Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-04
Hoskse Of REPRESENTATIVES.

House OF Representations.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-Ths House met at 10
A. N. The first hour was passed in disposing of
some of the business On the Speakers table,
The bills in relation to the Northern Pacific and
Kansas Pacific railroads were referred to the
committee of the whole, and the bill relating
to homestead settlements 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 a 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 a motion to re-
fer the Seward impeachment case to the Judi
ciary committee, but the Speaker refused to
recognize him, ruling that Mr.. Springer was en-
titled to the floor. The report of the majority
of the committee on expenditures in the state
department then read. It presents seven
teen articles of impeachment against Geo. +.
Seward; and concludes with resolutions direct
ing that said Seward be impeached foe high
crimes and misdemeanors while in office pro-
viding tor the appointment Of seven members,
to proceed Immediately to the bar of the SEN
ate, and there impeach said Seward in the
name of the House and people of the
United States, and for the appointment of seven
managers to maintain and support the impeach-
ment proceeding in the Senate.
The views of the minority were then read.
They recite the difficulties of opposition of the
Shanghai consulate in early years. Stewards
administration of the Office when he was young
and inexperienced the inade:luacy of the cleri-
cal service furnished and his appropriation of
certain consular fees to pay for 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 the
whole subject be referred to the judiciary
committee.
Mr.. 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,
600; that the bill as it passed the House appro-
priated about $l7, 900, 600, and the Senate had
added on about 81, 500, Co., making the amount
Of the bill now about $l8,5OO,OO0. The like
bill last year was about 1926, 100000.
Mr.. Hooper, of Mississippi, inquired whether
the bill contained any appropriation for paying
deputy marshals.
Mr.. Atkins replied in the negative. In regard
to some details of the bill he said $l75,O0O had
been appropriated for the custom house and
postoface at Chicago; $4,000 for new iron
roof for the Nashville custom house; $40, 900
for new telegraph lines in Texas, Montana and
Dakota; $50, 600 for arsenals; 100000 for ar
rears due to land grant railroads under the de
cision of the supreme court of the United
States; $4,000 for the purposes of public sur
veys; $40, 900 each to Hayden, Powell l. Wheel
er, surveys, to close up business, and $3.50, goo
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 OPP
posed the provision for the sinking fund for the
t3-65 bonds of the District Of Columbia con-
tending that as to $4,000, 900 of those bonds,
they had been issued in defiance of law and
withent consideration, and these bonds in the
hands Of the purchaser with notice were not