St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-22
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Wholesale Pension Bill, Giving
Every Disabled Soldier or
Sailor a Place on the List.
The Tenure of Office Bill, Which was a
Grand Dead Beat Locator,
Defeated in the House.
The Expenses Of the Proposed Bankruptcy
Bill Decidedly Against Its Success
full Working.
The Senate.

The Senate.
Senator Kenna asked unanimous consent
to add few words to the tributes in memo
RAM of the late Representative Herdon OF
Alabama Unanimous consent being given,
Kenna addressed the senate few moments
in feeling remarks commemorative Of the
virtues of the deceased.
Several petitions were presented and re-
ferred, praying that no discrimination be
cine in making medical appointments under
the United States.
bill was passed to provide for the relief
of the southern Illinois Normal university at
Carbonate. The bill authorizes the secre-
tary Of war to cancel any Indebtedness the
trustees of the university may owe to the
United States by reason of the destruction of
of arms and accoutrements, the property of
the United States, by fire, which consumed
the university buildings.
The following bills were introduced and re-
ferred:
By Mr.. Jonas, to provide for an industrial
and cotton centennial exposition to be held
duced in the house by Mr.. Ellis.
By Senator ingalls,, to amend section 9, 243
of the revised statutes, so as to prohibit col
lectors Of internal revenue from charging or
receiving any specialize for license or permit,
for the sale of Intoxicating liquors in states,
when the local laws prohibit the sale or man
ufacture of such liquors.
Senator Frye offered resolution, which
was referred to the committee on foreign re-
atoms, requesting the president to institute
negotiations with the government of the king
of Spain, for reference to an umpire for de-
cision, the question whether the treaty OF
1919 had been fully carried into effect and
settlement. and finally decide what
amounts remain to be paid by the United
States. The senate then took up the bank
ruptcy bill.
Senator Van Wyck in course Of debate said
the principal difference he saw between the
present bill and the old bankruptcy bill,
against which all classes had risen up and
protested, was that under the old law the
expenses for officers compensation came
from the bankrupt's estate, and in this bill
it was to come from the United States treas
ury.
Senator Hoar replied, that out of the
bankrupt's estate certain percentage was
paid into the treasury of the United States.
On motion of Senator Sherman, the bill
was so amended as to make the examining
officers, treasury officers, to finally examine
bills for disbursements, the bills to be in
the first instance sworn to by the party pre-
senting them and certified to by the judge.
Senator ingalls, said the machinery created
by the bill would be expensive, There
would, he thought, be at least $50 commits
sioners appointed at once, and there would
be whole number Of supervisors required
by the act. That would involve an appro-
priation of not less than SIS, 1000 to $50, 900
in addition to the amount already appropri-
ated for the United States courts.
All the scandals of the old BANKRUPTCY
system had grown out Of the enormous
expenses it involved. ingalls, was entirely
opposed to the whole plan of giving extra
compensation to government officers. It
was a vicious system. Why, he asked,
should supervisors and commissioners be
paid travelling expenses and extra compensa-
ton when judges of the United States dis
| trict and circuit courts did not receive extra
compensation for any duties arising within
their own district or circuit. If the salaries
named were not sufficient they should be
made sufficient, but they should be fixed and
certain. Under the plan of allowing extra
compensations ingalls, had no doubt the adj
ministration of the act would involve an eX-
pense of 81 900, 900 annually.
Senator Van Wick referred to the slbstan-
stantial failure of all laws intended to secure
payment into the treasury of fees collected by
the officers, and predicted the same fate for
the fees provided for by this bill. Amend
ments were proposed by George, Sherman,
Hoar, ingalls,, Edmunds, Morgan and Van
Wyck. The bill as amended was reported
from the committee of the whole to the senate
and passed. Yeas 80, nays Is. The chair
then laid before the senate the next special
order, being the pleuro-pneumonia bill, and
adjourned.