Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-01-31
18th Congress---SecOnd Session.
WASHINGTON, January 80, 1885.

18Th COngreSS---SecOnd Session.
WASHINGTON, January 80, 1856.
SENArE.-The House resolution with re-
gard to counting the electoral vote February
II was adopted, with an amen 1ment giving
the Senate two tellers. The House bill pro-
vlded for one teller by the Senate and two
by the House. Mr.. Hoar moved to take up
the bill reported by him the other day in re-
gard to the Union and Central Pacific rail
roads and their branches, stating that at
this time he moved only to ask for the read
ing of the bill and of the report and that the
bill be laid over until tomorrow; agreed to.
The report accompanying the bill shows that
the total Indebtedness of the roads
to the government is nearly $10S,-
100000. The average annual payment
by the government on the railroad
bonds which it had guaranteed
exceeded by nearly $4,000, 900, the average
annual repayment by the company. Mr..
Hoar on explanation of the bill traced the
history of the Union Pacific railroad, which
was to have been great solvent line beyond
the reach of stock jobbers and bearing the
same relation to the commerce of the country
as the Mississippi river or New York harbor.
The reasons which led to the failure of these
expectations were we'll known and need not
be recalled. Some years ago, when the com
pany was above par and was represented to
be good investment large amounts of stock
and persons of humble means. Millions of
dollars in his State were invested
this way. 1t was estimated that more
than one-sixth of the stock was
now held by persons who could
be supposed to hold it for speculative pur-
poses, and it therefore did not seem just to
the committee for the United States to deal
with the present condition of that road by
bringing up the wrong doings of twenty years
ago. Within the past year a gentleman
CIR. Adams) had come into the management
of the road bearing historic name. but who
needed not the reputation of his ancestors to
attest his nobility to those who knew him.
He had declared publicly and privately it
was his purpose to have the read SO managed
as to first pay all its obligations to the gov
eminent, and next to pay fair dividend to
it's stockholders. He (Mr Hoar) for one was
willing to confde in that promise
and vote for the proposed bill which
virtually extended for an average of
twenty-three years the time within which the
company was to meet its Indebtedness to the
United States, and at the same time gave
the government, as additional security, a lien
on five thousand miles of additional line of
road over which the government did not now
hold any lien. In reply to Mr.. Sewall Mr..
Hoar said the road would be in bankruptcy
within year if the Thurman act were en-
forced as rigidly construed by the United
States.
Mr. Garland called the attention of the
Senate to the fact that with the addition of
the Union Pacific this bill was substantially
the bill he had introduced last summer with
regard to the Central Pacific. There was but
one important amendment and that was in
troduced with view Of enabling the govern
1nent of the United States as it paid out cur
rent interest also to receive current in
terest.
Mr. Pugh lent animation to the debate by
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State bill interspersed with some rather
warm passages with Mr.. Coke its champion
on the floor of the Senate, and defense
of the Cullom Senate bill.
Shortly after O'Clock the Senate went in
to executive session and at 4:4O p. N. adj
journed until Monday.
HoUsE-Representati Blackburn acted
as Speaker to day.
Mr.. Tohnshend, of Illinois, reported the
postofice appropriation bill, and it was re
ferred to the Committee of the Whole. It
appropriates $50, $50, 800, nearly $4,000
less than the estimate. The private calendar
was then taken up.
Seven private bills were considered in COM
mittee and reported to the House. The con-
test over the bill to pay Captain Nicholas J.
Bigley, owner of the steamer Hercules, $751;
211 for coal lost at Memphis in 1868 Tbegun
two weeks ago. was renewed. The yeas and
nays called and the bill was passed,
yeas 107 nays 81.
The chair laid before the House message
from the President reciting the circumstances
under which the Arctic steamer Alert was
presented to the United States by Great
Britain and recommending that the President
be now authorized to return the steamer SO
generously presented.
Mr.. Cox, of North Carolina, moved refer
ence of the message to the Committee on
Foreign Affairs.
Mr.. Boutelle, of Maine, said the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs had under consideration
a bill to dispose of the three vessels of the
Greedy relief expedition and moved an
amendment by inserting 'Naval Affairs
This was resisted by the Foreign Affairs
committee members, but finally decided in
favor of the Naval committee-79 to 90.
At 5 o'clock the House took a recess until
8 o'clock
At the night session thirty pension bills
were passed and at 1850 p. m. the House
Just as the House was about to take its
recess Mr.. Barbour, of Virginia, chairman of
the District of Columbia committee asked
unanimous consent to reconsider the vote ON
one of the private bills, saying it had gotten
through accidentally.
Mr.. O'Neil of Missouri, said he ought to
object, for if any bill got through the House
it was certainly by accident.
The vote was reconsidered.
Cold Weather in New Hampshire.
MANCHESTER, Jan. 30.-This morning was
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