Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-08-02

four thousand dollars, making fourteen
thousand dollars, was voted for quarantine
service at Ship Island.
The committees amendment, reducing
the sum which the President is allowed to
spend in preventing or suppressing epidem-
les from 100000 to $4,000, was disagreed
to, and the original amendment restored.
Mr.. Harris, on whose motion this was
effected, said the contingent fund provided
would be used.
On motion of Mr.. Brown, an item of
s., 800 was inserted for q roadway from
Marietta, Ga, to the Federal Cemetery,
near that city.
Mr.. Maxey moved to restore the item of
Agreed to.
The bill was temporarily laid aside, and
the two House amendments to the amend
ments of the Senate to the naval apprOpria
ton bill concerning the completion of the
unfinished !ronclads were concurred In
The other Senate amendments were insisted
upon, ana Messrs. Hale, Logan, and Davis
OF West Virginia, were appointed conferees
on the bill.
Consideration Of the sundry civil bill was
then resumed.
The Senate, after the disposition Of
seventy-siX pages OF the bill, m ade an agree
ment to finish 1t to morrow under the five
minute rule for debate. Adjourned.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
Io the House, Mr.. Robson, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
back he naval appropriation bill, recon-
mendiny nOn-concurrence In all the Senate
amendments except to amendments Nos. So
and "a. Amendment No. GA is that
Delaying their completion ITd H0"tnGrii until
a report has been made to Congress by
the Naval Advisory Board. The committee
recommends concurrence in this amend
ment with an amendment, providing that
the report shall be transmitted to Congress
by the Secretary of the Navy.
Amendment 63 was a verbal amendment
TO the clause providing for the launching
Of the monitors, and concurrence is recon-
mended, with an amendment adding the
wOrds, with such necessary attachment
and appliances IS will render redocking Of
The shtCs unnecessary"
Mr.. Robson explained the report. The
Senate had liz its wisdom seen fit to strike
from the bill many Of the measures of re-
House. It had also thought proper to delay
until next December the completion of the
monitors, and as that only Decessitased q
delay of four or five months, he had
no special objection to that action.
He had no objection to those ships being
subjected to a hundred boards, such was
his confidence in them. He concurred the
more readily In the amendment, because he
was snxious to strip the bill so far as he
was concerned OF personal considerations,
aud Of any idea that he had any pride
10 enforce in the House or
elsewhere any proposition which was not
sscertained to be 1or the real, substantial
good OF the country.
Consideration of the Senate amendments
SeriGtinl was then proceeded with. The
amendment relating to items of appropria-
tiOn were cOncurred in, and those striking
out the legislative features of the bill were
nOn-concurred IN.
MIR. Williams, of Wisconsin, Chairman of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs, submit
ted its report on the Chili-Peru investlga-
tion. Placed on the House calendar.
The committee administer a mild Tebuke
to Senator Blair for having accepted fee
as counsel for an enterprise which was liza
bic to bscome the subject Of legislation.
Shipherd is condemned as a wholesale liar,
cOncurring with the general conclusions
reached, excepting so far as they are quail
fled in the speech delivered by him iu the
House OF Representatives on July 5th, 1882,
asked, and was granted, permission To ap-
pend q statement in regard to the Landreau
claim. In this statement he formulates bis
individual conclusions upon the methods
aud objects of the State Department as they
were set forth during his examination of the
knfz h.
The report was signed by all the members
OF the committee, who were present,
among whom were Messrs. Belmont and
Blount. Il refers to the papers missing
from the files OF the State Department as
but suggests that greater care
should be exercised in keeping the files
intact. 1t also declares that nothing was
in the testimony to implicate any
foreign Minister or official of the United
States, or Senator or member of Congress,
in any improper effort to influence their
official action in the interest OF any claim
against Peru.
Mr. Anderson, OF Arkansas, offered a
resolution providing for a final adjournmept
Of Congress at IL O'Clock on Friday, August
4th, 1882.
noisy discussion arose upon motion to
refer this resolution to the Committee on
Appropriations. The Republicans objected
10 any action looking to an adjournment be-
fore the revenue tax bill has been acted
he motion to refer was adopted upon, but
yeas 80, nays 81.
A message was received from the Presi-
dent announcing that he withheld his sigma
lure from the river and harbor bill because
he amounts appropriated are greatly in ex-
eess of those of the fiscal year just ended.
The Senate bill, appropristing $67S, ,624
Tor printing and binding the reports of the
ninth census, was uassed.
The bill providing for printing five hun
1red thousand copies Of the report of the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition was defeated.
Adjourned.
THE VETO MESSAGE.
The following is the full text of the Presi-
lent's message, vetoing the river and har
lor bill:
To the House Of Representatives: Having
watched with much interest the progress OF
he House bill No. 6,242. entitled IAN act
making appropriations for the construction,
epair and preservation of certain works on
ivers and harbOrs, and for other purposes"
md having, since 1t was received, carefully
it, after mature consideration, l
lm constrained to return It herewith to the
1ouee Of Representatives, In which it
originated, without my signature, and with
ny objections to It's passage.
Many of the appropriations in the bill are
learly for the general welfare and most
,enefcent in their character. Two objects,
or which provision is made, were by me
onsidered so important that l felt it my
uty to direct to them the attention Of Con
.ress In my annual message in December |
asst. urged the vital importance of legisla- |
ion for the reclamation of marshes and for |
be establishment of hsrbOr lines along the |
'otomac front Of Washington. In April last |
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reputation for the improvement of the |
lississippi river.
It is not neces sary that l should say that |
lhen my signature would make the bill ap-
ropriati1g for these and other valuable ma |
Ional obiects law, it is with great reluc- |
lnce anu only under a sense of duty that | |
Tithhold 1t. My principal objection to the |
i'll is that it contains appropriations for |
not for the common defense, or |
eneral welfare, and which do not promote
among the States. These pro-
isions, on the contrary, are entirely for the |
eneft of particular localities in which it is
roposed to make Improvements.
regard such appropriation OF the public /
money as beyond the powers given by the i
constitution to Congress and the President. |
feel the more bound to withhold my sig |
ature from the bill because Of the peculiar /
wills Whlcn manifestlY would result from |
bis infraetlon OF the Constitution. Appro-
riations of this nature to be devoted purely |
D local objects tend to an increase in num- /
er and in amount as the citizens of a State
nd that money, to raise which they in
ommon with the whole country are taxed. |
to be expended for local Improvement in
mother State. They demand similar benefits
Or themselves, and it is not unnatural that
hey should seek to indemnify themselves
or such use Of the public funds by securing |
appropriations for similar improvements In |
heir own neighborhood. Thus, as the bill |
ecomes more Objectionable, it secures more