Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-05-20
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 49, -
Senator Anthony reported favorably
from the printing committee joint
resolution authorizing the printing
and sale at cost price of the Com
gre,sional Directory and current
numbers of the Congressional Rec
ord. Passed.
On motion of Senator Conger the
Senate proceeded to consider bills
reported for public buildings.
House bills for public buildings at
the points named, with the amounts
of appropriation and stations stated,
were passed. Louisville, KY, $500,
900; Hannibal, Mo-, S95, 1000; De-
troit, Mich, S600,0O0; Council
Bluffs, Iowa, 100000.
The House bill appropriating
100000 for a public building at
Syracuse, N. Y, was substituted for
the Senate bill on the subject and
and passed.
The Senate bill appropriating
$4,000 for a public building at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was also passed.
The Lynchburg, Va, building bill
was laid aside without any prejudice
pending the con roversy in the COM
mittee. The House bills appropriat-
ing 100000 for building at
Rochester, N. Y, and $125 600 for a
building at Galveston, Texas, and
the Senate bill appropriating $1OO,>
600 for building at Lacrosse, Wis,
were passed. The aggregate OF
these appropriations during the
morning hour was $l,975,00O
The Senate bills authorizing the
Texas & st. Louis Railway Com pany
to build bridges in Arkansas, and to
incorporate the Garfield Memorial
Hospital were passed. The five per
cent land bill then came up.
The Offering and rejection oi
amendments, were alternated with
motions to adjourn, until finally Sen
ator Morgan moved to provide that
none of the money to which any
State shall become entitled under
the act, shall be retained by the
United States on account of:any di.
rect tax remaining due or unpaid
from any State, under the act of Au,
gust, 1871. Adopted; yeas, "a, nays
5. The bill then passed; yeas, 26
nays, II.
The Senate then adjourned til
Monday.
WASHINGTON, May 19.-Mr. Town
send, of Ohio, introduced a bill t,
establish board of commissioner
in the interest of commerce as
bureau of the Interior Department
Referred.
The House then resumed consid
Grafton of the bank charter exten.
sion bill, the pending question being
an amendment offered by Mr.. Grape
of Massachusetts, as in the independ
ent section, as follows: That an,
national banking association nov
organized, or hereafter organized
: desiring to withdraw it's circulatin,
notes upon the deposit of Lawful
money with the Treasurer Of tn
United States, as provided in section
four of the act of June 2Osh, 1877
shall be required to give ninety day
notice to the Secretary of the Treas
ury of its intention to deposit lawfr
money and withdraw its ciro ulatin
notes, provided that not more tina
$50, ,OO0, 600 of lawful money shall b
deposited during any calendar mont
for this purpose, and provided fur
: thur that the provisions of this sec
I ton shall not apply to bonds calle
in for redemption by the secretal
! of the Treasury, but when the bono
. are called for redemption the banl
holding such called bonds shall SUI
render them within thirty days afts
maturity of their call.
After several Intellectual attempl