The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-09
FoRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, January s.
SENATE.

SENATE.
The sergeant.atArms brought to tn
bar OF the Senate L. T. Smith, Levi vii
son and Z. B. Purcell, to answer charg
!. OF contempt in not obeyipg summons t
Q testify in the Ingalls, case. Smith made
statement to the effect that he had sent I
q Telegram to the Committee saying h,
, knew nothing about the election Of ingalls,
= Mr.. Salisbury, chairman OF the Com
mittee, favored the discharge OF witness
, upon his appearing before the Committee
and testifying. Mr.. Mcmillan and othert
objected to keeping witness in custody
claiming that no lawful summons had
been served on him. Alter considerable
debate the three witnesses at the bar were
discharged from rule, having purged
themselves of the contempt.
Mr.. Wallace presented the petition .oi
Drexel & Co., and others, OF Pennsylvania,
for the withdrawal OF the legal tender
quality OF treasury notes.
Mr.. Plumb, from the Committee on
Public Lands, reported joint resolution
that the time allowed the Secretary OF the
Interior TO instruct the United States
land officers at Little Rock, under the act
relative to the Hot Springs reservation,
be extended sixty days from the passage
OF this resolution, and further proceedings
under said act be suspended until that
time. Passed.
The following bills were introduced and
referred:
By Mr.. Plumb: To create an additional
land district in Kansas.
by Mr.. Jones: To repeal the twenty
second section OF the act to incorporate
the Texas and Pacific Railroad Company,
and to aid in the construction OF It's road,
and for other purposes, and to declare the
rights, privileges and lands granted in
said section to the New Orleans, Baton
Rouge and Vicksburg Railroad forfeited,
and that section be re.enacted in favor OF
the New Orleans Pacific Roilroad Com
pany.
Mr.. Window, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported with the amend
ments, the Military Academy appropria-
tion bill. Placed on the calendar.
The Senate adjourned until Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Garfield appeared at his desk this
morning and received congratulations
from his Republicaa colleagues, as well as
those OF several Democratic members, no.
tably Blackburn, Carlisle, Clymer and
Mills, upon his successful contest for the
Ohio Senatorial nomination.
NJ. Prescott presented communication
from Horatio Seymour, asking the passage
OF bill for the erection OF q monument 10
Gen. Herkimer. Referred.
Mr. F. Wood, Chairman ofthe Commit
tee on Ways and Means, reported reso-
luton calling on the Secretary OF the
Treasury for information, showing the
number Of licensed dealers OF leaf tobacco
and the amount OF revenue collected from
such dealers during the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1870. Adopted.
The House then considered, In Com
mittee OF the Whole, the report OF the
Committee on Revision OF Rules
Mr.. Reagan saidathat when the time
came he would move TO strike out tie
clause providing that the river and harbor
bill, when reported by the Committee on
Commerce, should be referred to the
Committee on Appropriations, and insert
instead the provision giving to the Com.
mittee on Commerce the same privileges
in regard 10 the river and harbor as ac-
corded to the Appropriation Committee in
regard to other general appropriation
bills.
Mr.. Garfield, member OF the Commit
tee on Rules, said that he cared more
about the codification OF the rules as q
whole than he did about the adoption OF
any particular rule. He thought, how
ever, that the proper course 10 pursue
would be to take up the report and pass
upon the proposed bills seriatum. He
would not enter into the controversy
raised by the gentleman from Texas, be-
cause he (Gartield) occupied a standpoint
so nearly like that occupied by that gen.
tleman on one feature Of the case that he
could speak in full sympathy with him.
He believed in the river and harbor legis.
lation OF the country.
He spoke from another and larger view.
There were two great committees that
stood with their backs, 30 to speak, to each
other, facing in opposite directions. They
were the Committees on Ways and Means
and Appropriations. Itwas the business
OF one TO decide what revenue should be
procured TO meet the expenditures OF the
government, and 1t was the business OF the
other To decide the aggregate amount OF
these expenditures. The same reason that
would turn over the river and harbor bill
to the Committee on Commerce would
turn over the army bill to the Committee
on Military Atfaira, the navy bill to the
Committee on Naval Affairs, the Indian
bill to the Committee on Indian Affairs,
and 80 on. During the period OF four
years, during which he was chairman Of
the Committee on Appropriations, the
practice had been for thatcommittee, after
looking over all the estimates, to decide
the aggregate amount OF the appropria-
tons and to notify the military, naval and
commerce committees OF the amountsthat
could be assigned TO each OF those branches,
80 that the Committee on Commerce thus
notifed) prepared the river and harbor
bill In accordance with it, and when that
bill was referred to the Committee on Ap.
preparations 1t was afterwards reported
back to the House and the Committee on
Commerce was requested to take care OF 1t.
That he regarded as the proper course.
The discussion was continued by Ran
dali, Hooker and others.
Mr.. Mills inquired whether the appro.
priations for river and harbors were not
lower as compared with the estimates
than was the case in regard to any other
appropriations and estimates.
Mr.. Randall replied that II the estimates
OF the engineers had been followed the
Treasury would have been bankrupted
long ago, and a member OF Congress could
go to the Engineers Bureau and have an
estimate made for any particular work, or
at all events he could have 1t done by
having survey ordered, as q matter Of
course, almost in the river and harbor
bill.
Mr.. o'Neil suggested that his colleague
should go TO the Engineers Bureau and
see what sum he could get estimated 10
improve the Delaware or Schuylkill rivers.
Mr.. Randall never went there for
any such purpose.
Mr. o'Neil.I have. often. Laughter. ]
l Randall-My course in the House in re.