Huntsville gazette., 1882-01-21
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, JANUARY 21 1882

that no persons maintaining pofygamOus
marital relations, or teaching or melting 9TH
ers to do so, be admitted to the House of Rep
resentatives as delegate from any Territory
After debate by vote OF yeas l09, nays l39
the House determined that no question of
privilege was involved in the resolution.
THE Senate bill for bridge across the
Missouri, near st. Charles, passed, 18th, with
amendments. The Sherman bill was dis
cussed by Messrs. Garland, Allison, Vest. and
Plumb-the latter renewing his amendment
requiring the use of all funds now in the
Treasury for the redemption of United States
notes in excess of 500, ,000,0 600 in the redemp
ton of 81 per cents, such redemption to be-
made in not less than three instalments, said
sum of Sl00,000000 so left in the Treasury not
to be increased or diminished except in re-
demption of United States notes. Laid over.
Mr.. Brown offered a resolution declaring it
| inexpedient and unwise to contract the cur
rency by withdrawal from circulation OF
what are known as silver certiiicates, or to
| discontinue or further restrict silver COIN
| age; that gold or silver coin based upon
proper rates OF equivalent between the two
metals, and issues of paper predicated upon
and convertible into coin on demand consti-
| tute the proper circulating medium of this
country. Laid over temporarily. The
House passed the Census appropriation bill
| $4,000.
THE Senate, on the 10th, passed the Gen.
sus deficiency bill. When Mr.. Ingalls's reso-
| luton that the Pensions Arrears act ought not
| to be repealed came up Mr.. Voorhees,
! said the denunciationS of the act by the press
|
organs of all kinds of corporation wealth,
were made without the slightest basis for
| their support Justification repetition
of these denunciations by members of the
| Senate had filled him with amazement and
! pain. If the Senator from Kentucky Beck)
| should make good his allegations against the
/ Pensions Arrears act its supporters would
have couse to hang their heads in
shame; he Woorhees) claimed that it
was work of justice ON the part of the
Government, dictated by duty and patriot
| pupStlOn raised whether
| the payment of pension should date from
| the wounding, disease or death of a soldier,or
| should not commence until he had spent fif-
teen or sixteen years in hunting up proofs of
| the fact of his wounds or disease. He secuted
| as absurd the charge that claim agents pro-
cured passage of the act; the frauds com
| mitted were trivialin amount, compared with
that in popular imagination. Nh. Beck said
| that in the passage of the bill both Houses of
| Congress were imposed upon by pension
claims agents, who devised the scheme for
| their benefit, and that if its actual cost had
| been fOretold or in anv way indicated at the
| time the bill would not have received the sup
| port of any of the members who voted for it.
| He gave outline of the progress of the bill,
| showing it had passed the House under suS-
! pension of the rnles which cut off debate;
that the measure passed was not the one
| recommended by the committee, but one that
| had not been before the committee; that the
| question was passed for action upon the eve
| of adjournment, when members were going
| home for reelection and were indispOsed to
| vote against a proposition which upon its
| though not understood, was allowed to pass
| without discussion. The adoption of the reso-
| lutions would be equivalent to telling the
| House that it might as well cease to consider
| all notifications of the law, as the Senate had
committed itself against them. Mr.. Ingalls,
"1f majority of members think, with the
Senator, that the Arrears bill was fraud and
that every man who voted for it
ignorant and selfish coward, invita-
ton will be given the House to pass their
bill.' Mr.. Cameron (Pa.) spoke upon the
general subject of taxatiOn taking as his text
his pending resolution declaring it inexpedi-
ent to reduce the revenue by abolishing all
existing internal revenue taxes except those
upon highwines and distilled spirits. .....In
the House, Mr.. Rcbeson called up as privi-
legged question the report of the Committee
on Rules, increasing the membership on the
various committees. A point of order and
the question of consideration being raised, it
was decided not to consider the question of
privilege. Bills were introduced: BY Mr.
Parsons-To define the crime of bgamy; by
Mr.. Hazelton-Authorizing fractional paper
currency; by Mr.. Acknowledging four years
the term of office of Electors and giving them
power to act in case of death or disability of
the President or Vice President; by Mr.. Bur
rows-To retire national bank notes.