The Portland daily press., 1880-04-08
xLvIth CONGRESSES Session.
SENATE.

OENA1E
WASHINGTON, April z.
In the absence of Vice President Wheeler,
Mr.. Thurman was elected president pro TEN.
The consular and diplomatic appropriation
bill was placed on the calendar.
"a discussion ensued upon the Ponca ques-
ton.
Mr.. Kirkwood moved to strike out the
words ''or until the President shall be con-
WINGED that every possible effort to effect such
surrender has been made" so that no money
shall be paid to the White River Utes until
the guilty Indians are in fact surrendered or
apprehended.'
After considerable discussion Kirkwood
amended his amendment so as to provide that
the agreement shall not take effect until the
guilty men are shown to be dead or to have
left the United States, and so as to include
men who committed the outrages after the
massacre.
The amendment was then adopted.
Mr.. Davis offered all amendment providing
that the $25 900 set apart by the agreement Of
1874 be expended in practical industrial edu-
cation of Ute youths.
Messrs. ingalls, and Allison opposed the
amendment and Mr. Pendleton advocated it,
but pending debate the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House refused to dispense with the
morning hour. The pending question was
then upon reference of bill authorizing con-
tract with San Antonio and Mexican Border
from San Antonio to Larelo
scene of very great excitement took place
in the committee of the whole in connection
with the amendment relating to army sur
geons.
Mr., Sparks of Indiana, who had offered an
amendment coming from the committee on
military affairs, wanted, when the amendment
was defeated in the committee, to have vote
upon it in the House, and he desired Mr..
Clymer, who had charge of the army appro-
priation bill, to promise an amendment might
be offered in the House.
Mr.. Clymer declined to make the promise in
advance and denied there had been any such
application made to him ON the part of the
military committee.
Mr. Sparks became very angry and spoke of
Mr.. Clymer as being bulldczed and caioled,
and then leaning over his desk toward Mr.
Clymer and shaking his fist violently he de-
clared that if Mr.. Clymer insinuated that the
amendment did not come from the committee
on military affairs he lied. This he repeated
more than once.
Mr.. Clymer's only retort was that he
(Sparks) could not insult him.
Finally the offensive words spoken by
Mr. Sparks we're read from the reporters
manuscript and the question was discussed
whether the committee must rise and report
the matter to the House.
The committee having risen and the matter
reported to the House, Mr.. Sparks made an
explanation which Mr.. Clymer considered
tionable language as withdrawn and suggested
its omission from the records
Bill to organize and discipline the militia of
the United States was placed on the calendar
Bill to increase the pensions of certain SOL
d!ers and sailors utterly helpless on account of
disease contracted in the service, was referred
to the committee of the whole.
At the conclusion of the morning hour Mr..
McCook asked leave to offer resolution recit-
ing an alleged outrage perpetrated upon John
son Y. Whitaker, cadet at West Point, and
calling on the Secretary of War for any infor-
nation he may have in regard thereto.
Mr.. Cox hoped the resolution would be
adopted.
Mr.. Aiken objected and it went over.
The House resumed in committee of the
whole the consideration of the army appro-
priation bill. The portion which provides
that under certain circumstances commuta-
tion shall be paid to enlisted men in lieu of
ratiOns was stricken out.
An amendment was adopted authorizing
the President on the request of any incorpor-
ated college or Institution of learning having
a capacity to educate $50 male students to
detail an officer on the retired list to act as
president, superintendent or professor thereof.
At the end of the bill Mr.. Sparks offered an
additional section providing that no money
appropriated in this act shall be paid for the
subsistence, equipment, transportation of any
portion OF the army of the United States to be
used as police force to keep the peace at the
polls at any election.
Mr.. Keller rose to a point of order, but
pending decision thereon the committee rose
and the House adjourned.