Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-09

Senator said he wanted to see if the civil service act did not apply to the Capitol. He
 was prepared to show that Virginia had noth- ing like her proportion of the offices in any department of the government and that the State of Kentucky has more appointments of bona fide Kentuckians than any other State. He was prepared to refute the ad cap tandum stuff which had gone to the country that one or two controlled the patronage of the government. The Senator from Kentucky | (Beck) did not move for an investigation of the Danville and Copiah outrages, but he was quick to move when colored Kentuckian was removed from petty office He wanted l to know if 1t were legal to turn out officials at one end of the Capitol and not at the other.
 Mr. Beck said he did not see that the Sem ate could interfere with the House. He objected to the present consideration of the
 resolution, which accordingly went over. The report of the conference committee on the Greeley bill was taken up. The com-
 mittee had failed to agree. MT. Hale said the
 whole matter lay strangled. The bill failed and any further effort for the relief of the Greeley party ceased under it. In order to test the sense of the Senats, however, he would move that it recede from it's amend ment. He was confident that the Secretary of the Navy-indeed he could state 1t fact-would press no man into the service He urged Senators to set aside any prsjudices as to the mode of organizing the relief party and recede from it's amendment.
 Mir. Ingalls, said no expedition could start from our coast before next May and there was ample time even to build vessel for the service. II do not understand" he said,
 s'the hidden motive of this pretense that we must act speedily without consideration or examination of the bill brought before us. I do not understand that the Secretary of the Navy or any other executive officer has the right to appear and suggest In their official capacity what action shall be taken by Congress- The Secretary of the Navy sent a communication to the House con- ferees directing them not to agree to the amendment of the Senate because 1t would imperil the success of the enterprise. He departed from his functions when he stunned to dictate the action of either branch of Congress.
 MT. Hale denied that the Secretary of the Navy had done any such thing. He (Mr. Hale) received 8 dispatch from him after the passage of the Senate amendment and similar dispatch was sent to the chairman of the House Appropriation committee. There was no attempt to domineer or to suggest what the conference committee should do.
 Mr. Ingalls, said he had read in the Record that in presenting tho report of the con- ference committee in the House the chair man submitted communication from the Secretary of the Navy as 8 reason why the House should not agree to the amendment of the Senate.
 ssWas that not proper?" asked MT. Hale.
 ssIt WAS an impertinent intrusion and an invasion af the domain of legisha- tion,'' replied Mir. Ingalls,.
 The parliamentary question es to whether the bill was properly before the Senate was then brought up by the chair. After long discussion it was decided to inform the House that it had taken no formal action on the bill and awaited it's return here in form before proceeding further with the question.
 The unfinished business-the Mexican land claims bill-was then taken up. A number of amendments were voted down. and wh en the bill was reported to the Senate the amendment of Mir. Plumb creating another section reIinquishing and granting land to persons who have been in actual bona hde possession by themselves, ancestors or grant ors continuously for fifty years preceding the massage of the act was adopted. The bill was passed by vote of 29 yeas, 15 nays.
 At 5:25 the Senate adjourned until Monday.
 HoUsE-Mr Belmont, of Now York. offer ed a resolution directing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire and report whether Congress has the power to regulate commerce between the United States and foreign na- tion by the imposition in the form of federal inspecl ion laws of any prohibition, hin drance, burden or tax on American pork destined for sxportation from any State.
 Mir Randall, of Pennsy 1yRnla, submitted the conference report on the Greeley relief bill announcing a further disagreement. The report wes agreed to.
 MT. Finerty, of Illinois, offered the fol- lowing preamble and resolution:
 Vhereas-The death of Wendell Phillips has de- prived America of orator worthy to rank with her greatest, Patrick Henry, of Virginia, to Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, and,
 Whereas-His life was an ineesHant and .unselish struggle the liberty of mankinu irrespective Of condition,
 Resolved, By the House of representatives, that It laments the death of Wendell Phillips a national bereavement which at once deprives the American rostrum of a superb intellect and human freedom Of devoted friend.
 Mr. Eaton. of Connecticut, objected, and the resolution went over.
 Mr. Randall, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the naval appro- prietion bill and gave notice that he would call it up on Tuesday if MT. Hutchlns who has special charge of the bill, as chairman of the sub committee, is we'll enough to be present.
 Mr. Herbert. of Alabama, moved to re- commit the report of tho Committee on Rules, after the rejection of the Reed amendment, with instructions to report rule providing that pending motion to go into Committee of the Whole one motion coming from a committee designating what measure shall be considered may be made and to be decided without debate. The motion was rejected; yeas 113, nays ISL The report of the committee as amended by the propositions of Messrs. Cox and Cos grove was adopted.
 Unfinished business having been disposed of the committees were were called for re- ports of a private nature. Under the call large number of bills were reported and placed on the private calendar.
 The House then went iuto Committee Of the Whole on the private calendar, Mir. Cobb of Pennsylvania in the chair. The first bill was one to provide for the muster and pay of certain officers and enlisted men of the volunteer forces. The bill directs the correction of the muster rolls in the late war so that the muster of officers and enlisted men shall cover the whole pe- riod during which they were regularly com missioned and actually performed the duties to which they were commissioned without regard to the date on which they were mus tered.
 An amendment to this proposed by Mir. Browne, of Indiana, striking out the clause excluding from the benefits of the bill those whose commissions bear dste after the 20th of June, 1863, was adopted
 The bill was then passed with but two or three dissenting votes from members op- posed to Mir Brownes amendment.
 MT. Golf, of West Virginia, offered joint | resolution appropriating $10o,O00 for the | relief of the sufferers by the present over flow of the Ohio river; referred to the Ap- | propriation committee.
 At 4.5O D. m. the House adjourned to Monday.