The examiner., 1881-12-17

5ss7r Mir. Edmunds introduced bill for defrayinG- inc extraordinarv liabilities and expenses in enrred in consequence of the assault upon me late President of the United States. .. Mr: holS lins introduced bill for the increase of facan- ties for the just adjudication Of pension clalms: Mir. Blair submitted and asked pIesens Consideration of resolution instruct ing the committee on educatiCH and laoor 70 lh, auire into the condition of co-uHaon ecnooi education in the United States, Sno IePS1aEe PSa opinion of the committee, Congress can iaW- fully and properly enact in aid Of such educa~ ton. Adopted =. Mfr. Hill, from the com mittee on privileges and elections reported back certain memorials rom t; men alaer bers of the New York legislature affecting the right of Messrs. Miller and Lapham to occupy seats in the Senate, and asked that they pc tabled and the committee discharged frC% their further consideration. He stated briefly that the committee did not think any one nor all of the five reasons alleged by the memorial ists as inyalidating the election were sufnclenS to justify further intervention, or dFd ID iacE invalidate it The tariff commission paA Was then taken up and MessIs. Garland and Beck denounced and Mfr. Merrill defended the presSnS tariff. On motion of MT. Merrill the bills on the subject were then referred to the commit tee on finance. .,
 MT. Vest presented a bill to incorporate the Interoceanic Ship Railway company, and foE other purposes .. MT. Logan, from the conn mittee on military affairs, reported with ameEc~ ments the bill to place General Grant on the srnv retired list Placed on the calendar. Mir. Maxey. of the committee, said the report just made was not unanimous, and he would 1ndl- cate his objections at the proper tlme mr Edfnunds submitted resolution requiring 5ne President if in his opinion not lncompauple with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate all the correspondence between the government of the United states ana lts oiplo- matic agents in Peru and Chfh FespecEve- e ly occurring since the 1st of ApTI, 1873, frS1a f111hI hntw6pIs States, and also such correspondence on the subject may be in possession of the depart me11t of state. Agreed to without dissent. Mir. Roar offered & resolution, which was adopted, instructing the committee on military affairs to inquire whist legislation, if any, IS needed to enable the widows snd heirs of de- ceased soldiers to receive the benefits of boun~ ties to said soldiers while living and remaining unpaid at the time of their decease. ... Mr. Pendleton's bill to regulate and improve the civil service came up. In speech Mir. Pendleton urged the necessity and possibility of civil ser vice reform. Messrs. Dawes and Hill also spoke upon the bill, which was finally lald on the table for the time being
 MT. Jones, of Florida offered resolution re- questing the secretary of war to communicate information CT evidence on file in the war office relating to the construction ot ship canal across the peninsula of Florida, including estimates of the cost of inc work and the sur veys made by the United States with view to the construction of such canal Laid over anQ
 
 for select committee on the rights of women, was taken up. MT. Vest, of Missouri, said he could see no necessity for com mittee on the subject and regarded the cognition of woman suffrage, to which he was opposed on principle. Action on the reso- lution was deferred. The subject Of the presidential succession in the event Of the re- mova1 by death, resignation or inability Of both the President and VIce-President was consid- cred, the resolutions introduced by MT. Beck, of Kentucky, and Mir. Maxey, of Texas, and the bill of MT. Garland, of Arkansas, being before the Senate for discussion. The matter was de- bated without action by Messrs. Beck, Maxey and Anthony.
 All the Territorial delegates, except the one from Utah, were sworn in.. After consider able discussion, participated in chiefly by the Speaker, MT. Randall and Mir. Cox, MT Haskell was recognized, and offered the following: Rest lUed That Allan G. Campbell, delegate elect from Utah Territory, is entitled 10 be sworn in as delegate to this House on 6 prima facie case. Objections being made to this resolution and discussion arising, the swear ing in of the delegate from Utah was postponed until the next day, and the members proceeded to draw for seats. action upon the death of President Garfefd. was appointed :. Messrs.. Mckinley, Pacheccs Belford, Waite, Forney, Dunn, Martin, David son. of Florida, Stephens, Cannon. 0rth, Kas-
 
 of Massachusetts, Eorr, Dunnel, Hooker, Ford, Valentine, Cassidy, Hall, HiIls of New Jersey, Cox, of New York, Vance, George. O'Neilf, Chase, Aiken, Pettibone, Mills, Joyce, Tucker, Wilson, Williams. of Wisconsin, and Anderson
 On the first regular " bill day. in the House flood of bills poured in. The introduction of bills began at half-past 12, and continued until the Houso adjourned, at , o'clock. During the fonr hours and half thus occupied 754 bills and joint resolutions were introduced. Only seventeen States were called, beginning with Alabama and ending with Massachusetts. Had the remaining twenty-one been called, thss number of bills would have doubtless gone be- vond l, ,5O0 The highest number ever intro ducod in the House in one day was on the first bill day of the last Congress. The number then reached 1885. But on that occasion all 754 bills and joint resolutions intro duced, AS are private bills, 283 public and POS joint resolutions Of the private bills 207 are for pensions. The public bills related to al- most every conceivable subject of Legislation, judging from the measures brought in by them. MT. Phelps introduced bills to have the trade dollar made legal tender, all ship ma terial admitted free of duty, and the bank check tax repealed; Mir. Cook presented bills to have private claims adjudicated by the court of claims; MT. Marsh proposed bill to have United States legal tender notes subjected to State taxation; Mr. Thomas introduced bill for the equalization of bounties; MT. Springer desires to have telegraph lines appraised, and to collect information regarding postal tele- graph systems; Mir. White handed in bill to distribute SIG, ,000, GOO among States for educa- tional purposes according to illiteracy; Mir. Me Kenzie, of Kentucky, wanted free salt; Mir. Ellis, of Louisiana, desired to grant govern ment aid to steamship lines !; Mir. Knott, of Kentucky, introduced a bill to remove the tax on tobacco; MT. Gibson, of Louisiana, proposed bills to reduce the whisky tax to fifty cents per gallon, to remove the tax on bank checks and matches, and to impose an income tax; Mir. Henderson, of Illinois, sought the passage of what is known as the Adams bill for the crea- tion of board of railroad commissioners. Many of these public bills were on the files of the last Congress.
 To show where the products of our forests go we will enumerate 8 few items: To make shoe pegs enough for American use consumes annually 100,- GOO cords of timber, and to make our lucifer matches 3OO,000 cubic feet of 41a hacT avcrv