Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-11
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, June 10.-Senator
Morril.. from the finance committee,
reported amendments to House bill
reducing internal revenue taxation.
They repeal, after October 1st, 1882,
the additional duty imposed III 1875,
of 25 per cent. on all molasses and
on sugar, according to the Dutch
standard in color, imported from
foreign countries. They fix the drtty
on steel railway bars at $40 per ton,
and make the duties upon manufac~
turers for hoop, band or scroll iron,
same as those imposed upon the mas
terial from which they are manuface
tured
Senator Bayard remarked that the
amendments had not been reported
by q unanimous vote.
The bill, with amendments, was
ordered reprinted.
House bill providing for the build
ing Ill Brooklyn, n. Y, for the ac
commodtion OF the postoffice, inter
mai revenue, and other government
zt1ices, at cost for the site and
building of $4,000, 4nd for a like
building at Oxford, Miss, at $4,000,
We're reported without amendment
and passed.
The Senate then resumed consider
a'ion OF the river and harbor bill,
the question being upon the amend
Inent reported from the special CONS
Inttee on the suhject of aPproprf't',
ing S5OO,000 for the Improvement OF
the Potomac flats, it was passed, 81
to I, after long debate.
Senator Allison presented a con-
ference report on the bank charter
extension bill, which was ordered
printed and laid over until to morrow.
Senator Butler moved an increase
of 100000, making a total OF
$500 900 for Charleston harbor. He
had read at the clerk desk a recOme
mendation for an increase by Gen>
eral Gilmore Conger, of the COM
merce committee, which reported d
bill deprecatlng an apparent d1spo-
sltion in Congress to give undue
weight 10 Wh1CD
did not come through the proper
committee He said if the commit
tee had followed the suggestions for
All increase which had been made to
them through other than official
channels the DILL would have swollen
to 75,00O,0O0 He could see no
justification for the pending motion
Senator Butler intimated that
South Carolina was entitled to
benefit by the committees liberal ty,
aud called the attention of Com less
t. sundry items for the Michigan
Rivers, in which an increase had
been allowed.
Senator Conger said that where
his State had received a hundred
other States had been given millions
for rivers. He had even been driven
to wonder at his own moderation
when he heard the demands that
were made by other Senators 1t
was better, however, to be grand
than to be insignificant III
such matters. He admitted
and to demand millions at time and
be a man among men. He supposed
Senator Butler would deem 1t un-
worthy of himself to ask for less
than a couple of hundred thousands
Of increase, but he would have the
senator to reflect that there must be
limit to the size of the bill some>
where. He then argued that South
Carolina had been among the fore
most of the States in former years in
resisting internalimprovement by the
government, and that this was hard
Iy consistent with her present de-
mand.
Senator Butler replied, criticising
Senator Conger S remarks as speech
for home consumption, and the
scolding and sneer for which inquiry
he had addressed to that Senator,
furnished neither justification or
pretext. He challenged its correct
ness in various particulars, and as"
serted that tire misrepresentation
INTO which the Senator had
fallen, concerning the rec
ord of South Carolina up
on internal improvements, was
npon par with his mlsstatements
generally concerning the Charleston
harbor expenditures. Senator But
ler's amendment was rejected.
Senator Harrison, from the COM
mltt9e on transportation routes to
the seaboard, offered au amendment
authorizing the expenditures, under
direction Of the Secretary Of War,
of $4,000, or SO much thereof
AS may be necessary in completing
the surveys OF the ship canal to con.
meet the Chesapeake and Delaware
Bays, and directing report to Con
gress as to which of the variou,
routes surveyed will afford tn,
greatest safety IN case of war, ant
most effectively cheaper the cost o
Transportation from Baltimore to tn
Atlantic Ocean, together with tn
cost of the improvement, and it
approaches and the annual cost o