Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-14
CONGRESSIONAL,

THE Jk55ISANESE INDEMNITY FUND BILL PASSEI
THE SENATE.
WASHINGTON, June 13-House.-A resolu
ton passed authorizing the secretary of wal
to erect, at cost Of $4,000, memorial
column at Washington's headquarters, New.
burgh, N. Y, and appropriating $4,000 tc
aid in defraying the expenses OF the celebr a
ton 10 be held there in 1888, on the centen-
NAL anniversary of the declaration of peace
and providing for the appointments select
committee OF five senators and eight repre-.
sentatives for that celebration.
After further unimportant business the
| House went into committee on the lsgislat-
i've, executive and judicial appropriation
| bill.
Several amendments were offered and
accepted.
Pending a long discussion upon the last
section of the bill directing the secretary oil
war to transfer all the pension claim record;
in the surgeon-generaps Office to the Office Of
the adiutantgeneral,t the committee rose and
the House adjourned.
.Senots-Senator Grover, from the Military
Committee, reported favorably as amended
Senate bill granting certain right of way to
the San Francisco and Ocean Shore Railroad
Company.
Senator Garland introduced a supplement
to the recent Geneva award act, providing
for the claims of British owners of property
S. lied when under the American flag.
Senator Browns resolution supplying each
Senator with a $1,000 clerk was rvjected-
yeas 20, nays IS.
The bill to resYpropriate money for the
benefit of Southern mail contractors was laid
over until tomorrow a. the request of several
Senator's.
The Senate bill to give every officer whose
name is borne on the naval list thirty-five
years, and who has served the full term as
chief of a bureau, the rank (that Of
commodore) which he would have if he was
retired while chief of the bureau, was rejec-
ted, 10 TO "a.
constituted conferets on the District appro-
priation bill.
Senator Blair made a speech upon
illiteracy in the States, and the urgent need
for adequate appropriation in aid of the
common schools.
The Senate bill referring the cotton claim
OF the estate of Sterling T. Austin to the
Court OF Claims passed.
Senator Allison reported back from the
Finance Committee, with amendments, the
House bank charter extension bill. Ordered
printed aad recommitted.
The japanese indemnity bill was con-
sidered in committee, and Senator Morrill's
amendment, ordering the destruction of the
bonds in which the fund was invested, pre-
vailed-yeas, 81; nays, %.
After debate the bill finally passed-yeas,
So; nays, is.
The bill as passed authorizes and directs
the President to pay TO the government Of
Japan S7S5,000 in legal coin through the
United States minister to japan, and directs
that all bonds now owned or controlled by
the state department and designated in the
department reports as "the Japan indemnity
fund" shall be cancelled and destroyed.
Section directs the secretary OF the treas
ury TO pay from the treasury $4,000 as
prize money to the officers and crews of the
United States ship Wyoming and steamer
Takiang, or their legal representatives, Tor
services in the straits of Saimonoseki in 1868
and 1864, no payment to be made to the as
signee of any mariner, but to the mariner
himself, his legal representative, or his or
their duly authorized attorney.
The Senate then adjourned