Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-03-01
taken from the Speakers table and

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passed.
Mr.. Hiscock, chairman of the COM
mlttee on appropriations. reported
back the immediate deficiency bill,
with the Senate amendments, recon-
mendIng concurrence in some and
non-co concurrence In otheas of those
amendments. ssThe q report was
agreed to. ID .aafss asz twae
Mr.. Calkins, chairman of the cons
mittee on elections, submitted the
report of that committee on the con
tested election case of Campbell VS..
Cannon, accompanied by resolution
declaring that neither contes-
tant nor contestee is entitled
to a seat on the floor. He also
submitted the minority report de-
claring Mr.. Campbell entitled to a
seat, while Mr. Moulton, of Illinois,
submitted the further resolution,
signed by Messrs. Atherton, Davis,
Qllinois,) Moulton, and Jones, of
Texas, declaring that Mr.. Cannon
was duly elected delegate to Con-
gress. The reports were laid on the
table for future action.
The house at lao went into com
mittee of the whole, Mr. McCook, of
New York, in the chair, on the mill
tary academy appropriation bill. It
appropriates S318,057.
Speaking to a formal amendment,
MIR. Atkins, of Tennessee, entered
upon a personal explanation regard
ing an attack made upon himself
and seAeral other members in the
columns of the New York Times.
Every other member named also re-
ieved their minds on the subject.
After considerable time had been
thus consumed, Mr.. Blackburn called
attention to the bill under considera
tion, and, on his motion, an amend
ment was adopted appropriating
$4,000 for the astronomical instru-
ments to equip the new observatory
at the Academy.
The committee then rose and re-
ported the bill to the House, when
1t was passed.
Mr.. Robinson, of New York, by
request, introduced bill to organize
a National Labor League Railway
Company of America, for the pur-
pose of constructing, operating and
maintaining a railway from the Allan
tic seaboard to Chicago, st. Louis,
and Council Bluffs, 1t provides,
that, for the purpose of establish
ing equal rights in commerce,
among the States and for the pur-
pose of securing the railway high
ways under such control as to pres
vent combinations against the public
good. Certain gentlemen shall be
as a commission, under
the name of the National Board of
Inter State Transportation. In the
list of names, appeared the follow
ing: Francis B. Thurber, Thomas
Kinsella, A. B. Mullett, j. B.
j. Pose Hodmett,
Nicholas Muller, and VIVA. Fl. Grace,
who, with their colleagues, are au-
thorized to carry out the purposes
of this act by determining upon the
terminal points of railroad to be
constructed, and to issue capital
stock to the extent of $40,000,000.
1t further provides that when the
road shall have been constructed to
Council Bluffs it may be continued
to San Francisco, and in aid of its
grants to it every
alternate section of unoccu-
pied public land through
which it may pass for 80 miles on
the east side of the track. In order
to relieve the wants of labor, ode
pressed by contraction of curren-
cy,' the workmen employed in build
ing the railroad shall be paid by the
government one dollar a day, and
the remainder of his wages in certifi
Gates of Indebtedness redeemable in
365 co. bonds. The bill was res
ferred.
The Speaker announced Messrs.
Hiscock, Robson and Cox as House
conferees on the immediate defcien-
cy bill
Adjourned