Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
ESPECIAL By TELEGRAPH TO THE RsOoRD-umoAi
Senate.

WAsHISGTON, hlay 5th.-Wallaee, from the Select
COMMITTEES to inquire into alleged frauds in the lats
election, submitted report of the result OF the in
yestigation on the subject Of denial or abridgment
Of suffrage in Rhode Island, and reported a bill to
enforce the pro- iSions Of Section p Article XIV Of
Amendments TO the Constitution of the United
States. Placed on the calendar.
Wallace also presented petitions Of citizens OF
Rhode Island praying relief from the rule of suf-
frage Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
Blaine stated that there would be minority re-
port ON suffrage IN Rhode Island.
Butler submitted a resolution calling on the See
reary OF the Treasury for copies of reports OF Cap
tain John W. White, United States Revenue service
made while on duty in Alaska waters and all papens
relating to the transfer Of jurisdiction the Ter
ritory of Alaska from the War TO the Treasury De-
plrtment. Adopted
Booth, from the Committee on Public Lands, re-
ported favoraby the House bill for the relief of set
tiers ON public lands, and it passed. lit provides
that when pre-emption, homestead or timber cult
ure claimant shall file written REIMBURSEMENT OF
his claim in local land Office the land covered by
said claim shall be open and subject entry with
out further action by the Land Commissioner
When any person has contested, paid land fees and
procured cancellation of any entry he shall be no.
tined by the Register Of the Land Office OF that dis
tict and snail be allowed thirty days to enter the
land. Any settler who hereafter proceeds to enter
land under the homestead law shall be allowed the
same time to perfect his original entry as is now
allowed settlers under the presumption laws and his
rights shall rebate back to the date of settlement AZ
If he settled under the presumption laws.l
The bill authorizing the sale of Fort Logan
Mont, and to establish new post on Mussel Shell
river, Mont, was passed.
On motion OF Voorhees,, the bill for Joint Com
mission to arrange for better accommodations for
the Congressional Ltbssfy Hss taken up to alloss
him to speak in its Support. He described the
lamentabe condition Of the library saying it was q
reproach and sgrace to the nation.
The KeIloggs pofford resolutions were temporarily
laid aside and the District of Columbia appropria-
tion bill taken up, discussed great length, and
pending the debate the Senate adjourned.
HOuse.
WASHINGTON, May 5th Atkins, Chairman of ths
Committee on Appropriations reported bill ap-
propriating $3.50, 900 for carrying ON the public
printing Office the current fiscal year Atkins stated
that the sum was the same as appropriated by the
bill vetoed by the President. The bill passed with
out division.
The morning hour having been dispensed with,
King called up the joint resolution reafirming tho
Monroe Doctrine
Blackburn raised a question of cons 'deration,
stating that he desired to proceed with the Postecs
Appropriation bill.
The House, by decisive vote, refused to consider
| the Monroe Doctrine resolutions, and went into
Committee OF the Whole on the Postotfiee Appro-
| priatOn bill.
The amendment was adopted authorizing tho
PostmasterGeneral to use s550000 Of the So 400 900
appropriated for the railway mail service in securing
| necessary and special facilities.
| The amendment increasing the appropriation for
| by vote of 76 to so.
| King substituted amendment increasing from
SS25, 600 to sS50,000 the appropriation for inland
| transportation by steamboat routes. Adopted
| The clause relative to transportation by star
routes having been reached, Blackburn proposed
various amendments to the preViso, modifying it SO
as to read provided that on all star mail routes
upon which increased compensation for increased
expedition, beyond fifty er cent over the sum of
the original contract price and cost of services or
additional trips has been allowed during the years
| ending June 80, 1879, and June 30 1880 such DER
vice shall be decreased curtailed or discontinued
hereon to such rate of compensation for increased
expedition as shall not be in Of fifty per cent
of the sum of the original contract price and cost of
| service for additional trips
Blackburn explained that the proviso proposed to
take contra Is on seventythree routes and put then
exactly the dead level on which the late law OF
Congress had put all future contracts upon which
| the Department might thereafter enter.
Ewing moved to strike out the proyiso. It pro
| posed roughly and rudey to say that the coutrac-
| tors on 70 great routes of the West should be
| thrown back to so per cent. increase He was in
| favor of economy but he would rather have the
| public expenditures reduced in any other depart
ment than in the postal service, and if it must be in
the postal service he would vote to reduce the ex
penditures anywhere rather than among the hardy
pioneers of the frontier. Let Congress economize BY
putting the salaries hack towhere they had been before
the war and by catching rOgues in the Internal Rev
enue service, but let it not attempt do By i'm
pairing the progress Of civilization by breaking
down the mail service of the West.
| Without coming to q vote the committee rose.
The Senate amendment to the House bill for this
sale of Fort Logan and the establishment of a new
| fort on the frontier was coEcUrred in.
| The House then took recess.
The evening session is 10 he for the consideration
! of the District code bill.