Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-02

| 20 ss1itify himself By acting as a con-
Ie.ee under suck conditions.
Beck declared he would not have lief.
the Committee of Conference ON anv
mere technical objection but he Thought
the reasons set forth by Bayard sab
stantiai, aad not technical. The Sena-
.or from Vermont is wrong in saving
tue only thing the HOUSE had sen. TO
the Senate Was notice of disagree
ment. and a request for conferences.
lie house had sent also (by adopting
the resolution instructing its confereesJ
i.s protest agalus. the Constitutional
rignt OF the Senate to take the action
II has taken on the bill. The House
represented no bill Of its own, but dis
agreed to the Senate bill, presumably
upon the grolnd that the Ssnate's &C.
ZION was without Constitutional author
ity. The House conferees had no bill
or amendments, nothing that the Sem
ate coaferees could agree TO If willing
Noin1ng was left for the Senate TO do
out to abandon tie Senate bill and
agree to suoh tariff bill as four or five
gentlemen might demand. In that case
the Constitutional objection might be
waived. He did no. regard this as a
conference at all. He could no longer
be party tn il.
Garland offered resolution instruct
ing all Senate confsrees to withdraw
from the conference.
Allison objected to presen. considera-
ton OF the resolution, and it went over
until tomorrow.
The senate thcn proceeded to con-
slider the s0ndry civil appropriation bill.
HOUSE.
The house by yeas. "a. to nays, 107,
ordered consideration of tie river and
harbor bill resumed.
Turner, Of Kentucky, offered An
amendment providing that $4,000 of
the sum appropriated for the improve
ment of the Ohio river shall be used for
improving the Grand Chain rapids.
Adopted.
On motion of Willis an amendment
was adopted providing $4,000 be ex-
pended on improving the Indiana chute.
On motion of Dawes an amendment
was adopted providing that $l0500O be
expended at the mouth of the Muskin-
gam river.
beSp appointed to take the place of
Committee on the Tariff bill.
declined TO serve on the Conference
Committee, and the president appointed
Davis, OF Yves. Virginia, and Jones. bat
they also declined and all were excused
Malone and McDill accepted the APP
poin ment on the Conference Committee
aud it is now in, session. There is q
possibility of a report this evening.
The conference report on the fortifioa-
ton Appropriation bill was agreed to.
Il appropri,tes S295, 600 more than when
it pissed the House.
Page moved to suspend the rules and
adopt an order to limit debate on the
River aud Harbor bill, except in regard
tn items for improvement of Mississippi
river; lost. Yeas, l32, nays, 3-not the
necessary two-third vote in tho affirm
alive.
The House then went into Committee
Of the Whole on the state Of the Union.
but Hiscook objected to the River and
Harbor bill, and the oOmtnittoe 70 70 and
reported objection to the House.
Randall moved to amend the prOvis0
which prohibits the expenditure of any
appropriation until commission of
FIVE, three of whom shall DO civilians,
shall report whether the interests of
commerce. warrant the completion of
the canal project. by reducing msm-
berships Of commission to three. all of
whom shall be engineers of the army,
tho measure would be adopted at this
point. A meas, ge was received from
tbs Senate, announcinA the appoint
ment of Senators Malone and McDill
"a conferees on the Internal Revenue
bill, to fill the vacancies occasioned by
the declination of Senators Bayard and
Beck. The announcement was received
with laughter by the Democratic side.
The item appropriating *2,i5O,00O for
the improvement. of tine Mississippi
river caused a long and acrimonious
debate, but was finally adopted.
The speaker announced the appoint
meut of Steel, Townsend, and Sparks,
as members of the Board of Visitors to
West Point, and of Harmer and Upde-
graf, as members of a similar board to
Annapolis.
Moore offered resolution calling on
the Secretary of tho Interior for infor-
nation as to the amount of the Indian
trust funds invested in Tennessee bonds,
and whether Tennessee has made any
proposition looking to their settlement.
Referred.