Daily Kennebec journal., 1882-02-22
fOkTY.SEVEvTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.
W.snrxcroy Feb. 2l,

Mr. Erve in presenting the memorial OF
| the New York chamber of commerce in favor
of the tariff commission. said that the repre-
sentation that the so called high protection
lists favored the bill for delay, was fallacy.
AZ one of that class he heartily favored the
general revision and amendments.
Mr.. Lapham presented the resolution Of the
New York legislature, upon the necessity Of
| a tax in the form OF head money, for the III
| ~pection of the hundreds of thousands Of inn
| migrants landing from foreign ports in New
York harbor.
Mr.. Dawes presented two bulky packages
Iastilv decorated with cOlored ribbon, inclos
ing numerous petitions for the better observ-
ances of the treaty stipulations with the In
dians. and asking that they be given lands in
severalty.
Mr.. Dawes said these petitions were signed
by Governors St. John, of Kansas. and Long,
of Massachusetts, VIM. +. Dodge, of New
York, Judge Shipman, Hartford, professors
| If the leading colleges. officers of charitable
| and educational institutions. and members of
church congregations, numbering more than
| one hundred thousand citizens. He also read
letter urging a just and humane treatment
| of the Indians, and that the nation shall keep
| its plighted faith with them.
Mr.. Plumb denied that their wealth or po-
sition gave the petitioners any undue claim
| upon Congressional attention, and IN view of
their distance from the Indians, believed the
fact would hold good in this, as in other
cases, that the sympathy lavished upon the
Indians by many people, was in direct ratio
to their lack of knowledge about them.
Mr.. Teller also spoke against the petitions
and the discussion was mainly between tine
| three above named gentlemen. The petitions
were referred to the committee on Indian
| affairs.
| resolution was adopted providing for an
adjournment from today until Thursday. az
| MARI of respect and honor to the memory
of George Washington. The Senate at 45
took up the House apportionment bill. No
amendments were offered, but the enlarge
ment of the House as proposed, was discuss
ed upon general considerations. The Honse
apportionment finally passed without amend
ment on a viva vOce vote.
| The pension arrears resolution was then
taken up. Propositions by the wav of en-
larging the scope of the declarations of the
resolution were suggested and discussed by
the various Senators. After remarks bv
Messrs. Williams and Ingalls,, the motion to
lay the subject on the table was carried, 26
to 23
| Several bills were introduced and the Sen
ate adjourned till Thursday.
|
| Mr.. kassOn, of Iowa, under instruction of
the committee of ways and means gave no.
tice that he would, Tuesday next, ask the
| House to proceed to the consideration of
the bill known the tariff commission bill
| On motion of Mr. Steele, of Indiana, the
Senate bill to enable the postmaster general
to delegate to the Sd assistant postmaster gen.
eral authority to sign warrants. passed.
| Mr.. Pound, of Wisconsin. for the commit
tee on public lands, reported a resolution
calling on the secretary of the interior to re-
port to the House the annual gross earnings
of the several Pacific railroads, from the
commencement of their operations until the
present time. Adopted.
The morning hour having been dispensed
with. the House at 235, went into COM
mittec of the whole, Mr. Calkins, of Indiana,
in the chair, on the postmaster appropriation
bill
Next under consideration was that of ap-
prOpriating so. 900 for the transportation
of the United States mail by railroad routes,
and three amendments were pending-the
first being by Mr.. Robeson. of New Jersey,
providing that the mails shall be carried, with
out extra charge. upon the fastest trains run
over the railroad by which they are carried
| whenever the postmaster general shall deem
it desirable. TO this Mr.. Cameron, of ILL.,.
offered an amendment, providing that if
railroad companies shall fail to carry mails on
their fastest trains, their compensations shall
be reduced 80 per cent
As substitute for Mr.. Robes0n's amend
ment Mr.. Holman, of Indiana, offered pro-
visO that all land grant railroads which have
| received in excess Of these thousands acres
per mile, shall receive only fifty per cent. of
the compensation allotted to those railroad
companies for carrying mails.
Mr.. Mills, Of Texas. favored Mr. Holman's
substitute, though it did not 60 far enough
The government was paving largely, more
than it ought to, for the carving of the
mails
Mr.. Hiscock, of New York. opposed all
the pending amendments. This was no time
to legislate on the question as to whether the
compensation paid to land grant roads for
carrying the mails was too large.
Amendments offered by the gentlemen
from New Jersey and Illinois, would endan-
ger the fast mail service, and would do no
good to the country, and he hoped that the
committee would leave the clause as it had
been reported by the committee on appro-
prations.
Mr.. Holman's substitute was rejected. .nays
80, years 60.
The amendment offered by Mr. Cameron
was accepted by Mr.. Robesor, and the amend
ment as thus amended was agreed to- S5 to
60.
The clause relating to star route transpor-
tation having been reached several amend
ments were proposed and rejected.
Mr.. Holman offered an amendment provid-
ing that whenever any contractor shall sub /.
let his contract for the transportation of the
mails on any routes for less sum than he
contracted to perform the services for. the
m IA fpr IL
contract at an end, and enter into a contract
with the sub contractor with the advertise
ment to perform the services on the terms
which he has agreed with the original con-
tractor to perform the services.
Mr.. Atkins moved to amend the amend
ment by the addition Of the following: PRO
vided that the sub-contractor shall enter into
good and sufficient bond, and the original
contractor shall be released from his contract
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