The Portland daily press., 1884-06-28
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
SENATE

ment OF accounts with the Mobile 4 Ohio Railroad
company. 1t authorizes the Attorney General and
secretary OF war to adjust and finally settle the
accounts of the United States with the road named
LOT property received by that road from the United
States in 1866 and 1866.
Mr.. Butler gave notice that on Monday he would
ask Tor vote his resolution of inquiry into the
condition of the New York banks.
- MT Mt voorhees, reported the proposed amendment
70 tne snndry civil BILL appropri4ting S12 900 for
purchase OF copies of the original portraits of
george washington by Elizabeth Bryan Johnston,
TO pc distributed to public libraries
Mr. Hale, from the committee on appropriations
reported the general deficiency appropriation bill
with amendments.
DIR. Dawes presented the conference renort on
tne invalid pension bill, which was agreed to.
Inc senate then took up the bill providing for
forfeiture OF uneaFned lands granted to the ATTAIN
tie and Pacific Railroad Company CThe bill pro-
vldes for resumption by the United States of the
TUE OF such lands, and restoration to the public do
hdln ana SUBJECT to disposal as though the grant
mao never been made. The Senate committee has
added to the bill provso which in effect fixes the
price OF lands to settlers at 81 90 per acre)
In the discussion which ensued MIR, HaWley said
ne mad expected to say few words respecting the
grant holdings of land that we had permitted to
grow up in the West, in the lands of both indi-
Viduals and corporations but he weuld forbear this
evening. There was one thing. however, he desired
to say now. He found in the Congressional Record
OF today-and he Invited the attention of Senators
TO ia statement containing a catalogue of cti-
zens OF the United States holding enormous estates
IN the Territories and various States. Among them
holding $4,000 acres. ST can hardly mistake.''
continued Mr.. Hawley 'when say that a state
ment of that kind appears to prejudice gentleman
whose circumstances are such that he can
hardly speak for himself, though abundant
~ qualified as everybody knows, to do so.
Deg leave therefore to say that the gentleman re-
terred to is not the of any such quantity of
land In the Territory anywhere else. He is only
owner OF the land on which his father died and
Whlcn ne purchased from others, and to which he
has added little in his own State of Illinois, He
has not the good or the ilfortune to be the owner
OF the 900 acres referred to-.
tAlluO1ng TO the matter Mr. Logan said.
the statement is utterly false but do not think it
Is material. do not propose to give schedule of
own is in the State of illinois, l do own some two
or three tracts of aud but all put together would
not make hundredth part Of what they charge.
On motion of MIR. Hoar the Senate discharged the
elections committee from further consideration
OF the House bill on the electoral count and ordered
acommittee of conference on it.
The Senate then went into executive session and
Later adjourned.
HOUSE.
In the House the conference report on the bill
granting the right of way through Indian Territory
to the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad Com
pany was agreed to.
The confer snce report on the pension appropria-
ton bill was agreed to.
Mr.. Turner of Georgia called up the election ase
OF Thomas g. Skinner from the second district of
North Carolina. The question at issue in this case
Is whether Mr.. Skinner was elected from the
proper district and there is no contest pending.
Mr. MCMILLAN of Tennessee raised the question of
consideration in favor of the private calendar and
the House declined to consider the election case
Ia. me conference report on the army appropriation
Dill was submitted agreeing upon all Items except
upon the Senate amendment striking out that por-
tion OF the bill which regulates the compensation
portaton. Other sections Of the bill as agreed unon
appropriate $24, 454, 45O, being $4,000 more
than was carried by the bill it originally passed
the house. The report was agreed to. The disa-
agreement to the amendment indieatedlwas insisted
upon and Messrs. FOrney, Townshend and Keller
were appointed as conferees.
Mr. HALEY of California do
tempt TO secure consideration for the Northern Pa
CHIC forfeiture bill, when the House went into
committee of the whole.
At L O'Clock the committee rose for the nnrnose
OF per hitting the House to dispose of the "Back-
bone" forfeiture BILL
Mr. White of Kentucky, rising to a question
which he said affected the dignity of the House
sent to the clerks desk and had read a letter
puollshed In the National Republican of this morn.
ing over the signature of Representative E. John
Ellis OF Louisiana, and dated November 1881 in
which the writer animated he had the impression
t tnst improper methods had been used in OBJ
tanning this land grant, Mr.. White thought full
Investigation of all the facts connected with this
land grant or land grab from beginning to end
should be made.
The Speaker did not think the matter presented
question OF privilege; it simply appeared from the
letter that the writer Of # believed had the i'm
preston that there had been some improper means
USED to obtain the grant originally.
