Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-03-18
cerred to the committee on foreign relations.

ferred to the committee on foreign relations.
After some other business had been disposed
of, the Senate then proceeded to consider the
calendar. The bill to provide for a settle
ment of accounts with certain Southern rail-
way companies was objected to by Mr.. Ed
munds, and laid aside Mr.. Maxey, who re-
ported the bill, referred to the fact that it
had long been before Congress and had Of:
ten been favorably reported. He hoped it
would soon be finally disposed Of and he
would try to call it up next Tuesday. The
morning hour having expired, the Senate re-
sumed consideration of the bill for the relief
of Fitz. John Porter. Mr.. Mcdonald spoke
in support of the bill, and pending the con-
clusion of his argument the Senate adjourned.
In the House memorials were presented
praying for the retention of the present grad
uated scale of duties, with the addition of
clause to the present law, obliging all sugars
below number ten in color, testing above 90
degrees, to pay rate of duty as if between
numbers ten and thirteen-referred. Also,
for the abolition of the duty upon printing
type. Referred. At the expiration of the
morning hour, the House proceeded to the
consideration of the House calendar and took
up the Political Assessment bill, upon which
Mr.. Hostetler gave notice that he would at
an early day call the previous question. Mr.
House, of Tennessee, spoke at length in favor
of the bill, reciting the professions of desire
for civil service reform, made by the Repub-
lican party and by this administration, and
showing how, in spite of them, Mr.. Hayes
had been seated by fraud, and had rewarded
with money and Offices the men in Florida
and Louisiana who had committed that fraud.
He thought the bill would remedy great
evil and eradicate terrible abuse. 1t would
enable the feeblest man in the employ of the
Government to paralyze the arm of the cam
paign collector who would endeavor to 6lch
from him a portion of bis hard earned wages.
At the conclusion of his remarks the House
adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr.. Ransom, of
North Carolina, introduced bill to provide
for the settlement of accounts of the North
Carolina Railroad Company. Considerable
debate ensued upon the motion made by Mr..
Thurman, of Ohio, to refer to the judiciary
committee memorial of Indian Chiefs, pro-
testing against the passage of the bill to estab'
lish United States Courts in the Indian
Territory. Pending this discussion the morn.
ing hour expired and Mr.. Mcdonald, of
Indiana, resumed his speech tavoring the
bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. After
a somewhat animated debate in Which sever
al Senators participated, Mr.. Garland of
Arkansas, moved, in consideration of the
legal and constitutional questions involved,
that the bill be referred to the judiciary
committee Without action on the motion
the Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, asked
and obtained leave to have printed the fol.
lowing resolution as substitute for the reso.
luton of the committee on the Inter- Oceanic
Canal: Resolved, That while we recognize
the general interest of the whole commercial
world in the use of the ship canal or railroad
across the Isthmus, connecting North and
South America, and while we will respect
that interest if such line of Inter- Oceanic
communication shall be established, we de-
clare that as the establishment of such line
of communication would practically connect
the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf and Pacific
coastlines of the United States, and as the
United States would have great local as we'll as
general interest in the work, in common with
other commercial powers of the earth, and as
the political control ofsuch line of communi-
cation would be vitality necessary to her COM
mercal interests and to the preservation of her
territorial integrity and political indepen.
dence, she will insist, whenever and by whom
soever such project shall be commenced, on
such political control of it as will give securi.
ty to our commercial and political interests.
The Speaker then proceeded to call the COM
mittees for reports, the House having refused
to dispense with the morning hour. A num-
ber of committees reported, among them Mr..
Dibbrell, from the invalid pensions commit
tee, who reported back bill to prevent the
Withholding of pensions under the act Of 1871.
He asked to have the bill put on its passage.
Mr.. Conger: "Is it to restore Jeff Davis to
the roll?" Mr. Dibbrell: "Jef Davis is not
a pensioner." Mr. Conger: 81 object; OBJ
iect." Mr.. Dibbrell: "Ifthe gentleman wants
to show his malice to the Southern people so
badly he can object" Mr.. Conger: "That
remark is unworthy Of the gentleman and
the OCCASION" Mr.. Dibbrell: 81 am response.
bic for all I say here and elsewhere" The
bill was placed on the calendar.
In the Senate on the 18th, Mr.. Sharon
presented the petition of the newspaper pro-.
prietors of Nevada for a reduction of the
duty on paper. Referred. In presenting the
petition, Mr.. Sharon said he thought the tariff
might now advantageously be removed from
many articles. 1t was said that there is a
war between capital and labor. That could
not be in any just sense, for capital cannot
be at war with that which it most needs, but
capital and labor united are at war with pro-
duction for the purpose Of pinching the mas
ses. The tariff s interest are always repre-
sented here-the people are not. They are
long suffering, patient and enduring, never
moving until reused by some great wrong.
The bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter was
then taken up, and after lengthy discussion,
which consumed the day, by viva voce vote,
the bill was laid on the table, subject to be