Huntsville gazette., 1882-08-12
FORTY-sEvENTH CONGRESS.

IN the Senate, Aug. 2, the bill passed ap-
proprlating 600 for building at Leaven-
worth, Kans. The time for report by the Ute
Commission was extended to Sept Is, 1888
message was received from the House in.
forming the Senate of the action of that body
IN passing the river and harbor bill over the
residents veto. Pending business was sus-
pended and the veto message read. vote
was immediately taken upon the ques-
ton, 'Shall the bill pass, objections of the
President to the contrary Notwithstanding
The result was: Yeas, Al: nays. l6 So the
bill passed. The sundry civil bill was then
taken up......I In the House the river and
harDor bill passed by vote of 122 to So Some
general measures were disposed of and the
call OF committees developed nothing of i'm
portance.
A NEW conference was ordered ON the
Japanese indemnity bill in the Senate, Aug. 5.
Bills passed: for public building at st.
Joseph; to settle land patent questions in the
Virginia military dis, rict OF Ohio; to provide
tor the deductions from the tonnage of ves-
sells and tOregulate steam vessels; also House
resolution for temporary appropriations. An
agreement on the Legislative appropriation
bill was reported and report adopted. aThe
tax reduction bill was debated and laid over.
The House re resOlutiOn for adjournment on the
9TH was tabled. -. In the House Joint reso-
luton was adopted providing for final ad-
Journment Aug. 5. A disagreement was re-
ported on the general deficiency bill.
In the Senate, on the 4th, the report on
the Omaha reservation sale was adopted.
The bill authorizing the appointment of a
Consul General to Persia, with a salary of
S., 600, passed; also House bill to relieve GER
tain soldiers of the late war of the charge of
desertion. The conference report on the
Creek Indian orphan bill was adopted. The
conference report on the naval bill was ac-
cepted and new conferees were appointed to
consider two items remaining in dispute.
The tax bill discussion was resumed and an
effort to reach a vote on it was de-
House, a resolution for a constitutional
amendment providing that it shall take two
thirds OF AL the members OF each house to
pass bill over veto was referred. An
agreement was reached on the naval bill ex-
ceDt as to closing the navy yards. On this a
new conference was ordered and the House
discussed Senate amendments to the sundry
civil bill. The amendment appropriating
$4,000 for the National Board of Health was
rejected. The legislative appropriation bill
was signed by the Speaker.
THE naval appropriation bitl passed the
Senate on the 5th. The knit goods bill passed
as it came from the House; ALSO the bill ex-
tending fees of certain officers over New Mex
leo and Arizona. The Senate receded from
its amendment to the deficiency bill and a
joint resolution was adopted voting S33, 900 for
mileage for the special session in 1881. The con-
ference report on the sundry civil bill was
adopted also that of the committee on the
bin to publish the agricultural report.
In the House the Senate amendments to tho
resolution for q Consul General to Persia and
to the bill in relation to steam vessels were
agreed to. Conference reports on the naval
bill and the sundry civil appropriation were
adopted. Both houses adjourned till the
7th.
A VOTE on the resolution for select com
mittee on American ship building, in the
Senate, on the 7th, resulted 40 to l3. House
bill repeating the export tax on tobacco
passed. In the House l09 members were
present and all business proceeded by con-
D-IA t,,t, nd lail fn
duce taxation and moved to suspend the
rules and pass it. As only so members voted,
the cry of no quorum was raised and the bill
was Withdrawn. Both houses adjourned for
one day