Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, MARCH 25 1882
} they SHAH deem to be Of the greatest tn

portance to the preservation of the rhe
channel, the prevention of devastation from
breaks and OverhowS, ans the trade and pos
tai service, under the rules OF the War De
partment. An appropriation of $1,000 600 j.
made for this purpose. Any expenditure on
no money is to be paid for leyee work until
the same Is approved by the Secretary
OF War. The Post Office appropriation
Dill gave rise TO O prOtracted discussion, was
amended, and went over as unfinished bust
ness. The tariff commission bill was reached
and MIR. Alison submitted the report OF the
Committee on Appropriations, with testimo-
ny taken in what is known as the Treasury
contingent fund investigation. Report md
testimony tabled temporarily..-... In the
pay claims already allowed A resolution in
quiing into the legality of Sergt Nrssoi. :
conviction was referred. The flood relief bill
bill was taken up and the remainder of the
session was mainly occupied with personal
alteration between the Chair and Mr.. Money,
of Mississippi.
THE House amendment to the flood relief
resolution, increasing the appropriation s5o,
600, was agreed to by the Senate. March 10th,
but the amendment directing the use of mon
ey for hire of laborerS on the leveeS was not
concurred in. The Logan bill to devote to
educational purposes the entire proceeds of
the liquor tax was referred. Consideration of
the Post office appropriation bill was resumed
and various items were adopted; an amend
ment reviving the old franking privilege car
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parliamentary wrangle over Speaker keifer's
rulings of the previous DAY was re-
sumed Mr.. McLane took the floor
Chair ns had invaded ed the privileges Of the House
He had brush with the Speaker and then
yielded to Mr.. Kenna, who offered resolu-
ton that the Speaker had no right to repri-
mand a member and that the attempt to ex-
ercise such power was a breach of the privi-
leges of the House. Mr.. keifer replied that
he had used the word reprimand only in the
to 1lQr WIN w
order. The Chinese bill was taken up and
Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, spoke against it. A reso-
luton by Mr.. Belmont, directing Shipherd to
show all his correspondence bearing on the
Peruvian claims, was agreed to.
THE bill appropriating 100000 for work
on the Davis Island dam, in the Ohio River,
and the Post office appropriation bill passed
the Senate on the 18th. The tariff commits
sion bill was then taken up and Mr.. Pendleton
briefly discussed the subject. He spoke OF the
vastness of the interest with which our tariff
laws have to deal and the difficulty of so ad-
justing them as to do no injustice to ourmulti-
tudinous interests. Without entering into de
tail he would say he regarded it as veX
atious and altogether too high, and pre-
ferred not to specify the change he thought
ought to be made until the bill on the subject
came up. Adjourned until the 20th. In
the House, bills were passed authorizing a
bridge across the Missouri within five miles OF
st. Charles and extending the northern boun-
dairy of Nebraska The amendatory liquor
that the section reducing the tax be stricken
out. The Chinese bill went over for one day.
THE Chinese bill occupied the whole ses-
sion of the House of Representatives, March
Is. Mr.. Moore, of Tennessee, made strong
speech in opposition to the measure, and Mr.
Brumm claimed that every Chinaman in the
country kept out an honest German or Irish
man.
THE tariff commission bill was dissyssed
in the Senate, March 20, Mr.. Beck replying to
Morrill,, and going liberaIlyinto the labor fea-
lures of the present tariff effects. The bill was
laid over. A protest against the passage of
any free leaf tobacco bill was presented. 49,.
In the House a message from the President
was received and referred announcing that
troops were sent to Omaha on au
thority of the Governors application in order
to protect the State from domestic violence.
The Senate bill making further appropria
tions for flood relief was reported with rec
ommendation that the House recede from
amendment authorizing the use of part of the
money to strengthen levees; agreed to-. In
the evening there was a resultless struggle to
set a day for consideration of the Geneva
award bill. A small minority refused to vote,
thus breaking the quorum