Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-07
Forty-Seventh Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. {

sENArE-The chair laid before the Senate munication from the Secretary of the Treasury trans The chair appointed MT. Call to fill the vacancy on the Committee Foreign Relations, and MT. Brown Elections caused by the death of Senator Hill.
 MT. Edmunds moved that the Committee the if anything, is to the title to the Ma tional Soldiers cemetery at Arlington; carried. of the Capitol portion thereof otherwise than the o 6e it is designed. The bill gives the President power authorize its uss for public funerals during
 Mr. Groome introducedra bill to adjust the rank of certain officers of the navy. It provides that all shall take rank with all line officers graduating in the way. according to their final standing of MT P1atts resolution asking for detailed informa- tion i'll regard to the pension roll was then taken were rejected and after some debate the amendment adopted in it's original form.
 bill for the restoration Ftz John Porter to his rank in the army week from to-morrow:
 Mr. Becks resolution relating to political asaess ments went over owing to the expiration of the
 The bill to establish uniform system of bankrupt cy throughout the United States then up the special order of the day Mr. Ingalls, took the floor that its object was to discharge insolvent debtors among their creditors Mr Hoar spoke in favor of substituting the old Lowell bill. On the conclusion 
 The bill the relief of State National
 
 Bills passed for the relief of William Sehum- hardt, commercial agent at Predras Negras Mexico, and authorizing the payment of portion of the Vir gln1us indemnity to tho mother Of General w. A. C.. Ryan ,, which involved the payxlent of stolen bonds, was passed on motion of Senator Cameron.
 The Senate at $50 went into executive session. The only business of the executive session the refer ence of appointments to committees
 The Senate adjourned at D. m.
 HousE-NIr. Willis. of Kentucky, presented reso- authorizing committee form to inquire into the collection of election funds from government employees and the uses of the same whether collected Under threats of dismissal etc Tho resolution was referred.
 MT. Caswell, of the Appropriation committee of fered resolution authorizing that committee to add
 clause to the appropriation bill letter post age to two cents which was adopted without dissent The House then went into Committee of the Whole, took up the Presidents message and referred it piecemeal to the Appropriation committed. refer ence to the Pacific railroad in the Presidents nes sage existed vigorous discussion aud was finally re- ferred to the Judiciary committee. The section of the message referring to the coinage of silver dosrs after discussson, referred to the Committee on
 The bill to the State of Georgia $3ooooo exrond ed by the State during the revolutionary was ta kcn up and lively discussion followed MT Steele offered resolution directing the Com 1 mittee on Civil Service Reform to inquire what | amount of money had been furnished to the Demo cratic party by the Cobden club and the Free Trade league for use in the late campaign referred. The discussion of the bill to refund to Georgia S55o 900 expended during the revolutionary war con sae4 the s reanaer @ 9f the afternoon a Mr u MGane be paid as the State had since out of the Unon Ho held that State went out of the Unon but that they rebelled and brought into sbjection to the laws again.
 Mr. Kasson presented a minority report from th @ Ways and Means committee on MT. Kelley bill rs- moving the tax On tobacco The report says that un- til the needs of the government for of sions and other expenses more definitely deter mined it would not be wise to remove more than one half of the present tobacco tax. Messrs Dunne and Haskell made separate report i'll which they gay they think reduction Of the tobacco tax whiskey tax should bo made until the tariff has been thor oughly revised, and that such revision should be without reference to the of the government hl1t 1ra1 tn itI iD6 leaving the reainder of the expenses Of the govern fnent to be met by the tax on whskey and tobacco The House adiourned at 4:1O p.