The Newtown bee., 1880-03-03

1r. Wallace presented resolutions of the Philadelphia Board oi Trade, praying for the passage of c bill providing for the prompt settlement of disputed questions arising in elections ot President of the United States.
 A number of petitions have been presented for the reduction of duty on chemicals used ir the manufacture of paper.
 minority report from the committee on civil service and retrcnchment was presentxd relative to alleged violations of civil service rules in the Providence custom house. and if was ordered to be printed. The minority say that the investigation disclosed nothing to sustain the charges brought in the memorial which alleged that the laws providin Q for ap- pointment of ex-soldiers to office have been violated ID Inc removals and appointments in that department of the public service
 Mir. Morgan submitted resolutions which were adopted, expressive of the regret of the Senate at the death of his late colleapue. Sen. ator Houston, and eulogies were delivered bv Messrs. Hamlin, Davis, of Illinois, and Thur.
 The bill to authorize the refunding to post- masters of funds or valuable letters lost or stolen was reported and placed on the calen- dar.
 A bill was reported from the committee on coinage, weights and measures to establish a mint at St. Louis. Printed and recommitted.
 On motion of MT. Whitthorne the Senate bill authorizing the secretary of the navy to designate a vessel of the United States to carry free of charge contributions for the re- liei of the suffering poor oi Ireland, was taken from the speakers table and passed.
 MT. Stevenson introduced bill to place cer- tain articles imported and used in the manu- facture of paper on the tree list.
 Among recent bills introduced are the fol. lowing: Repeating the act repeating the bankrupt law; organizing the court of pen sions, to consist oi chief justice and four as- sistant justices, who shall receive an annual salary of S4 .000 each; to provide for the intro duction and cultivation of the chinchona plant in the United States; placing paper and news papers on the free list; a joint resolution in- | quiring into the evils of the present grain blockade; establishing pension commission | to consist of six members and to continue for | three years; abolishing the tax on tobacco. The speaker laid before the House a mes- sage from the President transmitting a com munication from the attorney general asking tor an appropriation for the payment Of United States marshals. The attorneys general says that since last July those officers not only have served without compensation tor | themselves or deputies, but have advanced ! the sums necessary to be expended in order 1 that the processes of the United States should | not fail. He is informed, however, that they have reached the limit of their capacity thus l to conduct their offices, and a failure in that | would necessarily bring about failure to en- | force the laws of the United States. The | failure would be attended with grave results, disastrous to the individual and the public | justices of the United States, Ordered to be | printed and referred.
 Mir. Blount, from the committee on appro- | priations, reported bill making appropria- | tions to meet deficiences in the star " mail
 service, which was ordered to be printed. 1 Mir. Warner introduced joint resolution
 reaffirming the Monroe doctrine as follows | WHEREAS, In his seventh annual message | to Congress, President Monroe asserted that | We owe 1t to candor and to the amicable re-
 lations existing between the United States
 and these Uhe European) powers, to declare
 that we shall consider any attempt on their | part to extend their system to any part of | this hemisphere dangerous to our peace | and satety;' and WHEREAS, The doctrine | thus announced has been accepted by the | American people, and has become a cardinal 1 principle of our national policy; and WHERE
 AS, It is now proposed to construct, under | guarantees of foreign governments, a canal
 across the Isthmus of Darien; therefore, be | n ResolUed, efc., That the doctrine fn- nounced to the world more than half @ cen- | tury ago by President Monroe, and known as | the Monroe doctrine, be, and the same is
 hereby reasserted. And in accord herewith,
 in behalf of the people of the United States,
 we affirm that the control of any interoceanic | canal across the Isthmus of Darien, while open to us and all nations equally, must, in
 the interests ot ourselves and the world be
 kept under the special protection of the l United States. Resoired, That the United | States, sensible of the importance to the trade
 of the world of opening a water passag.'-way
 between the two oceans, will cordially pro- | mote, by such means as may be deemed
 proper and iudicious, such an undertaking"
 The joint resolution was referred to the inter | oceanic canal committee.
 | The C star mail route deficiency bill was l discussed, amended by reducing the amount
 placed at the disposition of the postmaster l general and passed, all the amendments pro- l posed by the advocates of star-route service
 extension being rejected.