Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-17

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postotfice appropriation bill.
A bill was introduced by Dolph, making
Seattle and Tacoma. Washington Territory
ports of delivery. Referred.
After an executive session, the Senate
adjourned.
House of Representatives..
WASHINGTON, February 16th.-The House
met in continuation of Fridays session and
Immediately went into Committee of the
Whole on the legislative appropriation bill
Considerable progress was made in read
ing the bill.
When the committee rose, the House adj
iourned, and the session of Monday began
Reagan Offered a resolution requesting
the Secretary of the Treasury to transmit
information in regard TO range and ranch
cattle traffic of the Western States and Ter
ritories, with special reference to the bear
ings that the traffic has on the internal and
foreign commerce of the United States Re-
ferred
The Senate amendment to the army APP
preparation bill was non-concurred in. and
q conference committee appointed.
Slocum, under instructions from the
Military Committee, moved to suspend the
rules and pass the Senate bill for the re-
tirement of General Grant. This is the
first bill passed by the Senate, and specific
ally names the officer to be retired
Horr, and Warner of Ohio seconded the
motion TO suspend the rules and bring the
bill before the House. which was carried
by vote of 10 to y.
The thirty minute debate allowed under
the rules was opened by Siocum i'll behalf
of the bill. The bill, he said, proposed to
place General Grant in the same position
that he would have occupied had he not, in
accordance with the will of the people of
the country, accepted the nomination for
the office of Chief Magistrate In form
and language the bill was precisely like all
the bills passed for purposes of this kind
1t has often been said much has been done
for General Grant, but nothing has been
done for him by the United States Govern
ment beyond paving him the salaries to
which he is entitled by the law:
Rosecrans regarded the bill as a plain
proposition to reward General Grant for
distinguished military services, and it was
his duty to say he could not vote for it. 1t
was not his intention to recount any his
torical reasons why he thought General
Grants reputation had been exaggerated
and misrepresented, and when history
came to be written it would be pared down
to very different dimensions. He did not
propose to go into that. 1t had been the
interest of a giant political party to-make
General Grants services appear as large as
possible, for he was their servant. General
Grant himself had prepared the first two
volumes of " Badeau's Life of Grant" upon
which the students of history had placed
the stamp of untrllStworthiness The pub
lie had been told that General Posecrans
would not vote for General Grants bill
because of personal i'll will He did not
think any of his colleagues would believe
that he was capable of descending to
the depth of being governed in public
duty by personal dislikcs. He did not
oppose the passage of this bill on account
OF any of these things to which he had
alluded, or other things to which he had
not alluded, namely, the statements made
officially by General Grant which were
false, which General Grant knew to be
false, and which he (Rosecrans) had stated
in his official reports to be false 1t had
Leen said that General Grant was poor
that there was nothing between him and
the poor-house except the income from
$3.50, 600, and it had been circulated around
by his family that the $250,000 was sub
stantially lost. That was not true. There
was another critical circumstance to which
he called attention. Congress- by solemn
act. was asked to arrest-what? Why,
the progress of public opinion for an in
vestigation into that confidence mill called
Grant IL Ward. Gentlemen could afford to
put a ligaturc around that investigation
and deceive the public mind. He could
not.
The motion to suspend the rules and
pass the Grant retirement bill was lost
ayes $50, noes 103-not the requisite two
thirds in the affirmative.
The negative vote was cast by Democrats
who were opposed To General Grants re-
tirement, reinforced by number of Re
publicans who, though in favor of the
purport of the bill, were opposed to its
form, believing that it would place the
President under the necessity of vetoing
the measure, which he stronyl y approved
The efforts made by the Committees on
Naval and Indian Affairs to secure night
sessions for the consideration of the meas
ures reported by them, met with failure.
Stockslager, from the Committee ON Pub
lie Buildings, moved to suspend the rules
and pass the bill appropriating 100000 for
the erection i'll Washington of building
for the library of the medical department
of the United States army. Agreed to, and
the bill passed.
SlOcum, from the Committee on Military
Affairs, reported a bill creating the office of
Assistant Chief Signal Officer Referred to
Committee OF the Whole.
Adjourned.
New YORK, February l6th.-The Chron-
icle says of the Southern Pacific: The
January earnings show an improvement