Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-08
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Detailed Report of the Proceedings il
Both Bodies.

Detailed Report of the Proceedings in
Both Bodies.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Tn the Senate
| this morning, Mr.. Call offered a resolu-
tion which be desired to have referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations, re-
questing the President of the United
States to prevent the delivery of Senior
Carlos Aguero, a Cuban patriot, now in
prison at Key West, Fla, on demand of
the Spanish Government, upon a pre-
tended charge of highway robbery. Mr.
Call presented and had read the proceed
ings of a meeting of American citizens of
Key West, Fla, denOuncing the demand
of Spain as actuated by purely political
reasons, and defending Gen. AguerO from
the imputatiOns against him. The resOlu-
tion was referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
The proceedings were Of little general
Importance. After the expiration of the
morning hour, the Mexican land grant
titles bill was taken up as unfinished
business. This bill was debated during
the remainder of the day, and several
amendments were proposed and rejected
The debate was participated in by Messrs.
Bayard, Plumb, COnger, Mcpherson,
MaXey, Harrison, Edmunds, Call and
dress the Senate on the pending amend
ment, when an adjournment was moved
and agreed to.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day, Mr.. Dockery, of
Missouri, from the Committee on Ac-
counts, reported back the resolution de-
claring vacant the positions of stenogra-
pliers of the committees, and providing
that hereafter on the request of each COM
mittee the Speaker shall employ a re-
porter at compensation to be fixed by
the Committee on Accounts. He stated
that the committee desired to paw for
services rendered in the House, and not
dollar in excess. In other words, it pro-
posed that the law of supply and demand
should prevail.
Mr.. Reagan, of Texas, thought that
some action was necessary, and that the
present system of reporting for the COM
mittees was wrong. He instanced the
fact that a reporter had recently been sent
to the Committee on Commerce, who
could not report, and the result was that
the argument presented had to be re-
written. The resolution was then
adopted.
A number of bills were introduced and
others reported from committees, and all
were appropriately referred. The House
then proceeded to the consideration of the
resolution reported day or two since
from the Committee on Rules adopting for
the government of the House until further
order the rules of the Forty-sixth Con-
gress.
BY unanimous consent it was agreed
that the debate should be permitted for
ten minutes on each proposition to amend
the rules, the proposition, however, not to
be considered pending unless the previous
question on the resolution be voted down.
A flood of amendments were offered and
discussed. Among them was one by Mr..
BelfOrd, of Colorado, providing a clerk for
every member not Chairman of a com.
mittee, and one by Mr.. Cox, of New York,
for the creation Of a Census Committee.
all of which came to vote and were re-
jected until Mr.. CoX's census resolution
was reached. The vote on this was 1O5
yeas to Al nays. The point of no quorum
being raised the House adjourned.