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LEGISLATIVENI NIGHTWORK
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OLD FATHER TIME.
! Appropriation Clauses Stiu CIogging
the Congressional Machinery - The
New Orleans Additional ApprOpria-
tion Discussed at Considerable Length
in the, Senate and S4OO, 900 Voted For.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-Promptly at
9 O'Clock to-day Mr.. Edmunds called the
| Senate to order. On motion of Mr.. Hale
the reading of the journal was dispened
with. Mr.. Hoar submitted the proposed
amendment to the sundry civil bill appro-
priating 5 5000 for the wOman's depart
ment of the New Orleans exposition, and
moved that it may be in order, without
reference to the committee, to present
that amendment in the Senate when the
bill should come to be considered. The
motion was agreed to.
Mr.. Hoar gave notice that tomorrow he
would ask the vote of the Senate, without
debate, on the proposed woman suffrage
constitutional amendment.
The fertilization bill was laid before the
Senate and referred to the Committee on Ap-
prOpriatiOns.
priatlons, reported the sundry civil bill and
asked that it be taken up at once.
Mr.. Mcmillan said t1at he would object to
its being taken up if It would result in dis
placing the unfinished business. that being the
Sioux City and st. Paul land forfeiture bill
r. Allison said that if the sundry ci Ill bill
was not passed to-day Congress would have
an opportunity to stay here several days after
March
Mr.. Mcmillan. after discussion. withdrew
h objection, and the sundry civil bill was
taken up and its reading proceeded with.
Of the lO2 printed pages composing the
sundry civil bill, about so pages had
teen disposed of by the Senate by half
past l O'Clock. The portion disposed Of
included an appropriation of $3.50 to reim-
burse eX-Presldent r. b. Hayes for the
amount paid for the expenses OF the commits
SION appointed to go to Louisiana in April,
1871. The Senate agreed to this item, as to
most of the other recommendations OF the
committee, without division or debate.
ATLANTA's ARMY POST.
After remarks by Messrs. Brown and Col
quit, the Senate disagreed to the recon-
Ilendatlon OF the Appropriations Commit. e
to strike out the House provision permitting
the expenditure of $4,000 for the purchase
OF site Tor an army post at Atlanta, Ga.
The item was therefore restored to the bill.
Pending the reading of the bill Mr.. A lii
son, at 3:l5 O'Clock, Temarking that the Com
mlttee on Appropriations deemed an evening
session desirable, moved that the Senate take
a recess from to O'Clock. The motion was
agreed to.
Pending further consideration of the bill
the Chair appointed Messrs. Mitchell Van
Nyck and jackson, conferees upon the bill
granting u pension to Mrs. Sarah jackson.
rms Is the private pension bill passed by the
House, to which the Senate added a general
amendment, increasing widows pensions
from IS TO $l2 per month. 1t went back to the
House, where 1t had little chance of receiving
consideration before the end OF the session.
IL was recalled to-day upon resolution Of
tered by MIR. Van Wyck, and its remission to
the conference committee will give it the
status Of a privileged question when next it
goes to the House, al in this situation final
action may be secured.
senator Aldrlch offered the following
resolution, which was read the second time
and laid on the table to be called ~ later:
ReSolced, That the President of the United
States IS hereby authorized to enter into
negotiations with the States of the Latin
Union, and such other foreign powers as lie
shall deem advisable, with the pur Jose of
securing such treaties with them as shall
blnd the nations agreeing thereto to open
their respective mnts to the free coinage of
silver, with full legal tender power, at such
uniform ratio to gold as shall be agreed upon.
THE EXPOSITION CLAUSE.
Consideration of the sundry civil bill was
resumed. On reaching the New Orleans EX-
position Item some debate arose. The House
provision was for the purpose of aiding the
exposition, $500 600. The Senate committee
inc eased the amount to 100000, but made it
for "1inal aid"
Mr.. sherman asked why it was increased.
Mr. Harrison asked why $l00, 600 more should
be, given:
Y.
