Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-07
FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
The House.
NEW BUSINESS.
Second Session

NEW BUSINESS.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-TEe following bills
were introduced aud referred:
By Mr. Dickcy-Appropriating S25, goo for
the purchase of Frayes' equestrian picture of
General Winfield Scott.
BY MIR. Washbnrn-For the relief of settlers
on public lands.
By Mr. tons of the Ohio
legislature against passage of the bill for cor-
struction of bridge across the Detroit river.
On motion of Mr.. Carlisle the testimony
ia ken by the committee appointed for the pur-
pose of Investigating the Cincinnati election
was ordered printed.
Mr. Whitthorne offered a resolution, which
was adopted calling the President for in
formation as to the proceeding of the interna-
tional Polar congress, held at Hamburg, Ger
many, October |, 1879.
The speaker laid before the House a letter
from the secretary of the treasury asking
appropriation of $50, 900 to enable him to
maintain revenue steamer on the coast of
Alaska. Referred.
MIR. Epson, from the committee on military
affairs, reported bill authorizing the secre-
tary of the treasury to ascertain and report to
Congress the amount of money expended and
Indebtedness assumed by Texas in repeliing
aud guarding against Indian and Mexican
raids. Printed and recommittel.
DISABILITIES REMOVED.
Consideration was then resumed of the bill
removing the political disabilities of Jno.
ven, of Virginia. Mr.. Conger opposed the
bill on the ground the petition alluded to the
war of the confederacy, while the fourteenth
ton.
MIR. Goode replied there was nothing in the
fourteenth amendment which required any pc
titiou, and while it had been the practice of
Congress to require every person to make an
application for relief in respectful terms,
no form of petition had been heretofore pre-
scribed 1t seemed to him too late in the day,
fifteen years after the termination of the war,
to take departure like this and make a man
write the words traitor and rebel with his own
hand on his own brow and get down in the dust
and CRY unclean before this great government
would consider his petition.
Mr. Conger replied TO Goode, and when he
had finished Messrs. Young, Ellis and Goode all
rose to reply, but Mr.. Wood objected on the
ground that further discussion was unwise and
Improbable. The vote on passage of this bill
was, yes' 1G5, nays 46.
THE PRIVATE CALENDER.
The House then went into committee of the
whole, MIR. Finley in the chair, on the private
calendar The House having been in commit
tee for about an hour and not a single bill
having been agreed to, owing to objection,
made principally by Warner and Sparks, Mr..
Bayre moved the committee rise.
Senator Coffroth hoped the motion would be
withdrawn. If there were gentlemen who
didn't desire soldiers to obtain pensions he
wanted their names to go on record.
MIR. Sparks-That allegation against the
gentlemen Directing is out of place, unfound-
ed and untrue so far as it relates to me. The
gentleman passes special bills fog men in his
district.
Mr.. offsoth-Actions speak louder than
words.
Mr. Sparks-I will not appeal from the p.u-
sion Office to you.
The motion to rise was defeated. 1t becom-
ing evident, however that little business could
be transacted the committee finally rose, after
agreeing to two pension bills, and the House
adjourned till Monday.