National Republican., 1883-03-01
>THE MANNED SOLDIERS
Receive Tardy Justice at the Hands Of
Congress.
Passage Of the Invalid Pension Bill by
the Senate.
Msssrs, Page and HiscOCk Test Their Powers in the
House--page Wins.
Getting Up the River and Hnrbor mn for
Long Days Session.
THE SENATE.

Mr.. Fair presented several memorials Of the
legislature of Nevada
Mr.. Edmunds, from the committee on the
Judiciary, reported adversely the house bill
10 provide for the restoration of citizenship
of such citizens of the United States as have
become nnturalized citizens of Great Britain.
Mr.. Tabor offered Joint resolution pro-
viding for participation by the government
in the national mining and industrial expo
sition TO be held at Denver
A message was received announcing the
names of tho house conferees on the internal
revenue and tariff bill.
At Mr.. Garlands request the message was
read.
Mr.. Garland aslSsd to have read from the
Congressional Record the resolution of the
house instructing Its conferees ITO consider
fully the constitutional objections to the fn-
ternal revenue bill as amended by the senate,
and to bring the same, together with the
opinion of the house thereto, before the CONF
mittec of conference" &c. and moved to re-
consider tho motion by which the senate had
agreed 70 conference.
Mr.. ingalls, raised the point of order that IL
was not in order to read or refer TO particular
words or acts of the other house upon pending
measures.
The matter which Mr. Garland desired read
not having been yet specified, the president
said there was no such question before the
senate.
Mr.. ingalls, said that IL the chair would in
spect tho matter proposed to be read he would
see that IL was report of the action of the
house Of representatives on ameasure pending
between the two houses and while he, Mr..
Ingalls,, thought that the action Of the house
was desingenious and that under IL o "full
and free conference" would be had, he yet
thought that it was not in order to read ex-
tracts from the Record as the basis for mo-
tion TO reconsider.
Mr.. Garland said what he desired to have
read was contained In the official record,
made for the express purpose of informing
congress and the public of what was being
done.
The president said he saw no objection tc
reading the resolution, and overruled the
point of order.
have the record of the house proceedings read
for the purpose of affecting the action of the
senate. He agreed with Mr.. Garland that the
senate had appointed its committee for full
and free conference, and no other; and sale
that If, upon meeting the house committee
the conferees on the part of the senate shoult
find that such q conference could not be had
II would be their duty to return and repor
that fact to the senate
Mr.. Garland said that his motion to recon
sider was made in good faith. He had votet
for the conference yesterday in the belief tina
the senate was in possession of all that tn,
house had done in this matter, but now /
turned out from the official record that prac
tcally fraud had been committed upon tn
senate, and there could be no full and fre
conference under the conditions made by tn
action of the house. His vote and probabl!
the votes Of other senators upon agreeing to
conference would have been different If h
had known of all the action of the house, AM
If the motion to reconsider should prevail h
intended to take the position that the senat
could not confer under such conditions.
Mr.. Morrill, regarded the question as q ver.
important one, and moved to lay the motion
TO reconsider on the table.
The motion was lost by the following vote