The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

SENATE.
Washington, March 2.-The ere
dentials Of Maxey for reelection were
presented and filed.
The senate took up the civil appropri
alton bill.
Beck said the senate committee added
s., lis, 900 to the bill as it passed the
house
Among the additions to the civil ap
preparation bill was $4,000 to enable
the superintendent of public buildings
to proceed with cutting the granite fol
the new west and center wings of the
stateSwar and navy departments build.
ing.
Beck said 1t had also been made ap.
parent to the committee that the hall
for the safe keeping of the records OF
the executive department 1.-THE bill for
this object having already passed the
senate and is now in the house) ought
to be recalled and $40, 900 appropriated
for site for such building, the same to
be erected under the supervision of the
quartermaster general in seperate CON-
partments, etc., so as to be made as
absolutely fire proof as possible.
In committee of the whole the bill
was read and the amendments of the
senate committee acted upon as reached.
In addition to those mentioned, were
the following:
For the naval academy, $4,000.
For the purchase of works by the
joint committee ON library, $4,000.
The amendment to enable the secre-
tary of the treasury to procure informa-
tion concerning, and to make inspection
OF neat cattle shipped from any port OF
the United States to any foreign port,
so as to enable him to cause to be issued
to shippers Of such cattle certificates
showing that such cattle are free from
pleuro-pneumonia, was increased to
$500
The amendments having been agreed
to, with a few exceptions, on which
separate rates were reserved, and the
bill gone through with, Bayard, by in
struction of the finance committee,
moved to amend by adding the follow
ing section:
That the secretary of the treasury
may at any time apply the surplus
money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, or SO much thereof as he
may consider proper, to the purchase OF
redemption of United States bonds,
provided the bonds SO purchased or re-
deemed shall constitute no part of the
sinking fnnd, but shall be Cancelled.
The amendment was adopted without
debate or objection, Bayard casually re-
marking in reply to Logan and McDon-
aid, that without this provision the
secretary could not extend his purchases
beyond the requirements of the sinking
fund, and that it would apply to any
bonds the payment of which is optional
with the government.
HOUSE.
Washington, March 2.-The house
met in continuation of Tuesdays ses-
sion.
Tucker demanded the previous ques-
tion on the motion to concur in the
senate amendment, 16, to the funding
bill. This is the Kirkwood amendment,
authorizing public subscriptions for
bonds and notes.
On call of the house 125 members
responded, less than quorum.
Tucker moved to dispense with
further proceedings.
Mcmahon reported back the def
eiency appropriation bill and moved to
suspend the rules and put it upon pas
sage.
Hiscock, member of the committee
on appropriations, criticised the bill
which was chiefly remarkable in that
which it was deficient. The estimates
for the internal revenue bureau were
$500 900 in excess of the amount ap.
propsiated in the bill, and the appro-
priation for the public print was $780,
900 lessthan should be allowed. The
attorney general had submitted esti-
mates OIL $100, 900 to special deputy
marshals which had not been allow ed
by the committee. He had hoped that
the democratic party would have set
tied its debts before it went out OF
power. &.
At ten O'Clock McMahon's motion
was agreed to.
The rules we're suspended, and the
deficiency bill, the last of the appropri.
alton bills, passed.
The consideration of the funding bill
was immediately resumed.
TIE question being on the ordinary
previous question, on the motion tc
concur in senate amendment 16. A
large majority OF the republicans re.
Trained from voting, but enough cast
their votes to make quorum, and
when the question was ordered the
vote stood yeas, 13t, nays, %.
After further delay, the 10th senate
amendment was coacurred in.
The next question was on the, 25tt
senate amendment, which is to insert
the word Temporarily" in the fourth
section, which authorizes the secretary
to use $4,000, 900 in coin in the re.
demption of five and six per cent. bonds.
All the amendments to the funding
bill was then agreed t, with change.
and the bill passed.
The committee on ways and means
recommends concurrerce with mn