The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-05-19
lllE NENN.
a Short and Sweet Session OF the
Senate - The Bank Charter
BIZ Considered by
the House.
TWO Policemen Constantly Attend the
Secretary fer Ireland -Repres.
sion Of Crime.
Political, Commercial and Religious
Notes.-The Georgia Democratic
State Convention.
The New York Post on Futures The
Stock Market.
A Bad Outlook for the Cotton Crop In
South Carolina.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
forty-Seventh Congress,


WASHINGTON, May lS.-The senate passt d
the bill appropriating s22,27l to reimburse
certain citizens of Henderson, Tennessee,
tor excessive assessments levied upon them
by General Grant in 1862.
The five per cent land bill was taken up
as unfinished business.
Mr. Saulsbury's amendment prohibiting
states receiving the money from applying
any OF 1t to pay agents employed to procure
1t, was modified by adding thereto the
words, except this be in accordance with
the laws of the state passed after the pass.
age of this act" ADOPTED.
Mr. Morgan offered an amendment which
was accepted by the friends or the bill re-
quiring the payment of 5 per cent To he
made in cash instead of bonds. The bill
then went over.
The bill appropriating $50 600 for pub
lie building at Greensboro, North Carolina,
passed.
After an executive session the senate
adjourned.
HOUSE.
On motion of Wise, of Virginia, q bill
was passed changing the boundaries OF tha
10th collection district of Virginia and max
ing Newport News port of entry.
The house then resumed consideration of
.ho Jain VhaI'eI eAtehsioii uili, tne pend
ing question being on the amendment
| offered by Buckner, of Missouri, during
the period for which banks may extend
| their charters from ten TO twenty years
The amendment was rejected-yeas, 92;
! nays, 1l6.
Robertson, of Louisiana, moved to reduce
the period to two years, and stated that he
would avail himself of the latitude allowed
to debate, and proceeded to make some re-
marks about the broken banks of Mssissip-
pi, praising the message OF the president on
that subject. He then withdrew his amend
ment.
Hammond, of Georgia, offered an amend
ment providing that jurisdiction for suits
| hereafter brought by or against any nation
al banking association, except suits between
them and the United States or its officers
or agents, shall be the same as the iurisdic.
ton for suits brought by or against banks
not organized under any law OF
the United States, which might
do banking business with such national
banking associations as may be doing bust.
ness when such suits may be begun,
Agreed to without division.
| Randall, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment providing that in the organiza.
tion OF any banking association intended
to replace any existing banking association
and retaining the name holders of such
stock In the expiring association shall be
entitled to preference in the allotment oI
shares OF the new association in proportion
TO the number of such shares held by them
respectively in the expiring association.
Adopted.
Holman, of Indiana offered an amend.
ment providing that every bank.
| ing association which shall on
tam. the benefit of this act
shall pay the cost of preparing plates
for such new circulating notes as shall be
issued to it, and all other costs incident to
the substitution of such new circulating
notes for the old, in addition to the tax
now imposed on banking associations by
law. Adopted.
On motion Of Crapo of Massachusetts
the following amendment was inserted at
the end of section of the bill: "And tho
franchise of such associations is hereby ex.
tended for the sole purpose of liquidating
their affairs until such affairs are finally
closed"
Section has reference to banking asso.
Citations which do not avail themselves of
the act.
Cannon offered the following amendment
as an additional section to the bill: That
national banks now organized, or hereafter
organized, with capital of $50 900 dollars
or less, shall not be required to keep or de.
posit with the treasurer of the United States
United States bonds in excess of $l0O, 900.
as security for their circulating notes, and
such of these banks having on deposit
bonds in excess OF that amount are author
lied to reduce the circulation by the de.
posit of lawful money MS funds by law"
Adopted-yeas, l02 nays, 100.
Cannon moved to reconsider and 10 law
the motion on the table.
Randall demanded the yeas and nays on
the latter motion, stating he hoped the
honse would traverse the action lust taken,
The motion to lay the motion to recon.
slider on the table was agreed to-yeas, Ill
nays, 90.
Without further action the house ad.
Across the Waters
LONDON, May ls.-Fear Of being arrested
in connection with the murders of Cayen.
dish and Burke is now so general In Ireland
that the peasantry travelling outside of
thelr own districtsNapply for passports.
Many emigrants leaving the south of Ire.
land for America resort TO the same coursc
Advices from Sohan, upper Egypt, state
that the eclipse Of the sun was successfully
observed yesterday by the English, French
ana Italian astronomers A fine comet was
discovered close to the sun, Its position
was determined by Photographic, spectro.
scopic and ocular observations lust before
and during the period Of totality ana gave
a most valuable result, the darkennp fines
observed by the French astronomers indi.
eating the lunar atmosphere. The spec.
trum Of the corona was snccessi,iiv
photographed fcr the first time.
CASTrRBuRr, ESo., May is.-The upper
ho Use OF the convention has agreed upon n
form OF prayer Tor use during the present
trouble in Ireland. IL asks for preserva.
tion from secret conspiracies and open ylo.
ience, the appeasement Of troubles In Ire.
land and the healing of her sores.
LONDON, May 49, In the house of com.
mons. this afternoon, on the motion for the
second reading OF the repression bill, the
speaker announced that the only paragraph
In O'DonnelPs amendment In order was
that declaring the bill fatal to good govern.
ment and tranquility. 0'Donnell denounced
H.. n. Il. Al.