Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-05
The Appropriations for the Fiscal Year
1929, 1927, ,511-The Items.
Senate.

Senate.
WASHINGTON, March AT 1:5O q. n. the
doors were reopened. On motion of Mr.
Logan the house bill to authorize the
Litchfeld, Carrollton 81 Western Railroad
company to construct a bridge across the
Illinois river was taken up and passed. At
3:45 a. N. the senate took a recess until 4
o'clock.
When the senate reconvene6. as the con-
ference report on the sundry civil appro-
priation bill was not yet ready for pre-
sentation, Mr.. HawIey moved to take an
other fifteen minute recess, but Mr.. Van
Wyck objected, and called for the yeas and
nays, and SO Mr.. Hawley withdrew his mo-
tion.
The next half-hour was spent in idly
waiting for the report. At 4:35 it was re-
ceived, with a message that half the house
had agreed to it. Mr.. Allison moved the
adoption of the report. 1t was read and
adopted without dissent. The senate then.
at a. m, took a recess until 10.
The president pro tenn. called the senate
to order promptly at 10 o'clock, but the
senators came in slowly and nearly half an
hour elapsed before there was a quorum
present to do business. The president
then laid before the senate the house Joint
resolution making appropriation for al
teration of the internal revenue dies.
plates and stamps, and providing blanks
for rebate.
Mr.. Allison explained that the changes
for which it provided were made necessary
by the passage of the internal revenue act,
and the Joint resolution was passed. On
motion of Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia.
the house Joint resolution giving the cap
itol police an extra months pay was
passed.
Mr.. Van Wyck offered a resolution con-
tinuing the committee on pensions as now
constituted, until the first Monday in
December next, and authorizing it to sit
during the vacation to consider bills and
continue the investigation ordered by the
senate into the alleged extortions by the
agents in pension aud other claims.
Mr.. ingalls, asked whether the resolu-
tion had been voted upon by the commit
tee on pensions.
Mr. Van Wyck replied that the resolu-
tion was in accordance with the wish of
the committee, but the reply was not salts
factory, and Mr.. ingalls, objected to send
ing the resolution over until tomorrow.
On Mr.. Merrill's motion the committee
on finance was ordered to prepare a com
pilatiOn and index of the existing tariff
laws, together with tabulated comparative
statements Of the rates of duties and i'm
ports under the several tariff acts. since
the organization of the government, and
such other statistics on the subject as it
may deem proper,
Mr.. Merrill, from the committee on
finance, reported the house bill to fix the
salary Of the collector of customs at Chi
cago, which was passed.
On motion of Mr.. Anthony, resolution
was adopted for the appointment of a
committee of two senators to Join the
house committee to wait upon the presi-
dent of the United States and inform him
that congress had completed its business.
and was ready to adjourn. The president
appointed Messrs. Anthony and Bayard.
Mr.. Lapham called up the senate reso-
luton for the relief of the widow of the
late Judge Underwood, of Virginia, pro-
posing to allow her the amount of expenses
incurred by her husband in seeking to
establish his right to a seat as senator from
Virginia during the war. Messrs. Lapham
and Hoar advocated the resolution.
Mr.. Cockrell opposed it on the ground
that Mr. Underwood having been United
States judge at the time could not have
the constitutional right to hold the Office of
senator.
Mr.. ingalls, said there might have been
presented at some time more fragile claim
than this, but he bad never heard of it.
While he was speaking, at 11:45 a. m,
Messrs. Anthony and Bayard, of the SEN
ate committee, appointed to wait upon the
president, reported that they had per-
formed the duty assigned them, and that
the president had stated that he had no
further communication to make to con-
gress.
The president pro tenn, assuming that
the president of the United States had
signed sthe sundry civil appropriation bill,
appointed as senate members of the com
mission provided for in that bill, to in
quire into the compensation, ,etc. .,of the off
GERS and employees of both houses, and re-
port to the next congress, Messrs. Platt.
Cameron of Wisconsin, and Cockrell.
After some further ridicule of the Under
wood claim by Mr.. Ingalls,, the resolution
nitely postponed.
The galleries and corridors were crowd
ed even more densely than on last even
Ing, dHG oWIHS W IHe SeuerdI ouZZ oI eA-
pectation which always attends such occa-
sions, repeated appeals from the chair
were required to secure sufficient order on
the floor to enable senators to be
heard.
Precisely at II O'Clock the president pro
tenn, Mr.. Edmunds, brought down his
gavel and said: "Messrs.Senators, the hour
has arrived at whcih, by the constitution
and the laws of the United States, the For
ty-seventh congress terminates. He wishes
each one of you pleasant and safe jour