Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-26
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The next point in dispute was the Senate
amendment increasing from 81, 700, 900 to
So, 750, 600 the appropriation for mail trans
portion on railroads. This was considered
in connection with the amendment striking
out the clause reducing five per cent. the
compensation to railroads for mail trans
portatiOn, and providing that land grant
roads and subsidy roads shall receive only
fifty per cent. of the compensation allowed
other roads.
Mr.. Horr moved that the House recede
from its disagreement to these amendments.
Lost yeas Sc, nays 101.
The House then, on motion of Holman,
insisted on its disagreement to the amend
ments.
The House then took a recess until even
ing, when they passed seventy six pension
bills and adjourned.
The treaty which has been under consid-
Grafton in the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations, providing for an interna-
tional copyright and patent system, and
which already has been ratified and pro-
muIgated by twenty-four governments, was
reported adversely by the committee to the
Senate, and after brief discussion rejected.
The House Public Lands Committee have
agreed to report favorably on the bill re-
curing the general Government to pay the
State of California for school purposes five
per cent. of the net proceeds of all public
lands sold within her boundaries since the
States admission. The amount of the pro-
posed payment is estimated at 81 100000.
In the House on June 18th, they
resumed the consideration of the amend
ments in dispute between the two houses
on the PostOfice Appropriation bill, the
pending amendment being that incorpora-
ted by the Senate, appropriating $185, 600 for
al, oil Fan kJ-T1v1 b lfv1n5
The House after long debate receded
from it's disagreement, and agreed to in
creasing the appropriation to $685.
The House insisted on it's disagreement to
the amendment, increasing from 100000
to s., 5000 the appropriation for railway
postal clerks.
The Committee on Public Buildings sub
mitted report in which the charges of cor
ruption, or collision, on the part of the
Secretary of the Treasury in the selection
of site for public building at Brooklyn,
to be unfounded.
The next bill called up for consideration
was one requiring the Pacific railroad COM
panies to pay the cost of conveying, survey
Ing and selecting lands granted to and
earned by those companies, In the event
of failure of any company to pay this
cost within ninety days after the passage OF
inform its President or Treasurer of the
amount of land to which it is entitled to
patent and the amount ofcost of surveying,
ETC., and if the company shall not pay such
cost within sixty days after the receipt Of
the notice, the Attorney General shall in
stitute suits against the company in de-
fault. Pending the consideration of the
bill the House adjourned.
In the Senate Cd June 18th, resolution
was offered directing the Committee on Ju-
dietary to inquire whether the Union OF
Central Pacific Railroad Companies have
become responsible for or guaranteed inter
est on any bonds other than those author
lied by Congress or outstanding at the date
of the passage of the act making appropria'
tons for Legislative, Executive and Judi.
cial expenses of the Government for the
year ending June 20, 1874, and if so, t.
what extent and under actual or alleged
authority; also, whether any new stock has
been issued by either of the said companies
It went over under the rules.
Plumb, from the Committee on Appro.
priatiOns, reported the Army Appropriation
bill as agreed upon by the Committee. II
apprOpriates 1926, 900 more than the House
bill.
Ingalls, rose to a question of Privilege
He read from the debate of last Friday or
the bill relating to the claim of the State o.
Georgia for money spent for the common
defense in LIT. He objected to certain
words, which, he said, had been inserted il
in the handwriting of the Senator of thai
State (Brown) in the official representatives
manuscript of the debate, and which, In
gals claimed, had not been spoken of in
the Senate. He said he was always willing
to submit to the fortunes of debate, wheth
er of victory or fdefeat, but wasn't secure
against the Parthian arrows of flying foes
IL
bush in q printing house. After some rather
sensational remarks on both sides the con.
sideratiOn Ofthe matter went over until
tomorrow.
Senator Plumb called up the report o.
the Conference Committee upon the Post
Office Appropriation bill, and upon his
motion the Senate concurred in the House
amendment apprOpriating $180000 "fOl
necessary and special facilities on the
Trunk lines" The House increased the
amendment to $250O00, in which the
Senate concurred,
Plumb moved that the Senate insist on
its remaining amendments (three in mum.
ber), one increasing the appropriation fol
transportation on railroad routes from
! $11, zoe, 900 to $12,75O, 600; another striking
out the House provision relating to the re-
adjustment of the compensation to rail
roads, and the third adding $500, 900 to the
appropriation of 100000 for railway post
Office clerks.
The Senate then, after considering the
Utah Bill for short time, adjourned.
In the House on June 10th the following
bills were introduced: Granting 100 acres
of the public domain to every honorably
discharged soldier or sailor of the late war
To prevent and punish prosecution under
the United States of fraudulent claims
against foreign Governments. Calling fol-
executive information relative to fencine
in public lands. For the erection of a I'm.
ion and Confederate soldiers home at Den.
yer.
The House then went into Committee o.
the Whole on the Deficiency Appropriation
bill. After considering thirty-fiye pages o.
the bill they adjourned.
In the Senate on June 18th after the reading
Of the Journal, Brown of Georgia, arose tc
! question of Privilege, and replied to the
remarks Of INGALLS, rOado uoSroPdau onT