Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-13
Forty-seventh Congress.
WASHINGTON, Jan, F

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 SENArE-NIr. Ingalls, introduced bill to provide for determining the existence and the removal of the inability of President the United to charge the powers and duties of his office referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The bill provides that whenever two heads of departments shall state in writing to the chief justice of the supreme court that the President unable to discharge powers and duties of his office, if the court be not then sit ting chief justice shall within days convene it to hear and determine summariy the question of the alleged inability, aud if, eaid hearing, it shall appear to said court that such inability exists they shall certify this decision to the Vice President who shall thereupon discharge the and duties of the office President. The section makes a similar provision for determining the removal of the inability and provides that upon the ascertaio ment of such removal the President shall resume the discharge of the powers and duties of his office.
 After a dispute in regard to the bill to be taken the Senate went into executive session and considered the Mexican treaty in relation to the Well and La length against the proposition. No conclusion was arrived st and the Senate adjourned at $40 p. m
 HoUsE.-Mr. Humphreys twAs.l. from the Judiciary committee reported the Senate bill increasing the fees of witnesses in Star route to per day and ce nts mileage passed.
 order. MT. Robinson, of New York, said he would never take ship from England except as Hull took plausel He would have en American navy or would get a.9ng w1th1us m onsi Mr sSPnsOn S1seS Tith with characteristic annetatons and the Hammer of Washington" and was greeted, with prolonged ap- plause
 On motion of Mir. Crapo the fourteenth section was amended to admit free of duty material for articles used in building ships for foreign trade.
 On motion of MT. DingIey section fifteen amended to provide that the tonnage the trade with Canada, Mexico, etc, shall not exceed thirty adopted giving sailing vesselg rights in un- loading that are given vessels propelled in whole in part by steam.
 MT. Mercy, of Mississippi offered addition to the section providing that the Postmaster General be powered and directed after advertisement to contract for carrying mails from parts in the United States to foreign parts when such service will in his judgment promote the postal and commercial interests of the United States, the contracts to be made for four years and not to exceed two cents for the outward trip. such vessels to be subject to purcha or charter by the United States in of After
 protracted discussion pointsof order this amend ment ruled out of order by vote of the House.
 MT. Page withdrew the twenty second section of the bill exemptng vessels in the foreign carrying moved to strike out the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth sections, which cover the shipbuilding and buying features of the bill agreed to-yeas 169, nays GA.
 MT. Cox, of New York, moved to recommit the bill to the Committee Commerce to report without delay bill for free ships and free material for the construction and repairs of ships rsjsced-yeas 77 nays 131.
 The bill was then passed without division.
 MT. Kasson riling to Q personal explanation read paragraph in today's New York. I5aes stating that
 provision that promotions should be made from the lower to the higher grades which clause did not pear in the bill as returned from the House and in nnnating suspicious of the Civil Service committee MT Kasson declared that the game paper and the same ink had been returned from the House without the dotting of an or the crossing of t, the House refusing to correct grammatical error. He had learned that the clause deliberately stricken out the Senate by vote of that body. It remains said he to be whether in the conduct of that paper there is honor enough to make known thess facts and to make the aTede Honorable to the Civil Service committee.
 At 4:50 p. m. the House adjourned.