Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-06-18

After a short discussion on the post
Office bill the house adjourned without
action.
SATURDAY. June 7-House-The house
went into committee OF the whole on
the bill making additional appropria-
tons for the service of the p%ostoffice
department. After increasing the APP
preparation the bill passed and the house
adjourned till Monday.
MONDAY, June 9-Seaae.-Mr. Coke's
resolution to. discharge the finance com
mittee from further consideration Of
the Warner silver bill and to declare it
before the senate for action, was laid
before the senate but postponed till to-
morrow, on motion Of Voorhees,.
A motion by Burnside for an executive
session was rejected-ayes 10, noe q.
On motion of Harris the Mcdonald
bill authorizing employment of militia,
land and naval force Of the United
States in certain cases, was taken up
and Harris made aspeech in support of
the bill. When Harris closed the SEN
ate adjourned.
MONDAY, June 9-House.-A motion
to suspend the rules and adopt a reso-
l~utionfor investigation in regard to
construction of public buildings was
defeated-yeas 115, nays 80, no. the
necessary two-thirds in the affirmative.
Mr.. Atkins, chairman on appropria-
tons, reported back a substitute for the
legislative, executive and judicial APP
preparation bill which was reported and
NO. ..tt,l l,at prna1r liz ptatnI -
was a unanimous report. Atkins, by
unanimous consent made a statement
in regard to the bill. He said it diff
fered from the bill reported a few days
since and recommitted. The principal
feature of difference between the sub.
stitute and original bill consisted in an
appropriation of$l50,0O0 for payment
OF salaries of store keepers and gaugers,
made necessary by increase of distlller-
les in the southern states within the
last few months. 1t was really in the
nature of a deficiency but the COM
mittee had thought it very important
that the appropriation should be made.
The present bill did not increase a
single salary excepting the pay of mes
sengers from $500 to 1920 and
of laborers from 5000 to $500.
In the increase of clerical force in the
pension office, in compliance with the
request of the committee, it renovated
the present law with certain elimina-
tons. There were no so-Called political
restrictions in the bill. The restrictions
in the vetoed bill which had created
such contest on the floor, were not en-
braced in the present bill, nor was the
appropriation for contingent expenses
for courts amounting to $2,26O,OO0. 1t
was upon that portion of the bill that
the restrictive clause had been placed
in regard to payment of supervisors
and deputy marshals. That matter
would be embraced in a subsequent
bill, q supplemental bill, which would
be reported by his friend from
Ohio, Mcmahon. Mr.. Hawley, a
member of the minority of that
committee. said that the republic
ans generally were very much OPP
posed to the bill in its present form
and would much prefer to pass the reg
ular appropriation bill of last session,
minus the political section. There
we're very serious objections to the bill
by reason of its complication and its
obscurity. 1t provided substantially,
he supposed, for all the necessities of
the government in that direction. 1t
had been entrusted a good deal, and
rightfully, to the chairman of the com
mittee, and members of the committee
haG consented unanimously to waive
any objections to it. 1t contained no
political matter and therefore the
republican members rather consented
to its passage than approved OF it.
Mr.. Atkins then reviewed his motion
to suspend the rules and pass the bill,
and the motion was carried without
division. Immediately afterwards
Cabell and Cox intimated a desire for q
division. A division was called for and
the vote resulted yeas 1873, noes q.
The negative votes were given by
Cabell, Caldwell, Clark, (Mo.,) Cox,
Dunn, Elan. Finley, Frost, Gunter,
Hinkle, Hurd, Knott, Manning, Nc
MILAN, Nichols, Robertson, Slemons,
Smith, IN. Y Turner, (O.,) Whitthorne
and Wilson. Mr.. Mcmahon, from the
committee on appropriations, reported
a bill making appropriations for judicial
expenses of the government for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1880. Ord
cred printed and recommitted, Ad-
journed.
TUESDAY, June 10-Senate.-1he legis-
lative, executive and judicial appropri-
alton bill was received from the house
and referred to the committee on APP
preparations. A concurrent resolution,