Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-07-15
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

WASHINGTON, July l4.-Senator
Rollins called up the resolution for a
daily meeting OF the Senate at IL D.
III, on and alter Monday next. Adop-
ted
Senator Logan, from the commits
tee ON appropriations, repor ed the
pension appropriation bllt, AND 1t was
ordered printed and laid over Tor
future acLlUn. The comm ttee on ap.
preparations recommended the adop>
I'll II OF the several amendments
the most important Of which are
those prJhlbltlng he payment OF
double penslons, and directing the
Secretary OF the Interior to transmit
annually to Congress list Of per
SONS borne on the pension roll, to-
gether with the amount paid 20 each.
The Senate then devoted itself Ior
an hour To the consideration of the
pension bills, number Of which
were passed, among them, one III
cre asing the pension of Elizabeth
Custer, widow of Gen. Geo. A. Gus
Oer, ., $50 r. Month and one, q
House bill, granting a pension of S5O
per month to Betty Taylor Dams
drige, daughter of President Taylor.
the House pension bill was amend
ed by the adoption of general pro-
vision prohibiting the payment OF
double pensions.
At 2:15 the Senate resumed con>
sideralion OF the tax bill, the floor
being accorded to Senator Bayard.
At the conclusion of Senator
Bayard's speech, the bill was read
for amendments.
Senator Beck offered an amend
ment reducing ten cents per pound
| the tax on manufactured tobacco.
Pending discussion, the matter went
over for the day.
The presiding officer announced
the appointment of Senators Hale,
Allison and Cockrell clnferees Oh
the general deficiency bill.
Senator Jones, of Florida, gave
notice of an amendment to the sun
dry civil bill, appropriating $780,
600 for continuing the improvements
of the Pensacola Navy Yard.
After an executive session, the
Senate adjourned until to-morrow.
WASHINGTON, July 14.-Mr Page
of Californ a, moved to take from the
Speakers table, for the purpose Of
non concurrence in, Senate amend
ments to the river and harbor appro-
pfiation bill; but Mr.. McCook, OF
New York, stated that he would raise
a point of order, that those amend
ments must be first considered in
committee of the whole.
Mr.. Page thereupon withdrew his
motion.
The morning hour having been dis.
pensed with, the House proc eded to
| The consideration of tie remain ng
Senate amendments of the general
deficiency appropriation bill which
had not been concurred in yesterday
A large ma jorty were non concurred
IN. But few of them gave rise tc
any discussion, except that appro
priating S33, 1000 for the payment OF
milage to the Senators WHO attende d
the special sess on of the Senate con,
vened on the 10th Of October, 1881
Mr.. Townshend, of Illinois, char
acterized this amendment as little
salary grab and hoped that the Honse
conferees, when appointed, would
not yield to the Senate on that
point.
Mr.. Hiscock, of New York, for the
purpose of testing the wish Of the
House, moved to concur in the
amendment, and this motion having
been voted down by heavy maj jori'
ty, he stated that the committee oi
conference would take that vote as
an instruction that it should never
yield the point. 'Never,' was re
pc tied by several members, but
Mr.. Robinson, of Massachusetts
protested against any such construc'
tion being placed upon the vote; Sc
the amendment was non>concurreo
in. The last amendment in the bill
was that constituting the board o
credit, consisting of the first ant
second comptrollers of the treasury
and Treasurer of the United States
to whom shall be referred all claim
and determination of all allowance
to be made growing out of the i'll
ness and burial of the late President
James A. Garfield.
An attack was promptly mad
upon this amendment, led by MI
Blackburn, in long speech, in whlc
he declared that all the claims en-
braced in this amendment should b