The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1884-06-27
FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
Semitic Proceeding. Yesterday.

sennte Proceedings Yesterday.
WASHINGTON, June %, 1884.
Mr.. Jonas introduced o bin TO appro
pirate $4,000 for the establishment Of ,
Government farm, chiefly for raising ant
the cultivation OF winter grasses, at or neal
the thirty-first parallel Of latitude in Louis
lana. Referred.
MIR. Allison's resolution offered ycs.er
day was agreed TO, making II in order du
| ring The remainder OF the session for any
| senator TO move the fiye-minute Limitation
OF debate on amendments 10 the appropria
ton bills.
On motion OF Mr.. Morrill, the Senate
took up and passed House bill extending
to water transportation routes the proyi.
| sions OF the statutes hitherto applied to
land routes, only regarding the immediate
transportation OF dutiable goods.
The legislative, executive, and judicial
appropriation bill was then proceeded with.
the pending question being on the amend
mont proposed by tho Senate Anpronrio.
ton Committee 10 strike out the clause
permitting distilleries MASKING ten bushels
or less OF grain per day TO be run without
storekeepers, and inserting instead a pro.
vision amending the revised statutes so as
TO forbid a collector from hereafter ap-
proving the bonds OF grain-distillcrs the
survey OF whose distllleries shall be for less
capacity than ten bushels OF grain per day,
and so as TO forbid under penalties the dis
tillation Of less daily quantity than that.
Mr.. Brown opposed the committees
proposition, maintaining that it was a
great injustice to small dstillers and OF
further advantage to wealthy distillers,
already strongly protected. Small farmers,
he said, who had TO cart their produce fifty
miles TO market found that half OF the
amount realized was consumed in eX-
penses. while by first making the produce
into whiskey they could realize profit
that would com enSate for their labor and
time.
A point OF order being raised that the
part recommended for insertion was new
legislation, and therefore obnoxious to the
rule forbdding sch legislation in appro.
priatiOn bills, the Chair sustained the
point OF order, and the new clause recon-
mended was not adopted. The committees
recommendation to strike out the House
clause was, however, agl eed to.
Mr.. Vest offered the following as a sub
stitute for an amendment moved by Mr..
Allison upon the same subj Reports
in the Congressional Record shall be an
accurate transcript Of tue proceedings and
debates OF the two houses OF Congress,
and no speech shall he published therein
which was not spoken in the Senate or in
the House OF Representatives. and such
speeches shall be printed as they were
actually delivered, except verbal correc-
tons made by the author OF the speech and
by no other person and that when speeches
are reserved by their authors for correc-
ton they shall be returned to the reporter
OF the house in which they were delivered
within one week, and II not so returned
they shall be printed in the Congressional
Record from the notes of the reporter.
Agreed to.
All amendments having been made, the
bill was read third time and passed.
Mr. Mcmillan, from the Committee on
Commerce, reported the river and harbor
bill, with the request that it be printed and
recommitted to the committee. Agreed to.
The Senate then took up the bill TO for
felt the unearned Immigrant OF the Allan
tic and Pacific Railroad Company, and
with this as unfinished business for to-
morrow the Senate at 5:45 =. NJ. went into
executive session, and when the doors
were re0pened adjourned.
House of Representatives.
Mr.. Bingham, from the Committee on
Post-Oflices and Post-Roads, reported the
bill fixing at two cents per ounce or frac-
bic matter OF the first class. Placed on
House calendar.
Mr.. Stockslager, Of Indiana, from the
Committee on Pensions, reported the bill
granting pensions TO surviving officers and
~ ho
mittee Of the Whole.
Mr.. Oates, OF Alabama, from the Com
mittee on Public Lands, reported adversely
the bill TO declare forfeited certain lands
granted to Alabama TO aid in the construc-
ton Of railroads Laid on the table.
Mr.. Garrison. Of Virginia, asked unanl-
nous consent TO take up for consideration
the till for the completion Of the m0nu-
ment to Mary the mother OF Washington,
at Fredericksburg, Va, but Mr.. Wells, OF
Iowa, objected.
Mr.. Brown. of Indiana, endeayored to
have the House proceed to the considera-
ton OF the Mexican pension bill with Sen
lte amendments, but the House determined
by vote OF yeas 1876, nays SO, 20 consider
the unfinished business, being the bill to
forfeit the Immigrant TO the Backbone"
railroad of Louisiana.
Mr.. Oates, OF Alabama, concluded his
speech in opposition to the bill.
Messrs. Van Eaton, OF Mississippi, and
Payson, OF Illinois, held that the grant was
either in law or equity.
Mr.. Lewis, Of Louisiana, closed the de-
Date with a speech in favor of the forfeiture.
The vote on the passage OF the bill re-
II; nays, 12l.
Before the announcement OF the vote,
Mr.. Lewis, who had voted In the affima-
i've, changed his vote to the negative and
moved reconsideration.
Mr.. Ellis. OF Louisiana, moved to table
hat motion, and pending this Mr.. Lewis
moved to adjourn. Lost.
Messrs. Lewis and White, OF Kentucky,
hen resorted to filibustering tactics, and
inally, at $3.50 p. NJ, secured an adjourn
nent.
TEXAS b URGLARS.