Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-18
TELEGRAPHIC.
No Results on the Pending Meas,
ures in Congress Yet.
Chief Justice Waite Off fol
Charleston, South Carolina.
Session of the Y. M. G. A. Sec
rttlries il Baltimore.
XLVI CONGRESS.
XLVI CONGRESS.


The Senate assumed the consld-
Grafton of the Legislative Executive,
and Judicial Appropriation bill.
Among the amendments agreed to
was one offered from Mr.. Voorhees,,
from the joint Committee on Lii
brary, appropriating five thousand
dollars for the purchase of works of
art.
During the debate on an amend
ment on the subject of clerks in the
Postofice Department, a colloquy
occurred between Messrs. Sauls-
bury and Window, in which the
latter said he would not join the
former in his wish to economic ex-
penses by reducing the army,
which is required for the protection
of the frontier from the attacks of
Indians. Mr.. Salisbury remarked
that he had argued that he would
not so use the army as to bring
Odium upon it, by surrounding the
polls with troops and requiring its
officers to perform duties repugnant
to their sense of honor.
Mr.. Window asked what amount
voted for the army had been ex-
pended in the use of troops at the
polls. Mr.. Salisbury could not
say, but remembered that in 1862
Federal troops were sent to Polloin,
Delaware. The cOllOquy was con-
tinued al length.
At 3:15 the Senate went into
executive session and when the
doors were opened adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House resumed the business
of the morning hour. The bill to
amend the law relating to the trans
fer of cases from the State to the
United States Courts. Mr.. Me-
Lane, of Maryland, concluded his
argument in favor of the bill.
Taking the grounds that wherever
State law or State sovereignty, be
it much or little, is we'll defined and
understood, and where indictments
are found under such State law, they
should not be removable to the Fed
eral Courts. He admitted that there
mig ht have been a necessity during
war times for the enlargement of
Federal power, but the country had |
now passed beyond such necessity,
and the Judiciary of the country
should be restored to it's, nominal
condition.
Mr.. Urner, of Maryland, opposed
the bill on the ground that one of
the sections proposed to be repealed,
No. 639, was virtually the judiciary
act of 1889, which gave force and |
effect to that clause of the Consti@
tuition which authorizes United
States Courts to pass upon ques-
tiOns in controversies between cis.-
zen of one State and citizen of
another State. He admitted that
there was some force in the objec-
ton that insurance companies, sued |
in States where they have no legal
residence, can have cases
removed to the great injury of
the plaintif-suitor, but argued that
such possibilities of hardship
should not be allowed to interfere
with the great underlying principles
involved. Pending action on the
bill the morning hour ex-
pired, and the House resumed
consideration of the Warner Silver
bill.
Belford's amendment confning
the privilege Of free coinage to silver
mines in the United States was
defeated; ayes, 81; nays, 120.
Mr.. Ewing offered an amendment
to Mr.. Springer's amendment.
1t provides that the Secretary
of the Treasury shall issue and de-
liver to depositors of silver bullion
certificates to an amount'equal.to the
value of such bullion, and that sill
yer dollars shall be coined from such
bullion to the extentof. forty per cent.
Such certificates shall be held for
the redemption thereof and the re- {
mainder applied to the payment of
and principal of the public
debt. Certificates so issued arc to
be redeemed at par for all dues to
the United States, and be used in
payment of the current expenses
IF the Government. and are to I
De redeemable in standard silver
dollars. 4
The amendment was adopted;
yeas 106, nays los, the Speaker t
asting the deciding vote, amid ap- S
,lause on the Democratic side. t
Mr.. Springer's amendment, as a
by Mr.. Ewing, was then
elected; yeas SO, nays III. a
The House, at 4:40, adjourned t
Until Tuesday. 0