Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-12
Congregational Votes.

/ HOUSE COMMITTEE APP0INTM ENTS.
| The Speaker yesterday announced the follow
| ing committee appointments: Mr.. Bisbee, Of
| Florida, on select committee on the law respect
Ing the election of president and e-presdent
and on militia; Nj Hit, of Illinois, on railways
and canals and payment Of pensions bounty and
back pay: Mr.. Lynch. of Mississippi, on educa-
ton and labor and militia; Mr.. Mackcy. of South
Carolina. on public health and manufacturers;
Mr.. Smalls, of South Carolina. on agriculture
and militia; Mr.. Shelley. of Alabama, on patents
and expenditures In the Post Office department:
Mr. Reese, of Georgia. Oh coinage weights and
measures and census.
No BANKRUPTCY LAW THIS SESSION.
| The recommttal of the bankruptcy bill to the
| Judiciary committee in the Senate Yesterday. is
generally regarded by its opponents as settling
its fate for this Congress. This opinion is shared
too, by some of the friends of the bill. In tact
early yesterday afternoon, Mr.. Ingalls,. who re-
ported the bill from the Judiciary committee
expressed the opinion that the Lowell substitute
would be adopted. and that then both bills
would be defeated. The chances are tnat the
| Till willnOt get back before the Senate again.
Southern and western members mostly are not
! liz favor OF the passage of any bankrupt law. A
| leading southern Senator explained the grounds
of opposition by himself and colleagues of the
south to STAR reporter as follows This
government is more than century old. and for
ninety years of its existence we have got along
without any bankrupt law. Our experience
with federal legislation of this kind has not been
of a nature to commend it to us. Every attempt
OF the federal government to legislate for the
collection OF debts has been msera-
bic failure 1t has produced hardly any
thing mere than perjury, fraud and corruption.
Inc agricultural states do not want this le9isla-
ton 1t is the New York and New England
creditor classes who want it. Their object is to
get federal legislation that will give them
stronger hold upon the debtor classes than the
! state laws confer. They want to collect their
debts through the federal courts. We are Op-
posed TO extending the jurisdiction of the federal
courts. and. besides, we maintain that the state
courts make ample provision for the collection
OF debts We want the New England creditors
to collect their debts others have TOBY the
legal machinery provided for in the courts of the
states"
Star.-"DO you think the recommittal of the
bill kills it:'
Senator.-"Oh, yes, it is dead enough"
CONTRIBUTIONS By THE SENATE.
The Senate in executive session yesterday
confirmed q large number of nominations. in
Guiding those of General Pope and Colonel
Mackenzie to be major general and brigadier
general. respectively. No contest was made
upon any of them. Other nominations con-
1rmed were Major VIM. A. Rusker. paymaster.
10 DE deputy paynaster general; Major George
II. Elliott. to be lieutenant colonel. engineer
corps: Major David II. Clendenin. Sth cavalry, to
be lieutenant colonel. Sd cavalry; Lieutenant
Colonel VIM. p. Royal. Sd cavalry. to be colonel,
4th cavalry; Major A. Piper 4th artillery, to be
lieutenant colonel. LIST artillery.
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMMITTEE.
Gen. Wright. chief of engineers, USA: Gen.
Parks, corps of engineers, U.S.A, and Gen.
Hutton, engineer of the works at Baltimore.
Will appear before the special Mississippi river
committee tomorrow. The committee will also
take the testimony of members of the Mississip-
pi river commission and others. The committee
expect to be ready to make their report in jan
uary. 1883.
TO ADVANCE EDUCATION
The House committee on education and
labor yesterday authorized Chairman Sher-
win to report favorally his bill appro-
years, to advance the public education.