National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-01-20
CONGRESS YESTERDAY,
Passage of the Funding BiII-Speech o
COnfa .iOuS DiseaSes and Other naffers

! Passage of the Funding BilE-Speech ON
! Contagious Diseases and Other Matters.
! A bill reported favorably from the Judiciary
| Committee by Mr.. GARLAND, to relieve Richard
Fatherly, of Arkansas, from political disabilities
gave rise to a discussion upon criticisms by Mr..
| HoAR and Mr.. EDMUSDs that Fatherly's petition
did not set forth any offense bringing him within
scope of the constitutional prohibition but
merely set forth that he had held and resigned the
Office of military storekeeper at the opening of the
| rebellion.
| Mr. EDNIUNDS characterized such a representa-
ton as trifing with Congress.
Mr.. GARLAND, replying to the structures of Mr..
EDMUNDs who he said, seemed to be the censor of
| the Senate explained that stOrekeeperS' stores
were seized in the hands of Fathery the arsenal
at Little Rock, and that under the political boards
| put upon the country under the hellbroth of re-
construction he had not been allowed to vote The
petitioner supposed the cause of this some po-
fitica disability and therefore sought this relief
| Mr.. EDMUNDS dscaimed having said anything
| to offend the SenSibilitieS of the Senator from
Arkansas (Alr. GARLAND, and did not suppose that
Senator responsible for the pecularities of the
On the third reading of the bill, Mr.. EDMUNDS
demanded the yeas and nays, which resulted 81
! to 16.
| On the final passage of the bill he repeated his
! demand, when the bill was defeated-30 TO 16-nOt
| two-thrds in the affirmative.
| Mr. INGALLS,, from the Committee Oh Claims
reported avorably the bills to provide for the sale
of the lands belonging to the prairie band of Pot
tawatomie Indians, and for other purposes, and
| bill to provide for the sale of the lands of the
! Miami Indians in Kansas.
| Mr. GROOME from the Committee on Claims,
reported back the bill making an appropriation
for the compensation of collectors of customs act
ing as superintendents of lighthouses for the is-
| cal years 1875, 1876 1877, and 1873 with recon-
mendation that the committee be discharged
from its consideration and the bill referred to the
| Committee on Appropriations it is one for the
payment not of claim, but of a deficiency. So re-
4 ferred.
| Mr. WITHERS introduced bill to authorize
the Secretary of War to grant the use of certain
land at Fortress Monroe, Va, for hotel purposes
| Mr.. WILLIAMS, ON leave, delivered prepared
speech upon his bill (now on the calendar) to pre-
| vent the introduction and dissemination of epi-
| zOotic or communicable diseases of domestic ami
| mails in the United States He said the bill pro-
hibited under heavy penalties such Introduction
or dissemination of diseased animals from foreign
countries or from State to another, enlarging
the powers of the National Board of Health so as to
cover the subject and extending its functions to
carry out the purposes of the bill, and giving the
Federal courts jurisdiction over violations of its
provisions
Mr.. JOHNSTON, chairman of the Committee on
Agriculture called attention to the difficulty In the