Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-21
FORTY-sIXTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 20.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
 SENATE.-The vote by which the Senate disagreed to the adjournment resolution was reconsidered. and the holiday recess was agreed to, yeas 33, nays 26.
 Mr. Davis, of West Virginia called up the bill to relieve the Treasurer of the United States from the amount now charged to him and deposited with the sev- eral States The object of the bill is to wipe up any semblance of claims upon the States for some $28, ,OO0, 900 distributed among the States from the surplus revenues of the gov ernment in 1887, and to relieve the Treasury from the necessity of carrying the nominal assets.
 MT. Ingalls, said this money was 8 part of the assets of the government. and the fact that it was an inconvenience to carry 1t on the books of the Treasury was no reason at all for wiping out the claim. If the surplus revenues of 1887 were to be divided among the States admitted since that time they should receive their proportionate share.
 MT. Teller also claimed 8 portion of the amount for new States, but did not expect the twenty-eight States then in the Union to vote it. He took occasion to remind the Senator's however, that when the new States some time since were asking for some things that applied peculiarly to that class of States they were charged with contemplating frauds on the Treasury. He would not charge that this WAS a raid on the Treasury.
 MT. Thurman opposed the original bill, maintaining that the money deposited was debt to the government, which Congress had no constitutional right to release. It might as well give twenty eight millions of money out of the Treasury to-day. The distribu- tion of money of the government among the States was contrary to State dignity and true economy. Those who levy the taxes should be among the people and under the eye of the people. Then the expenditures I1o, fIao71i hU those far away from the States.
 Mir. Conkling argued that what was at first a call loan at the option of the government was two years later made subject to call only by an act of Congress, and that by numerous subsequent acts of the government com plete estoppe1 to the collection of money had been made. It had now with the knowledge and implied assent of Congress been absorbed as an inseparable part of the funds of the States which had received it.
 Mir. Blaine said the act to distribute the money among the States was one of great fol ly growing out of the notion then entertained as to the use of public money for public i'm provement. He pointed out that the then relatively populeus New England States now bear a different relation to the States and "a call' for the return of the money would bear unequally upon the population of the several States In Maine it was unwisely divided per cGpitG. If the money was called for his friend from Oregon, MT. Grover, would be called on for his proportion, while he Blaine), not then being a resident of the State, would not be responsible. Should the people of New England who have gone out to build other States be followed for their pro- portion of the claim
 Mr. Thurman combatted the idea that there had been any estoppel. The only difference was that the first act empowered the Secre- tary of the Treasury to make the call, and the second provided that Congress should make it. It was as much call loan as ever. He had no expectation that the money would ever be paid back, but he would not vote for bill that sanctioned such principle as this.
 Without reaching conclusion the bill went over for unfinished business The Senate at $40 D. n1., on motion of MT. Gar Iand went into executive session, and when the doors were again opened adjourned.