The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-29
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Forty-seyentn Congress.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, July 2S.-The printing
committee reported senate resolution for
printing 5000 copies of the official report of
the international cotton exposition of 1851.
Passed.
Senate bill to provide for the publication
OF the tenth census was passed. 1t pro-
vides for printing of additional copies of the
reports on population, agriculture, manu-
features and machines, fish and fish re-
ports history OF the national loan, and
compendium of the census and appropriates
TOR this purpose $4,000. 1t also
provides for the distribution of complete
sets of those reports to libraries and other
public institutions throughout the country,
the allotment to congressman to be dis
tributed by the secretary of the interior,
each senator to be entitled to order fifteen,
and each representative ten sets.
The senate then took up the naval appro-
priation bill which bill was read for action
upon committee amendments. Upon an
amendment which was decided to be in the
nature of general legislation point of
order was raised.
Mr.. Rollins submitted that if the amend
ment was not in order on the ground stated,
| nearly all committee amendments must be
ruled out on the same ground. He, there
fore, raised a point of order as against the
pending amendments reported by the com
mittee.
The chair, Mr., Davis, sustained the
point and ruled in effect that all amend.
| ments made by the senate committee
changing house general legislation. were
out OF order under the senate rule pro-
hibiting such legislation on appropriations.
A long discussion followed in which the
rule was denounced by Mr.. Hawley and
others as unconstitutional as it precluded
| the senate from amending or changing the
bill in the features referred to.
Testing the correctness of the ruling of
the chair and to reach definite construc-
ton of the senate rules touching the point
| at issue, Mr.. Call appealed from the de-
clslon, and the senate on di-
vision declined to table the appeal.
The discussion was then continued
by parliamentarians of the body.
Upon vote being ordered, some con-
fusion was apparent as to the form in
which the question of order was to be de-
eided. 1t was agreed to test the sense of
| the senate as TO the ruling upon the COM
mttee amendment dividing the number of
surgeons on the active list into three
classes
The chair decided this to be out of order
| as Involving general legislation, and this
decision was sustained by the senate by
yeas, 49, nays, u. An equal number of
democrats and republicans responded aye.
The committee amendment was conse-
quently disagreed to.
In la1 NIL
mittee of the whole.
Amendments making changes IN re.
spect to the retirement OF naval Office and
promotions on the retired list and ain ing
any vacancy among the rear admiral to be
iilled by the president, by nominatirus of
| captains AS well as commodores, wvre ac-
| cordingly ruled out.
The amendment making prohibition
against promotions to the grade of commo.
dore immediately operative instead of on
July ii, 1888, as proposed by the house, was
objected to by Mr., Williams and voted
down by less than quorum-l3 to Is.
Various changes by the committee in the
item OF appropriations were agreed to with
| out debate.
Several amendments were passed over in.
| formally.
Notice was given of others to be hereaf
| ter offered, and the remainder of the com.
mlttee amendments being adopted without
discussion the bill went over until to-mor.
| row.
Messrs. Hawley and Allison offered reso.
lutions amending the rules so that amend.
ments to general legislation placed
| upon the appropriation bills by house shall
be in order. Referred to the committee on
| rules.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
After transacting some mscellaneou
business, at ll:5j the house adjourned un
| til Monday.