratic con
rress.
The Warner silver bill has been virtually
laid over by the senate TO next December
Proctor Knott, on Wednesday, laid before
the house his long-threatened reply, as chair
man Of the judiciary committee to the Presi-
dents veto message of the army and legislative
ana judicial bills. Ii is described as very
vigorous and pungent document.
The expectation is that congress will adj
journ on the 2lst-one week from to-day.