TINS time forward, the exposition would be
losing business, or at least not more than self
sustaining. There were thirty or forty for
clgn governments represented ut the eXposi-
tlon, ana respectfully represented. The expo
sltlon, as au exposition, Mr.. Allison believed 10
be success. Congress was distinctly informed
last year that it should be asked for no more
Jhah the million then appropriated. The
practical situation, Mr.. Allison said, was that
II 100000 were now given, the exposition
could, he believed hold out till June, and if
only S3OO,OOO 1t could not last longer than the
m ddle of April or May, but it was question
for the Senators to say whether any more
were given at all the exposition could not last
more Than week or two.
THE FINANCIAL SHOWING.
Mr.. Allison said that statement had been
submitted by the managers showing receipts
apart from gate money of the sum of 81 $50
s6S. OF that sum $l,00a,00J was contributed
by the United States and S594 OO1 had heen
paid IN by the State of Louisiana and indi-
vldual subscribers. A statement of the in
debteGne had also been submitted showing
that the ggregate expenditure up TO Feb !
was $2,OiO 700. Prior to the opening of the
exposition the amount expended was 81, 700
600. The present debt was $3S3,O7l. The
daily receipts were about 2,500 per day
Mr.. Blair said that less than 81 000 900 had
been expended on this exposition. while ST, ,OOO-
0cO had been expended on the centennial. We
were holding the Southern people responsible
for too great an achievement if we expected
had dO"e. Charges of corruption should not
be made against the management of the New
Orleans Exposition without am. proof
to sustain such charges. II this
exposition were treated in whole
hearted way. with national feeling
and IN spirit of brOtherly regard, such as
should prevail between all sections of the
country, MIR. Blair believed the exposition
would last year, ana be a magnificent dem
Onstratlon of the resources of our COUNTRY
NO further action was taken, as the hour of
recess had arrived.
After % minutes the doors were reOpened
and the legislative business was proceeded
with.
Mr. Jones at once took the floor, but gave
way to permit the submission by Mr. Allison
Of the conference report announcing an
agreement on the legislative, executive and
Jud cial bill. Mr.. Allison said every item
mad been agreed on except that relating to
the clerks of Senators. as to which the House
c1nferees refused to agree. The report was
agreed to. Mr.. Allison did not ask for a new
conference.
Mr.. Plumb submitted the conference re-
port on the post office appropriation bill. He
explained that all differences had been recon-
ciled except three, namely: the provision re-
latlng to compensation for the carriage of
foreign mails, that relating to the ten cent
special postage stamps, and the provision au-
thorlzlng the Postmaster Gent raj to pay rent
for third class post offices. On motion OF Mr..
Plumb the Senate insisted on its amendments
and ordered a new conference.
LOUIsIANAIANs DEPENDED.
Mr.. Jonas resumed the floor He said it
would seem that the Senators who opposed
the appropriation for the New Orleans Exposi-
tiOn regarded 1T as a matter exclusively con-
corning the people of that city and the State
CT Louisiana. 1t was true, he said, that the
exposition was held in New Orleans but if
was held pursuant to an act of Congress. the
preamble of which recites the desirableness
Of celebrating the one hundredth anniversary
OF the manufacture and production of cotton
The act provided that an exposition should be
held in some city identified with commerce in
cotton under the joint auspices of the United
states, the Cotton Planters Association and the
city In which the exposition may be held, and
that the bill had not been introduced by
Senator or member Of Congress from Louisi-
ana. The exposition was appointed to be held
in New Orleans rather against The wish of q
lsrge portion of the commercial community
of this city, who were expected to contribute
to It's success and who entertained honest
doubts as to New Orleans occupying the pro-
per geographical position for such an eXpOs-
tlOn. 1t would have been better to have held it
at Atlanta, Nashville or Louisville. Ateither
or those places it might have proved greater
financial success. But it was located at New
Orleans. Its managers were appointed by
pendltures were all properly and faithfully
Vouched for. The Director General was not
director, but IN executive officer. What he
has done has been in obedience to the orders
and votes of the Board Of Managers. TIL. Sc
managers and all actively interested in the
management OF the exposition were among
the best business meu of the South
They found unexampled difficulties in the
execution of the duties they had undertaken
The weather had been worse than it ever had
been In the memory Of the oldest Inhabitants
Railroad difficulties and Othpr III dfnlculties h a