Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-01-14
IN SENATE AND HOUSE.
Interstate Commerce and Public Build.
ings the Features of the Proceedings.


ings the Features of the Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-In the Senate
to-day Mr.. Hale, from the Committee on
Appropriations, reported back the naval
appropriation bill with amendments. He
said that he would call it UP tomorrow.
Mr.. Manderson, from the Committee on
Printing, reported the concurrent resolu-
tiOn directing the printing OF the letter of
the Secretary of State of Dec. II last, and
accompanying 1t the consular reports re-
latlng to labor in Europe. 1t was placed
on the calendar.
Mr.. DOlph, from the Committee on Public
Lands, reported favOrably the House bill re-
pealing all laws providing for the pre-emp-
tion ol public lands, and all laws allowing en-
tries for timber culture.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE..
Consideration of the inter- State commerce
bill was then resumed. The pending ques-
ton was on Mr.. Browns amendment to
the amendment of Mr.. Vance. Mr.. Vance's
amendment was that no railroad company
VIII be allowed to charge a higher proportion
ate rate Tor the carriage of small than large
parcels, and Mr.. Browns amendment OrO-
posed to extend this principle to all mercan-
tile business, and so forbid merchants from
charging propOrtiOnately more for retail par
GELS than for wholesale.
Mr.. Vance said that he would have thought
Mr.. Browns amendment joke if he had not
known that Mr.. Brown had never perpetrated
a successful joke in his life. Laughter.
MIR. Browns amendment was not agreed to-
Mr.. Bayard opposed Mr.. Vance's amend
ment, as did also Messrs. Sheffield and Seweu
Mr.. Vance defended it.
The amendment was not agreed to.
Mr.. Slater proposed an amendment making
all rebates unlawful, but 1t was not agreed to.
A message was received from President
Arthur recommending a provision for com
pensating special electoral messengers 1t
the Committee a ODF-ia
tiOns.
A message was received from the govern
ment engineer in charge of the Yorktown
monument reporting Its completion.
The Senate at 4:20 O'Clock, on motion Of Mr.
sherman, went into executive session. and
when at 40 O'Clock, the doors were reopened,
adjourned.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House to-day Mr.. Stockslager, of In
diana, rising to question of personal privi-
lege, sent to the Clerks desk and had read an
article IN yesterdays New York Sun, charg-
ing the Committee on Public Buildings with
lOg-rolling to pass bills for the erection of
public buildings involving $4,000 600, and Civ
ing Mr.. Randall great credit for fighting and
exposing the job. The statements in the ar
tlcle, said Mr.. Stockslager. were recklessIbut
considering that statements almost as reck-
less had been made on the floor and in inter-
views, especially by the gentleman from
that newspapers should repeat them
The amount involved IN the bills
was not @lo,UOO,UOO but S6.221, 900.
The assertion that there was any cOmbina-
tiOn, any binding together of these bills so far
as 1t referred to him or to his committee
was wholly gratuitOus, entirely uncalled for,
and utterly false. He defended the order
under which public building measures were
to be considered.
Mr.. Randall, Of.Pennsylvania, said that he
had never known of the article in the San
until it was shown to him yesterday. The
material point in the controversy between the
gentlemanfrom Indiana and himself was-and
he proposed to take the bull by the horns
Whether there was combination. He did
not know and never had charged that
gentleman were guilty of forming improper
combinations, but he did say now tnat the
very effect Of the resolution is q combination
and naturally so, necessarily so.
The Speaker laid before the House a COM
muncatlOn from the Secretary of the NAVY.
in response to the House resolution calling
for information as to the cause of the death of
Cadet NJ. S. Strang. The communication
states that Cadet Strang died from perito-
nitis, and that there is no reason to believe
that he died from cruelty.
Bills were passed removing the political
disabilities of A. b. Montgomery and William
Gardner, of Georgia, and j. Pembroke Jones,
Of Oh virginia, and authorizing terms of the
United States Circuit Court for the Eastern
district of North Carolina at Wilmington,
N. G.
COLFAX'S DEATH ANNOUNCED,
Mr. Browne, of Indiana, rising. said: 81
perform the sad duty of announcing to the
time Speaker of this House and late Vice
President of the United States. A telegram
was received through the Associated Press
this afternoon at O'Clock announcing this
sad event. l offer the following resolution:
WHEREAS, intelligence has just reached
this House that Schuyler Colfax, for many
years member OF this body and its Speaker,
and late Vice President of the United States
died this day at MankatO, Minn., and
WHEREAS, The deceased was q distin-
gulshed citizen of the republic and d conspic-
uous figure in its history; and
WHEREAS, 1t is fit that this House, in which
he 80 long served and over which he presided
as Speaker, should give an expression of its
sorrow for his loss, It's regard for his memory
and its sympathy for his bereaved family:
therefore be it
Reso50ed, That this House do now adjourn.
The resolution was at 5:l5 O'Clock unani-
mouslY adopted, and the House adjourned.