The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-02-18
CONGRESSIONAL.
LEGISLATION AT THE CAPITAL
Petitions, BnIs and Reports-Amend-
ment TO the Fitzjohn Porter
Bili-Other Legislation.



companies against reduction of the
duty on steel rails.
A bill providing for celebrating the
hundreth anniversary of the recognition
of American independence by nation
al exhibition at New York in '93 was
placed on the calendar.
Salisbury presented majority report
of the committee on elections in the
Ingalls, case. The report finds that
bribery and corruption was employed
to secure ingalls, election, bnt there
was no evidence that Ingalls, authorized
such improper acts or thatthey in fact
secured his election.
Cameron (Wis. presented minority
report signed signed by Hoar, Logan,
and himself concurring in that part of
the majority report which exhonorates
ingalls,, but expressing the opinion that
when the report states that corruptions
were employed, 1t should in justice
state what was proved, that such means
were employed in opposition to his elec-
tion. The reports were ordered
Printed.
Randolph introduced the following
amendment to the bill for the relief of
Fitz John Porter: Strike out all after
the enacting clause and insert "That
the president is hereby authorized to
nominate and by and with the advice of
the senate to appoint Fitz John Porter
colonel of infantry in the U. s. army,
his commission to date from January
1868, with pay and emoluments of that
rank from that date until he shall be
relieved according to law, or as here
after provided for.
SEC. 9. That at any time after
granting such commission it shall be
lawful for the president to place said
Porter ON the retired list of the army
on the pay of a retired colonel of infan-
try. 1t was ordered printed, tabled
subject to Randolph's call
Logan submitted the following; re-
ferred to the committee on naval
affiirs:
Resolred, That the secretary of the
navy be authorized to eluip and furnish
a vessel for the purpose of conveying to
Ireland such contributions offered and
other supplies as are furnished in the
United States for the relief of the suffer
lug in Ireland.
Gordon gave notice that to-morro
he would move the doors be closed and
the senate proceed to consider the mo-
tion of Davis to reconsider the vote ap-
pointing special meeting on the inter
oceanic canal.
The bill authorizing the Sec
retary of the interior and the secretary
of the treasury to employ additional
clerks to facilitate transaction of pen
sions and other business was then TAX
en- up.
HOUSE.
Washington, Feb 1.-THE regular
order was the motion to lay on the table
the motion to reconsider the vote by
which the house yesterday orderd the
main question on the bill prohibiting
the publication of lottery schemes in the
District of Columbia. The motion was
defeated by III to Ill. A motion to
reconsider was agreed to-
Knott moved to lay the bill on the
table; rejected. The bill goes over un-
til next district day.
The bill regulating the removal of
causes from state to federal courts was
then taken up in the morning hour.
Knott supported it. He instanced
the great power of corporations, one of
which, like an enormous octopus,
stretched its monstrous tentacles into
eleven states and controlled 6,000 miles
of railroad, and its financial operations
were second to those of the government
itself. Congress could not disturb
these parasites on the body polite, but
it ought to deprive them of the extra
ordinary privileges as this bill contem-
plated and which they had in contra
vention to the constitution He criti-
cised the courts decisions which re-
garded corporations as citizens. The
conclusion from the decision was that
impartial juries, an army shorn of its
dangerous power and now in the midst
OF victory, it was proposed to surrender
and quit the contest for the liberties of
the people.
Warner repudiated this as an undem-
ocratic doctrine. That the house by
Withholding legitimate appropriations
had the right to coerce the senate and
executive. Our presidents never had
the power which was taken from King
John. He did not propose to recognize
that doctrine. All power in this coun-
try originates with the people, they re-
dressed their own grievances, not the
executive.
Speer offered substitute for loves
amendment, that it shall be in order to
strike out any amount and insert "a less
amount.
The speaker sustained Blackburn's
point that this had already been voted
down and it was out of order.
Garfield took an appeal and the chair
was sustained by vote of 100 to 100.
Several like amendments were