The Newtown bee., 1880-12-15

that the protective tariff builds up one eitixsn at the expense of another; that protective tariH disturbs the primal law of trade which governs exchanges by supply and demand: that protective tariff has driven American commerce from the high seas and that a pro- teetlye tariH increases the probability ot the crime of smuggling. Upon the announce ment by MT. Briggs of the death of his col league, E. W. Farr, the House, out of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned.
 MT. Hawley presented memorial of the governors of the States of New York and Connecticut concerning the boundary line be- tween such States and bill on the subject Referred .. MT. Bioknell called up as 6 ques
 ion of privilege the Senate resolution relative to counting the electoral vote. Mir. Keller raised the point ot order that @ concurrent resolution proposing joint rule to prescribe the mode of counting was not question of privilege The president ot the Senate in the presence of the two houses, was to count the electoral vote MT. Bickneli coptended that whatever related to the constitutional right of the two houses to declare the vote was a uues. iion ot privilege The Speaker deci jed after further debate that the joint fule was a matter of the highest privilege, and the previous question was then moved; but as the Republ- cans refused to vote the House was lett with out a quorum. The previous question was then withdrawn after which Mr. Keiier ob- tained the floor and read an argument charac- tef1ZlhS bDo 1OlnI rule as a flfaSure Of uSurpa- ton and fraud and ore which might lead to
 bloo1shed and war. Then the matter was
 laid over. The House ordered the reprinting of the retunding bill, the interstate commerce
 bill, and the joint resolution (originaily intro- duced by Mir Pound) proposing an amend ment to the Constitution providing that the
 President shall, from March 4, 1885, hold office for six years and shall be ineligible 10 the
 office for more than one term consecutively, and that representatives in Congress shall
 serve for a term ot three years.
 MT. McCook introduced a joint resolution
 authorizing the President to place U. 5. Grant
 on the retired list of the army with the rank and pay ot general. Referred .. Mir. Buckner, chairman of the committee on banking, intro- duced a substitute for the funding bill, and it was referred to the committee ways and means It provides that in lieu ot the bonds
 authorized by the act ot July IA, 1870, the
 secretary of the treasury is authoriz ed to issue not more than $500, 600 00l treasury notes bearing interest at four per cent, of which | not more than $80 0,000 shall mature each
 year, the proceeds to be applied to the pay | ment of the five and six per cent. bonds maturing during 1881. The secretary is | authorized to make regulations for disposing | ot the notes, and the expenses are not to ex- | ceed one-quarter of one per Ct mt. It further | provides that $l00, GOO 900 of the coin in the | treasury shall be set apart as a fund tor the | redemption of legal-tender notes. and any sur | plus ot coin over said $l00, 100000 remaining | in the treasury shall be used in the purchase | or redemption on account of the sinking fund | of any ot the six per cent. bonds maturing ip | 1881 .... The House resumed consideration oi | the Senate concurrent resolution relative to | the electoral count, and in the discussion 1 which followed Messrs Hunton, Cox, of New ! Yolk, and McLane contended that the right
 to count the electoral vote was vested in | Congress, while Messrs. Robeson, Keier and Willit5 argued in oppo ,ition to the theory that | CongIe ess had the right to count the electoral vote.
 The fertilization appropriation bill (appro- | priatiUg S1C0,00 for pro; ection ani repairs, | S400,000 for arInaments, and $50 coo for tcs- | pedoes) was reported, ordered to be printed
 hnd recomnitt ed .... MT. Kt Hey introduced a | bill repeating the tax on bank checks, mt di-
 cines, friction matches, bank capital and bank | deposits .. The House passed the bill grautin, | permission to the New York Chamber of Com
 merce to erect a statue of Washington on tht
 steps of the sub-treasury building in New Y o,l | city. The Senate concurrent resolution relative 10 the electoral count was agaiI taken up and discussed by Messrs. McLane Hinton, Cox, of New York, Mills, Lapham | Herbert and Newberry.