Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-05

| mlttee, reported the House bill to establish
dip!o matte relations with Persia and for the
| appointment of Consul General at salary
of s., 600 Passed.
The conference report on the bill for the
sale Of part of tie Omaha Indian reserva-
\ tior, in Nebraska, was concurred in
In the House Hutchins offered resolution
| proposing constitutional amendment that it
shall take two-thirds of the members of each
house TO pass bill over the Presidents veto,
instead of two-thirds of the members voting.
| Referred.
Robson presented conference report on
the hawai- bill. The only disagreement is
upon closing navy yard.
| The session OF Congress is dying of legisla-
tive old age. Monday next. when, according
to an underlined. but general understanding,
the breath Of life will finally depart from its
body, there will be less than a quorum to
catch the last words of the presiding officers
of the two chambers. Half a dozen men on
| appropriation committees of the Senate and
House are doing all the work that remains TO
/ be done before adjournment. They are con-
| ferees of the general deficiency, naval and
sundIy civil appropriation bills The legisla-
| tive, executive and judiciary BILL which has
been tossed about IN Congress for the past
month. was agreed to by both houses to-day,
the Senate recedirg from its proposition to
| the proposed transfer of clerks from the Ad-
General. Ths point of difference remains on
the naval bill, and the House c1nferees to-
| day insisted that the Secretary of the Navy
| should be authorized in his discretion to close
| such of the navy yards as he might thing ex-
pedient. A compromise on this clause will un-
| doubtedly be reached tomorrow. This House
conferees on the general deficiency bill are still
disputing the claim of the Senate for mileage
| for the extra session, but there is no danger
that the bill will fail, or delay adjournment,
because of this dispute. Senators, il is said,
| will proceed, If compelled to do so, with the
internal revenue bill, which is now being
made TO do duty in TIE Senate. in the words
OF Senator Plumb, as a ''mere diversion"
The House resolution providing for ad-'
| 1ournment tomorrow, was not acted upon by
| the Senate to day, for the reason that it is
not thought advisable to recommend it until
the last possible moment. The rules of the
| House provide that motion to susp nd the
rules shall be introduced any time during the
last six days of the session, until both houses
concur in adjournneat. The Republican
| leaders In the House do not wish a food of
bills to be rushed through under suspension
of the rules in the last hours Of the session.
and they have advised their friends in the
Senate not TO call up the resolution, at the
earliest until to morrow afternoon.
The House bill to relieve certain soldiers
ct the late war from the charge Of desertion
was passed, and amended SO as to exclude
from its benefits those who served less than
twelve mouths, or who Intentionally deserted.
The tax reduction bill was then taken up by
40 to 80. but was temporarily laid aside to
enable Slater to call up the conference report
/ upon ths Indian Creek nrphan-fund bill. On
the latter Cameron of Wisconsin. Iugalls.
Saunders snd Van Wyck, with Davis of IlIi-
| Eols, voted aye with the Democrats. The
principal point IN controversy on the Indian
bill was the item of 800 900 for the support
| OF loyal refugees of the tribe, which the Sem
ate had voted to have charged against the
Indian Creek fund, and as to which the con-
ferees reported that the money should be paid
by the Uoited States directly, and nothing in
| the Act shall prevent the latter fron being
| reimburs5d hereafter fer the same by the
Creek nation. The report, after dis
cussiop, was adopted. The debate
on the tax reduction bill was resumed.
! Beck replied to Hoar's statement Yesterday
that he had been aiding the Republican party
by his blunders, and characterized tie Nc.
kinstry bill as fsvorirg Hoar's constituents
| and expressing those of the speaker.
Hale presented the conference report on
the naval appropriation bill, and explained
that sgreeneuts had been reached on all the
items in dispute except that in reference to
the temporary closing of navy yards and the
| trsHsfer Of pa,i liable properly and stores
| SAt0l anu bIS du6uOIlZ report TO be
made upon additional lands and water front
| for the New York Navy Yard He said the
| House coDfrrses regarded the lssseniug of the
| number OF yards as she mes5 important re form
| in the bill, as they believed there wera now
too many yards. Personally the Senate con.
rees agreed with them in this. but were
constrained In view of the vote in the Sem
ate, to rep1rs formal disagreement. The
result compromises two other items, and was
as follows: Ssnate amendment for protsc-
ton OF the Government from any liability to
| complete unfinished monitors is assented to by
the House; eduction in the line of the navy had
been arranged by restoring the Commodores.
ten in lumber. 1n distributing reductions
were sgresd upon through the different grades
as follows: Rear Admirals four. Commo.
| dores fifteen, Csptains fve Commanders
three, Lieutenant Commanders eight, Lieu
tenants thirty (instead Of eighty, as proposed
| by the House), Masters twenty-five. Ensig1s
| twenty-five. AS to the retired list the con-
| ferees had not iDterfered with the pay now
received by any officers, but had provided
that hereafter officers upon the lis5 shall have
The rank and pay to which they are entitled
at the date of retirement Concerning the
duty to which officers shall be assigned who
are not at sea, that part Of the clause which
provides that such officers be assigned to such
shore duty the Secretary of the Navy can
assign. is retained IN the bill and. the remain
der is stricken out. The conference report
was accepted aud new conferees appointed
upon tie two items remaining in dispuse.
| Logan, Cameron of Pennsylvania, An
thonY, Hampton and Jones of Florida, con-
stitu:ed the select committee under the recent
resolution TO examine and report upon heavy
ordnance and projsctiles. After an executive
| session. Allison, Hale and Beck were ap-
pointed conferees on the sundry civil bill.
The consideration of the tax reduction bill
was resumed, the question being upon the
amendment providing for the reduction Of 10
per cent. after January 1st, 1888, and an adj
| ditional 10 per cent. after January 1st, 1894
! upon import duties. Pending the debate a
quorum roll call was had, and So Senators
responsibilities less than q quorum.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
WASHINGTON, August 4th.-The following
were confirmed to-day: VIM Waldorf Astor.
of New York, as Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Italy Ely Van
Ripper, United States Consul to Mexico;
Charles Seymour, of Wisconsin,, Consul st
| Canton Gustavus Coward, of Illinois, Con-
sui General at Madrid Schuyler Crosby, of
New York, as Governor of Montana Terri
United States Marshal OF Dskots, and VIM.
z. Chandler. of Illinois, as Surveyor.General
| for Idaho.
The Star Route Trial.
WASHINGTON. August 4sh.-In the star
route trial Harvey NJ. Vail, former resi-
dent of ST. Louis. and also mail contractor,
testified that he had business with the
Dorseys and Miner. He never paid Brady
for doing anything, as the indictment charged.
The proceeds of the Indian Territory routes
were thus divided: Vail one-third, J. W.
Dorsey one-third, Miner one sixth, Peck one
| sixth. In other States and Territories Vail
and Miner got one-third each, and Peck and
Dorsey oae-third between them. This part
nership continued to April, 1879. The husi-
ness, however, was q losing one The cross.
exsaiaation developed nothing.
| why he Resigns.
! WASHINGTON, August 4th.-The letter of
Lorenzo Montufsr to President Rarrios.
rendering his resignation as the Minister Of
Guatemsls to the United States, ssys: an
part, l have bean Induced to take this course.
because have not the honor TO be in accord
with you upon many important points of pol.
icy So TO Central America, and bccsuse /. /,