The Newtown bee., 1879-06-17
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Senate.

CONUhESSIVNAk SUMMARIs Senate.
 | Mir. PendIeton reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations the House joint resou- tion No. S2, to authorize the expenditure oi $20, GOO for the representation of United States products at the Sydney and Melbourne na- tional exhibitions in 1879 and 1880. Passed.
 .... Mir. Bayard called up Senate bill No. 375, i to repeal sections sol, S20 and S2I and part of 500 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the 1 jurors test oath. The Senate decided to con- sider the bil-yeas, 2S; nays, l9 MT. Wade | Hampton then spoke in favor of the bill, mak- ing his maiden speech. He defended the con- duct of the white people of the South, and asserted that they were patriotic and wanted to maintain the Union in perpetuity. During his speech Mr. Hampton said that he would not in any event vote to deny the necessary l appropriations to support the army and tho departments of the government. Several amendments to the bill, proposed by Mr. Ed munds, were lost. Adjourned.
 1 Mir. Lamar, from the select committee on 1 the improvement of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, reported with amendment, the 1 House bill to provide for the appointment of | Mississippi River Commission. Placed on the calendar. Mir. Lamar said he would ask leave to call it up for consideration at early day.
 .... Mr. Booth introduced bill to prevent ob | strucIion to pre-emption and homestead settle ment on public lands. Referred to the Com- | IltIteo OH uDliC 1AtlltlS Ali0E luIluGF ulS- cussion the bill for the repeal of the test oath was passed by a vote ot 2S yeas to l6 nays. l Adjourned.
 | The Senate concurred in the House resolu- l tion to instruct the Committee Enrolled Bills to amend the title of the act to amend an act making appropriations for the construc- tion, etc., of certain works on rivers and har- bors, recently passed, by substituting the words, " approved March 8, 1879," for "ap- proved March 4, 1S79." Mr. Eaton, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported | back the House joint resolution repeating cer- tain clauses of the sundry civil appropriation act passed at the last session, with a recom-
 mendation that the Senate non-concur in the l House amendments. The amendments were accordingly non-concurred in. The Senate took up the bill introduced by Mir. Mcdonald to authorize the employment of militia and the land and naval forces of the United States in certain cases, and to repeal the election | laws. Mir. Harris delivered a speech in sup port of the bill. Adjourned.
 Mr. Coke moved to take up and consider the resolution discharg ing the Committee on Fi- | nance from the further consideration of House bill 564 (the Warner Silver bill), and declaring it before the Senate for action. The vote on | taking up the resolution was-yeas, 2l; nays, p. All the yeas were Democratic. The nays
 were all Republicans except that Messrs. | Eaton, Groome, Jones, ol Florida, Lamar and Il MePherson also voted in the negative great many Senators were paired. Of the
 members of the Finance Committee, Messrs. Bayard and Herman retrained from voting ...
 The House joint resolution providing for the
 erection of monument to mark the birthplace
 of George Washington was passed without n
 dissenting vote Adjourned.
 House.
 The House discussed the bill in regard to the l removal ot cases from Federal to State courts,
 and that to prevent the exportation of diseased
 cattle. The Legislative Appropriation bill
 was reported and recommitted to be printed.
 ....The report of the board of inquiry in Fitz
 John Porters case was submitted to the House
 as it had been in the Senate. Adjourned.
 Mir Clymer, from the Appropriation Com mittec, reported the Army Appropriation bill
 which was ordered printed and recommitted
 This is identical with the army bill previously , passed at this session, with the exception o an appropriation for q storehouse at Omaha,
 Neb., and the substitution of the following as
 section 6, in lieu of that section in the previous bills; "Section 6. That no money appropr ated i'll this act is appropriated or shall be paid fol the subsistence, equipment, transportation ol f compensation of any portion of the army O.
 the United States to be used as police force
 keep peace at the polls at any election helC within any State. ."l. ... The Postal bill was de bated without action. Adjourned.
 ; Ali CT the introduction of a number of bills I, and resolutions Mir. Atkins chairman of tho Committee on Appropriations, reported sub
 SGtute TOT the LegISlatlVc ouQ-cl4I ana txecu
 tive Appropriation bill, stating that 1t was : unanimous report. He moved to suspend th'
 rules and put the bill on it's passage. The frs a clause of the bill provides that there shall b. 1 appropriated for the fiscal year ending Jun |, 30, 1880, the same sums of money and for lik e purposes, and containing the same provision i thereto, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, for tn : legislative, judicial and executive expenses O
 the government except as hereinafter de n clared. It then recites the exceptions seriatim B and makes many independent appropriation
 not in the bill of last year. The item for tn a Southern Claims Commission continues tn i salaries up to the 10th of May, 1880. It con
 tains an appropriation of ss20 000 for the ex
 penses of a delegate to the international Silve T Convention. The bill repeals the law requir i ing biennial examination ot pensioners, an f it directs the Secretary ot the Treasury to issu
 immediately Gin payment of arrearages (
 pensions as they may be adjusted) the legal s tender currency now in the Treasury held a 8 special fund for the redemption of irilctionf n currency. 1t also provides that the fractions |. currency presented for redemption shall be re v deemed in any money in the Treasury nc r. otherwise appropriated MT. Atkins said in ', restrictions on the vetoed bill which had ere l. ated such contest the floor were not en t. braced in the present bill, nor WAS the apprc e lriation tor the contingent expenses for tl d courts, amounting to $2 600, ,000 It was upo n that portion of the bill that the restrictiv
 clause had been placed in regard to the pay |, ment of supervisors and deputy marshal ,t That matter would be embraced in g subss q quent bill--a supplemental bill-which woul - be reported by his friend from Ohio (M, :, Mahon). The bill was then passed, there b, < ing twenty -one votes cast against it's passag :, Adjourned
 Mr. Harris resolution to appropriate $3, ,0(
 for a monument to mark the birthplace
 George Washington was passed. MT. Cor :, of New York, chairman of the Committee 0 Y Foreign Affairs, reported joint resolutio reciting that under the laws ot Russia discIim
 nation is made against Israelte citizens of u Il United States in the matter of holding re, ,i estate, and directing the President to take in s mediate action to have the treaties amends y as to remedy the grievance. Passed. ... M | McMahon, from the Committee on Approprii
 tions, reported back the bill making appropri e tions for certain judicial expenses of the go n ernment. Referred to tho Committee of Il v Whole, and after debate, during which a nun ,rsl Der of amendments offered by Republics l. members we're rejected, the bill was passed ts ! strict party vote of l02 yass to 85 my x Adjourned.