The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-20
The Bill Retiring Mr.. Justice Hunt
of the Supreme Court, Passed
the Senate.--Debate on
Funding Bill.
The Disputed Right-of-Way Of the st.
Louis 4 San Francisco Railroad
Before the House.
A Rather Monotonous Day in the Gui.
teau Trial-.COntinuati0n Of MIR.
Scoville'S Speech.
Governor Scott Compromises the Suit
Against Him for $4,000.
Fires, HOmicides and FailureS...The
Stock Market.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Forty-Seventh Congress.

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WASHINGTON, January l9.-On motion of
Mr.. Davis, of illinois, the bill to permit
Judge Hunt, of the Supreme Court, to re-
tire was taken up and passed--yeas, Al;
nays, II.
AT l:35 the sherman Funding Bill was
taken up and Mr.. Salisbury took the floor.
After an Intellectual effort by Mr. Ingalls,
to secure an arrangement for u test vote on
the bill to-day, discussion of the Funding
Bill was continued by Mr.. Window against
the bill, and Mr.. Hill, of Georgia, who
charged that the operations of Secretary
Window in continuing the 5's and 6's at 3
per cent. was unconstitutional
Mr.. Hawley, u member of the Committee
on Railroads, moved to recommit that COM
mittee bill ratilying the action of the
General Council of the Choctaw
Nation granting to the st. Louis &
San Francisco Railroad Company right-of-
way for a railroad and telegraph line
through that nation. He said that the
official protest of the Chickasaw Nation and
other documents submitted since the bill
was placed on the calendar had not been
before the committee, and he thought the
measure should be considered under the
new light thus thrown upon it, The mo-
tion met with considerable opposition, par
ticularly from Senators Maxey and Coke,
on the ground of delay to the bill through
losing its place on the calendar. To meet
this objection Mr.. llawley modified his mo
ton SO as to provide that when again re-
ported the bill should be restored to its
present place on the calendar, and, so
modified, the motion was agreed to.
Pending motion for an executive ses-
sion the bill was laid aside. The executive
session was held at p. m. At420p. IN.
the Senate, by vote of 20 t0 2G, adjourned
till Monday.
HOUSE.
Bills were reported from the Committee
on Claims TO refund to the State of Georgia
certain money contributed by that State
for the common defense in l777.
House Calendar bill was also reported
from the Committee on Naval Affairs for
the purchase of a lot OF ground for Gosport
navy yards, Referred TO Committee of the
Whole.
The House resumed consideration of the
report of the Committee on Rules increasing
the membership of committees, ,.'and con.
sumed the greater part of the days session
in its discussion, in which Robson was
made target for much good-humored
ridicule.
Several members opposed the amendment
offered yesterday by King, of Louisiana
| giving to the Committee on the Improve
ment of the Mississippi River the same
right to report appropriation bills for that
purpose as the Committee on Appropria.
tions now has. Finally king
withdrew the amendment, giyint
warning, however, that he would watch the
! Committee on Commerce, to see how tn,
promises now made to consider fairly tn,
needs of the Mississippi Valley would be
/ kept
| Randall, iavoring proposition to increase
committee membership, said the growth o
business in Congress had kept pace witt
the growth Of all the interests of the coun,
! try. To illustrate that, he gave the mum.
ber of bills introduced in the last session o
! Congress and commencing with 2.i99 in the
Fortieth Congress and increasing regularly
each Congress until the number at the
! present Congress would probably exceed
10000 the number up to date being S,2a3
| Joyce, of Vermont moved To re-.
commend the report and pending
amendments TO the Committee on Rules
and the House proceeded to vote by yea.
and nays on Joyce's motion, and il wa,
| agreed to-yeas, l5g; nays, 30.
| The House then went'into Committee o
the Whole, Haskell, of Kansas, in the chair
and took up bill to appropriate $4,000 fo,
| packing transporting and arranging cor
tain agricultural and mineral specimens re
ceived by the Agricultural Bureau from th,
Atlanta Exposition.
Ai(er short explanation by Valentine
of Nebraska, the bill was passed.
Adjourned.