Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-04
House of Representation.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-The House met at II
AN. The first hour was passed in disposing Of
some of the business On the Speakers table
The bills in relation to the Northern Pacific an6
Kansas Pacific railroads were referred to the
committee of the whole, and the bill relating
to homestead settlements on public lands with
in railroad limits was passed.
| Senate amendments to the bill for the hold.
ing OF United States district and circuit courts
at Fort Scott, Kansas, were concurred in.
MIR. Baker, Ind, made report from the con.
| ference committee on the Notifications bill
Agreed to.
The report of the committee on expenditures
IN the state department for the impeachment
of George F. Seward was taken up.
Mr.. Conger tried to interpose motion to re-.
fer the Seward impeachment case to the Judi.
clary committee, but the Speaker refused to
recognize him, ruling that MIR. Springer was en-
titled to the floor. The report Of the majority
OF the committee on expenditures in the state
department was then read. 1t presents seven
teen articles of impeachment against Geo. f,
Seward, and concludes with resolutions direct
ing that said Seward be impeached for high
crimes and misdemeanors while in Office pro
violng tor4the appointment of seven members,
to proceed Immediately to the bar of the SEN
name of the House and people of the
United States, and for the appointment of seven
| managers to maintain and support the i'm peach
ment proceeding in the Senate.
The views of the minority were then read.
They recite the difficulties of The position of the
Snanghal consulate IN early years, Seward
adm nlstratlOn of the Office " hen he was vouno
and inexperienced, the inadeauacy of the cierio
cal service furnished and his appropriation of
certain consular fees to pay Tor additional cler-
ical work. While the minority do not mean to
approve that method, they say that it had been
known to and received the unqualified support
of the government. They recommend that tho
whole subject be referred to the Judiciary
committee.
MIR. Buady, by whom the minority report was
prepared, addressed the House in advocacy of
it. He yielded the floor to Mr.. Atkins, who
presented the conference report on the sundry
civil appropriation bill. He said the total esti-
mate for items in the bill was about 1872, $780,
900; that the bill as it passed the House appro-
priated about $l7, 900, 900, and the Senate had
added on about 81, SOC, 600, making the amount
of the bill now about $18, 500, 900. The like
bill last year was about $26000,000.
Mr.. Hooper, of Mississippi, inquired whether
the bill contained any appropriation for paying
deputy marshals.
Is MIR. Atkins replied in the negative. In regard
to some details of the bill he said $l75, 1000 had
been appropriated for the custom house and
postof5ce at Chicago; $4,000 for new iron
roof for the Nashville custom house: $40. 600
for new telegraph lines in Texas, Montana and
Dakota; $3.50, 600 for arsenals; $500. 900 for ar
rears due to land grant railroads under the de
cision of the supreme court of the United
States; $32, 900 for the purposes of public sur
veys; $40, 900 each to Hayden, Powell Il Wheel
er, surveys, to close up business, and $3.50, OCO
to build museum for care of property given
to the government by various nations in 1876,
at the close of the centennial exposition. The
question of surveys had been left in the bill
precisely as it had passed the House, except
that the provision for publication had been
stricken out.
Mr. Blackburn called attention to and op-
posed the provision for the sinking fund for the
3-65 bonds of the District eff Columbia con-
tending that as to 5000, 900 Of those bonds
they had been issued in defiance of law and
without consideration, and these bonds in the
hands of the purchaser with notice were not