Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-13
CONGRESSIONAL,
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, d. g., April 12.-The
Senate committee reports on the
pending Legislation Were made as
| follows:
Senator Morgan, from the CONS
mittee on public lands, reported as
amended, his bill to increase the en-.
dowment of the University of Ala
bama, from the public lands of said
State. The amendment diminishes
the grant from 92,160 acres to 49,
$50 acres, the purpose being to aid
rebuilding the university, in supply-
ing it with scientific apparatus, libra
| ry and buildings fit for seminary pur
poses.
By Senator Williams, from the
committee on railroads: For the
settlement of the accounts of the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.
Upon the passage of the bill to
place former army officer, Herman
Biggs, on the retired list, Senator
Sherman remarked that if all the ap-
plications of this kind now pending
were granted the cost of the retired
list would be increased by 100000
annually. Senator Rollins said that
| similar measures before the naval
committee had been so numerous
that it could be said to have de-
| voted itself at this session to recon
structing not the navy but the navy
register.
Senator Hampton said the case
was that of gallant soldier who had
voluntarily declined retirement when
entitled to it, preferring to labor for
his living, and had been pensioned on
account of wound. This wound
now incapacitated. him for work.
The bill passed by 81 to Is.
On motion of Senator jackson the
Senate bill referring to the Court of
Claims for adjudication the claim of
Geo. E. Payne for alleged wrongful
seizure and occupation of his sugar
plantation in st. Charles Parish, La,
in 1862, under orders of General
Butler was considered. The bill
valves the statute of limitations.
The facts as stated We're that the
claimant was loyal citizen, having
taken the oath of allegiance on the
morning of the day of the seizure,
and that he was living upon, but was
temporarily absent from the estate,
at the time it was seized, and that
the plantation was subsequently re-
turned to it's owner, minus part of
it, movable property.
The bill passed.
The Indian Territory railroad bill
again came up as unfinished bust
ness, and Senator Vest spoke in ad-
vocacy of the bill
After an executive session, the
Senate ad journed.
WASHINGTON, April 14-Mr. Cox,
of New York, offered a resolution to
amend the rules SO as to provide that
the committee on commerce, in re-
porting the river and harbor appro-
priation bill, shall make the report in
two separate bills; first, to include
all appropriations for improvements
on sea, lake and gulf coasts, and on
rivers navigable through two or more
States second, to include the ap-
preparation for the Improvement of
rivers for local or State commerce
only. Referred.
On motion of Mr.. Burrows, of
Michigan, the Senate amendments to
the consulor and diplomatic appro-
priation bill were non>concurred in,
with the exception of one providing
that the Secretary of State shall here
after estimate the entire amount re-
quired for the support of the consul
lor agents and other officers who are
paid by fees or otherwise. This
amendment was concurred in.
the Senate amendments to the
fortiication bill were non-concurred
in.
A bill was reported by Mr.. Page,
of California, from the committee on
education and labor, to execute GER
tain treaty stipulations relating to
China It provides for a ten years
suspension of immigration, and goes
into effect sixty days after passage.
Placed on the House calendar.
The election committee reported
in favor of Mr.. Barbour in the
, Eighth Virginia District election
contest.
The House then went into com.
| mittee of the whole on the tariff
: commission bill.
l Mr. Upson, of Texas, expressed
his doubt whether many members Oh
f the Democratic side would support
3 the gentleman from New York (Hew-
Q itt) to the extent of putting on the
free list all raw material, while dur
= ties We're kept up on manufactured
t articles. He did not approve of the
: doctrine of giving all the benefits Of
protection to the manufacturers ano
Q depriving all our wool growers and
o producers of any of those benefits
He then proceeded to argue in favor
of the pending bill. This Congress,
9 could not and would not revise th,
@ tariff. The country demanded tn,
y revision, and in his judgment, th
?, most satisfactory way of accomplish
v ing it and of reducing the TART
n was to pass the bill. It woul.
b prove most expenditious methot
: to bring about that result. If b
4. wished to continue the tariff as
is now existed he would vote agains
d the bill, but as he desired the revis
y ion, he would vote for it, believing
he it the most direct and practices
r. road to settlement OF this vexe
= question. No real issue upon th
, tariff had been rendered or e1
to cepted. On the contrary upon th
rt actual question involved in the pent
I'd ing bill, advocates of both system
as of tariff stood on common grount