The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-31
Last Nights Dispatches.
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gardlng the Senate bill for the repeal oi
certain laws relating to permanent and in
definite appropriations. stating that while
the system of annual appropriations Is
undoubtedly correct, as giving Congress
the supervision thereof. its general adop-
tion should not be enforced until there is
a proper consideration of the estimates OF
the amounts required to replace the ap-
preparation to be repealed; especially SO
as the estimates Of the various depart
ments for the next year have been already
submitted TO Congress. and in many cases
reported upon by the committees having
| them in charge. Ia view also Of the in
convenience, if not embarrassment, that
would for time attend the change, L
would respectfully recommend that the
date of repeal be changed to take effect
| from and after June 80, 1881, which it is
| believed is as early date as it would be
wise to adopt for the repeal of so large a
class of appropriations. The Secretary
also enclosed draft of a bill for the pur-
pose mentioned. Accompanying the letter
is long schedule of appropriations which
will be affected by the proposed bill. as
well as those excepted from its operations.
The House Committee on Public
| Buildings and Grounds agreed to-day to
report favorably the appropriation of
| $l50,000 for the pubic buildings at
Quincy, Ill; $4,000 to be expended the
first year.
The House Committee on Invalid Pen
sions. on motion of Mr.. Caldwell, unaui-
mously agreed to-day to the following
| resolution, to govern the consideration by
the Com mittee on Invalid Pensions:
Resolved, That all pensions and claims
| of an invalid character shall be reported to
date from discharge, where the disability
was incurred previous to the discharge,
and where the disability was incurred
subsequent to discharge, from the date of
the disability, and all gratuitous pensions
shall date from the death of the husband,
| and where the husband had been a pen
| sioner. from the date of disability.
The Senate Com mmittee on Census met
to-day and received reports from several
sub committees on nominations of Census
| Supervisors, Appointments were reported
back faVorably from the sub com mmittees
| for the Western states, except three for
| Illinois, one for Iowa and one for Ten
nessee, which are held by the sub commit
tees for further inquiry. Senator Herman
who has charge OF the nominations for
New ork. New Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA.
Delaware and Maryland, did not report on
them to-day. nor were any Of the Southern
agreed by common consent that all nomin-
atiOns reported from sub committees to =
| day, IN regard to none of which there is
any question OF personal fitness of the
n9niuee. shai. be immediately reported
| back to the Senate with a rec1uImeud udation
| for confirmation. but at the same Time
| several Democratic NE u bers of the com-
nittee took ground that one half of the
| Census Supervisors throughout the whole
country ought to be selected from the
! Democratic party, and they theretare re-
served the right TO disregard to days
action Of the committee when the nomina-
| tiOus came up for consideration in the
| Senate. Indications are that strong
| movement will be made in the Senate to
have up all the census nominations for the
present with view to forcing the equal
division of these appointments between the
two great political parties.
| The hearing of the sugar question was
continued this morning by the committee
| on ways and means. Henry 4. Brown,
| extreasurer's agent, concluded his state
ment with experiments, showing how a
| high grade OF sugar can be arti6cialiy
colored SO rs to make it a low grade, Dutch
standard. He advised that no change be
made in the sugar tariff Assistant Sec
retary French explained and justified the
| secretarys action In the sugar cases,
which has SO dissatisfied the importers a
| discussion arose as tn the testimony OF
Nathaniel Mckay, who after visit to De-
marara declared that there was no artificI-
al cooring of sugar there 1t appears that
be had examined into the subject by
request OF Mr. Kelly, chairman of the
ways and meaps committee, aud Of other
members, Mckay being present. accused
| French of having put dishonest Demarara
factors in the New York custom house
| The matter becoming personal, the com-
mittee forbade its further discussion.
French read other reports 10 contradiction
| of Mckay's assertion that there was no
fraud in America
Secretary Sherman was before the
senate finance committee to-day io re-
sponse TO their invitation for an oral
expression Of his views on the funding
question and other points. Nothing new iu
1t.
The senate exodus committee examined
again Charles FL. Otney, who under cross
examination admitted that Mendenhal
was the only person in Washington whom
he had heard advise the exodus for politi-
cal reasons. He believed all colored people
OF intelligence 10 North Carolina opposed
the exodus T. A. Bonitz, editor of a
Colds boro, North Carolina Democratic
| paper, testified that it was difficult to
account for the exodus. Certainly it was
not on account of oppression, or of their
condition or their treatment in the courts.
After some further testimony the commit
| tee adjourned