The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-25
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.

The president yesterday sent to the
senate the following nominations:
Roscoe Conkling, to be associate JUS
tice of the United States supreme
court, and A. A. Sargent to be minis
ter to Germany; A. H. Johnson, COL
lector of internal revenue of the sec
ond district of Georgia; Harry +.
Gesslon, postmaster at Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
The following resolutions were Of
fered:
Whereas, publication has been wide
ly made, by the public press of the
United States, of certain alleged COM
merclal contracts between certain COM
panies and copartnerships of individ-
uels relative to the exports of guano
and nitrates from Peru, in which medi-
alton by the government of the United
States between tine governments OF
Peru, Bolivia and Chill is declared to
be a condition for the ehectuation and
consideration of said contracts; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That the committee on
foreign relations be, and is hereby in
structed, to inquire whether any prom
Use or stipulation by which Intervention
by the United States, in the contro-
versies existing between Chill and
Peru, or Chill or Bolivia, has been ex-
pressly or implicitly given by any per-
son or persons officially connected with
the government of the United States,
or whether the influence of the govern
ment of the United States has been in
any way exerted, promised or init
mated with relation to any of said con-
tracts by any one officially connected
with the government of the United
States, and whether any one officially
connected with the United States is in.
terested directly or indirectly with any
such alleged contracts in which the
mediation, as aforesaid, of the United
States, is recited to be a condition;
and that such committee have power
to send for persons and papers in the
matter as minated, and submit a re-
port of their proceedings in the premi-
ses to the senate at the earliest posi-
bic date.
Referred to the foreign relations
committee.
The immediate deficiency appro-
priation bill and the recommendations
of the committee were read and agreed
to.
The additional items for subsistence
of Indian tribes are inserted, and also
one of $4,000 to expedite the con-
struction of an exhibition in the new
building for a national museum, and
one of $4,000 for the necessary ex-
pense of the Garfield and Burnside
funerals. The bill was finally passed
without objection.
After much contention between Bay
ard and Miller, of California, on the
claims to priority of consideration of
the tariff and commissions and Chi
nese bill, a motion by Miller to take
up the Chinese Till prevailed. Ayes
IS, nays 16; and the measure was laid
over as unfinished business.
The senate then, at 43o O'Clock,
went into executive session, and at
ass o'clock adjourned until next
Monday.
In the house Kasson offered as a
substitute the following resolution:
Whereas, 1t is alleged in connection
with the Chill and Peruvian correspond
ence recently and officially published
ON call of the two houses of congress,
that one or more ministers, plenipoten-
tiaries of the United States, were either
personally interested or improperly
connected with the business transac-
tons, and the Intervention of this
government being requested or expect
ed, and
Whereas, 1t is alleged that certain
papers in relation to the same subject
have been improperly lost or removed
from the files of the state department.
therefore be it
Resolved, That the committee on
foreign affairs be instructed to inquire
into said allegations, and elicit the facts
relating thereto, and report the same,
with such recommendation as they