Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1882-07-21
FORTY-SEvENrm CONGRESS-.
COnferecs on the Legislative Bill Una
bic to Agree,

Rollins reported on the substitute for tho bill
appropriatng 100000 for public building
at Haverhill, Mass, which was passed.
The Committee on the Judiciary reported
a bill to enable corporations to become surety
on official bonds.
The conference committee on the legisla.
tive, judicial and executive appropriation
bill reported that the committee was unable
to agree, and a new conference was ap-
pointed.
Adjourned.
The House insisted on non co occurrence of
the Senate amendments to the river and har-
Dor bill, and Messrs. Page, Robinson of Ohio,
and Reagan were appointed conference
committee.
Mr. Robinson of New York introduced a
resolution of enquiry as TO whether
an answer may be expected to the
House enquiry in regard to Americans
in foreign prisons. Also one calling
for the correspondence with James Russell
Lowell, nominally minister to England, but
| in fact doing detective work under Lord
Granville. Also one asking the Secretary of
State whether it is known if American sailors
are doing police duty at Alexandria and
another cnquirng into the injustice of clos.
ing the Suez canal at this crisis. The resolu.
tions were all referred to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
The Committee on Naval Affairs reported
back the Senate bill giving authority to the
Baltimore and Ohio telegraph company to
lay line of submarine cable between the
United States and Europe. The amendment
requires the insertion of clause forbidding
n combination to establish rates. The amend
ment was agreed to and the bill passed.
IN
Committee, reported a bill in regard
provides for the third grade, known as auxili-
aries, at 5000 year also for substitute let
ter carriers, whose compensation shall be one
dollar year and pro rata to the compen-
sation OF the curriers' whose routes they may
serve. Also providing that no boxes for col
lection of mail matter by carriers shall be
placed inside Of any building except public
building or railroad station. Also providing
that promotions in grades she'll be made at
the end OF years service. The bill was
passed.
A lively scene was enacted between Messrs.
Hewitt and Robson. The former called at
as purporting to have been spoken by Mr..
Robeson but which that gentleman had
never uttered on the floor, to the effect that
the presentation of the subject Gin regard to
the navy by the gentleman from New York,
(Mr HEWITT was specious, although il pre-
tended to be candid; it was extravagant al.
though it assumed to be careful aud was
false although it claimed to be frank.
Although it had evidently been found
ed on information gathered from
malevolcnce and Misrepresentation of
others, MIR. Hewitt had given it the stamp
of his approval with all the reckless conf
yx,Ii n1, to i,a Ii
called upon to endorse anything that i'm
pugned the conduct or misrepresented the
motives of others He (Mr. HEWITT went on
to say that he had listened attentively to the
delivery of Mr.. Robcson's remarks and
knew no such language had been used by
him on the floor. The official stem graphcr
had also informed Inn that no portion of that
sentence was to be found in his notes.
The attack was n personal one,
as it charged him with having made, not an
erroneous, but false statement. The place
to impugn his motives was the floor of the
House, where he stood face to face with
that gentleman, and not in the Record,
where there was no chance to make a reply.
He now thought that he had the right to re.
quest that the sentence should be struck out
OF the Record. He asked the Speaker to
have that done, and If the Speaker declined,
he would ask the House to order it done.
Mr.. Robson withdrew the word "falla.
cious," which he had proposed to
substitute for the word "false," upbraited
Hewitt for his connection with the Morey
letter, and rldiculed him for his pretensions
to be greater man than his father-n.law
peter Cooper.
Hewitt retaliated by saying that
man who would submit to be charac-
terized by fcllow-member as liar, periur |
er and thief was so low that anything he
might say wasof no consequence.
The Speaker declined to order the offensive
sentence struck from the Record
Adjourned.