Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-05-20
FORTY-NlATH CONGRESS-.
First Session.


Mr. hosr gave notice that Thursday morn
ing he would call up the bill disposing of the
ALBANIA awards.
On motion of MIR. Frye the Staten Island
bridge bill was taken up.
AT two O'Clock, Mr.. Mcpherson not having
concl uded his remarks the matter went over
|. Inc pension bill was then placed before
the Senate. the pending question being that
OF Mr. Mcpherson to recommit the bill TO the
committee with instructions TO submit to the
Senate an estimate of the expense that would
be incurred by its passage.
Mr.. McPhersons motion to recommit was
rejected
The question required on Mr. Blair,s
amendment to Mr.. Van Wyck's amendment,
which Is 10 add to the bill section provid-
ing that no soldier under this act should re
ceive pension of less than eight dollars a
month. MIR. Blair's motion is to make the
section read as follows:
''No pension paid under law to anv soldier
hereafter shall be rated at less than 81 a
month"
Mr.. Blair modified his amer dment so az TO
lDclude sailors, marines, etc, aud it was
agreed to.
The question recurring on the amendment
of Mr.. Van Wyck as amended by that OF
Mr. Blair the amendment as amended was
agreed to.
Mr.. Logan moved an amendment extending
the provisions of the bill so as to cover men
who served three months
The amendment was agreed to by viva
vOce vote.
The bill was brought to vote and passed
Yeas, "a; nays, IA.
The New England senators all voted in
favor of the bill
The bankruptcy bill having been laid be-
fore the Senate Mr.. Hoar yielded on it in
order to take up the military academy bill,
which was just reported from the committee
by Mr.. Logan. The latter bill was therefore
laid before the Senate, but it wa. at once re-
committed.
The bank ruptcy bill was again laid before
tne Senate and after an Intellectual attempt
OF Mr.. Riddleberger to secure an executive
session thh Senate at 8. 40 adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Dibble of South Carolina, from the
committee on laws regulating the election of
the President. reported joint resolution pro-
posing constitutional amendment creating
and defining the Office of second. Vice Presi-
dent OF the United States; house calendar.
The House then went into committee of
the whole on the Senate amendment to the
post office appropriation bill.
Mr.. Hiscock spoke at length in favor
of the amendment. He said that
England could afford to carry our mails for
nothing if by so doing she could destroy the
American lines of steamships. Measured by
the prices paid for carrying our domestic
mails on railroads, steamboats, and star
routes, or by the price paid by European
powers for mail service the United States
would be paying under this Senate amend
ment very low rate of compensation in
deed. IT there was a governmental policy
worthy of support and more than any other
would advance our prosperity it was con-
tained in this amendment As a party man,
as a citizen of the United States, he found
nothing in the Senate amendment he could
not support.
Remarks were also made in support of the
Senate amendment by Messrs. Peters OF
Kansas, Bingham of Pennsylvania, Lore of
Delaware and Dingley of Maine
Messrs. Dockery of Missouri, Springer of
Illinois and McAdoo of New Jersey spoke
against the amendment.
This closed the general debate and the
committee rose and the House at O'Clock
adjourned.