Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-05-07

ing over amendments touching local
disputes-the senate Of the United
States had turned itself into town
council. He was more than ever
convinced that tho District should
have a local government.
The bill was finally passed at 6
p. m.
The conference report on the
Indian appropriation bill was then
taken up, but without action thereon
the senate adjourned.
The Kellogg Spofford resolutions
are temporarily laid aside, subject
to call at any time.
HOUSE. ....
WASHINGTON, May 6.
Mr.. Wells mo submitted con.
ference report on the Indian appro>
priation bill, and it was agreed to.
The report states that the main
point of difference between the
houses was in regard to the discon>
tinuance of the board of Indian
ommissioners. AS finally agreed
upon, the commission is continued,
but proviso was inserted that no
money be appropriated for the sal
aries and expenses Of that commits
sion.
The morning hour being dispensed
with, the house, at 1886, went into
committee of the whole, with Mr..
Carlisle (Ky.) in the chair, on the
postoffice appropriation bill.
Mr.. Scales IN. CO., chairman of
the committee on Indian affairs, re-
ported back the bill ratifying the
Ute agreement, and it was made q
special order for Thursday next.
The house went into committee
of the whole on the poStofice APP
preparation bill.
Mr.. Hawley Comm moved to
strike out the proviso relative to the
star service. Forty >three per cent.
increase in the service in one year
was too much. He would not
I.charge fraud, not knowing that
there was more than mal,adminis
tratlon.
Mr.. Mills, Of Texas, supported
the amendment. If the postmaster
general were guilty he should be inn
peached, but the people of the
west should not even then be deS
prived of necessary facilities. In
further debate Haselton, of Wiscon>
sin, said:
T. east got all it asked for, but when
step was taken west of the Mjssis>
sppi river, the cry was raised "what
an outrage on the treasury !" He
would not charge fraud unless
he could prove it, and any man who
did was coward. One gentleman
said that the contracts should be
abrogated, because there was "swag"
attached to them. Another,
the gentleman from Texas,
(Mr. Reagan), contended that
they should be abrogated on
the ground of fraud. That charge
came with ill grace from the gem
tleman who had once invited the
charity of the house and obtained
it. lie had brought in a bill for
the pay ment of $500, 900 to south
ern mail contractors, and had
st tied, on his sacred honor, that the
confederate government had not paid
any of them, and it had appeared
afterwards that the same had been
paid. All he Hazeltop meant to
say was that while the gentleman
was bold in charging other men
with fraud, he was himself in a
position to invite the charity Of the
house and country.
Mr.. Reagan (Texas)-I made a
mistake of fact and no one was
more ready to acknowledge it. But
the gentleman is hardly warranted,
from the whole course of my
life, in saying that l need
rail my action before the house, or
shrink away from the discharge of
my duty and from exposing the
villainous contracts of the mail SER
vice.
After further debate, Mr.. Blount
[Ga. closed the discussion and de-
Tended the action of the committee
on appropriations. The man who
was so ready to assail the gentlemen
Of the committee as towards had
better beware that some one did not
rise and say that a lack of
moral sense induced the attack.
Il was said that the routes east
of the Mississippi had been greatly
expedited. This he denied. A
vast amount of money Isl, 800, 000]I
had been used during the last and
current fiscal year increasing and
expeditiDg the service, by sn execu,
tive order, on the routes west of the
Mississippi, while that order had not
touched the eastern routes.
The amendments modifying the
nroyiso offered Yesterday. by Mr..