The New York herald., 1879-03-01

cupy one clerk twenty five or thirty hours IN enroll
Committee on Enrolled Bills seven or eight hours IN
comparing it. 1t would. therefore, be necessary 10
have these bills disposed of before Sunday. so that
the clerk might have Sunday and Monday TO enroll
them and compare them.
THE BRAZILIAN SUBSIDY
Mr.. BLoUNT, (dem.l of Ga, from the Committee on
Appropriations. reported back the Senate amend
ments to the Post Office Appropriation BILL with
recommendation that they be non-concurred IN In
gross reserving only two Of them for separate
votes-the Brazilian subsidy and the mail classfca-
ton amendments-and that as to these they be also
nonconcurred in, and that the debate on the Brazil
ian subsidy be limited to two hours.
Mr.. WADDEII. (dem) of N. c., desired to have the
debate extended to three hours. and MT PAGE OF CALI
fornia to have ii limited to hour Finally II was
fixed at two hours.
Mr.. wApDELL glad that in the expiring hour of
Congress the advocates of establishing mail service
with Brazil had at last obtained opportunity of
getting q vote upon it. 1t was the measure which
was called by its enemies the John Roach Subsidy
That was misnomer; it was not q subsidy. ana II
was not . John Roach subsidy. It was simply
proposition TO authorize the Postmaster General to
contract with the lowest bidder for the rransporta
Brazil once month in American steamships. In
reply to the cry that John Roach was the only man
who was to be benefited he called attention to the
fact that there to-day sixteen American steam
ships now afioa each one of which came within the
limits Of the amendment. The proposition was in
no sense a subsidy. was not gratulty
OF money out of the Treasury; 1t Yas to
pay for services rendered for the transportation
OF mail There sense in expending millions
for mail transportation land and refusing TO pay
for its transportation on He had been one OF
those who.to use slang phrase-had ''done his
level best to fight out Of the Unon but now. since
he had returned to the Union he had done his best
to maintain it, and one of the most agreeable refec-
tons of these last days of the session would be to
him that he had made honest effort to restore the
crippled of this great nation and to place
it where the foreathers of the Republic had intended
to place it--upon American bottoms.
Mr.. KELLEY. trep.) OF Pa, supported the amend
ment. II this subsidy then subsidies were
paid to every who carried the mail on foot or
horseback. Congress- OrOfesSed
foreign commerce. but it acted on the principle of
the fond mother in the doggerel rhyme:-
Yes, my darling daughter
Hang your clothes on hickory limb
Congress wanted to extend commorce. and yet It
maintained q mail service that effectually prevented
it. The United States had to import its Brazilian
goods through British French and German ports be-
cause it refused to pay for its mail service.
HEWITT.
Mr HEWITT. tdeml OF \. T.. said ne desired TO
commercial classes of the country in favor Of
subsidies and OF this particular class of subsidies.
alteraby opposed to it, because bitter experience
had taught them that all interference by the govern
ment was an injury to their business. They wanted
no subsidy; they wanted no protection of ships;
they did want the repeal of the navigation laws.
They asked to have the high seas open to
them, and American capital. energy and en-
terprise would win the victory, as they
always had in every contest. (Appause.
If this was n subsidy to his own loved Common
bound to support the constitution. 1t was o
subsidy for John Roach and for John Roach alone.
1t gave him privilege all the other citizens of
the country He could not vote for it because it
gave preference, in commerce. to one State over
another and because it gave preference to one citi-
over all the other f., ,OO0,0OU
Mr.. BLoUSr. of Georgia. closed the debate by
speech in opposition to the amendment. The propo-
sition to pay $4,000 900 to get what the country
already getting 1t pretended that the propo
sition for the interest of commerce. The Ameri
can people had been already cheated and deceived
under the false prctence OF extending American
commerce. 1t was nothing but proposition Of John
Roach He had invited members of Congress to Ches
ter They had had free rides and free champagne and
altogether a jolly good time, and then John Roach
had come in with memorial stating that he was
troubled about the state of American commerce. and
had recommended this identical proposition to
vive it. He (AIr. Blount) referred to the demand
of New York for free ships, and thanked God that
there city that asked Of the American Con-
gress no subsidy but only free race for the COM
merce OF the world.
The vote was then taken on concurring in the
and 1t was non-concurred in without further vote.
The following is the vote in detail:-
Yn.sIMessrs saslsy Bailey sSl,Gu Blair BsskSss
Ing. psnssn. Dannsii, E.@s:, EiaIn. Ei. Ellsworth
dssss.' di.Ss'' fIsaIin, r1ss 'S.rSsid. Cause. eiS
sSas .l sT.f ,nds dss'mmss Hi,I 1
bell Hunton, liner James, Jorgensen. Kelley Kctsham,
orss Morse. c Ssw
Rsy FhD e. % sa Es ns
Of Indiana sayicr sexton Shalicnbarge shelley Sin
a s
Warner White q ndi.na, willis Of Now York, Yeases
Ss.sx ss S. ssss
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Camp cafss az csswo M
cGii'snasn cr,cr psnfo5d Davidson California
Evins of south Carolina, FELTON,, Fleming, For
" @ ss Es s g Ga
Harris of Virginia lIa5risep lartnel Hatcher Hayes
New YORK House HUMPHREY Iianssrford Hunter Jones
Of New Ia%psa,rs Jones Of A1Ss@s Jones e Ohio
Isea Iocsx9sa Mai'h Majors Msn1Iips Marss Martin
Mis- Mitchell Sono NsoS SroS Mon
Ter Neal r oliver p,s oysrtsn Page Ps''srsoa Of
Rca s%sS Rice s'' 6no Robbins RoSes koSin.c" Of
Of sos aTs s.s
stewart, Swami Upton, Townsend of Ohio Townsend OF
Vance ss & yssasr Watson, White q fsnn.yiS"". Whit
sTIGs s% ors@on wa's ii
Wright. Young "f Tennessee-i39
b'ssI s Sa Ha
sT Yo r sa usy Ds'p s o1a 9ss or Ewns
Alabams lIscock. Knott, Lagham, Lindsey Lut,relI,
sic"s Iowa strait rhcrnS"rgl Tsroes%c!tsn, walker
Walsh WgsingtGr & % williams OF New York. Willis OF Ken
REcLAssrrIc,rroN OF MAIL MATTER
The next question was the senate amendment
for the Reconsideration of mail matter.
After an hours discussion, in which opposition to
the amendment was based the ground that IL
would be giving to the Post Office Department a
power of censorship over the press everything re-
auiring the registration Of periodicals was, ON mo-
tion of Mr.. CANNON. of Illinois. struck out.
SEWARD AT THE BAR OF THE HOUSE.
Pending further action the Sergcsnt-at-Arms. at Q
quarter Of FIVE p. NJ, appeared at the bar Of the
House. having in custody Mr.. George +. Seward
Having announced his presence the SPEAKER. sd-
dressing Mr.. Seward said
Mr.. SEwARD-You have been presented at the bar OF
the House. under the order of the House. for breach
OF the privileges of the House in refusing TO answer
certain questions propounded TO you by committee
of the House. which questions that committee
authorized by the House TO ask; for standing mute
when rendered oath Witness and for failing 20
produce certain books rs required by the subpoena
drccs tcum duly served upon you. 1t is my duty
now, by authority of the House, to ask whether you
are ready TO take tho oath rendered 10 you by tho
Chairman of the committee to answer the questions
propounded to you and TO produce the books re-
qucstcd by the subpoena duces feczim
MIR. SEwARp--I have prepared. with the assistance