The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-29
FORTKEiGBTH CONGRESS.
senate Preceding. YESTERDAY.
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conference Committee on the Army an.
preparation bill. The Senate agreed TO the
report and ordered committee OF confer.
enee on the clause relating to the compen.
sation to he pad Pacific railroads-the
point on which the Senate insisted upon
its amendment.
The Chair appointed Messrs. Logan.
flumo, aud Ransom as such committee.
Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Pen
sions, reported favorably House hill TO
grant pension TO the widow Of Major
General James b. Steedman. Placed on
! the calendar.
The Chair appointed Messrs. Hoar, Sher-
man, and Pugh as a committee Of confer
enee on the part OF the Senate on the presi.
dential-count bill
Mr.. Mcmillan gave notice that when the
general deficiency appropriation bill shall
have been completed he will call up the
river and harbor bill.
The general deficiency appropriation bill
was then taken up and its consideration
proceeded with. The committee amend
mcnt was adopted, striking out the proyiso
adopted in the House that no part Of the
money appropriated for district attorneys
and their assistants should be used to pay
special counsel fees.
On motion OF Mr.. Hale, who said he
acted in the matter for Mr.. Plumb, who
was for moment absent, an item was
added authorizing the AttOrney-General TO
M Charles III. Reed for services as coun-
Ffifor the late Charles j. Guiteau such q
sum as he may deem just, not to exceed
$4,000.
The bin having been completed, It was
read a third time and DaS@pd
The amendments above noted were the
only substantial changes made in the bill
in addition 10 those reported by the Senate
Committee on Appropriations.
The regular order atlantic and Pacific
land-grant forfeiture bin was laid aside,
and the river and habOr bill was taken up
and proceeded with.
On reaching the Senate committees pro-
posed amendment, appropriating S2j,0
for the Improvement OF Coos river, Oregon.
Mr.. Sl1ter. aided by Mr.. DOlph, succeeded
in getting the Senate to add $1,000 to the
amount allowed by the committee. On
reaching the item for Yaquina bay, Mr.
Slater moved to make the appropriation
So. 900 instead Of $4,000. This was too
much for Mr.. FRYE, who said he liked to
see fair play n regard to river and harbor
expenditures, but Oregon had already got a
great deal more than il was entitled TO.
il measured by the standard adopted for
other States. The Senate Committee on
Rivers and IIarbOrs had been compelled TO
give that State four times as much as its
proposed share Just because there was on
that committee as persistent and impOrtu-
nate beggar for his State (alluding to Mr..
Dolph) as he (Mr. Frye had ever known
in his life. Continuing, Mr.. Frye asked
where this bill would end if the Senate
were TO increase the amounts reported by
the committee. The committee. he said,
had in the first place undertaken to cut
down the House appropriation, and had
succeeded in reducing il 100000. The
bill was printed with that reduction, and
within six hours OF the moment when it
became known that the bill had been cut
down almost every single item was b eek in
the bill. If we should appropriate the
amounts recommended by engineers and
others as "indispensaEle" we should have
river and harbor appropriation OF twenty
four million dollars.
NJ. slater said the trouble was that the
Congress OF the United States had under
taken to put this great nation OF 50,000,000
people in STRAIGHTFORWARD, and they could
veloping with rapidity with which Con-
grcss did not keep pace. The river and
harbor bill ought to be S25, 10000 year.
The bill was far below the demands Of the
commerce OF the country.
Mr.. Mcmillan thought there was no dan
ger that Oregon would suffer in the Senate
lie concurred in MIR. Slater's view that the
river and harbOr bill should be increased
81 - hn
country. We could not make apprOpria-
lions, however, in anticipation Of the ne
cessties OF localities and harbOrs. He
hoped the Senate would adhere to the COM
mittee's recommendation, which it did, and
Mr.. Slater'S motion for an increase was not
agreed TO.
MIR. Pugh hoped the Senate would not
agree to the recommendation OF the Senate
reducing from S3jO,O00 to
S250,0C0 the appropriation for continuing
the improvement OF the Tennessee river,
Mussel shoals.
After remarks by Messrs. Pugh and lIar-
riS for the larger amount, and MessrS. Con-
ger and Mcmillan for the smaller, the Sem
ate disagreed TO the reduction aud replaced
the original amount.
The Chair announced as the committee
OF conference on the part Of the Senate on
the legislative, executive, and judicial APP
preparation bill, MeSsrs. Allison, Dawes,
and COckrell.
Mr.. Mcmillan gave notice OF his inten-
ton to move on Monday to limit the de-
bate on the river and harbOr amendments
to five minutes for each senator.
The Senate ut j:4j p. NJ. went into exec
utive session, and when the doors were re-
opened adjourned
House of Representatives.
On motion OF Mr.. Holman, OF Indiana,
the Senate amendments to tnc legislative
appropriation bin were non-cOncurred IN.
Mr.. Hatch, of Missouri. submitted the
conference report on the joint resolution
Tor the printing OF the report OF the Com
Agriculture, and il was agreed
10. The Joint resolution appropriates !
$500, 900 for printing 100000 copies OF the |
report.
The Speaker announced the appointment |
IF Ncssrs, Rosecrans, Morgan, and Clutch !
ION as a conference committee on the bill |
% Ie0rganize the Bureau OF Military JUS |
ice.
The Speaker then stated that the regular |
order was The question Of privilege coming !
over from Yesterday and prevented by the |
resolution offered by Mr.. Cannon, OF Hi |
lois, that the Record be so amended as to
how that the speech purpOrtlng to have
1een delivered by Mr.. McAdoo. Of New |
Jersey. i'm which allusion is made TO Srna-
or Logan, was not actually delivered by |
lin.
Mr.. Cox, OF New York, after depreca-
ing the practice of printing long essays in
he Record, sud that the present dispute |
rose from disqualification in the Record OF
m article from the New York Star stating |
hat senator Logan owned $4,000 acres OF
and. It had not been charged that he
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