National Republican., 1882-12-11

gtitutc had better be referred 10 tne Colnmlllto
to be put in better shape. Pending the d!s-
cussion, the hour Of . O'Clock arrived, and the
senate took up the unfinished business,
THE BANKRUPTcY BILL.
Mr.. 1Ioar resumed his argument in favor of
the Lowell bankruptcy bill, He cOmbattcd
Gnrland's view that the desires for bankrupt
law has grown less Of late, and read several
communications from boards of trade urging
the passage of such law and list OF towns
i'm all parts of the country from which pc
titions for it have come. He then called at
tcntion to some of the differences between the
Lowell billand the one reported by the com
mittec. Under the Lowell bill, he said the
law is made by the law-mating power of the
land, while under the committees bill II is
TO be made by the judges, thus ontailing n
long series OF law suits to ascertain, mt the end
of generation and at great expense of time
and money what the Lowcllbill would enable
the country to know in advancc-thC rights
and duties of the various classes of per-
sons concerned in the administration of
the law. Another objection TO the
committees bin was that il went back to
the fee system, and a still greater defect was
the feature which had been spoken of as a
merit namely, that the creditors, the rightiul
owners of the ns0lvCnts estate were to have
no voice in. its management Still another
objection was that the bill abandoned the old
well understood definition OF bankruptcy, and
attempted TO prescribe new test, which
would produce endless trouble in practice.
But perhaps the most extraordinary defect in
a bill whose advocates denounced the mer-
chants and business men of the country as
"shylocks,' was its omission of any provision
giving preference to debts due labOrcrs and
operatives. This was fully provided for in
the Lowell bill, and was so important to the
people in all parts of the country that they
would probably prefer even the "shylocks"
bill with it to any other without such pro-
vision. In conclusion, Mr.. Hoar argued that
congress was in duty bound under the con-
stitution, to enact bankrupt law.
Mr. Brown said he had listened with interest
to hcaugmcnts of MCssrs. ingalls, and Hoar in
favor of their respective bills, and each had
succeeded in convincing him that the bill of
the other aught not to pass. The cOnstitu-
ton gave congress power to enact uniform
bankrupt law, but it did not follow that that
power must be perpctually exercised. Con-
grcss had power also, under the constitution,
to declare war. but il did not follow that we
must be always at war We had had bank
rupt law during only about onc-siXth of the
time since the government was established,
and the three successive efforts to establish
such system had failed because of the con-
demnation of the people, He knew that in
his own state past bankruptcy laws had given
rise to more fraud and perjury than had re-
suited from any other kind of enactment
There seemed to lie no general desire now
among the people for such law. On the
contrary, the great laboring masses were op.
posed to it, and of the ten million voters in
the United States he doubted whether one
million would vote for such law. For thest
reasons he thought it desirable before devot
ing any more time to the discussion of detail,
to ascertain whether the senate was of opinion
that any bankrupt law was required. There
fore he would move to indefinitely postpone
the subject
After discussion it was agreed, at the sug
gestion of Mr.. ingalls,, to dispose of the bill a
the session on Monday.
Mr.. Hawley introduced bill (Which wa!
referred to the cOmmitte on civil-service re
form to prevent officers of the United States
from collecting subscriptions or assessments
from each other. The first section provides
that no member or member-elect of either
house of congress, or employe of either house
and no executive, judicial military or naya
officer of the United States, and no clerk Of
employe of any department or of any brancl
or bureau of either service shall, directly o
indirectly, solicit or receive or be in any
manner concerned in soliciting or receivin,
any assessment, subscription, or contribution
for any political purpose whatever from an.
officer or employe of the United States, o
from any person receiving any compensation
from moneys derived from the treasury of tn
United States.
The second session provides that any perso
violating this law shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanar, aud shall, on conviction, b
punished by a fine not exceeding 5000, q
imprisonment not exceeding three years, q
by such fine and imprisonment both, in tn
discretion of the court
The senate held brief executive session i
which various nominations were rcporte
back to the senate, and the nominations IT
ceived on Saturday were referred to the al
prOpriate committees. No other action WI
tn1y aud nt A. 10 nsli iptr ,nI
NOMINATIONS.
The President sent the following nominations
the senate OH Saturday:
Postmasters-Cha Barr ir., Englewood, y.
7 g. snedgser Ns5GTy PaTE' n ii John p GaT
burg. Pa; Mrs. Margaret A, HURT Hnntingdo
Pa; ,Johm T., Spicer, Bellgrc, Md; W. F, Slate
William II. Aspinwall, Weston, West va; Nj
Emma L. Achison, Wcllsburg, West Va; James
Ramsay Salisbury, \. G.; John G. Rull, La Grang
Thomas j. Lake, Athens, Ala; Walter $. Pfath,
North Vernon, Ind; Louis Kinnle, Highland, II
Atlanta, Ill; samuel BTown, wenona, i.
George W. Chrysun, Barry, H.; James L. Cam
PNGRn M Ths9dGIe MSors T. China White Ndds rG Mi,
David G. James, Richard Centre. Wis: D. Jacob
Crookston, Mimi; Charles Hendrix, sapk &c
=. Gwinn, Slater, Mo; 'hcnry ljenerrAIilan, NJ
John L. Browne, Wamngo Kan; Charles -
Kurtz, augusta: Kan; Mrs. Clara l.. Nichols, F.,
KAN EDGAR $. Morton, Humboldt Ncb; Magl
Bailey, Canton, Dnk.; Ossiau j. Carr, seitt
Washington Territory; Charles S King, Frlsc,
Utah Territory; Ira L. Leonard, socorro, N
Mexico.
Treasury-Danie T. Davis, collector of custom
district of Bangor, Me-; Charles W. watkins, C.
leCtor Ofintcrunl revenue, fourth district, Micl
gan; Third Lieut.. Thomas w. BenhAm, reyen
service, TO be second lieutenant.
InteriOr-lIcury Y. Osborne. receiver pub
moneys, at Bodie, Cal; James II, EVnus regis
OF the land Office at Llkeviow, Ore; Francis 4
EinSun, register Of the land Office at Helena. Nc
Charles Alexander, register of the land Office
Tucson, Ari.
Department ot.mst'cc-Clnylon McMlchael,
PcuusylvHniu, marshal Of the United States
the District OF Columbia.
TIE HOUSE.
The House on Saturday passed the consu
and diplomatic bill. Much of the time of
days session was taken up in discussion o
resolution calling on the secretary of war
information as TO the expenditures made
account of the river and harbor bill. b
were introduced approprating 81 l,25O,00O
buy real estate in New York for custom-ho
purposes; authorizing the Postal Tclcgr,
company to lay cables at any point in
United States; to regulate interstate &c
merce and to take the tariff duty or books
the blind.
M puun of California chairman nr