The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-02-27

dmCuuMCuG was dSIccu W anu luc Dlll |
passed. After the morning business. the |
consideration was resumed of the bill to |
amend the internal revenue laws, and Mr.. |
Matthews spoke in favor of his amendment, |
offered last night, to tax tea ten cents per |
pound and coffee two and half cents per /
pound. Mr.. Morrill, submitted an amend |
ment increasing the tax On tobacco |
pound. Rejected--yeas, 81; nays, 42. |
Mr.. Ransom submitted IN amendment to
exempt from certain provisions of the ex-
listing law the small distilleries, whose daily
capacity does not exceed thirty gallons.
Agreed to-yeas, At nays, 10. The bill hav-
ing been considered in Committee of the
Whole, it was reported to the Senate, and
Mr.. Whyte submitted an amendment that
the act take effect the 1st of May, instead
of the 1st OF April, as proposed by the COM
mittee. Agreed to--.yeas, "a; nays,
80. The bill was finally read
81. Memorial services were held in honor
of Representatives Schleicher and Quinn.
..........ln the House, in Committee of the
Whole the Census Bill was taken up. Mr..
Cox explained the provisions of the bill.
There was no reason, he said, why Marshals
appointed to execute processes and arrest
persons should be made census takers.
There would be, he feared, a bitter
political contest in 1880, and the cause OF
such contests was the influence exercised
by federal office-holders. 1t would be a
happy day for the President and the people
when the power of the President to appoint
such officers as Postmasters and census
takers was modified or abolished. Mr.. Ryan,
of the Census Committee, favored the gem
eral features of the bill, but op-
posed giving the power of ap-
pointing Supervisors to the Governors
| of States. The bill was finally read by Sec
tions for amendment. The first amendment
+ th1tr tod txrf1 f1n
| ferring the power of appointing Supervisors
from the Secretary of the Interior to the
| Governors Mr.. Carlisle moved to amend
| the amendment so as to provide, that
if any Governor shall fail to make nomi-
nations of Supervisors before the first of
April, 1880, the Secretary of the Interior
| shall make such appointments. Agreed to.
Mr.. Conger said the amendment of the COM
mittee was to take away from national
| control and give to State control the ap-
pointment of enumerators merely for
! political purposes. He moved to amend so
as to strike out the clause for the appoint
ment of Supervisors by the Governors.
Rejected---yeas, 104; nays, Ill. After the
presentation and rejection of other amend
ments the committee rose.
In the Senate, February 10, Mr.. Cameron,
| of Wisconsin, from the select committee to
inquire as to how the clause in regard to
| the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas
was omitted from the Sundry Civil Appro-
priation Bill last year, submitted report.
Ordered printed. The Post-ofice Appro-
priation Bill was taken up, and an amend
ment, reported by the Senate Committee,
increasing the appropriation for transpor-
tation by railroad from S9, 100000 to $9,-
| $1,000 was agreed to !; also an amendment
increasing the appropriation for postal
clerks, route agents, local agents, end mes
sengers from 81 ,355, 600 to $2,770,000, was
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that from and after July 1, the railway postal
Office clerks, route agents, local agents, and
messengers shall be designated as postal
clerks, and divided into five classes, whose
salaries shall be from $500 to 81, 400 per
annum. The Brazilian mail steamship SUBJ
sidy amendment was debated at length, and
several amendments proposed were voted
down; no action had been taken on adjourn
ment Pending discussion, Mr.. Edmunds,
by direction Of the majority of the Commit
tee on the Judiciary, reported, with amend
ment, the House bill for revising and
continuing the Court of Commissioners
of Alabama Claims, and for the distribution
of unappropriatea money of the Geneva
award. Placed on the calendar......In the
House, the principal part of the day was
occupied in a debate on the proposition to
abolish the Office of Supervisor of Elections.
In the Senate, February 20, Mr.. Mcdonald
called up the Senate bill to appoint Spruille
|
Passed. Braden is a young man who took
the prize for excellency in the English
, nautical school, but refused a commission
in the English Navy, as it would have com
PEELED him to renounce his American citi-
zenship. Mr.. Hamlin, from the Committee
J amendments to the Sundry Civil
: Bill, appropriating $4,000 for the widow OF
the late Justin F.. Colburn, Consul General
at Mexico, and 5000 for the widow OF
Bayard Taylor, late Minister to Germany,
Referred. Mr.. Matthews called up the
of the Treasury to sell the public property
at the corner of Fourth and Vine-streets
Cincinnati. Passed. Consideration was
resumed of the Post Office Appropriation
: Bill, and the debate on the Brazilian mail
= subsidy was continued, and the bill was
finally passed as reported from Committee
of the Whole-yeas, 25; nays, 3D..
tion case was called up on a question of the
highest privilege, and the majority repor
j declaring that Jesse J. Finley, the contest
= ant, is, and Horatio Bisbee, the sitting mem
Der, is not entitled to seat, was adopted
> yeas, 131; nays, i22-a strict party vote
!. with the exception of Messrs. Harrison ant
e Turner, who voted with tn
/, Republicans in thel negative. MI
Finley then appeared at the bar of tn
House, and was sworn in, taking the modi
fed oath. Notice was given that the Soutl
Carolina contested election cases would b
called up next Monday. The House the
n took recess, the evening session to be TO
/. memorial services in honor of the decease
/, members, Messrs. Welsh, of Nebraska, an
= Williams, of Michigan.
}. In the Senate. February 81, Mr.. McPhel
u son called up the Senate bill to amend Gel
u tain provisions of the revised statutes n
{ lating to the transportation of animals, an
e in explanation thereof said the bill had
e twofold object; first, to prevent cruelty
IL animals, and second, to provide goot
r healthy meat fer the people. The Senat
Is bill proposed that animals should be allowe
r to rest seven hours after being unloade
y from the cars, instead of five. 1t furthe
le provides that in case animals we1
n fed and watered in the cars, they migt
T. On motion of Mr.. Davis, of Illinois, th
m bill was amended so as to provide that Tia
u animals shall not be kept in cars mol
nt than forty-nve hours, instead of sixty, a
1t though they may be fed and watered e
n, route. Mr.. Mcpherson submitted an amen
TO ment authorizing the Secretary of the Trea
a, ury to appoint an agent at each of the fo
IN lowing places: Portland Me-, Boston, Ne
ne York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfol
Lr. New Orleans and Galveston, such agent
inspect all live animals designed for expo
u tation, and certify as to their healthy CO
D. dition. Agreed to. The bill then passe
70. The Senate then proceeded with the consi
OF Grafton of the Army Appropriation Bi
to and the amendments proposed by the Coz
lie, mittee on Appropriations were agreed to
OF follows: Increasing the appropriation f
,er the pay of officers and men from SO, o
ne to $10,000,000; striking out of the Hou
ne Bill the clause allowing officers commun
Ia tion of $11 per room for quarters instead
OF $40, and forbidding any Communication for g.
OF wants quarters. Pending discussion of t
py sections referring to the reorganization
loe the army, resolution was called up in me
on ory of the late General Alpheus William
ar Appropriate remarks were made and rel
,an as a mark of resnect to the deceaseJ
me IN, In the House, at the expiration of the mo
!, ~. ing hour contest arose as to the order
Dla business. Mr.. Cox, of New York, pre-