Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-03
YEAS.

Senator Hill moved to lay the amendment of
the committee on the table. Rejected, yeas %,
nays 81.
agreed to, yeas 28, nays rs.
The clause in the House bill providing that
hereafter cnntestee contestant for a seat
in the House shall be paid more than 81, 900 for
expenses and requiring sworn statement, was
stricken out.
The amendment allowing 1854, 600 of the sum
appropriated for completion of the Washing
ton monument, to be used in strengthening the
foundation, led to discussion, but the amend
ment was finally agreed to- yeas %, nays %.
The amendment approprlatlng $325, 1000 to
the purchase Of the Shepard building for city
postoffice was, motion of Senator Hoar, laid
on the table without discussion, Senator HOar
saying the Senate could not determine whether
it would consider a site for new postoffice at
Washington at this late hour of the session
without debate.
The committee struck out of the House bill
all of the third section making appropriations
for the District of Columbia to the extent of
81, $50, 361.56, and submitted substitute for
that section increasing the appropriations to
sl,690,S2l.7S, being one-half the estimated e1.
pense of the government in the District of
Columbia for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1880. Agreed to.
The next amendment reported by the COM
mittee appropriates $ll 1888 for interest and
sinking fund on the funded debt, and appro-
United States may contribute toward the ex-
pcnses of the District in pursuance of the act
of June II, 1878, such sum as will, with the
interest thereon at 3-65 per cent. per AMIN, be
sufficient to pay the principal of the 2-65 bonds
of the District at maturity, which sum the
secretary of the treasury shall annually invest
in said bonds not exceeding the par value
thereof, the bonds redeemed to be cancelled
and destroyed. Agreed to.
On motion of Senator Dorsey the section of
the hill ra-anactino the law of JuDe 20 1878 in
regard to the payment of workingmen Of
amounts due them by contractors, was stricken
out.
The remaining sections Of the bill providing
for public printing by contract with Gibson
Bros, Washington, stricken OUT being new
legislation.
Senator Dorsey submitted an amendment to
exempt from taxation the property known as
''Edgewood, ;" in Washington county, belonging
to the estate of the late Chief Justice Chase,
such exemption to continue long the
property may be owned by any child Of the
late chief Justice Agreed to-yeas 80, nays g.
The amendment providing the public notice
for called bonds required by the acts authoriz-
ing the refunding of the public debt shall here
after be not less than ten days, nor more than
three months, at the discretion of the secretary
of the treasury, was stricken out upon the
ground that the matter was provided for in
another bill.
The appropriation of $4,000 for salary of a
person to assist editing and compiling for pub
iication the official records of the rebellion was
stricken out on motion of Senator Window,
and on his motion the appropriation for the ar
tillery school at Fortress Monroe was increased
from $4, 730 to $7,934.
Senator Widdom offered an amendment ap-
propriating 900 for use of the consular and
diplomatic service, to be expended at the dis
erection of the President Agreed to-
Senator Ingalls, submitted an amendmentap-
propriating 1926, 100000 to pay arrears of pen
hi or tn The hill which nHsSe0
the House for that purpose.
Senator Davis, Of West Virginia, made the
p ONT this was new legislation. The point was
ustained and the amendment ruled out.
PORTRAITS.
Pending discussion the bill to paint portraits