Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-23
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE FORTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.
Report of Proceedings in Senate
and House of Representatives.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. %.

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substitute reported by committee
provided simply for the repeal of
the tax on bank deposits.
The substitute was read and
agreed to, and the bill as thus amend
ed passed, the title being changed
accordingly.
Mr.. Wallace, from the finance
committee, reported adversely SEN
ate bill to authorize the issue and
provides for the redemption of frac-
tional notes. Indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. Bruce, from the committee on
education and labor, reported ad
versely Senate bill for the endow-
ment of Lowry industrial academy,
in the State of Alabama. Indefnil ely
postponed.
Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, from the
committee on privileges and elec~
tions, reported a resolution direct
ing the Secretary of the Senate to
pay out of the miscellaneous items
of the contingent fund of the Sen
ate to the legal representative of the
estate of the late Henry W. Sofford,
the claimant of a seat in the Senate
from Louisiana, the salary or COM
pensation, without mileage, he would
have been entitled to under law as
Senator from the 4uh of March, 1879,
to the Goth of August, 1880. The
resolution was adopted.
discussion peculiarly appropriate to
the day, and one apparently well
appreciated by the galleries, which
were unusually full, were initiated
by taking up, on motion of Mr..
Johnston, of Virginia, the House
joint resolution amending and re-
enacting the joint resolution ap-
proved June Ia, 1879, providing for
monument to mark the birth place
of George Washington. Both reso-
lutions place the expenditure of the
appropriation and control of the
erection of the monument under the
direction of the Secretary of State,
and the pending one increases the
appropriation of $4,000, as fixed in
the resolution of June IA, 1879, to
$30,000.
A motion by Mr.. Teller, of Colo
RADIO, to recommit the bill having
been negatived-ayes Is, noes 35-
the joint resolution was then passed
ayes 40, noes 40.
A motion by Mr.. Logan to make
the Grant retirement bill the special
order for tomorrow was lost, ayes
%, noes 29, a party vote except that
Mr.. Lamar voted aye with the Re
publicans.
The Senate then resumed consid-
Grafton of the Legislative appropria-
ton bill, the question being upon an
amendment providing an additional
clerical force to facilitate the settle
ment of pension applications. A
long debate followed and the amend
ment of the committee was finally
adopted, without division, and the
remaining amendments of the senate
committee were affreed to. The bill
was then read a third time and
passed.
Mr.. Johnston introduced a bill to
report so much of section 1886 OF
the revised statutes as imposes ex-
port tax on tobacco. Referred to fl
nance committee
On motion of Mr.. Morrill,, the new
Congressional library bill was taken
up and laid over as unfinished busi-
ness, and the Senate adjourned
WASHINGTON, Feb. %.
At the suggestion of the Speaker
a half dozen pension bills, with
formal Senate amendments, were
taken from the Speakers table and
the amendments concurred in.
Mr.. Hubbell, of Michigan, submit
ted the conference report on the
pension appropriation bill, and il
was agreed to.
Mr. Bicknell, of Indiana, from
the committee on foreign af
fairs, reported back the bill
relative to the Venezuela awards
Referred to the committee of the
whole.
Mr.. Rice of Mass, from the same
committee, reported back the joint
resolution providing for joint com
mittee of the Senate and House Of
Representatives to investigate the
alleged false and fraudulent proof
and statistics used before the Halifax
Fishery Commission. Referred to
the committee of the whole.
MIR. johnson of Virginia, reported
back the bill to retire General Will
liam 81. French with the rank and
pay of brigadier general. Referred
to the committee of the whole.
Mr.. Blount, of Georgia, from the
committee on appropriations, re-
ported back the sundry civil service
appropriation bill. Referred to the
committee of the whole.
The House then at 11.50 went into
committee of the whole, Mr.. Cox of
New York, in the chair, on the agri-
cultural appropriation bill
Mr.. Martin, of Delaware, opposed
the amendment appropriating $1O,-
900 for the continuation of experi-
ments in connection with the manu-
facture of sugar from beets, and for
the cultivation of beets for that pur-