Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-26
FORTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, May 25.

WASHINGTON, hay 70. SENATE-Mr Withers, of Virginia, moved to postpone all prior orders and to consider f pension cases on the calendar; agreed to. Mir. Windom, from the Committee on Alp propriations, reported favorably the agricul tural appropriation bill placed on the cal endar.
 Mir. Beck, of Kentucky, from the Commit tee on Finance, reported favorably on the House bill amending the statutes in relation to the immediate transportation of dutiable
 goods; placed on the calendar
 The morning hour having expired MT.
 Bayard moved to postpone all pending and
 prior orders and take up the supervisors
 bill; ; agreed to.
 MT. Howe asked leave to offer an amend
 ment It provides that the President may
 appoint such officers during the recess of the
 Senate, who may hold and exercise their of
 flee until the next session of the Senate.
 MT. Bayard would accept the Senator's
 amendment with slight changes, viz to
 strike out the words until the end of the
 session of the Senate" and insert 'it shall be the duty of the President to send in such nominations within 30 days after the next en- suing session." The amendment, thus modi- fled, was adopted without division
 MT. Thurman offered an amendment pro- viding that no person who now holds the of flee of supervisor of elections, or one who has held the office, shall be reappointed.
 running colloquy was kept up for some time, in which MT. Teller charged that the these questions fairly, and MT. Hotchkiss asked the Senators on the other side what questions they were afraid to discuss, and re- ceiving no satisfactory reply he inquired of Mir. ConkIing if he wanted to discuss the third term. MT. Conkling replied that no one was specially afraid of third term. MT. Voorhees, was about to continue his remarks, 1,,4o, tad hxyA yhn suggested that he yield to 8 motion to ad- journ, which he did, and the Senate at eos p. m. adjourned.
 Consideration of the sundry civil bill was resumed, Mir. Cannon moved to make the appropriation for furniture for the Chicago custom house $5O,00O instead of $200, 900. Rejected.
 The clause appropriating $100, 900 to en- able the Secretary of the Treasury to provide suitable accommodation for the storage of coin excited good deal of discussion and opposition Mr. Buckner moved an amend psant to the clause to strike out $100, 900 and
 8srt $50, 900, and to add a proviso as fol x9Ays: Provided, that the Secretary of the Treasury is prohibited from increasing the amount of United States notes of the denom- nations of one and two dollars, and provided further that heis hereby directed to purchase bonds of the United States due in 1881 with any surplus of coin belonging to the United States in the Treasury over and above the sum of $1OO GOO, ,OOO The amendment was ruled out on the point that it changed the ex- isting law.
 After discussion the motion to strike out the clause was adopted by vote of 107 to 65.
 Mir. King moved to increase the appropria- tion for the national board of health from $75, 900 to $125, ,OO0- MT. Young, of Ten nessee, supplemented that with a motion to make it $15o,OOo. Pending consideration of the amendment, the committee rose and the House. at 4:3O, took recess till 7:3O. Twenty pages were disposed of today.
 The evening session was specially for the purpose of considering the bill concerning commerce and the regulation of steam ves- sels. The pending question was on an amendment to classify the grade and regulate the salaries of local inspectors of hulls. Ob- lection was made to it because in some cases the salaries of inspectors were reduced, and the amendment was rejected. Without dis posing of the bill and without making any the House at 10 p. m. ad- iourned.