Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-02-28

Williams, member OF the House from mlchl-
gan. Appropriate remarks upon the life and
character Of the deceased were made, and the
Senate then adjourned.
House.-An effort was made by Mr.. Cox to
have the House consider his census bill, Mr..
Hale the Appropriation bill, and Mr.. Bright
the private calendar, but Mr. Wood antago-
nized all these propositions with motion
TO proceed to the consideration of the busi-
ness on the Speakers table. The House final
ly went into Committee of the Whole on the
private calendar. The pending bill was for
the relief OF John L. Armstrong, OF Virginia,
on account of wharf property occupied by the
United States army during the war. After
some discussion motion was made to strike
out the enacting clause OF the bill, and 1t was
agreed to without division. Several other
bills of like character, shared the same fate
The committee then arose and the House ad-
journed
Senate, Feb. 22.-The Vice President sub
mitted a communication from the Post
masterGeneral stating that in Addition to the
estimates of 81, 600, 900 for the pay of carriers
for the next fiscal year, s353,OOO will be re-
quired under the new bill. Zachariah Chand-
Ter, Senator elect from Michigan, presented
his credentials and took the oath of office.
Mr.. Morrill,, from the Committee on Finance,
reported with amendments the Senate bill for
the interchange Of subsidiary silver coin and
United States notes. Placed on the calendar
Mr.. CoclSrell submitted an amendment to the
River and Harbor Appropriation bill, provid-
ing for board of engineers to devise a
method of deepening the channel of the Mis-
aO1rt Rivar and itu
Referred. The bill to promote the education
of the blind was postponed and the Army
Appropriation bill was taken up. motion
to strike out all sections relating to army re-
organization upon the ground that there was
not time to consider them, was agreed to.
The amendment proposed by the Commit
tee on Appropriations to strike out of the
House bill the provisions forbidding the
use of troops at elections, and making 1T
penal offense to do so, was agreed to without
discussion. Other amendments proposed by
the Committee on Appropriations were agreed
to, then followed a long discussion over an
amendment offered by Mr.. Howe; that gentle
man explaining hisamendment declared that
Title 85, Revised Statutes, gave the Govern
ment the right to purchase any of the tele-
graph lines at appraised value. He proposed
to transfer to railroad companies the same
power to do telegraph business as telegraph
companies had, but the Government should
have the same right to obtain their lines at
appraised value. After brief executive ses-
sion the Senate adjourned.
House.-The Senate bill was passed author
izlng the sale of public property In Cincin-
natl. By nonp party vote-yeas 1S7, nays
8-was laid upon the table the bill re-
ported from the Committee on War Claims
reimbursing Maggill, Barron and others
of Tennessee for supplies taken by the
Union army during the war The bill for
the repeal Of the Resumption act as
amended by the Senate providing that. aft
er the passage OF this act, the United
States notes shall be receivable the same as
coin, in payment OF four per cent. bonds,
which, after Oct. l, 1878, shall be receivable
for duties on imports, was taken up. Mr.
Ewing, acting under authority of the Com
mittee on Banking and Currency, submitted
amendments, first striking out "Oct. 1, 1873"
so as to make the United States notes imme-
diately receivable for payment of customs
duties, and providing that money hereafter
received from any sale of United States bonds
shall be applied only to the redemption of
other bonds bearing the highest rate of inter
est and subject to call, etc. A lengthy discus
sion followed when, on motion of Mr.. Garfield,
the bill and amendments were laid on the ta-
ble-yeas, 141, nays, no. The Senate amend
ments to the bill restricting the immigration
OF Chinese were concurred in without divis-
ion. The Senate amendments reducing the
tax on tobacco were then taken up and after
some confusion, and at the speakers sugges-
tion all the amendments were concurred in
gross with the exception of those referring to
the tax on rcctiiers, on matches, on banks and
to the time when the bill shall take effect. The
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was reported
and ordered printed.
Senate, FEB. 24.-The House bill authorizing
the Secretary Of the Navy to accept for voy-
age Of exploration by way of Behring Strait
the ship Jeanette, rendered by James Gordon
Bennett, was passed. The Committee on
Foreign Relations reported adversely on the
Senate bill to grant the American Ocean Ca
BILE and Telegraph Association, of Philadel-
phia, privilege to lay, operate and land cables,
land wires, etc. Mr. Beck submitted an amend
ment to the bill making an appropriation to
pay arrears OF pensions, which proposes to sus-
pend the operation of all laws providing for a
sinking fund and applying the surplus revenue
in the Treasury, after paying the current ex-
penses, to the payment OF arrears of pensions.
Referred. Consideration was then resumed of
unfinished business-the Army Appropriation
bill-and discussion upon the clause in regard
to allowing railroads to use their telegraph
lines for commercial purposes was continued,
and Mr.. Howe's amendment was finally agreed
to. Other amendments made in Committee
of the Whole were concurred in and the bill
was passed. Mr.. Bayard called up the bill re-
ported few days ago from the Committee
on Finance amending the charter of the
Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company
Passed. The Senate bill to prevent the intro
duction of contagious or infectious diseases
into the United States and to establish a
Bureau of Health was then taken up, and
after some discussion the Senate adjourned
without action.
HOuSe.-The House resumed consideration
of the amendments to the tobacco bill upon
which separate votes were demanded on the
22d. The first amendment providing that re-
tail liquor dealers shall pay S25 ani wholesale
dealers 800, retail dealers In malt liquors $50
and wholesale dealers $50 was non-concurred
In. This leaves the section as 1t was passed
by the House, providing that rectiaers recti
flying less than 500 barrels of sDirts year shal
pay a license of 500. The next amendment
was one fixing the date upon which the new
tax on tobacco should go into effect, the
Senate having changed the date from Sept.
1878, to May l, 1879. This was concurred in.
The amendment to abolish the tax on matches
was not agreed to. A committee of confer
ence was then ordered on the disagreeine
votes of the two Houses on the tobacco bill
Bills introduced and referred: Directing
the President to institute inquiry a
to the disposition of funds belonging
to the so-called Confederate States remain
ing at the end of the war in the Bank of En-
gland or in the hands of English citizens, IL
order that such funds may be used for the re
lief of citizens of the Confederate States wht
incurred disabilities during the war; for tn
payment of additional bounty to soldiers o
/ tha Iata war. AR the raliaf of aattlara on th