The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-03-10
nVIih CONGRESS THIRD SESSION.
SENATE


Messrs. Cameron, of Wisconsin, Conkling,
Logan, Pendleton, and Cockrell were consti-
tuted committee in relation to the funeral
obsequies Of the late Senator Carpenter.
THE RIVER AND HAHBoR APPROPRIATION BILL
PASSES.
Tho River and Harbor Appropriation Bill
was considered in Committee of the Whole,
and the amendments of the Committee on
Commerce were agreed to as reached. Mr..
Thurman, in calling attention to the increase
of the appropriation for Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, from 900 to S70,0 suggested
and improvement which he considered needful
In Ohio, and mentioned a number of streams
in North Carolina and Virginia provided for at
from q, 900 to $5, 1000. the names of which, he
said, could not be found in any geography to
be found in tbs schools or libraries. The item
for French Broad, he said, had been Inserted in
every river and harbor bill for years, and the
object of it was to improve stream in North
Carolina SO that catfish could navigate it. and
rs Long as there was any catfish there he sup
posed this appropriation would be kept up.
He charged that the bill was supported from
personal and Interested motives as means of
securing re-elections of members to the Senate
and. House. His motion for an increase of
$4,000 in the item for the Muskingum Harbor,
Ohio, was laid on the table. Mr.. Plumb failed
in the effort to have the bill recommitted. with
instructions to limit the appropriations to &c.
600, 900. The bill was finally reported and
passed by vote Of 80 to IA.
The credentials of Mr.. Mahone, Senator-elect
from Michigan wore receiyed.t z
The conference report of the Legislative Bill
was adoDted. sses-
The request of the COMMITTEE on Foreign
Relations to be discharged from the considera-
ton of bills and resolutions relating to the con-
struction of a ship canal or railway across the
isthmus was complied with.
Bills to establish O lfe-saving station at Lou
isville, KY. and to dispose Of the osage Indian
lands in Kansas were passed.
The Senate amendments to the District APP
preparation Bill we're insisted on.
The credentials of Senator Maxey, reelected
from Texas, were received. s
The Civil Appropriation Bill, to which Mr..
Beck said the Senate Committee had added S2,-
l19, 1000 since itpassed the House, was taken up
in Committee Of the Whole, and, with the pre-
vious additions, items were included of S40, ,000
forthe quarters of the Naval Academy and
SO, 600 for the purchase of works OF art by the
The appropriation for the investigation of
pleuro- pneumonia was increased to $15, 600. =
The General Deficiency Appropriation Bill
was taken up. The amendment offered by Mr..
Cockrell Dem.) of Missouri, was adopted ap-
propriating $50, 900 to continue the investiga-
tion of claims provided by the act OF July,
1868, relating to the Quartermaster and conf
non-insurrectionary States. An amendment for
posed by Mr.. Morrill,, embodying the substan-
tial features of the funding bill without the
compulsory Gffth) section, was taken up, but
MIR. Hoar, who had moved it, finding the Demo-
cratsopposed toit, withdrewit. Anappropriation
Of $4,000 was made for the expenses of un-
yelling the Farragut statue. The bill WAS
then passed.