Daily Kennebec journal., 1884-06-13
PORTY-ElGHrH CONGRESS.
First session.
sen ATE.
WASHINGTON, June l2.

Mr.. Ingalls, presided over the Senate today
| On motion of Mr.. Allison the Senate took
I formal vote on the consular and diplomatic
Appropriation and the bill was passed-3S to 8
| The bill passed Is almost precisely a:
reported from the Senate committee on ap
propriations. making an addition of $1,000,
600 TO the bill as reported from the House.
! The Mexican pension bill taken up by Mr.
Van Wyck moved an amendment to Mr.
Cullum's bill to provide pensions for in
valid soldiers who have been discharged
! from the army or navy after three months
service in the war of the rebellion. and fol
the widows and parents of deceased pension
ers. After considerable discussion the Sen.
ate without taking action went into execu,
tive session. and afterwards adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 10 O'Clock in continuation
of Wednesday. session and went into COM
mttee on the river and harbor bill.
Mr.. Graves of Missouri offered an amend
ment that nothing contained in the act shall
be construed as limitation on the powers OF
the board of engineers designated to prepare
and submit plans of specifications, estimates
and recommendations for the expenditure OF
appropriations for the Mis- sissippi river, and
said board shall constitute a commission to
/ Dt Cdlltu the hlscOuEl river COululsslOu.
! The House then went into committee on
| the river and harbor bill.
| An amendment was adopted prohibiting
vessels from dumping ashes or other refuse
matter in the Providence river.
large number of amendments were
offered to the section providing for new sur
veys, the ma jority of which were voted down.
Mr.. Belford of Colorado offered an amend
ment providing that all appropriations in this
bill shall be paid in standard silver coin of
the United States or in silver certificates.
Under a New York President and New
York secretary of the treasury, he said, the
coin of the country was locked up in the
treasury, but both these officers. he thanked
God, would depart from office on March 4,
next. The republican party had nominated
man who had been willing to recognize the
great silver product of Colorado, and if the
democratic party had sense enough to NOM
mate as its candidate John G. Carlisle, the
country would get along very well whether
one or the other was elected.
The amendment was lost-7l to 75.
On motion of Mr.. Poland of Vermont the
appropriation for Burlington Harbor was
increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
At 1906 the committee rose and reported
the bill.
Mr. Bates of Alabama moved to strike out
the Hennepin canal clause; agreed to.
The bill was then passed-yeas loo to 104.
The following is the vote in detail:
Yeas-Messrs. Adams, Aiken, Alexander,
Barbour. Barksdale. Bayne. Belford, Ben
nett, Bsbee, Blanchard, Bland, Brainard,
breckenridge, Breiting, Broadhead, Budd.
Buchanan, Burleigh, Burns, Cabbell, Cald
well, Calkins. Cannon, Carleton. Cassidy.
Clandy, Clements. Collins, Cosgrove, Crisp,
Culbertson of Texas, Culbertson of Kentucky,
Cutcheon, Dargae. Davidson, Davis of Mis-
souri,. Davis of Massachusetts. Deuster, Dib-
Bile, Dibrell, Dockery, Dove, Dunham, Dunn.
Eldridge, Ellis. Findley, Finnerty, Follett,
Foran, Forney, Fyan. Garrison, George,
Gibson, Glasscock, Goff, Graves, Hart,
Hatch of Missouri, Hatch of Michigan,
Haynes, Hemppill Henderson of Illinois,
Henderson of Iowa. Herbert, Hewitt of Ala
bama, Hit, Hoblitzell. Horr. Houk, Housi-
man, Hunt. Hurd, Jefferds, johnson. Jones
of Arkansas, Jones of Texas, Jones of Ala
bama, Kelley, King, Lanham. Louis, Long,
Lowering, Lyman. Mccormick, Mcmillan,
Maybury, Miller of Texas, Money, Null
drom, Murphy, Nero, Nelson, Nichols, Nut
thug, Oates. Ochiltree. O'Ferrall, O'Hara.
O'Neill of Penn. O'Neill of Mo-, Payson,
Pierce, Peel Price, Pryor, Rankin, Reeze,
Riggs, Robertson, Rogers of New York,
Rogers of Ark, Rowell, Schales, Senry,
Seymour, Shelley, Singleton. Smalls, Snyder,
Spooner, Stewart of Texas, Stowe, Strait,
Sumner of California, Talbot, f. b. Taylor
of Ohio, Taylor of Tennessee, Thomas,
Thompson, Tillman, Tucker, Tulley, Turner
of Georgia, Valentine, Vance, Van Eaton,
Wakefield, Wallace, Warner of Ohio. WASH
burn. Welborn, White of Minnesota, Willis,
Williams, Wilson of West Virginia, Winans
of Michigan, G. ID. Wise of Virginia, J. S.
Wise of Virginia, Woolford, Yaple, York,
Young-l56.
Nays-Messrs. Adams of New York, An
derson, Arnot, Atkinson, Barr, Blount
Bowen, Boyle, Brewer of New York, Brewer
of New Jersey, Brown of Indiana, Brown of
Pennsylvania, Brumm. Campbell of New
York, Campbell of Pennsylvania, Chandler,
Clay, Cobb. Connolly. Converse, Coke. Cox
of New York. Cox of North Carolina, Cullen,
Curtin, Dorsheimer, Eaton, Elliot, English
Ermentrout. Evans of Pennsylvania, Ever
hart, Ferrill, Fidler, Funston, Geddes Hal
SELL Hammond Hanback,. Hardeman, Harmer
Hepburn, Hewitt of New York, Hiscock,
Holman, Holmes. Holton, Howes. james,
of Wisconsin, Karson, kean, Kitcham, Lamb
Lawrence, Lowrey, McAdoo, McCoid, Nc
Comas, Matson, Millard, Miller of Pennsyl-
vania. Mitchell. Morgan. Morrison, Morse.
Moncton, Murray, Mutchler, Parker. Patten,
Rayne, ferklns- refers, Iost. otter. uses >
Ranney Ray of New York, Rockwell, Ryan,
Shaw, Skinner, Smith, Spriggs, Springer.
Steele, Stockslager, Storm, Strubble, Sum-
ner af Wisconsin, J. d. Taylor of Ohio,
Throckmorton Townshend, Turner of Ken
tucky, Ward. Warner of Tennessee. Weaver,
Weller, Whiting, wilkins, White of Ken
lucky, Worthington-l04-
Mr. Eaton of Conn. then called up for
consideration the Senate bill regulating the
electoral court with the amendment pro-
posed by the House committee on state of
presidential laws in the nature of a substi-
tute. Mr. Eaton said there were three modes
proposed for counting the electoral votes.
The first mode presented by the Sentate bill.
The second mode was presented by the House
committee, and one other mode which is be-
lieved to be the right one. He believed that
under the constitution the House of Rep
resentatives today had the sole power to
count the electoral votes. If in the future
the bill was not agreed upon by the two
houses and if there should be any such action
as there was in 1877, he would call upon the
House to exercise the constitutional right and
determine all questions relating TO the pres
idential election. He saw one way out OF
the difficulty and that was by percapita vote.
Mr. Pryor of Alabama, delivered a care
fully prepared speech in favor of the House