Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-22

a committee of seven senators to examine
Into the work now in progress for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river below
Cairo. the methods. contracts, application
of appropriations. etc, also into all mat
ters pertaining to the feasibility of the
outlet system and TO improvement at the
mouth of the river, the system of ietties,
their perInauency. etc, and into all mat
ters touching such improvements, the com
mi.tea to hold sessions during the recess
of congress at places on the river or else
where to examine persons and papers and
to report next session. The resolution
went over until tomorrow.
NIr. Van WICK offered a resolution call
ing on the president for information
touching the alleged joint agreement be-
tween the ministers of the United States,
Great Britain, France and Italy, at Lima,
Peru, to make a Joint effort to bring about
.peace between Chilli and Peru, and whether
the minister of the United States had been
instructed TO invite or accept the media
ton of European powers in the settlement
of purely American question. Laid on
the table.
The bill passed appropriating $4,000
for the erection of a monument at Wash
ington's headquarters at Newburg, n. Y,
and the senate went into executive ses-
sion.
When the doors were re-opened the SEN
ate proceeded TO consider the army appro-
priation bill.
Tae first important amendment report
ed by the committee on military affairs
was the insertion of a paragraph appro-
priating $143,OOO for civilian clerks for the
adjutant generals department, and for
headquarters of military divisions and de-
partments. Adopted.
The next amendment was to increase
aid-de-camps for the generals from twenty
to thirty seven, to strike out the provisions
limiting the number and making provis-
ions as to their rank and pay, and to in
sert the following: provided that no
officer shall remain absent from his regi-
ment on duty at Washington city for a
Longer period than three years
at any one time; but this provis-
ion not to apply to officers on
the staff of the commanding general of
the army, nor to officers in charge of pub
LEGATION of the records of the war of the re-
bellion, or detailed to work on the Wash
ington monument.
The fact that the exception did not APP
ply to officers of the signal service corps
gave rise to considerable discussion. Messrs.
Maxey and others arguing that these Off
GERS should not be removed from Washing
ton after three years service, and Mr.. Lo-
gan, who has charge of this bill, denying
that he was as represented, hostile to that
corps, and contending that the military
duties performed by it should be learned
by all army officers. He wished all army
officers to have an opportunity of
learning these duties and proposed
to offer an amendment that of the twelve
signal service officers now in Washington,
four should be sent back to their regiments
in 1888, four in 1884, and four in 1885,
other officers to be detailed in their places.
He also alluded to the fact that he had
been attacked in editorial articles all over
the country as hostile to the signal service
corps and said these editorials had been
inclosed to him in letter, with the in
formation that they had been written in
the signal service Office and paid for out of
government money. He could demonstrate
the truth of that statement.
The amendment was excluded on point
of order. The question was then taken on
striking out the clause limiting the num-
Der of aides-de-camp and providing that
they shall not have any additional rank or
pay, and it was struck out.
The next amendment was to the clause
for fifty contract surgeons, to strike out
fifty and insert not exceeding eighty.
Agreed to.
The bill was then reported to the senate,
the amendments made in committee were
agreed to and the bill passed.
The Notifications appropriation bill was
called up by Mr.. Hale and explained by
Mr.. Dawes.
The amendments reported by the com
mittee were agreed to and the bill passed.
The report of the committee of confer
ence on the bill granting the right of way
to the Elkhorn Railroad company through
the Nebraska military reservation, Ne
braska, was agreed to.
Mr.. Edmunds called up the joint reso-
luton to provide for the termination of
the articles of the treaty of Washington re-
lating to fisheries.
Mr.. Window asked Mr.. Edmunds wheth
er the section of the joint resolution re-
pealing the act to carry into effect the pro-
visions of the treaty relating to the fish
cries, would repeal the law under which
the goods are permitted to be transported
in bond through the American terri
tory.
Mr.. Edmunds said. to avoid all possible
misconstruction on this point, he would
move to limit the application of this sec
ton of the resolution by inserting the
words, $50 far as it relates to the articles
of said treaty 80 to be terminated
This amendment was agreed to.
The next amendment was to strike out
of the bill the provision requiring disburs-
ing officers to give bond with sufficient
.sureties, and forbidding the filling of fu-
ture vacancies in the pay corps and pro-
viding for the final transfer of the duties
of that corps to the quartermasters depart
ment, and to insert in lieu of it a. provision
that vacancies in the pay corps of the
grades of colonel, Northumberland and
major shall not be filed by origi lal ap-
pointments until the pay corps shall be re-
duced to forty paymasters and then
establishing the number of the pay corps
at forty, the present number being fifty
four.
After considerable discussion the pro-
vision proposed to be inserted was ex-
Guided on point of order, and the pro
vision in the bill struck out. i-EsN