Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-27
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, July 26.-As soon as
the routine orders Of business were
disposed of, Senator Hale moved to
postpone all present and prior orders,
including the revenue bill, and to
take up the naval appropriation bill.
A long discussion followed, IN which
the motion was construed on both
sides of the chamber as having the
effect to dispose of the subject of
revenue and taxation for this session,
and to facilitate a probable ad
iournment IN the course of d few
days.
In the further progress of the de
bate the position OF the friends of
the revenue bill was commented on
as virtual abandonment of it. The
vote was finally takeE when a mos
ton to proceed with the naval ap-
preparation bill prevailed; yeas 81,
nays 26.
.oeua,ors Hale, Hoar, Ingalls,, Kel
logg, McDill and Plumb were the
Republicans voting with the Demo
Gratis in favor of the motion. The
negative vote was entirely Repubh-
can except that Senator Malone, and
Senator Davis, of Illinois, also voted
no.
Senator Van Wick offered the fol
lowing: Whereas, the tariff COM
mission, from their headquarters at
Long Branch, having on two occa-
sions, implorlngly appealed to the
public for information, and no res
sponse has been made thereto, and
after inviting into its presence, manu-
facturers, importers and traders, 1t
Is now wrestling with the serious
question, whether the gentlemen so
invited can relate their experiences,
and explain their theories without
taking an oath, duly administered, to
tell the truth, evidently with the
laudable desire of protecting itself
from imposition,
Resolved, that the Attorney-Gen-
eral, as soon as in his Judgment, he
can prudently withdraw his
personal attendance from the Star
Route prosecutions, and can fully
satisfy the President and his Cabinet
that members of Congress are not
officers of the government, and as to
the legality of political assessments,
be directed to proceed to Long
Branch to aid said commission III de-
ternining the above important and
intricate question, and he shall adj
wise what to him may seem proper
to protect said commission from i'm
position by men wise IN matters of
trade and revenue, either by strin>
gent oaths or other pains and penal>
ties. Numerous objections to the
consideration of the resolution were
made simultaneously, and it went
over without action.
The Senate took up the naval ap-
preparation bill as in committee of
the whole. Senator Harris, in the
chair, and Senator Hale, in charge of
the bill, addressed the committee.
Senator Came1on, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the naval committee, at
the instance of that committee.
moved to reoommit the bill, with in
structions to the appropriations com-
mittee to eliminate all of its pro
visions relating to the reorganization
of the navy. Passing over the merits
and demerits of those provisions,
protested against the assumption by
the appropriations committee of
functions which legitimately be
longed to the naval committee. This
proposition brought on general de
bate, which was still pending when
the Senate went into executive ses~
sion, and sooa after adjourned.
The Senate, in executive session,
confirmed the nomination of Merritt
L. Joslyn to be Assistant Secretary
of the Interior.
HOUSE.
WAsH1NGToN,J July 26.-Mr. Hiscock,
of New York presented the confer
ence report on the general deficiency
appropriation bill, stating that the
conference committee had been unas
bic to agree upon only the matter in
controversy-the payment of mileage
to Senators for attendance at the ex.
ira session.
Mr.. Hiscock moved that the House
recede from it's disagreement to that
item, stating that though he was op>
rosad m n ha did mt dasira that