Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-03

l yeas 9, nays D. After call of absentees another motion by MT. Eaton to adjourn was | defeated. Dilatory tactics prevailed and pairs 1 on political questions were announced. Fin | ally the Democrats yielded and on motion of Mir. Wallace at 8:30 D. m. the Senate ad- | journed. The hall was at once filled with 1 visiting strangers, mostly ladies, who docked
 thither from the galleries the moment the hammer fell.
 HousE.-The deficiency bill passed the House at D. m and then MT. Tucker imme-
 diately called up the funding bill and de-
 manded the main question on the sixteenth
 amendment of the Senate. It was ordered by
 a vote of 134 to 25 and the amendment as
 inserted by the Senate was concurred Tn, re-
 quiring the award Of bonds to be made for
 sum of 1000 or less. MT. Tucker then
 moved certain amendments merely to correct
 the form of the sixth section, but they were
 all rejected, the friends of the bill being de-
 termined to prevent it's amendment so that 1t
 will not have to go to the Senate again.
 The next amendment was on the fifth sec
 tion. The Committee of Ways and Means
 proposed to strike out July and insert Sep tember as the date at which the per cent.
 bonds authorized by this act shall be the on- ly bonds receivable as security, &c. By an arrangement entered into with the Ways and Means committee MT. Conger was permitted to offer an amendment with regard to Sep
  to repeal the proviso repeating section 4 of 1874 providing for the redistribution of na- tional bank currency. It was agreed that there should be one hours debate on the amendment.
 After the debate had been closed MT. Springer mac ) point of order against Mir. Conger's amendment, but at the request of a number of members he withdrew it and Mr. Conger's amendment was rejected by,117 yeas to 135 nays.
 Mir. Tucker then offered as proviso to the | fifth section that nothing in the act should | be construed to repeal or in any manner affect 1 or modify sections 5, ,22O 5, ,222, 223 or 5,224 of the revised statutes; rejected, 114 yeas to | 127 nays.
 The amendments having all been offered | and voted upon the funding bill was declared | passed as it came from the Senate.
 MT. Carlisle then offered 8 supplemental ! bill. It proposed to enact as law the | fought for, and which had been rejected as amendments. The majority | would not consent to amend the original | bill because it would have to go back to the Senate, but under the Carlisle supple ment the first section was amended so as to provide that the award of subscriptions should be made in the order of time of sub- thus nullifying the provision for award to subscriptions of $2, 900 or less. It also amended the 4th section to conform to the recommendations of the Ways and Means committee and added proviso with re- gard to section 5,220 and others of the re- vised statutes, which were rejected as amend ments to the original bill. A long discussion ensued on this bill. The point was made that the House could not amend an act which had not yet received the signature of the Speaker 1 or the President This was overru1ed by the Speaker on the ground that the House had the right at any time to correct it's own acts. The Democrats were taunted with pass ing bill that required correction immediate y, to which Mir. Carlisle replied that if the threat had not been made that the bill would 1 be defeated by sending it back to the Senate Ill of the amendments would have been adopted. MT. Carlisle's bill was then adopt sd with hardly dissenting voice.
 The House then adjourned