The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-07-12
Forty.seventh Congress
SENATE.

WAInlYGToN, July l1.--Mr. Morrill,, from
the finance committee, reported favorably
senate bill repeating so much Of section
33Sj OF the Revised Statutes as imposed
charge upon export stamps on tobacco.
Placed on the calendar.
The conference report on the bank char
ter extension bill was presented and agreed
to. The consideration Of the river and
hurbor bill Vas resumed.
A large number OF amendments de-
creaslng or wholly emitting items
of the appropriation weyc .ost.
The consideration ol the amendment in
creasing sundry items occupied the re.
mainder of the day, and they were almost
| invariably successful and the proportions
of the bill were gradually swollen. Finally
Mr.. Vest, in opposing an increase of 500 900
Tor the Cumberland sound in Georgia and
| Florida, appealed to the instincts of self
| preservation OF senators generally to pre-
vent the loading down of the bill to such
an extent as to make its defeat inevitable
| Mr.. Van Wyck replied that the commerce
committee had loaded down the bill before
they reported it. and that the loading down
had been for the benefit of the country, and
the effort i'll the senate had been to equal
iZe them.
Mr., Vest further protested against en-
dangerng the material objects of the meas
ures, and among which was the Missouri
! river improvement scheme, by charging it
with innumeraole smaller expenditures.
! Mr.. Butler, i'll moving an adjournment,
said the fact seemed to be appareat that the
senate did not expect to get away from
! Washington before late in August. The
motion was voted down, and DEBATE on the
! pending amendment then proceeded under
| the five minute rule, and was subsequently
| continued upon a motion to postpone the
! bill indefinitely, which was made To afford
the Florida senator an opportunity for fur.
ther remarks. A controversy then arose
as to an alleged understanding
which some senator asserted had
had been had, that the five minute rule
was to apply to the pending motion, and in
order to settle the question the official
s,enographcrs reports were referred to,
and being read were accepted without
, question as 10 their accuracy and as settle
ment of the controversy,
An increase for the Cumberland sound
improvement was rejected. After dispos.
ing of additional amendments the bill was
referred to the senate from the committee of
I the whole, and separate votes requested
upon amendments, Mr. Ingalls, thought
OnannclS nau been 50 numerous that no
member could tell the exact statute Of the
bill, and he would therefore ask that all
amendments be reported to the senate sep.
arately. He denounced the measure ms an
annual shame, scandal and disgrace OF
American legislation.
McMil.an--"upon taat there is differ
ence of opinion"
Ingalls, -(contemptuously)- y)-"None, what.
ever. u Laughter
Mr.. Mcmillan then stated that the pres.
ent amount of the bill was $50, ,2l7 ,515, and
that the total OF items added by the com.
mittee of the whole was $4,000. He in.
sisted upon proceeding with the bill, but
at E0j, without further action, an adjourn.
ment prevailed-2S to %, and the senate
adjourned until tomorrow.
| HOUSE.
Immediately after the reading of the
journal the house went into committee of
the whole, kasson, of Iowa, in the chair,
on the sundry civil appropriation bill.
Alter completing consideration of sixty
pages of the eighty.ive pages of the bill,
the committee rose and the house al.
jurned.
NOMINATIONS.
The president to-day nominated Edwin
Higgins collector OF customs for the dis.
trict OF St. Johns, Florida, Aluedy Adee,
OF the District of Columbia, third assistant
secretary of state.