The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1882-03-17
AT THE CAPITAL.
Prolonged Discussion of the Anti
Chinese Bill in the House.
The Drift Of Senate Proceedings and
Current of Capital Gossip.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

BEN a Ih-
Washington, March 16.-Harrison
asked non-concurrence in the second
amendment, which directs the use Of a
portion of the appropriation for the
hire of laborers to strengthen the threat
ened levees. He thought creating a
separate levee fund as involving expen-
ditures not foreseen, and further. that
the people threatened with disaster
ought to contribute their labor to pro-
tect their homes from the flood. The
second amendment was not c%oncurred
in.
Sherman presented a protest made by
Union soldiers against the passage Of
any bill restoring to the rolls Of the
army Fitz John Porter.
voorhees, introduced a bill to increase
the pensions of persons who have lost
a leg or an arm or been permanently
disabled in them in tine military or
naval service. 1t increases the pensions
Of such persons from 1856 to S4S per
month, and provides that they shall be
paid the difference between said sums
monthly from February %, 1877, to the
time of the approval of this act.
A bill for the erection of a public
building at Terre Haute for the use of
the postoffice and government offices
was passed,
Logan addressed the senate upon the
measure introduced bp him to appro-
pirate and expend the entire income de-
rived from internal revenue taxes on
the manufacture and sale Of distilled
spirits for the education of all children
living in the United States. He urged
the peculiar propriety of devoting the
whisky tax to the education of the
young. At the close Of his remarks the
bill was referred.
Sherman, Hoar and Voorhees, were
appointed on the joint committee to
provide for Marshall's statue.
More Peru-Chili correspondence was
received and referred.
voorhees, offered a resolution, which
was adopted, directing inquiry and re-
port by the military committee whether
the section Of the revised statutes de-
declaring hat persons honorobly dis
charged from the military or naval SER
vice by reason of disability resulting
from wounds or sickness, incurred in
the line of duty, shall be preferred for
appointments to civil offices provided
they possess the necessary capacity for
the proper discharge Of the duties of
such offices, is in full force or has been
repealed or modified; also whether it
has been openly disregarded and vio-
lated; whether it applies to deputy pro-
yost msrshals, Quartermasters not dis
abled, and whether additional legisla-
tien is necessary to cause the section
to be enforced by the various depart
ments.
The consideration of the p~ostoflce
appropriation bill was resumed, the
question being on the senate commit
tees amendment increasing the appro-
priation for special facilities from $780,
600 to $3.50 zoe; changing the term
'trunk lines'' to railroad lines,'' and
adding a proviso that ''said facili-
ties shall be ratably distributed as near
as may be on railroad lines leading to
and from the principal cities in differ
emit sections of the United States"
The amendment was adopted, as also
items of increased expenditures recon-
mended by the committee as follows:
Miscellaneous items, $40, 600; railway
postofice clerks, $4,000; route agents,
$3.50, 900; mail messengers, $4,000.
The amendment allowing the use of
department stamps as heretofore, pre-
vailed after discussion.
Edmunds moved an amendment by
inserting the following: "And the sec
rotary of the senate and clerk of the
house Of representatives shall have
power to use official envelopes prepared
by them for all official business in their
respective offices, and the use of such
envelopes for any purpose other than
such official business shall be punished
by penalties imposed by law for the
illegal use of such envelopes; and each
member of the senate and house of rep
resentatives and each delegate from
each territory shall have the right to
send through The mail any letters or
packages containing only printed or
written matter. not exceeding Two
ounces in weight, identified by his au-
tograph signature, without payment Of
postage"
Ferry opposed the amendment. He
believed that envelopes after having had
affixed to them the signatures of men,
bers, would be used by persons other
than members, and that in this way the
old frauking privilege abuse would be
revived.
HOUSE.
Washington, March 16.-Converse
(Ohio) introduced a bill to prohibit the
consolidation of railroad companies.
Belmont IN. W offered the follow
ing resolution, which was agreed to
Resolved, That the committee on for
eign affairs be directed to demand from
Jacob r. Shepherd, esq, IN. " copie.
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