Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-07-11
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Important Amendments TO the In.
ternal Revenue Reduction Bill
The River and HarbOr BIll-Ths
Star Route Trials.


understood, are all right. The only diff
Guilty is in the certificate Of the District
Attorney. Il is understood that the infor-
mality in the District Attorneys certificate
will be passed over and the bond approved
tomorrow.
HOUSE PROCEEDINGS.
10 the House, Mr. Crspo, of Mas
saehusetts, submitted the conference
report on the bill to enable the
national banking associations to extend
their corporate existence. In the course of
a brief explanatory discussion, Mr.. Randall,
of Pennsylvania, Osticised the provision
that the Secretary Of the Treasury shall sus-
pend the issue of gold certif-
Gates whenever the amount OF
gold coin and gold bullion in
the Treasury, reserved for the redemption
of United States notes, falls below $780,
600, 600" He was not sure but that the pro-
viso Disseminated against silver, and he
asked that the bill be recommitted to the
conference committee, with the view to
having it drafted in better form.
Mr.. Crspo declined to yield for that pur-
pose, and the conference report was agreed
to-yeas los, nays IS.
Mr.. Neal submitted the conference re-
port on the bill TO increase the water supply
OF the District of Columbia. Agreed TO.
The House, at Las, went into committee
OF the whole on the sundrY civil appropri-
alton bill. After completing the considera-
tion OF SO Of the s. pages Of the bill, the
committee rose, and the House adjourned.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
In the Senate, Mr.. Morrill,, from the FL
nance Committee, reported amendments DO
the House bill reducing internal revenue
taxation. They report that after October
lst, 1882, the additional duty imposed IN
1875 of 25 per cent. on all molasses and
on sugars according to the Dutch
standard imported from foreign countries
shall be repealed, and there shall be a fixed
duty on steel rails at $50 per ton, and make
the duties on manufactures from hoop,
band or scroll iron the same as those i'm
posed upon the materials from which they
are made.
Mr.. Bayard remarked that the amend
ments had not been reported by unanl-
nous vote.
The,biIl with the amendments was or
dered reprinted.
The House bills providing for a public
building in Brooklyn, New York, for the
accommodation OF the post office, internal
revenue, and other government offices, at a
cost for the site aud building OF 100000,
and for like building at oxford, Missis
sippi, at a cost Of $50, 600, were reported
without amendment and passed.
The Senate then resumed consideration
OF the river and harbor bill, the question
being upon the amendment repor ed from
the special committee on the subject, ap-
propriating $500, 900 for the improvement Of
the Potomac fats. Il was passed by vote
of 80 to after a long debate.
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on the bank charter extension bill, which
was ordered printed and laid over till to-
morrow.
Mr.. Butler moved an increase Of $500 900,
making a total of $500,00 for Charleston
barbOr. He had read at the Clerks desk a
recommendation for the increase by General
Gilmore.
Mr.. Conger. of the Commerce Committee,
which reported the bill, deprecated an
| apparent disposition in Congress to
| give undue weight to recommends
| tions which did not come through
| the proper committee. He said that
| II the committee had followed the sug
gestions for an increase which had been
/ made TO them through other than official
| channels the bill would have swollen to
| SO 600, COO, He could see no justification
for the pending motion.
Mr.. Butler intimated that South Carolina
was entitled tC benefit by the committed S
liberality, and called Mr.. COnger's attention
to sundrY items for Michigan rivers In which
an increase had been allowed.
Mr. CoDger said that where his own State
had received hundreds, other States had
| been given millions for rivers. He had been
driven to wonder at his own moderation,
| when he heard the demands that were made
| by ether States. II was better, however, to
| be grand than to be insignificant in
such matters, he admitted, and to de-
/ mand millions at q time and be a man
| among men. He supposed that the Senator
| (Mr ButleT) would deem 1t unworthy Of
! himself to ask less than a couple of hun
| dred thousand of increase, but he would
| have the Senator to ref ect that there must
| be limit to the size Of the bill somewhere.
| He then argued that South Carolina had
| been among the foremost of States in for
| mer wears ia re e-isting internal improvements
| by the General Government, and that this
was hardly consistent with her present de-
/ m m3nds.
Mr.. Butler replied, criticising Mr.. Con-
| gers remarks as a speech for home con-
/ sumption, and thu scOlding and sneer' for
the INQUIRY which he had addressed to
| that Senator furnished neither iustifica-
| tion nor preteXt. He challenged its cor
rectness in various particulars, and asserted
| that the misapprehension into which the
| Senator had fallen concerning the record of
| South Carolina upon internal improve
ments was upon q par with his misstatC-
ments generally concerning the Charleston
| harbor expenditure.
Mr.. Buffers amendment was rejected.
Mr.. Harrison from the Committee on
| Transportation Routes TO the Seaboard, Of
/ fered an amendment authorz ng the ex-
penditure under the direction OF the Sec
retary of War Of $20, 600, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, in completing the sur
veys of a ship canal to conr ect the Chesa-
peake and Delaware Bays, and directing
| report to Congress as to which
OF the various routes surveyed will afford
the greatest protection in case OF war and
most effectively cheaper the cost OF tIaus-
porta'ion from Baltimore to the Atlantic
ocean, together with the cost of the i'm
provement and its approach and the annual
cost Of maintaining and operating the canal
when completed. AdoDted on a VivG UOce
vote.
Mr. Morgan said he would dem aud a sep
arate vote upon the amendment when the
bill was reported to the Senate.
At this point repeated efforts were made
to adjourn, but Mr. Mcmillan, in charge of
the bill, insisted upon having it disposed of
before the close of the day. But without
dsposing of the pending bill, the Senate,
after voting to continue the session, re-
Versed its action amid some confusion and
adjourned.
THE STAR ROUTE TRIALS.
In accordance with special order made