Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS
BUSINESS IN BOTH HOUSES TODAY.
FUNDING BILL - POST OFFICE
APPROPRIATION BILL, &c.
Senate To-day.

Petitions were presented in the Senate to-day
by Mr. Miller (Cal)-FrOm the immigration AsSo-
citation OF San Francisco urging the early passage
OF an act to carry into effect the Chinese imm!gra-
ton treaty. By Mr.. Hoar-From the officers of the
Woman Suffrage Association OF Missouri protest
Ing against legislation for the unconditional dis
reimbursement Of women in Utah and praying the
eXtrpation OF polyEamy. BY Mr.. Hawley-From
the president faculty and students of Yale college
for reform in the civil seri1ce.
MI Harris from the committee on epidemic dis
eases reported favorably. with amendments the
bill for the distribution of pure vaccine virus to
the people 1.-THE amendments appropriate s15, 600
to enable the national board OF health to supply
te pure article at cost price, and require that the
proceeds OF the sales shall be paid into the Treas
ury quarterly
A bill was introduced by Mr.. Kellogg to compel
the payment BY the Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany OF the cost OF selecting and conveying GER
tain lands granted to 1t, and for other purposes.
On motion of Mr.. Window, resolution was
adopted requesting the President to communicate
the correspondence between the Executive depart
ment and the diplomatic agents OF tue United
states relating to proposed congress of American
nations or any OF them in 1892.
MI Vance asked consideration OF his resolution
calling for Information concerning Misconduct
9th collection district OF North Carolina.
Mr. lloar objected, as he regarded the resolution
as a reflection upon the Treasury department.
The motion was not pressed.
MIR. MORGAN On THE ALLEGED ORDNANCE RING,
Mr.: Morgan submitted a resolution calling upon
y
the reports OF all tests that have been made of
heavy ordnance. Mr.. Morgan said he had been
informed that ring here controlled this matter of
heavy ordnance, and that no inventions Or dSCOv-
erIeS except such aS elnalate from this ring are
given any show; that outside inventors could not
get their guns tested. He gave this only as he had
1t was true that while the government was paying
as much as $4,000 apiece TO construct heavy guns
there was no man brave enough to fire them of,
for the that all OF them that had been dis
charged had exploded. He wanted some light on
this subject OF making heavy ordnance and the
tests applied to 1t. The matter went over until to-
morrow.
Mr.. Hawley thought the charge OF the Senator
from Alabama was based upon the representations
Oh disSati>fed inventors WHO had not received the
rewards they expected.
A discussion followed, occupying the time beyond
the morning hour.
The resolution was finally laid aside Informally
without action.
The senate (at aC took up the three per cent
bond bill and Mr.. Morgan advocated as an a.di-
tonal section an amendment as follows: That the
agreement made with the holders Of bonds OF the
United StiteS since the adjournment OF the Forty
sixth Congress, by which the rate OF interest on
such bonds is reduced to three and one-hali per-
centum per annuin is hereby fully ratified and
confirmed according to the terms and intent of
said agreement.
Nominations To-day.
The following nominations We're sent to the Sem
ate this afternoon:-Wiilam Il. Armstrong, Of
Pennsylvania, commissioner OF railroads; John L.
Wilson. OF Indiana, receiver OF public moneys at
C0lfaX. WASHINGTON Territory. Posumasters-H.
T. Taggart;; Emporium, Pa; S, J; Bur
ohio; JOHN T. stiegener, Paunee city, Neb.
Jno. 5. Runnels L. S. district attorney for Iowa;
AIst Marsden G; Bureh, e s attorney for Michigan;
Vim. B. Mitchell Of Minnesot,, receiver OF public
moneys at ST. Paul
House of Representatives.
Mr.. Mckinley offered resolution setting apart
Monday, 9th OF February, 1882, for the memorial
Coz, thn 1oto
field Adopted.
Mr. Burrows presented the petition of citizens OF
Michigan for the suppression of polygamy. Re-
ferred.
