Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-03
House.

WASHINGTON, March 2d.-The House met in con-
tinuaton of Tuesdays session.
Tucker demanded the previous question on mo-
ton to concur in Senate amendment 10 to the fund
ing bill This is 4 Kirkwood amendment,
authorizing pub ic subscription for bonds and
notes.l
On the call of the House 125 members responded.
This being less than quorum, Tucker moved to
dispense with further proceedings under the call.
Mcmahon reported back the deficiency appropria-
ton bill and moved to suspend the rules and put it
upon its passage.
Hisc0ck, member of the Committee on Appro-
priations, criticised the bill, which he said was
chiefly remarkable in that i'll which it deficient.
The estimates for the Internal Revenue Bureau were
$780, 600 in Of the amount appropriated in the
bill, and the appropriation for the Public Printing
was 500 00O less than should have been allowed.
The Attorney General had submitted estimates OF
81, Geo to the Special Deputy Marshals, which had
not been allowed by the committee He had hoped
the Democratic party would have settled its debts
before il went out of power
At 10 o'clock McAlahons motion was agreed to.
The rules were suspended and the deficiency bill,
the last Of the appropriation bills, was passed.
Consideration OF the funding bill was Immediately
resumed. The question was on ordering the pieyi-
GUS question on the motion to concur in Senate
amendment No. 16
from voting, but enough cast their votes to make
quorum, and when the question was ordered il
stood-ayes, 1874; noes 25.
After further delay the sixteenth Senate amend
I
| The next question was the twenty fifth Senate
| amendment, which is to insert the word tempo
rarily in the four section, which authorizes the
Secretary of the Treasury TO $50 0000 900 in coin
in redemption of five and six per cent. bonds. The
Committee on Ways aud Means recommends con
currenee, with amendment to substitute for the
word temporarily" the words " from time tC
time And to insert the words " at any one time,
so as to make the section read 'The Secretary o.
the Secretary is authorized to use from time to time
not exceeding $50, 600 at any one time, OF the
standard gold and silver coin III the Treasury, in the
| redemption, etc.
| The WAYS and Means amendment was rejected
| ayes 6S, noes l2G.
The Senate amendment twenty ffth) was ther
concurred in.
Conger's amendment to the fifth section was de
| feated-ayes III, nUes 1872.
| All the Senate amendments to the funding bill
were then agreed to without change, and the bill
passed.
Carlisle moved TO suspend the rules and pass the
blu amending the funding bill just passed, tC
make it conform TO the amendments recommended
| by the Committee on Ways and Means
Among the amendments is one providing that
nothing in the Act shall be construed as to repeal
modify or affect Sections 90 o. D. % and "a OF the
Revised Statutes-knoWn the Mckinley amend
ment
The bill also contains all the amendments pro
posed by the Committee On Ways and Means.
The demand for a suspension of the rules was sec
onded-ayes Ia, noes II.
The rules were then suspended and the bill passed
no division being taken.
The Speaker laid before the House the enrolled
funding bill. 1t signed by him, and it now goe:
to the President for his action.
Adjourned