Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-05
Forty-Eighth Consress---First Session.

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 SENATE.-Before business was undertaken in the Senate to-day the Declaration oe In- dependence was read by General McCook, secretary of the Senate.
 On motion of Mr. Hale 6 further confer ence was ordered on the general deficiency bill. Messrs Allison, Hale and Cockrsn vere appointed the conferees.
 The calendar was cleared of unobiected pension bills.
 A number of bills on which there were adverse reports were also passed and at 5:15 the Senate went into executive session.
 On the doors being reoPened the Senate took recess till o'clock. The conference report on the river and harbor bill was brought in shortly after nine and adopted.
 The postal telegraph bill was taken up. MT. Hill delivered 8 speech in it's support. Further consideration of the bill was post poned until December.
 On motion of Mir. Bayard the bill for the relief of William McGarrahan was indefi- nitely postponed This is the claim over which the Keifer-Boynton controversy arose.
 At 10:30 p. m. an executive session was held on motion of MT. Merrill. The doors were reopened at 1O:5O and g recess taken until 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
 A large number of nominations were con- firmed at this session. Among the most i'm portant were those of John Jarrett, ,Pittsburg Pa, to be commissioner of labor; Leonard B. Smith, of Maine, to be United States con- sul at Curacoa; A. K. Brown, of New York, to be United States consul at Algiers; H. M Brent to be United States consul at Cailao.
 HOUSE After one or two minor reports from conference committees the House re- stunned consideration of the Mexican pension bill and vote was taken on the pending amendment. No quorum voting call of the House was ordered and 224 members sn- swered to their names. Further proceed ho ooll fhon AiananSod with.
 MT. Robinson, of New York, offered as 6 privileged motion 8 resolution that the House go into Committee of the Whole and have read that great State paper, the Dec laration of Independence. Speaker Carlisle ruled this motion out of order.
 Again the vote was taken on the amend ment and again no quorum voted, the op- ponents of the bill refusing to vote. A call was ordered and had and further proceedings dispensed with.
 Mr Randall, from the committee of con- ference on the deficiency bill, submitted re- port concurring in all but twenty-three amendments, and said MT. Calkins would like to test the sense of the House by mo- tion to concur in some of the prominent items in controversy.
 MT. Randall, in reply to an inquiry, said the House conferees had refused to agree te the amendment for $33 ,4s2 for Senate
 
 pay to clerks of Senators.
 MT. Calkins then moved to concur in the Senate amendment sppropriating sums to pay for improvements around government property at Des Moines, Iowa; Hartf ord, Conn Jersey City, N. J.; St.Louis. Mo; Grand Rapids, Mich and Springfield, Ills i; aggregatipg about $5, 5,000.
 MT. Randall said principle involving practically the question of taxation for mu- nicipal purposes was invalid which he did not desire to see settled by conference com mittee- He was willing to abide the decisi on of the House.
 MT. Calkins' motion to concur was disa- greed to; yeas 65, nays 116.
 Mr Calkins moved to concur in the amend ment to reimburse the expenses of the Louis- jana commission of April, 1877, $3, 950. This motion was rejected; yeas 37. nays 73.
 vote wes next taken on four amend ments collectively to pay for the use of ships yards and the care of the four uncompleted ironclads Amphitrite, Terror, Puritan and Monsdnock. amounting in the aggregate to $278, 628. The House disagreed to the mo- tion; 55 to Fl. The House insisted on it's disagreement to the remaining amendments in bulk and i5 was sent to second confer ence, Messrs. Randall, Burns of: Missouri, and Ca1kins of Indiana.
 MT. Willis, of Kentucky, submitted the re- port of the conference committee on the river and harbor bill and it was adopted Soon after the House took 8 recess until 9 p. m.
 The Mexican pension bill came up when the House reassembIed at g o'clock and an hour was spent in filibustering, when Mr. Holman presented the report of the confer ence committee on the Legislative appropria- tion bill The committee agreed on all but twenty tTo amendments. Up to midnight the time was spent in taking test votes on receding from these amendments. The committee was sustained in cash case. The report was adopted and the kill will be sent to a second conference.
 It was 12:3O before the first conference re- port on the legislative appropriation bill was disposed of and the bill sent to 6 second conference. The House then adjourned to meet at 9 a.. m. to morrow.