Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1880-05-06
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W~AsHrNoroN, May b.-Waiiace, rom
the Select Committee to inquire into
alleged frauds in late elections, submit
ted q report OF the result Of invsstigs-
lions On the subject Of the denial or
abridgement OF the suffrage in Rhode
Island. and reported . bill to enforce the
provisions Of Section 2. Article XIV. Of
the amendments to the Constitution Of
the United States. Placed on the cal
sndar.
Wallace also presented petitions Of
citizens Of Rhode Island. praying for
relief from the rule OF suffrage observed
in that State. Referred to the Commit
tee on Judiciary.
Blaine stated that there would b Q
minority report on suffrage In Rhode
Island.
Butler submitted Q resolution calling
on the Secretary Of the Treasury for
copies OF the reports OF Captain John
W. White, OF the United States revenue
service, made while on duty In Alaskan
waters, and Of all papers relating 70 tho
transfsr OF jurisdiction over the Terri
tory OF Alaska from the Wa to the
Treasury Department. Adopted.
Booth, from the Committee on Pub
lilo Lands, reported favorably House bill
for the relief OF settlers on the public
lands, and IL passed. CIt provides that
when = presumption, homestead or tim
Der culture claimant shall hls . written
REIMBURSEMENT Of his claim In the local
Land OHice the land covered BY said
claim shall bs open and subject to entry
without further action by the Land
Commissioner. Where any person has
contested. paid land fees, and procured
q cancellation Of any entry, hs shall DO
notified by the Register OF the Land
Once OF that district, and shall be al.
lowed thirty days to enter land. Any
settler who hereafter proceeds to enter
land under q Homestead location shall
be allowed the same time 10 perfect his
original entry q is now allowed settlers
the presumption laws, and his rights
shall rebate back TO the date OF settle.
ment, as II he had settled under the
pro smption lsws.1
Tho bill authorizing the sale OF Fort
Logan, in Montana, and to establish .
new post on the Mussslshsll river, Mon.
tana, was passed.
On motion OF Voorhees, the bill for .
joint commission to arrange for better
accommodation for . Congressional
library was taken up to allow him to
speak in It's support. He described the
lamentable condition Of the library, say
ing that 1t was . rsproaoh and disgrace
to the nation.
The Kellogg. Spofford resolutions were
temporarily laid aside and the District
OF Columbia Appropriation bill taken
up. discussed at great length. aad pend
ing debate the Senate adjourned.
House.
Atkins, Chairman Of tho Committee
on Appropriations. reported a bill ap-
propriatins $3.50. 900 for carrying on the
public printing Office for the current
asosl year. Atkins stated that the sum
was the Same Is appropriated BY the
bill vetoed by the President. The bill
passed without division.
The morning hour having been dis.
pensed with, King called up the joint
resolutions rsafarming the Monroe doc
trine.
Blackburn raised the question Of con.
sidsration. stating that he desired to
proceed with the Postofios Appropria.
ton bill.
The House, BY q decisive vote. refused
to consider the Monroe doctrine resolu-
tons, and went into Committee Of the
Whole on the Postofioe Appropriation
bill.
An amendment was adopted authorix-
ing the Postmaster General to use
$3.50, 900 Of the 80, ACC. 900 appropriated
for railroad mail service In securing
necessary and special facilities.
An Amendments increasing the appro-
priation for railway mail service 10 &c..
800. 900 was rejected by avots OF 70 to 30.
King substituted an amendment in
creasing from Ss25. 900 to $3.50, 900 the
appropriation for inland transportation
by steamboat routes. Adopted.
The clause relative 10 the transporta-
ton by Star routes having been reached,
Blackburn proposed various amendments
to the proviso. modifying II 30 - to
read: provided. That on al Star mail
routes upon which increased compensa.
ton for increased expedition beyond fifty
per cent. over the sum Of the original
contract price and cost OF service for cd.
ditional trips has been allowed during
the years ending June 80, 1878, and
June 80. 1880. such service shall b
decreased, curtailed or discontinued
herein to such rates Of compensation for
increased expedition a to be not in
excess OF ffty per cent. Of the sum Of the
original contract price and cost Of ser.
vice for additional trips"
Blackburn explained that the proviso
proposed TO take the contracts On 70
routes and put them exactly on the dead
level on which the late law OF Congress,
had put all future contracts on which
the Department might thereafter enter.
Ewing moved to strike out the proviso.
Il proposed roughly and rudsly to say
that the contractors on IS great routes
Of the West should be thrown back TO .
80 per cent. increase. He was In favor
OF economy. but would rather have the
public expenditures reduced In any
other Department than the postal ser.
vice, and II 1t must be In the postal SER
vice, he would vote TO reduce the expen-
diturss anywhere rather than among the
hardy pioneers OF the frontier. Let
Congress economic BY putting salaries
back to where they had been before the
war and by catching roguss In the Inter.
nal Revenue service. but lot II not
attempt to do 30 BY impaihng the pro-
eress Of civilization BY breaking down
the mail service Of the West.