Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-15

Speaker decided that it was not in order at
the present time to consider the report of the
committee. The House then, at II. 40 L. NJ,
went into committee of the whole on the gen.
eral deficiency appropriation bill. The item of
S32, 1928 to meet liabilities incurred by the
Yorktown Centennial Commission was object
ed to by several members, who censured the
extravaganza of the entertainers OF our foreign
guests, and was defended by others, who de-
clared that it was an unseemly thing Tor Con-
gresS to stand and criticise the expense of the
paltry entertainment offered to the representa-
tives of the French people. Cobb of Indiana
sent to the Clerks desk and had read the bill
for wines, liquors and cigars used in the enter
Gaining, amounting to Sc, ,529, which he con-
demned. After lengthy debate, in which
several members participated, during which it
was disclosed that the bill already referred to
had been paid, Mr.. Cobb moved to strike 1t
out the enacting clause Rejected. Only four
pages of the bill were considered, when the
committee arose. The House took a recess
until 8 O'Clock, and after the recess the pro-
ceedings were devoted to the consideration OF
the general deficiency appropriation BILL
In the Senate on the 7th, the greater por-
tion of the session was devoted to the consid-
Grafton of the District of Columbia appropria-
tion bill-less than quorum Of the members
being present.
In the House, the general deficiency appro-
priation bill was considered in committee OF
the whole.
In the Senate on the 9th, Mr.. Blair's resolu-
tion calling for information as to the quantity
of lands embraced in land grants to certain
railroads, with the quantity patented and the
amounts accruing for roads constructed etc.,
was adopted. The list of roads mentioned, as
farther enlarged upon the suggestion Of Blair,
is as follows Sioux City, and St: Paul st:
Paul and Pacific; first division Winona and
St. Peter Cedar Rapids and Missouri River
Mobile and Girard Pensacola and Georgia
Iowa Falls and Sioux City North Louisiana
and Texas West Wisconsin Lake Superior
and Mississippi Alabama and Chattanooga.
The District of Columbia appropriation bill
was passed. Mr.. Hawley reported from the
military committee joint resolution appro-
priating $4,000, or 80 much thereof as may be
needed, to furnish food to the people made
destitute by the floods in the State of Missis-
sippi. He said the planters there had for
long time been paying field hands, in expecta-
tion of being remunerated by the coming crop,
but that the new flood had dissipated these ex-
pectations and necessitated this additional
provision. The joint resolution passed.
In the House, a bill was passed increasing
to forty dollars per month the pension of any
Union soldier, who in the late war lost an
arm, leg, hand or foot, or received disabilities
equal thereto. The general deficiency appro-
priation bill was passed, and Immediately
thereafter the House went into committee of
the whole on the legislative, executive and jul
dicial appropriation bill.
In the Senate on the 9th, several bills were
introduced, and pending measures discussed,
but final action was had on none of them, and
at 42O P. NJ, after short executive session,
the Senate adjourned until Monday.
In the House, the session was devoted to
legislative, executive and judicial appropra-
tion BILL
In the House, on the 10th, Immediately after
the reading of the journal resumed the consid-
Grafton of the legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill. The entire day was
spent in committee, and after the considera-
tion of eighty of the one hundred pages of the
bill the committee rose and the House at sos
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