Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-18
FoRTY-sIxTH CONGRESS.

l SENArE.-Mr. Pendleteh, from the Com
 nittee on Census, reported 6 bill appropri
 atihg $sO0, 900 for completing, compiling and publishing the tenth census, with 8 rs l port which was ordered printed. =.
 MT. Williams introduced bill to provide 1 for an ocean mail service and making an ap. | propriation thefefor Refertsd to the Post office committee.
 On motion of Mi. Butler the joint resolution 1 establishing Yorktown centennial commit tee was taken up and passed.
 At 1:30 o'clock the morning hour expired, and the Chair announced as the regular order the bill for the relief of Ben Halliday. MT. Salisbury moved to lay aside the present and all prior orders and take up the Kellogg case. Mr. Edmunds made the point of order that motion to lay aside present and all prior orders was not In order. Mir. Saulsbury thereupon amended his niotioh to postpone all present. and prior ordafs.
 Mr. Ingal1s interposed a point of order that motion..to postpone one bill and take up another was not in order, which the Chair sustained Mir. Salisbury again modified his motion to one that the Senate lay the pend ing order on the table. The yeas and nays were ordered and the Senate rejected-yeas 20, nays 34.
 The Halliday bill was then taken up and Mr. Conkling briefly advocated passing the bill as ah act of justice. Action was, he said, what was wanted, and to secure 1t he re- trained from speaking at ahy length.
 At 4:15 the Senate went into executive ses- sion, and when the doors were opened the Senate adjourned.
 HeUsE.-Mr. Springer, of Illinois, intro duced 8 bill to amend section 3,907 of the re- vised statutes relating to the postage on sec ond class mail matter, so as to make it read as follows: On newspapers and other period icals sent from 8 known office of publication to regular subscribers the postage shall be paid for not less than one quarter nor more than one year, which payment may be made at the office of mailing or delivery, commencing at any time, and the postmaster shall account for such postage in the quarter if which it is received. The bill was referred.
 Complaints are often made by postmasters that loaded firearms and explosives of differ ent kinds are sent through the mails, endan- gering the lives and limbs of the employees who have to handle mail matter. In order to correct this, Mir. Dunn, of Arkansas, in- troduced bill to prevent the mailing and cry character, cartridges aid other kinds of ammunition, or percussion caps, which are declared to be unmailable, and the sender shall upon conviction be subject to fine of not less than $100 nor more than $5, GOO and imprisonment for not less than one year and not more than five years.
 Mir. Newberry, of Michigan, introduced 8 JOlnG T6SOluGlOn to prOVlQe TOT 8 1OlnG con- mission of three persons to examine into alleged fraud in the Halifax fishery award. One of the commissioners is to be appointed by the United States, one by Great Britain and the third by the two countries. MT. Newberry also introduced joint resolution to appoint joint commission of the Senate and House to investigate the said fishery fraud.
 communication was received from the Secretary of the Interior and the superinten- dent of the census giving the total enumera- tion of the population of the United States, June l, 1880. The population of the United States and Territories is 50, 152, 366. Deduct ing the Territories and the District of Colum- bia, with a population of 1,783,471, the rep resentative population is 49, ,369, 595. After an explanation of the table MT. Cox reported an apportionment bill It fixes the number of Representatives af- ter March 30, 1883, at 5O1 members distributed as follows: Alabama 8. Arkansas 5, California 5, Colorado l, Connecticut 4, Delaware l, Florida 1. Georgia 9, Illinois 19, Indiana 12, Iowa 10, Kansas 6, Kentucky 10, Louisiana 6, Maine 4, Maryland 6, .Massachu- setts 10, Minnesota 5, Mississippi [, Missouri 13, Nebraska g. Nevada 1, New hampshire 2, New Jersey 7, New York 31, North Carolina 8, Ohio 19, Oregon l, Pennsylvania 26, Rhode Island 2, South Carolina 6, Tennessee 9, Texas 10, Vermont ?, Virginia 9, West Virginia 4, Wisconsin 9. The bill with the statements from the census office were or dered printed in the Rec0rd.
 The army appropriation bill with the Sen ate amendments was taken from the table and referred to the Committee on Appropria- tions.
 MT. Springer, of Illinois, introduced reso- lution, which was referred to the Postoffice committee, directing that the committee in- quire into the expediency of establishing by a law telegraph and postal system under the direction of the government of the United States, and also to inquire as to the cost of reproducing facilities for transmitting tele- graph messages equal to those possessed by existing corporations and the expense spper- taining to the same.
 After all the States had been called, mo- tions to suspend the rules were in order and the next business to come up was motion by Mir. Stone of Michigan, on the third Monday in December to suspend the rules and pass the bill reported from the Postoff1ce committee to readjust the salaries of certain postmasters under act of June 12, 1866. The House by vote of 159 to s2, not two-thirds as required, refused to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
 The House at 4.15 adiourned