The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-06-15

4 SUPPLY ffhe district,
Finally The bin was laid over a. unn
isbod business for tomorrow.
. Adjourned.
SENATE.
: WAsHfNGroN, Juno ia commune
ton was received from the secretary nf wn
transmitting additional infOrinaiio IN n
gard 10 Inventions and improvement
heavy OrdngnCc, 10 was accompanied b
papers 50 yOluminous that they filed DO
feet by Is inches. Referred
Several bills authorizing the loan Of tents
camp cquipage, etc, TO the Veteran assC
soclations IN various parts Of the country
were passed.
Mr.. Maxey, on behalfof the militar,
committee, announced that all application
for donations Of tents, guns, camp equip
age, etc, would be refused after the close o
tho present session of congress.
Mr.. Browns resolution supplying eacl
senator with clerk at 81 200 per annum
was considered and rejected-yeas, 20
nays, %.
Upon considering the morning business
the senate ut 2;lO Land aside the Japanese
bill and listened TO a speech by Mr.. Blair
upon iliteracy in the states and the urgent
need Tor an adequate appropriation in aid
of common schools.
Mr.. Blair held the door nearly two hours.
The senate then non-cOncurred in the
house amendments to the district water
supply bill and a conference was ordered
Mr.. Hoar called up the senate bill re-
ierring the cotton claim OF the estate Of
Sterling I. Austin to the court Of claims
and it was passed.
Mr.. Allison reported back from the
finance committee, it'll amendments the
house bank charter extension bill Ordered
printed add recommitted.
AT 4 O'Clock the Japanese indemnity bill
was proceeded with, and Mr.. Morrills
amendment ordering the destruction of
bonds in which the fund was invested, pre-
yailed-yeas, Y; nays, 20.
On motion of Mr.. Morrill, the prize money
claim vas reduced more than 500, 900 by
deducting accumulated interest.
An amendment by Mr.. Hawley allowing
5per cent. OF the fund to be paid to Japan,
after being rejected in the committee of the
whole by % to 81, was voted down in the
senate by % to %.
Upon the passage of the bill, several of
its original advocates, among them Messrs.
Congcr, Butler, and George, stated their
opposition to 1t, and in view of the
changes made by the senate Mr.
Sherman said he would vote against it be-
cause he believed it 10 be sensational bill,
and thought the money was not due Japan.
Mr. MaXey believed the money belonged
to the United States by virtue Of SOL
cmn treaty.
Mr.. Brown said he would vote now to pay
the principal to Japan with the conviction
that the interest would be paid hereafter.
The bill passed yeas, %; nays, 10. The
bill as passed authorizes and di-
reefs the president to pay the govern
ment OF Japan the sum Of $3.50 900, and
directs that all bonds now owned or con-
trolled by the state department and desig-
mated in the department reports as the
japanese indemnity fund shall be cancelled
and destroyed.
Section 2 directs the secretary Of the
treasury to pay from the treasury
$4,000 as prize money to officers
and crew of the United States ship Wyo-
ming and the steamer Tokinnio, or their
legal representatives, for services in the
strait of Simoneseki in 1863 no pay
ment to be made to the assignee of a
mariner, but to the mariner himself, his
legal representative or duly authorized
A' Hites struggle for precedencetn behalf
of the bonded spirits and Dakota bill, which
was not terminated, the senate at 6p. III. ad-
jou-ned.
HOUSE.
The house resumed consideration of the
bill 10 increase the water supply Of the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
ne OIL was amended 10 provide iSl-
ways in the Potomac river at Glen Falls,
5000 for that purpose, and
providing that one-half of the cost of the
investment he paid by taxation of
property of the district, interest to be in
Guided in the tax levy, and the principal to
be paid from the sinking fund to be created
from the surplus water revenues.
The bill then passed.
The house then went into committee of
the whole on the legislative, executive and
Judicial appropriations bill.
Several efforts were made TO engraft in
the bill amendments looking to the aboi-
ton of the custom of levying political as
upon government employees, but
all were ruled out on points of order
Pending long discussion upon the last
section of the bill directing the secretary of
war to transfer all pensions claim records in
the surveyor-general's office to the office of
the acknowledgement, the committee rose
and the house adjourned.