MIR. Hill introduced bill reducing the postage
on letters and sealed packages to two cents per
half an ounce or under; cents for over half an
ounce and under ounces; and for each additional
ounces or fraction thereo: cents. Referred.
ton OF public buildings at Louisville, Ky; Roches-
ter, n Y; Minneapolis, Mimi: and St Joseph,
Mo-, We're reported from the committee on public
buildings and grounds, and referred to the com
mittee OF the whole.
AT the conclusion Of the morning .hour the
House, at 1850, went into committee of the
whole (Nr Calkins In the ehar) on the Post once
appropriation bill.
Mr. Caswell explained the provisions of the bill.
The In. al amount appropriated was sls,52 ,3o0-only
s1S7,51 OF which would come out of the general
fund in The Treasury, since the estimated revenue
of the Post Office department amounted to SO, ,4l,-
The House to-day began the consideration
or the Post Office appropriation bill. 1t is PROB
able it will be passed by the end OF the present
week.
Senator Saunders has consented to move recon-
sideration OF the vote of yesterday by which the
Plumb amendment was agreed to. Senator Sher-
man opposed the amendment with all his power,
and he said to-day that he would abandon the bill
rather than have it become law with the Plumb
amendment attached.
The House committee on appropriations to-day
heard Commissioner OF Indian Affairs Price; Capt.
Pratt, In charge OF the Indian school at Carlisle.
Pa, and Mr.. Armstrong, in charge Of the Indian
school at Hampton, Va, in advocacy of additional
appropriations for educating the Indians. The
entire session was devoted to the hearing, and no
action was reached.
iiThe committee on railways and canals at to-
days meeting Indefinitely postponed the bill for
the Detroit river to Lake Michigan. The govern
ment was asked to pay four million and over for
its construction. The committee win at It's next
meet the Illinois and Mississippi rivers
Mr.; A. W. Leonard, one of the reading clerks of
the House, rendered his resignation Yesterday.
The railroad land grants, which the Robson
resolution cOntemplateS fOrfetting, aggregate over
a million acres, an area larger than all OF New
England
The demand for copies OF the several Interstate
commerce bills has been so great from granger
constituencies that the House to-day ordered
reprint OF all the pending bills.
The committee on commerce of the House has set
aside February 21st to hear arguments pro and con
on the Interstate commerce bill.
memorial from Ann G. Carroll and Maria c.
Fizhugh, heirs OF the late Daniel Carroll, of Dud-
dington asking an act of Congress directing the
Court of Claims to ascertain and award the amount
OF damages done to the property Of said Daniel
Carroll, was presented In the Senate yesterday.
The House OF Representatives yesterday passed,
by vote OF yeas 116, nays 60 the bill for the
moval OF the House bath room and the extension
Of the restaurant.
The President yesterday withdrew the nomlna-
ton OF Henry b. Nichols to be postmaster at Nor
folk, Va, which was sent to the Senate Qn conse-
quence OF a clerical error3 Oh the s7th instant
Mr.. Marble, eX-Comnlissioner OF Patents and
now land commissioner OF the Northern Pacific
railroad, was at the Capitol to-day.
The subcommittee OF the House committee on
elections has agreed to report In favor Of the ad-
mission OF MI NJ. d. Bali as delegate from Alaska.
In the House OF Representatives yesterday the
resolution requesting the President to obtain list
OF American citizens imprisoned In Ireland, was
passed, after scene OF confusion, which caused
the Speaker to threaten the interpOSitiOn of the
Sergeant-at-Arms. The annual post route bin was
passed.
CONTRIBUTIONS By THE SENATE.
The Senate yesterday confirmed Leopold Mark
brett as Assistant United States Treasurer at Gin
cinnau; William II. Taft collector of internal rev.
enue fifth Ohio district; W. j. Pollock collector
internal revenue first PennSy ylVahia district; S. A.
Whitfield, postmaster at Cincnnati; Clifford Stat
ham, Lynchburg, Va, and T. Hines, Suffolk, Va
Mr.. PLuMB's AMENDMENT TO THE FUNDING BILL
The Senate yesterday adopted, by vote OF SO to
70, Mr.. Plumb's amendment to the funding bill,