The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-22
NUMBER l2.
xLvIIth CONGRESS-.
SENATE
IFIRsT HEssIoN.

The Japanese indemnity bill came up as un-
finished business, the question being upon Mr..
Morrill's amendment to pay back in legal coin
the exact sum received from the Japanese
Government namely, $7S5, 900. After discuss
ion the amendment prevalled-yeas, 26 nays,
20. Mr.. Window, Chairman Of the Committee
on Foreign Relations, from which the bill was
reported, said he spoke deliberately when he
asserted that to pass the bill as amended would
be burning shame to the United States. It
was now an admission that &786, 900 belonged
to Japan and had been unjustly withheld. On
motion of Mr.. Logan the Senate insisted upon
its amendments to the Army appropriation bill,
and Messrs. Logan Plumb, and Ransom were
appointed conferees.
Mr. Browns resolution for supplying each
Senator with a clerk at q salary of 81, 200 q
year, was rejected by yeas 20. nays %. The
Japanese idemnity bill was considered in Com
mittee. Mr.. Sherman said he would vote
against it because he believed it to be a sensa-
tional bill, and thought the money was not due
Japan. The bill passed-yeas 35, nays 13. The
bill, as passed, authorizes and directs the
President to pay to the government of japan
$785, 900 in legal coin, through the United
States Minister to Japan, and directs that all
Department and designated in the department
reports as "the Japanese Indemnity fund, }"
shall be Cancelled and destroyed. Section 2
directs the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
from the Treasury $4,000 as prize money to
the officers and crews of the United States ship
Wyoming and the steamer Taking, or their
legal representatives. for services in the Straits
of Shimonoseki in 1868 and 1854; no payment
to be made to the assignee of any mariner, but
to the mariner himself, his legal representatives
or his or their duly authorized attorney.
The joint resolution to pay Southern mail
Contractors for 1859, 1860, and 1861 WAS consid-
cred Mr.. Conger opposed the bill. when it was
A.. L. ~l1l l~,h kol~1
Mr.. Bayard addressed the Senate in favor OF
prolongation of the bonded period. Mr.. Will
fiarns advocated the House bill, and opposed
the Senate Committees amendments. Mr..
Sherman took sf opposite view. The bill went
over without action. During the session
mitting the full Trescott and Walker Blaine
correspondence, which was ordered printed and
referred. .. r ..s .s -5
The House bill relating to the bonded period
upon distilled spirits was again up as upfin-
ished business. Mr.. Window, in opposition to
the bill as passed by the House, objected to it
as unnecessary and as aggravating the evils it
professed to cure. He said it proposed part
nerslip between the Government and the own
ers of whisky in bond or hereafter to be bonded,
whereby the former Is to put in two-thirds of the
capital, assume all the risks, and bear all the
losses, while the latter is to enjoy all the benefits
and profits of the business. 1t would want tOl
SURRENDER tne ponus aHeauy 6Nen Ao1 eIo LUZ
amount of $76, 800, 600, and substitute graduated
bonds which amounted to 81, 600, 600 or the en-
tire 81, 600, 900 gallons now in bond. He further
charged that it would invite and encourage
immense rings and combinations, dangerous to
the revenues of the Government and wholly in
the interest of speculation. Various amend
ments were rejected. Mr.. Mcmillan moved to
pos, pone the bill and amendments indefinitely,
and the motion prevailed-yeas 80, nays 20.
Mr.. Hoar introduced bill to provide for the
performance of the duties of the Presidential
Office under certain circumstances. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee bill to erect a
! statue of Benjamin Franklin, in Washington,
was introduced. The bill to enable national
banking associations to extend their corporate
existence was taken up, and considered to the
sixth section, and laid over. Among the bills
introduced was one to permit freedmen to
enter certain lands in the Indian Territory.