Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-04-07
FORTY-SEVEVTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, April u.
Mr.. Dawes introduced and moved the pres
ent consideration of the bill approprating
$50, 900 to provide for the deficiency in the
subsistence of the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe
Indians. Passed.
MIR. Farley introduced bill to execute
certain treaty stipulations in relation to the
Chinese. 1t is identical with the vetoed bill,
except the term of suspension is made l6
wears. Referred to the committee on foreign
relations.
Mr.. Rollins introduced bill to enable
corporations to become sureties on official
bonds.
An order for adjournment from today until
Monday was adopted.
MIR. Vest. from the committee on COM
merce. reported adversely the bill to exempt
vessels of less than % tons on the inland
waters of the United States, and not engaged
in the transportation of passengers, from in
spection and license. Indefinitely post
poned.
A number of minor Senate bills were pass
ed, and the Presidential count bill came up
as unfinished business.
| Mr.. Pugh reviewed the features of the bill,
commenting particularly its fundamental
proposition, vestng the election power
solely in the states, and the counting power
solely in the two houses. He reviewed what
he regarded as positive dangers of the pres
ent SYSTEM to show the desirability of the
measure.
Mr.. Garland, in opposition to the bill,
argued that the matter was to be regulated,
not by the legislature, but by an amendment
to the constitution. He thought that in at
tempting to construe and enforce the consti-
tutional clause, the bill only added to the
existing difficulties.
! Mr.. Morgan said he would vote for the
bill because it would secure some agreement
for counting the vote, but he did not regard
it as of any practical utility, because the
Presidential vote might be counted in viola
tion of the statute, and no tribunal would
undertake to reverse the result of the count
as declared by the two houses.
! Mr.. Blair said the provisions of the bill
surrendering to state tribunals the power to
declare who is elected, was an abandonment
OF national power to state Jurisdiction, as
| the power to count the vote was inherent in
Congress. He was willing to go to the extent
of saying that Congress should be overruled
by a state when the two houses disagree as to
| the counting of the vote of that state. He
submitted an amendment on the point W hich,
after remarks by Mr.. Hoar, to the effect that
the Judicial power of a state is more likely
to be impartial than Congress on the ques-
ton, was rejected. The bill then passed BY
| Adjourned until Monday.
| HOUSE.
Mr.. Calkins, chairman of the committee
| on election, reported a resolution in Lynch
VS.. Chalmers contested election from the
9th Congressional district of Mississippi
declaring contestant Lynch entitled to the
seat. Laid over for further action
Mr.. Ryan. of Kansas, from the committee
on appropriations, reported back the Indian
appropriation bill with the Senate amend
ments, recommending concurrence in the
same, but non-concurrence in the majority
of those amendments. The report was agreed
to.
Mr.. Page asked unanimous consent to in
troduce bill to carry into effect the treaty
stipuiations with China. ct reduces the De-
riod Of suspension to 10 years.
Mr.. Springer, stating that the House al
ready passed bill for that purpose, objected.
whereupon Mr.. Page declared that he would
ask tor consent to introduce the bill if it took
until the end Of the session.
On motion the Valentine bill was passed.
appropriating $50, 900 for the purchase and
distribution of seed to the sufferers from the
overflow of the Mississippi and its tributa-
ries.
Several bills were introduced and referred.
and the House went into committee of the
whole on the tariff commission bill.
Mr.. Kasson in reply to question he hoped
to ask vote on the measure by the middle of
next week.
The measure was discussed by Messrs. Nc
kiniay and Simonton, the latter gentleman