Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-04-29
CONGRESSIONAL,
SENATE.

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 28.-
Senator Butler called up the Senate
bill appropriating $4,000 to con>
tinue the improvement at Charleston
harbor. Passed.
Senator Congor submitted the
conference report on the life saving
service bill. He said that, with few
exceptions, stations provided for in
the Senate had been retained, and
stations stricken out were the follow
ing: One at, or near, Fort Morgan,
Mobile Bay and one at, or near
Cape Conavrel instead of those on
the Florida coast, but two stations
were authorized and like change is
made concerning the South Carolina
coast. The two stations there are to
located at or near Georgetown and
Charleston. The Senate provisions
for the payment of wages to surf,
men laboring under disability and to
their wives and families in case of
their death, and requiring the ap
pointment of assistant superinten~
dents and keepers as well as surf.
men without reference to their poll
tics were acceded to by the House.
Senator Morgan protested against
the strikin 2 g>6ut of the Mobile Bay
station, and after a~stta4ttement by
Senator Mcpherson of the reasons.
for the action OF the conference re-
ported was adopted.
The House bill appropriating
$4,000 to continue wofk at He'll
Gate, New York, was reuo rted from
the Commerce committee, and Was
! passt d
Tue Horse bill fixing the ZINE for
holding elections in West Virginia
Mas-4ls5 reported fAvorably and
passed.
The political disabilities bill came
up as first III order on the calender,
AID after rambling discussion upon
whether the discussion should pro-
ceed during the time reserved for
it upon the calender, pending the
question, it was stated To be upon a
motion to refer the bill to the Judi
ciary committee.
Debate upon the bill itself was
then continued, bat the subject went
over without action.
The anti>Chinese bill came up as
unfinished business, the question be
lag upon concuring in the amends
ment striking out the 18th section,
which construes the words Chinese
laborers" to mean both skilled and
unskilled laborers."
A vote was taken and the amend
ment striking out the fifteenth Sec
ton was lost. Yeas 20, nays 25.
The negative vote was made up of
Democrats, with Senators Miller of
California, Jones of Navada, Chill
colt and Cameron of Wisconsin, Da-
Wis of Illinois, voting with the Re
publicans.
Several amendments were offered
looking to the modification of the
fourteenth and fifteenth sections,
but all were voted down, and the
bill finally passed substantially as it
came from the House. Vote 80 to
Is.
Senators Vance, Platt and McDill
were constituted as a committee of
investigation into the affairs of the
Sixth Collection District of North
Carolina.
After an executive session the
Senate adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, D. G., April 28.-The
House resumed consideration of the
Lynch Chalmers contested election
case.
Mr.. Calkins, of Indiana, stated
that he had intended to call the pre-
vious question at 2 o'clock to day,
but on consideration, he had deter
mined not to call for vote until to
morrow.
Mr.. Hooker, of Mississippi, in the
course of speech in support of the
claims of Chalmers, ridlculed and
criticised a speech recently delivered
by Mr.. Moore, of Tennessee, and in.
quired whether that gentleman S
business constituency were afraid
to vote the Republican ticket.
MIR. Moore: Il wish to answer on
my personal responsibility as an
honorable man, that a gentleman,
tor forty years merchant in Missis-
sippi, told me that during my cam
palgn, I am Republican in heart,
but I can not afford to say SO living
in Mississippi selling goods; if 1 did
the people would not trade with
me. 1 could give that gentleman s
name here if thought it was safe to
do So" (Derisive laughter on Dem
ocratic side)
MIR. Hooker 81 undertake to as
sert.that the gentleman from Ten
nessee not only is guilty of a mis-
take, but that he utters slanders on
the bod, honorable constituency
which he assumes to represent here,
in his merchantile capacity. I un-
dertake to assert that there is not 6
man in Mississippi, who has white
: skin, who not courage tc
J speak his sentiments. The
contestant in this case sets al
exampleto the man, whom gentlemen
maligns, and one which the
gentleman would do well to follow
You stand monumental contredic-
ton to your own proposition. Yor
: are monument to the fact. that the
people of Mississippi do not, accor
4 ding to your own confession, avoid
. man because he is q Republican. Fl,