Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-08
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE FoRTY-s1xTH CONGRESS.
Report of Proceedings in Senate
and House of Representatives.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Z.

Eastern Pennsylvania against the
passage of the House funding bill.
Mr.. Lamar, from the Judiciary
committee, reported favorably, with
amendments, making it operative af-
ter May /, 1881, House bill to
change the time for holding the
United States. circuit aud district
courts for the western district OF
Virginia, held at Danville. Passed.
On motion Of Mr.. Morgan, Sem
ators Hamlin and Thurmen were ap-
pointed tellers for the Senate in the
electoral count meeting.
Mr.. Butler, of South Carolina,
spoke at considerable length upon
the alleged census frauds in South
Carolina, and criticised severely
speeches made by certain stump
orator-understoo to be Mr..
Conking-in New York, during the
late Presidential campaign, in which
that stump orator insulted and viii
fed the people of South Carolina,
and accused them of conspiracy to
fraudulently increase the census
enumerations in order to obtain
greater political power. The fa'sity
and baseness of the accusation, Mr..
Butler said, were shown by the re-
rults of the recent remuneration,
under the direction of General
Walker, who was Republican and
also gentleman.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Butler S
remarks, Mr.. Conkling said that he
inferred from the little he had heard
of the gentlemans speech that it was
designed as an attack upon himself,
and he had only to say that the
vapor'rgs of the Senator from South
Carolina gave him little concern. If
he had done injustice to the people
of South Carolina he would find a
seasonable occasion to correct it,
Mr.. Butler-The Senator has said
the vaporings of the Senator from
South Carolina are matters of no
concern to him. He will
pardon me for saying that the
staggering insolence of the Senator
from New York is of no concern to
me.
Mr.. Conkling-I do not need to
have heard the Senator in order to
ascertain that he is person with
whom no not choose to handy cpl
thets here Or elsewhere-least of all
here-and therefore [ have nothing
to add to that which I have before
said
The colloquy here ended and the
subject was dropped.
The Senate then resumed consid-
Grafton of the pension appropriation
bill, the question being upon an
amendment reported by Mr.
Withers, from the pensions COM
mittee, for local pension courts,
being the sixty surgeons bill. The
Senate decided, without division,
that the amendment was not in order
under the rules.
Mr.. Plumb moved an amendment
appropriating $4,000 to provide for
fifty additional examiners for the
pension Office, and tor clerical
force necessary for the pensions, ad-
jutant generals and surgeon~genero
ais offices 0 render effective the wo k
of said examiners. Without action
on this amendment the Senate ad-
journed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.
After personal explanations by
Messrs. Speer and Hammond, of
Georgia, relative to some remarks
made by the latter on Saturday, the
Speaker proceeded to call the States
for bills, &c.
A. the conclusion of the call of
States, the Speaker announced the
appointment of Messrs. House, of
Tennessee, and Crowley, of New
York, as tellers on the part of the
House to make list of the votes
declared for President and Vice
President, on Wednesday next.
Among the bills introduced and
appropriately referred, under the
Gail of States, were the following:
By Mr.. kobeson, of New Jersey
Expressing sympathy with the Beers,
of Transvaal, in tn ir endeavor to re-
gain their independence.
By Mr.. Gillette, Of Iowa: Ex-
pressing sympathy with the Irish
people.
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, asked
and obtained consent to present for
printing and reference to the com
mittee on the Pacific railroads, the
report from the auditor of railroad af-
Iairs prepared in compliance to his
request made on the 18th of last
June. -"''
Mr., Aiken, of South Carolina.
moved to suspend the rules and mass
the bill making the Agricultural De-,
partment an executive department
The House, however, refused to sns-
pend the rules for this purpose.
On motion of Mr.. Frye, of Maine.
the rules were suspended and Senate
bill was passed amending the laws
relative to seizure and forfeiture of
vessels for breach of revenue laws.
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, moved to
suspend the rules and pass the river
and harbor appropriation bill.
A question was raised whether