Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1885-02-17
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
NO RELIEF FOR GRANT.
The House Refuses To
Retire Him.
GREAT DAMAGE BY THE GALE.
A Romance OfThe Black
Hills.
R0SSA'S ASSAlLANT In COURT.
Cunningham Gives The
Lie I'm Court.
18th Congress- Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1

18th Congress- Second Session.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.
SENATE-The chair laid before the Senate
a communication from the Secretary OF the
Navy enclosing memorial of the chamber
of commerce of New York praying for the
regulation of compssses on steel and iron
ocean steamships. The Secretary said if an
appropriation was made for the purpose of
ficers of the navy would perform the services
prayed for.
On motion of Mr. Dawes the Des Moines
river bill was informally laid aside in order
that the Senate might continue considera
ton of the Indian appropriation bill. MI.
Vests proposed amendment to increase the
annuity of the Assiniboines in Montana was
discussed while and then Withdrawn.
At O'Clock Mr. Blairs anti-contract labor
bill came up as unfinished business, but was
informally laid aside and consideration of the
Indian appropriation bill continued. The
Senate committees amendments striking out
a number of House sections appropriating
money to pay claims for damages caused by
Indian depredations were all agreed to.
The committees amendm ents striking out
the House sections prohibiting the sale of
arms to Indians outside the five civilized
tribes in the Indian territory and authorizing
the President to disarm troublesome Indians
was agreed to.
The committees amendment striking out
the House section prohibiting the introduce
ton or sale of liquor Of any kind in the In
dian country provoked considerable discus
sion. The House section was warmly de-
Tended by Messrs. Blair and Maxey, the lat
ter asserting that no measure of greater value
to the Indian than the section under discus
sion could be adopted by Congress.
Mr. Dawes, chairman of the Indian COM
mittee, opposed it on the grounds that it was
latin in,
faulty legislation at that.
Mr. Blair took occasion before the discus
sion ended, evidently aiming his remarks at
Mr.. Dawes, to say as member OF The he
publican party he did not feel proud to see
so much opposition to this measure come
from the Republics side of the chamber.
Finally the committees amendment was
agreed to and the House section stricken
out.
The House section authorizing negotiations
with the Creeks, Seminoies and Cherokees
for the purpose of opening up to settlement
unassigned lands in the Indian territory,
popularity known as Oklahoma lands, was
after considerable debate stricken out, 30 to
20.
Mr.. Plumb then offered an amendment ap-
propriating So. 900 to negotiating cess1on
of the Oklahoma lands to the United States,
but this was at once ruled out OF order, the
chair (Mr. Hoar) deciding that it was new
legislation.
Several minor amendments were agreed to
and the bill was read third time and
passed.
Mr.. Blair's ti-contract labor bill then
came up as unfinished business, but without
considering it the Senate went into executive
session and at sos adjourned.
HoUsE.-The Senate amendments to the
army appropriation bill were non-concurred
in and Messrs. Forney, Townshend and Kei-
e. I'D
and Keifer were appointed conferees on the
Senate bill for the protection of the Yellow
stone National Park.
Mr.. Slocum of New York, from the Mill
tary committee, moved to suspend the rules
and pass the Senate bill to place General
Grant on the retired list of. the army.
Mr. Slocum said this bill was to place Gen
era1 Grant in the position he would have
occupied if he had not accepted the call of
the people to be chief magistrate. The bill
was the same as all bills that had been
passed for like purposes since the founda-
ton of the government He said the gov
eminent had done nothing for General Grant
beyond the payment of his salary. He con-
trasted the course of our government with
that of England in respect to its military
history General Grant, he said, had been
subject to criticism for his military and civil
course, but his campaign at Appomattox
would be remembered when his campaign in
Wall street was forgotten. He believed the
people, North and South, were unani-
nous in desiring that General Grant be
placed on the retired list.
Mr.. Horr, of Michigan, said he would
crawl on his knees ell over this town in the
snow to-day to put General Grant on the re-
tired list, but this bill was brought in to
prevent that very act. This bill had been
a tight place. If the other side were sincere
let them report the Edmunds bill and the Re
publicans would vote for it unanimously.
Mr. Thomas, of Illinois, said his people,
Democrats and Republicans alike, believed
this bill was trap intended to prevent the
placing of General Grant on the retired list,
knowing that the President, for reasons well
known, could not conscientiously sign it.
Mr. Rosecrans of California, believed it to
be the object of the bill to ''put the Presi-
dent in hole.'' He stated that he was one
of the forty living army commanders who
were contemporary with General Grant In
a rambling way he criticised severely Ba-
deau's history, but denied that he voted
against the bill from personal dislike or be-
cause General Grant had made statements
against him which were false and which he
knew to be false, or On account of the conf
dence mill known as Grant & Ward.
Mr. Slocum said that the secret of the OPP
position to the bill was that General Grant
had sought to aid General Porter and he
asked the Republicans why they refused to
vote for it now when the same vote would
pass it over the Veto
Mr.. Cox, of New York, said he had by his
vote in every way aided General Grant in the
field. He had seen many things in his civil
life which he had criticised on the floor, but
General Grant had passed into history.
Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, favored this
proposition as the most expeditions.
If it failed he was ready to adopt some
other course (applause.) He reminded the
Republicans that in attempting to shield
President Arthur they were putting the knife
to General Grant.
ME- Bayard, of Pennsylvania, occupied the
remaining time in support of the bill. The
House refused to suspend the rules and pass
the BILL yeas 1853, nays 103. The afirma
tive vote was made up of Republicans and
Democrats, while the negative vote was sol
idly Democratic except two, Messrs. Thorn
as of Illinois, and Price of Wisconsin.
Many Republicans who took the view eex
pressed By Mr.. Herr refraiped. from voting.
MFR. Money, of Mississippi, from the Com
mittee on Postoffices and Poast Roads, moved
to suspend the rules and pass bill to regu
late the letting of mail contracts. The prin-
cipal feature of the bill is that it requires
tho bends to be certified by postmasters-
along the -reutes oyer WHICH the Faailis gre ta
be carried. The bin was passed without 3
division,
Mr.. Stockslager, of Indiana, moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass bill to provide for
the erection of building for the library
and museum of the surgeon generals office
of the United Stetes army; agreed to.
Mr.. Holman made an effort to 90 on - ~
the legislative a.Sr,s,,iropriation bill, but Mr.
O'Hara, of North Carolina, objected and
at 400 p. M, the House aaj9uEnad,
80 80 2
A RIOT IN WHITEHALL.
Three Thousand Idle WOrkingmen