Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-02-20
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
THE FORTY-s1xTH CONGRESS.
Report Of Proceedings in Senate
and House of Representatives.
SENATE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.

Camden, of West Virginia, and How
ell E. Jackson, of Tennessee, Sen
ators~elect, were presented, the
former by the Vice-President and
the latter by Mr.. Bailey.
A number of proposed amend
ments to the river and harbor bill
were introduced and referred.
At II As, after debate upon the
priority of business, the regular orr
der, the calendar, was postponed on
motion of Mr.. Johnston, and the
cattle disease bill, establishing a
bureau of animal industry, &c, was
taken up, division resulting % to
81.
During the debate, Mr.. White pre-
sented memorial of Schumacher &
Co., agents of the North German,
Lloyds and Allan Line of steamers,
G. Merridith & Co., Geo. Affold,
president of the Merchants and
Miners Transportation Company, r.
Foster, agent of the New York River
Line, and fifty other leading ship
pers and merchants of Balti-
more, praying for an appropri-
alton to restore the light~
house at Sharp's Island on the
eastern side of the Chesapeak
Bay. Referred to the committee on
appropriations.
A resolution offered by Mr.. Ker-.
nan for adjournment at 2 o'clock
p. NJ, to enable members and officials
of the Senate to attend the funeral
of the late Representative Wood,
was adopted.
The cattle disease debate wss re-
sumed. Mr.. Morgan, in view of the
objections to the bill, Constitutional
ly and otherwise, moved its recon-
INITIAL to the select committee.
After remarks by Messrs. Nc
Pherson, Johnston, Rollins and
Kirkwood upon the propriety of
considering the same one the special
bills pending on the subject.
Mr.. Morgan withdrew his motion,
and Mr.. Rollins gave notice of his
intention to move as a substitute for
the pending measures the bill for
mally introduced by him
Without progress on the hill, the
Senaee at 2 o'clock, p. m. adjourned
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
AS soon as the reading of the
journal was concluded there was q
general demand for recognition from
all parts of the chamber, but after
the passage of few private bills the
regular order was called for.
Mr.. Carlisle, of Kentucky, from
the committee on ways and means,
reported bill repeating all laws im-
posing taxes on bank checks, drafts
and orders, bank deposits, friction
matches, medical preparations, per-
fumery, cosmetics, cologne, and 9th :
er articles. Referred to the commit
tee of the whole.
b, Mr.. Tucker, of Virginia, offered a
reso ution providing that as mark
of respect to the memory of the late
Fernando Wood, and in order to en-
able the members and officers of the
House to attend the funeral cere-
mony at 3 p m , the House shall ad-
journ at 2 o'clock to-day, and di-
recting the clerk to invite the mem
bers of the Senate to join the mem
bers of the House in attending said
funeral. The resolution was unani
mously adopted.
Mr. Cox, of New York, said he had
intended to call up his apportion
ment bill to-day, but he had learned
that his r publican friends
had not concluded their con-
ference. He thougt it proper
to defer their wishes, but
expected to call up his bill as soor
} as he heard something definite from
= the other side.
: The House, at 1915, went into
, committee of the whole, Mr.. Cox o
3 New York, in the chair, on the agri
cultural appropriation bill.
} The committee rose without con
cluding the consideration of tht
! bill.
The conference report on tht
army appropriation bill was agreed
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