Mr.. Ellis OF Louisiana expressed regret that the
gentlemen who were endeavoring to forfeit this
earned grant should have been driven by stress of
weather to the poor expedient of directing a per-
sonal attack upon him. While 1 do not, he con-
unued, desire TO interrupt vote on this gu stion
by any matters personal to myself arising from the
publication OF the letter purporting to have been
written by myself and which letter orOnounce ia
be materially altered and garbed to suit the pur-
poses of the publisher thereof, 1 desire now to
state that on an early day 1 shall claim
from the House as matter of personal privilege
the opportunity TO expose the animus, falsehood
and malignity of the unwarranted innuendo direct
ca agar Sc myself in the publication alluded to.
All that desire to say that it is the last vim
dlctve thrust of professional backmailer
whose disappointed greed and avarice have directed
inns blow at me, whose unfortunate connection
with him originated in desire to do him kind
ness. (Applause.)
The Speaker announced the question to be on the
motion to table the motion to reconsider the vote
BY which the House yesterday defeated the 'back-
bone" forfeiture.
The motion was agreed to, and the house pro-
ceeded TO the consideration of private business
After the passage of several private bills Mr.
Valentine of Nebraska rising to a question of nriv-
lege, sad, some days ago the gentleman from New
Jersey (mcAdoo) had obtained leave to print some
remarks in the Record. The gentleman's speech
appeared in the Record today and it was found that
he had taken occasion to print art of his re-
marks despatch sent from this city to New York
newspaper on July 6. 1t contained the names
OF some OF our native land monopolists. In the
list OF names as printed in the Record today, ap-
peared the name of Senator John A. Logan as own
ing S0,O 600 acres of land. Senator Logan had
called his INT. Vaentnes) attention to this today
and desired him to say the statement was absolute
ly false. The only land he owned was little home
stead in Illinois. The gentleman from New Jersey
taken occasion Wnll0 laudiun the soldiers
of the land to stab one of the brightest and most
gallant OF those soldiers cloud applause on the
Republican side.)
Mr.. Cox of New York, in order to show. as he ex-
pressed 1t, how the gentlemen the other side at
tempted to strain at gnat and swallowed menag-
erie OF camels. quoted from the speech printed by
Mr. BreWer OF New Jersey upon the tariff, in which
that gentleman made very lengthy extract from
Mr.. Blaine's 80 years in Congress- a speech in
fact consisting almost wholly of the extract
Mr.. ONeill of Missouri suggested that the title of
the DOCK De amended by adding the words Stat
tooed at last''
Mr.. Cox said that he had trusted Congress would
have adjourned without partisan presidential dis
enssion having arisen, but the gentlemen on the
ot Es slde were forcing political debate.
Mr.. Cameron offered resolution that the Record
OF June 20 be SO amended to show that the
speech purporting to have been delivered by Mr.
McAdoo IN which reference is made TO Senator Lo-
gan was not actually delivered but was printed in
the Record of June 20. The Record he said should
not be allowed to become receptacle of the malice
of individual members upon those matters which
they had not the courage to stand on the floor and
avew.
Mr.. McAdoo desired TO say that he did not retract
one word OF that speech. He did not consider for
one moment that he had violated any rule of cour-
tesy, equity or manliness In its publication. The
article had been published last January and had
been copied from Maine to California and there had
not been q line of contradiction from the
representative Senator or his friend in regard to his
name in that list. The gentleman from Illinois had
said he had not the courage to deliver the speech
In the State from which he came and in the dis
trict he represented his vlest enemy had yet
hood. He had never said behind the back of
llvinglman that which he would not say to his face
applause on the Democratic side) The gentleman
from Illinois, said he, had brought the matter be-
fore the House because the Record had been
violated. The gentleman knew better than that;
1t was simply because the gentleman found the
name of John A. Logan in the list. If the Senator
from Illinois has gotten the land honestly he has
nothing to say, but he did deprecate and condemn
the principle that allowed any man whether an
humble citizen or great Senator to acquire large
tracts of public land
Mr.. McAdoo, continuing said If he had done as
some gentlemen did, instead of printing such fair
thing IS a newspaper article and giving newspaper
and date of publication, he might have asked de-
luded soldiers what they thought of great Senator,
who, in his greed to absorb territory which belonged
to actual settlers, in land which made for
Independent freeholders and small farmers, went
under cover of his brother-iR-law to New Mexico
and tried to preempt the most valuable land, and
who was only stopped by the public survey or who
greatest friendship for and rumor had it that
he had Indian blood in his veins. He trying to
steal from his kith and kin hundreds and thou
sands of acres, and was taking them from unfor-
tunate!savages who were unable to protect them
selves until the honest Secretary of the Interior
had directed the surveyor to take back the lands
for the Zunis loud applause and laughter on the
Democratic sde.) He QMcAdool might have said
this, but he thanked Heaven that his association
with the party of honest men prevented his hurl-
ing such inuendoes against any man. He left this
subject with the House.
Mr.. Hopkins of Pennsylvania had read an
amendment which he proposed to offer to the reso.
luton, to have the record Of June 21st so amended