Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-02-02
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, February 1.
President pro tenn. submitted from
theCommissioner of Internal Revenue
a report in response to resolution
of December Il, relative to the sale
of farms or plantations in South
Carolina for collection of direct taxes
in insurrectionary districts.
On motion of Senator Window, a
resolution was adopted requesting
the President to communicate the
correspondence between the executive
department and diplomatic agents of
the United States relating to the
present Congress of the American
nat ons, or any of them in 1882.
Senator Vance asked the consider
alton of his resolution calling for in
formation concerning the miscon-
duct or irregularities of the internal
revenue officials in the 9th collector
district of North Carolina.
Senator Hoar objected, as he re-
garded the resolution as reflection
upon the treasury department.
The motion was not pressed.
The Senate then took up Senator
Morgan's pending resolution, calling
for an authentic statement of all
tests made by the Mixed Commission
in reference to heavy ordnance being
built by the United States, and also
for the printing of testimony taken
in the Congress on the subject of
heavy ordnance and projectiles, and
the tests to which they have been
subjected.
Senator Hawley suggested that the
amount of printing required by the
resolut on, if it was to cover all the
imprinted matter of the ordnance
bureau, as, he supposed it did, would
be illimitable.
A discussion followed, in which
Senator Morgan explained that lis
purpose was to have published the
matters which the ordnance bureau
had suppressed. He had been in-
formed that that bureau was in the
hands OF ring interested in certain
inventions, and it's chief officer held
patents upon inventions which the
ring had caused to be patented. He
wanted to have the whole matter
righted to the bottom and an oppor
tunity given to American inventors
to compete with the favorites of the
bureau.
Senator Hawley thought the charg.
OF the Senator from Alabama wa.
based upon representation of dissat
istied inventors who had not received
the rewards they had expected. Ell,
suggested as more direct and les
expensive means of attaining the oh
Ject of the resolution the selection o
committee of the Senate to go owe
what he called mass of rubbish ant
ascertain what portion ought to b
printed He believed the ordnanc,
bureau, like every other governmen
depari ment, to be conducted by hon
oaable men.
A discussion followed, occupyin,
| more than an hour, and was partici
, pated in by Senators Allison an
Hoar, the latter observing that tn
estimated cost of printing would b
$4,000.
E Senator Morgan reiterated hi
4 charges, and Senator Allison ex
planned that Congress had provide
at its last session for an efficient ties
of the ordnance ordered by th
q government, by an independen
! board.
;. The resolution was finally lai
! aside informally, without action.
v The Senate, at 1.20 p. NJ, took u
~ the per cent. bond bill.
: Senator Morgan advocated as a
additional section, an amendment q
follows: That the agreement mad
with the holders of bonds of th
6 United States, since the adiournmer
+ of the 46th Congress, by which IL
II rate of interest on such bonds is re
IF duced to 81 per centum per annun
e is hereby fully ratified and col
IL frmed, according to the terms ar
5, interest of the same agreed upon.
h On motion of Senator Pendleto
1t the Senate concurred in the action
the House, fixing February 7th
the time for the Garfield memoir
exercises
& HOUSE.
D. MIR. McKinly, of Ohio, offered
resolution setting apart the mornir