Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-05
prints, to the effect that he had, during th

prints, to the effect that he had, during the
absence from the House of members Of the
committee on foreign affairs, of which COM
mittee he was not member, made report
purporting to be report of that committee
on the Nicaraguan claims bill. He referred
to those charges as the most malicious and vii;
full prevarications of truth on record, and offer
ed resolution, which was adopted, directing
the committee on foreign affairs to examine
into their truth or falsity. Harris. Of Mas
sachusetts, from the committee on naval
affairs, reported bill, which was referred to
the committee of the whole, providing per-
manent construction fund for the navy.
Knott, of Kentucky, chairman of the COM
mittee on the judiciary, reported a bill re-
moving the political disabilities of VIM. b.
Tilliafero, of Virginia. Conger, of Michigan,
opposed the bill on the ground that in bis
petition the petitioner referred to the late war
as a war between the Southern States and
the United States, instead of a war of rebel
lion. The Speaker thought the tone of the
petition did not exhibit any disposition on the
part of the petitioner to be hypocrlical. 1t
was in the usual form. The chair was al
ways on the side of the pensioner and relieving
disabilities Conger-"I do not rank pension
ers and those who ask amnesty in the same
class" Speaker.-"The chair would erect
them all to full citizenship, and those who
have suffered he would have pensioned."
The bill was finally passed, yeas l72, nays
so. A number of Republicans voting with
the Democrats in the affirmative. Bills were
then passed removing the political disabilities
of j. S. Mauny, J. Wilkinson and c. c. Lem
mis-, of Virginia. Conger, of Michigan, objec-
ted to the passage of the bill removing the po-
litical disabilities of John Owens, of Virginia,
and demanded the yeas and nays, pending
which the morning hour expired. The House
then went into committee of the whole on
the private calendar. The bill for the relief
Of certain citizens of ofLynchburg, Va, refund
ing to them taxes improperly collected from
them on manufactured tobacco, amounting to
$4,000, was debated and laid aside, to be
favorably reported. After some further busi
ness of little public interest, the House ad-
adjourned.
In the House on the 31st, resolution was
adopted calling on the Secretary of War for
information as to the names and lineal rank
of all officers of the army not on duty, with
their regiments and corps, but on duty else
where, &c. The House, at 10 o'clock, discon.
tinued the transaction of public business, and
eulogistic addresses were made in memory Of
the late Rush Clark, Of Iowa. Keifer pre-
sented the petition of Jere HARRISON relative
to the contested election case of Haralson
against Shelley, from the fourth district Of
Alabama, and asked that it be printed and
referred to the committee on elections. There
was some opposition to the printing of the
petition, on the Democratic side, on the
ground that it was competent for the com
mittee on elections to order its printing if
it saw fit, but finally Keifer's motion was
agreed to. Speer offered resolution. direct
ing the Secretary of the Treasury to lay be-
fore the House all evidence on file in the
internal revenue Office, and the papers and
reports of the collector of the second collec-
tion district of Georgia, going to show the
true state of affairs touching the enforcement
of the internal revenue laws in southeast
Georgia Referred.
In the Senate on the End instant, Garland,
from the committee on the judiciary, reported
adversely the bill extending the benefit Of
the Southern commission to Indian tribes,
and it was indefinitely postponed. Thurman,
from the judiciary committee, reported the
bill for reviving and continuing the court Of
commissioners of Alabama claims, and for
the distribution Of the unappropriated money
of the Geneva award. Placed on the calen-
dar. 1t confines the jurisdiction of the court
to claims of insurers and to claims directly
resulting from damage on the high seas by
Confederate cruisers during the rebellion
Mr.. Harris introduced a bill to increase the
efficiency of the national board of health.
1t provides that the board shall report to the
President when any place is dangerously in'
fected, and after official publication of such
report prohibits transportation of goods or
persons from such place into any place in
another State until the President proclaims
the place no longer infected; also that the
captains of all merchant vessels coming from
any foreign port between thirty degrees South
and forty degrees North latitude, and upon
the Mediterranean, shall show at the port Of
entry such bill of health US the board pre-
scribes from the proper health officers at the
port of departure. Mr.. Jones presented the
credentials of Randell Lee Gibson, elected
Senator from Louisiana for six years, begin
ming March 4th, 1883, which were read. At
ter transacting some unimportant business
the Senate adjourned at $3.50 p. IN.
In the House, among the bills introduced
and referred, were the following: By Phelps,
of Connecticut, on appropriating 100000
for the relief of sufferers in Ireland also levy.
ing duty of 80 per cent. ad valorem on all
bonnets, hats or hoods imported into the Uni
ted States, composed of palm leaf, chip, grass,
willow, straw or other vegetable substance, or
of hair, whalebone or other material not 9th.
erwise provided for.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
The Supreme Court has adjourned until
Monday, the 18th day of April.
There are now 5S9 penitentiary convicts
in South Carolina. Of this number 280 are