Morning journal and courier., 1882-12-09
Forty-Seventh Congress.
WASHINGTON, Dec. {

WASHINGTON, Dec. $.
 sENArE.-A large number of petitions from differ ent sections of the country presented praying for the passage of the bill relating to increase of pensions of one armed and one legged veterans.
 On motion of MT. Morrill, the internal revenue bill of the last session with the pending amendments memorials relating to the tobacco tax was commit- ted to the Finance committee.
 Mir necks resolution io regard to political and made speech on the substitute for the bill of fered by MT. Hale. He said his resolution contained employees were paid sufficient salaries to enable them to contribute and per cent. for political purposes, it time in the compensation should be cut down. MT. Hales sub to both parties he said clearly outside of and had different end in view It wanted to find out what distilers and brewers contributed to the Democratic campaign fund. Perhaps, he said, these classes had made contributions just the the national bankers had contributed to the Republican fund. But he did not see how that could be stopped inasmuch as these men did not get their from government were not avowedy dismissed for the non payment of assessments, yet number of those who had not paid discharged.
 MT. Hale in reply said that MT. Beck might say what he pleased about his (Becks desire to oontine the inVosgatlon as to assessments from government clerks but the fact remained that his he speakers proposed substitute for the purpose of learning everything as to the conduct of the last campaign. After further remarks by Messrs. Beck, Hale, Ed substitute the matter went over at the expiration of l the morning hour and the bankruptcy bill came ID unfinished business. Mr. Jones' of Florida, offered an amendment to the second section providing that the debtor have the right of trial by jury agreed to-
 
 Morgan to the effect that one making an assign ment should gamble in stooks provisions cotton fr- l lures, etc., was also agreed to.
 l MT. Hoar addressed the Senate at great length in support of his substitute for the Lowell bill. His speech not finished when the Senate at i:25 adjourned until tomorrow morning.
 l RoUsE.-Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, from the Gem mittee Appropriations reported the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill and it referred tC the Committee of the Whole. It approprates Sl 25S 255 being eos less than the appropriations for the current year, and $13500 less than the estimate. The Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads re ported the bill reducing letter postage to two cents The report is exhaustive covering the history o pestal legislation, and comedies that the reduction I will reduction of revenue and deficit in postal receipts but claims that this will only be te porary and recovered
 1 The House at 1920 went into Committee of the Whole on the private calendar. Several private ilt ! were disposed of The later hours of the afternoon l were spent in unsuccessful attempt to pass the bill granting S200 600 to the of the Monitor tcipating in the action with the Merrmac May 9th 1862. Speeches made by Measrs. Hewitt of New York, Thomas and others in favor of the bill, ant Mir Cook, of Georgia spoke in opposition, claiming to have been eyewitness of the engagement ano ! declaring that the Merrimac was blown up by hel I own crew. The bill defeated by vote of 102 tt !