The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-03-12
CONGRESSIONAL.
HOUSE..

WASHINGTON, d. C.. March g.
Under the call Of the committee
!Ingley reported adversely fro,
the committee on shipping authori,
Ing the purchase of freight bui
ships by United States citizens "a
use In the foreign carrying trad
which was placed on the Honee ca
endar.
Slocum then presented q minorit
report which was ordered printed.
Morrison movt d the House 20 int
. committee of the whole on revenu
Diils pending, wnen Townsend moves
that the House go into q committe @
general appropriation bills.
The Speaker stated that q vot
should first be taken on Morrison
motion and Randall demanded th
yeas and nays. The object of Nor
rls0n's motion was then taken up f0
consideration. The bonded exten
sion clause Of the liqur bill the Hous'
refused to adopt by yeas It's nays 127
This was In no sense party vote q
. large lumber Of Democrats votet
In the negative with the Republl
cans, and almost an equally large
number of Republicans voted viii
the body of Democrats in the affirm
alive.
Horr said there would evidently b<
deficiency of $250,OOO If the bill
passed in the present shape and the
only offset the committee provided
was the cutting down of $40, 900 in
the salaries of p0stmasters in cities.
He was opposed to this provision,
cOntending that postmasters in the
large cities fully earned the salaries
they were now receiving. He de
voted special attention to the pr0vis-
Ion for reduction of the c0mpensa-
ton to railroads. Although he
thought it unwise, he made no spe-
cial objection to it; his opposition be-
ing rather to the clause authorizing
the payment of only So per cent. Of
that compensation to the lands grant,
ed the railroad. This does not apply
10 the Pacific system, and it was
doubtful whether 1t applied to the
Pacific. It effects forty
little roads scattered throughout the
only ten of which were on
q paying basis, and it was unjust and
unbecoming the dignity of great
nation to deal with these roads other
than as one individual would deal
with another.
Sumner, of California, advocated
The establishing of postal te:egraphy,
its constitutionality, and
the advieability Of such
! step. He declared If there had been
postal telegraph in 1875, samuel Til.
len would have taken possession of
he position to which he had been
elected then, and to which it is like
y he will be reelected again in 1884.
The committee without further ae-
ion rose and the House adjourned.
John I. Caine, Delegate from
Utah, made an argument before the
House Committee on Territories to-
lay, in which he criticized the Ed
nunds bill and Cassidy bill, In rela-
ion to polygamy, as unconstitution-
i. He admitted the right of the |
to punish polygamy as
crime, but nevertheless the Nor
mons believed it was right. He cited
Examples of Patriarchs in support of |
heir belief. Utah was q barren
waste until the Mormons came and
1t into its present state of |
ertility. They had he'ped to hold
california during the Mexican war
nd deserved consideration from the |
The bill to aepeal a section of the |
evised statutes limiting the term
f certain offices to four years, was
avOrably received to-day from the
on reform Of the civil
ervice and applies to the term of
f offices of district attorney, chief
lstice and associate justices in the
territories, surveyors general, regis-
ers and receivers, collectors of Gus.
oms, naval officers and surveyors of
and postmasters. |
Postmaster General Gresham, First
Assistan9 Postmaster General Hat
IN and General Superintendent
thompson, of the railway service,
1T for New York this morning to
Ike passage on the first train of the
ew fast mail line between New York
nd Chicago. The train leaves New
'ork at $40 tonight and will reach
hicago half an hour after midnight
unday.