Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-28

more than it contained as passed by the Sen ate. The aggregate appropriation as it now stands is $226, 800 less than the appropria tion of last year and $2 1855, ,634 less than tn, estimates.
 The Workings of the suez Canal.
 WASHINGTON, June 27.-The report on th Suez canal transmitted to the Senate to-da, was prepared by Prof. Nourse of the Nav! department. It gives a complete history 0 the operations of the canal since its comple tion, together with much information bearing upon the subject of canal across the Ameri can isthmus. The earnings of the Saez cana for the last year are placed at about $13, 900, 900 or sufficient to pay 8 dividend of Il per cent. on the capital invested.
 Forty Eighth COnsress---First Session.
 WAsHrNaToE. June 27.
 SENATE MT. Pendleton's resolution, rela tive to qualification of the laws concernin. the signal service bureau, and asking thl Secretary of War for report as to the pro priety of continuing the bureau under tn supervision of the War department, wen over temporarily.
 MT. Butler gave notice that on Monday h. will ask vote on his resolution to investi gate the condition of New York nationa banks.
 A number of pension bills were cleared from the calendar.
 At three o'clock the House bill to forfei the unearned lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific railroad was taken up. Mir. Mor gan offered an amendment in the nature o a substitute conferring jurisdiction on the Circuit court for the western district of Mis- souri to hear and determine all questions anC controversies concerning the rights and equities of the forfeited l. nds claimed oI asserted by the United States or any person or corporation claiming the same. It fxei the status of all claimants during the pro ceedings, gives the right of appeal to tht United States courts, and provides also tha the appeals shall be advanced on the docke so that the cases may be quickly disposed of
 A long debate ensued on the legal ques tions involved in which Messrs. Plumb, Will liams, Jones of Florida and Morgan tool part.
 Mr Morgan contended that the passage oi the bill as 1t came from the committee would destroy millions of dollars worth of proper ty. No matter what the claim might be he would not commit rash act of injustice and forfeit lands without giving claimants access to the courts to inquire by what authority the forfeiture was made.
 MT. Hawley called attention to statement published in the Record purporting to give g
 
 lands. In this list Senator Logan was &C., credited with holding eighty thousand acres. The object of that statement, Mir. Hawley said, was to prejudice gentleman whose hardly permitted him to speak for himself, though he (Logsn) was abuu- dantly qualified to do so. The statement was untrue.
 Mir. Logan. who laughed while this explan- ation was being made, added: ''The state f5 rIkk In foIo T do V1SNfk terial, nor do I propose to give schedule of my property to anyone. The property l own is in the State of Illinois. do own two or three tracts of land, but altogether they would not make a hundreth part of the amount that the statement gives me-"
 At $40 the Senate went into executive sss. sion and shortly afterwards adjourned.
 The general deficiency bill was reported to the Senate before adjournment and will be called up for confederation tomorrow.
 HoUsE-Mr. Hancock, of Texas, present ed to the House to-day conference report on the pension bill, and it was adopted.
 Mir. Forney, of Alabama, submitted the report of the committee on conference on the army appropriation bill, which was adopted.
 At l o'clock, as agreed yesterday, a vote was taken on reconsideration of the Louis ana backbone railroad bill. The motion to reconsidor was laid on the table; yeas. .124, nays 114
 Before the roll call OF this, Mr. White, of rose to privileged question, and had read an article from the National Repub- icsn of to-day, embodyiRg letter dated New York. Nov. ', 1881, in which the writer reflects upon the disposal of t.e backbone bonds and threatens to move an investigation in December. MT. White claimed, as h1s matter of privilege, that his letter showed that an investigation should be ordered. The chair ruled that no question of explanation had been presented.
 MT. Ellis rose to personal privilege and said he regretted that the advocates of the bill had been driven to malignant personal attack upon him. He charged that the let ter had been materially garbled to meet the purpose of it's publication. At an early day he would arraign in the House the instiga- tors of this attack upon him, which was in- tended to warp the judgment of the House on the pending bill. He declared the attack the last v1ndictiTe thrust of a blackmaiier, with whom he had been connected only through desire to do him kindness.
 The House then proceeded to vote on the bills reported from the Committee on the Whole and the private calendar.
 Bills to relieve certain soldiers of the late war from the charge of assertion and for the relief of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines were passed.
 The bill retirine Colonel Henry J. Hunt as 8 major general was passed.
 The want of 8 quorum was then developed and after fruitless efforts to go on MT. Valen tine, of North Carolina, rose to a question of privilege and said there appeared in the Record to-day what purported to have been @ speech delivered on the floor of the House by Mir. McAdoo, Of New Jersey, in which the
 
 CTS or Hand grahbers" and quoting an article from the New York Star of January las, which stated that Senator John A. Logan owned eiG hty thousand acres of land. He had seen Senator Logan, who said he did nei own an acre of land except the homestead where he was born, and that the statement so far as it related to him, was absolutely false. Several members on the Democratic side insisted that no question of privilege had been stated. MT. McAdoo had not spoken to the matter before the House, but had gone out of his way to attack one of the bravest and most gallant soldiers of the country.
 MT. Thompson, of Kentucky, said: 'tIi he wants to eulog1ze Logan give him leave to print"
 The chair said thss no question of privilege was involved if he had printed nothing thai could have been spoken on the floor and nc resolution had been offered.
 Mir. Cox, of New York, speaking for Mir McAdoo, said if he had printed anything de rogatory to Senator Logan that was incorrect he would be ready to correct it.
 MT. Follett, of Ohio, read from the Recor6 of the 24th ''Mr. McAdoo addressed tht House. His remarks will appear hereafter. Applause on the Democratic side
 MT. Cannon said that wes sha point. Tht Record sh Juld show inst the remarks vere not made on the floor and allowed te go gn: eontradicted.
 MF Cox, of New York. called attention tc q speech printed by MT. Brewster, of Nev Jersey, in which he arra;gned the Democratic patty. He had hoped this Congress would adjourn without partisan discussion.
 Mir. Cannon then offered resolution that the Record of June 18th bs amended SO as to show that the speech Of Mir. McAdoc was not delivered, but printed in the Record of June 27.
 Points of order were raised hy ssysrs, members, bqt oyerruled By fas Speaker.
 Mr Cannon then went on to speak to his resolution.
 Mir. Valentine said the mere statement that General Logan or any other man owned a large tract of land was not derogatory. but coupled with the language used by the asn- tleman from New Jersey became oRensivs.
 Mir. McAdoo said if there was to be coua- parlson of the persons to honor and integrity of himself and the gentleman from Illinois he was willing to leave it to the country. While tha hill Has mn ha had a{Faro5