Morning journal and courier., 1885-01-15
18th COngress---Second Session.
WASHINGTON, January IA, 1885,

WASHINGTON, January IA, 1885.
 SBNATE-A bill te pay the expenses of
 special Ii6ssetigers to obtaih ffofn the de-
 partment judges of the States of Iowa and
 Oregon the duplicate copies of votes of those
 States for President and Vice President Ghe
 copies received by mail from said States be-
 ing defective in form) was adopted.
 Mr. Edmunds called up the bill to remake
 General. Grant a general introduced by him
 yesterday.
 MT Cockerll, not knowing whether the
 yeas and nays would be called on this bill,
 desired to record his vote against it. He
 thought there no justice, no propriety in
 it. The retired list of the army was created
 expressly for officers of the army in the ser
 vice who, by reason of disability incident to
 the sefvice' had befofiie unf1ttea- f6r duty.
 General Grant, according to statements in
 the press, was now drawing the small sum ot
 S15 900 per aHnum, which the average Amer
 ican citizen would believe sufficient amount
 to support any American citizen in comfort. Mr. Edmunds agreed with the general prln-
 ciples laid down by the Senator from Mis-
 souri, He repeated the services Of General
 Grant from the Mexican war down, and in
 view of the duty and honor the country owed
 him would be glad to have nearly unani=
 nous vote in favor of the bill.
 MT. Maxey spoke of the magnanlmlty which General Grant had shown to the
 southern, people at Appomattox and believed there was not i tnsi1 in the South who be-
 grudged him 8 pension in his declining years MT. Maxey exonerated him from all blame in
 the gigantic failure of Grant & Ward except his usual fault of reposing too much conf dence in others.
 Messrs. Gibson and Jones of Louisiana George of Mississippi aud Jones of Florida, spoke in favor of the bill. MT. Voorhees corrected the nisapprehension Mr. Cock rell's statement that General Grant was in receipt of $15, ,000 year might cause. The guarantee under which he was drawing that income would expire in about six years. He spoke of the courage which General Grant had shown in resisting Edwin M. Stanton's order to arrest General Lee and in correcting the injustice to Fitz-John Porter. The roll was called on the passage of the bill and it was adopted; yeas 49, nays g. Those voting nay were Beck, Cockrell, Cooke Harris, Pendleton; Salisbury, Slater, Vance and Walker.
 Mr. Hale called up the naval appropriation bill passed by the House. Among the Sen ate amendments referred to was one to strike out the clause prohibiting any officers on the retired list of the army or navy accepting civil employment and giving such officers the option of waiving their salaries on the retired list and accepting the compensation for such civil employment in lieu thereof during the term of it's continuance. The bill as amended was sent to the House for concurrence.
 At 2 o'clock the unfinished business, the interstate commerce bill, was taken up. An amendment offered by MT. Slater, pro- hibiting the charging of greater rates for short distances than for long distances, was supported by Mr. Van Wyck and opposed by Messrs Hoar Allison, Jackson and Camden. MT. McPherson asked MT. Van Wyck to yield to him for a moment ai1d he could give him subject for discussion which would last for an hour. This suggestion was re- ceived with a generalchorus fOh, no-don't'' and considerable merriment.
 Mr. Harrison brought to the attention of the Senate the death of ex-Vice-President Colfax, and as mark of respect to his mem
 ory the Senate at 4:25 P. m. adjourned. HoUsE-The House passed bill appro- priating S1 500 for the expenses and compen- sations of special messengers to bring from Oregon and Iowa the certificates of the cleo toral vote, they not having yet been received by the president pro tenn of the Senate Several minor bills were introduced and re- ferred.
 Under the special order the House pro ceeded to the consideration of business re- ported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs. The first bill considered was the Senate French spoliation claim bill. After lorg debate pro and con MT. Warner, of Ohio, moved to refer the bill to the Com mittee on Claims. Lost.
 The bill was then passed; yeas 1S1, nays IT.
 Mir Wait, of Connecticut, called up the Chinese indemnity fund. The bill proposes return in coin of s5, ,s34, 400 to the Chinese government and that the balance, if any, be covered into the treasury of the United States, and the committee recommended an
 amendment providing for the payment be-
 fore the money is returned of the claim of Charles E. Hill of $120, ,000 for a steamer de stroyed in Chinese waters in 1863. The
 amendment was adopted and the bill passed. On motion of Mr. Randall the naval ap propriation bill for six months was taken from the table and with the Senate amend
 ments referred to the Committee on Appro- priations.