Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-06-23
NAVAL APPROPRIATION.
Mr.. Goff, Of West Virginia, Enters Z
Vigorous Defense Of John Roach
and the ''Dolpnin."
The Acts and Memory Of Ex.Secretarl
ofWar Edwin NJ. Stanton Again
Talked Over.
Bill for the Repeal Of the Civil Service
Act Defeated - Lecture to
Claim Agents.

to-day Mr.. Beck desired to call up thu
Hawley motion to reconsider the vote by
which the Senate passed the bill prohibiting
members OF Congress from accepting fees
or employment from railroad companies
that have received Government aid. --
Mr.. Ingalls, thought his resolution OF yes
terday requesting the President to furnish
information as to appointments and re-
movals under the Civil Service law had
precedence The Chair so decided and the
resolution was placed before the Senate.
Mr.. Vance offered an amendment re-
ouesting information rs to appointments
made within the scope OF the Civil Service
between January 16, 1888, when the act
was passed, and July Is, 1888, when it
went into effect. The resolution as
amendel was agreed to-.
Mr.. Beck said he had been trying for ten
days to get up the Hawley resolution to
reconsider the bill already referred to by
him. The bill had passed by a vote of
thirty seven to eleven. There must be
some means OF getting up such q motion,
otherwise one man would tie up a bill
indefinitely Mr.. Hawley said he was
prepared 10 tase ~ w do any C'lue' anu
that the proposition for delay had come
from Mr. Beck. Mr.. Beck said he had
waited to see whether the Committee on
Rules would so report as to permit debate
or ordinations as to the motion to recon-
alder. He was now willing to let the mat
fer 90 over until next Tuesday, in order to |
hear from the committee. Mr.. Hoar asked !
unanimous consent that whenever this mo. |
ton to reconsider should come up it should |
be debatable. Mr.. Ingalls, bjected. Mr.. !
Beck then said he would call it up Tuesday |
next. Mr.. Vance's bill to repeal the Civil
Service bill was, on motion of Mr.. Haw1ey, |
indefinitely postponed s3, nays .:
Messrs. Berry, Call Eustis. Harrison, Jones
(Nevada) and Stanley.
Mr.. Ingalls, entered motion to recon-
slider the bill passed yesterday refunding
to the Cherokee freedmen their proportion
of the proceeds Of lands sold under the
act OF March 3.
Mr. Chase offered q resolution calling on
the Postmaster General for information as
to the amount OF additional compensation
asserted to be due postmasters and late
postmasters under the act OF March 3,
1888, for the payment OF which no pro-
vision has been made. In Offering the reso-
luton Mr.. Chase said he had reason to
believe that the statements yesterday by
the Senator from Kansas Mr.. Ingalls)
were rot correct, and that the accounts re-
ferred to had been adjusted and
the information called for by the Senate
required vas merely a transc ipt from
the ebooks of the Department. Mr.. Chase added
thatsome correspondence placed inhis ha nds
between certain claim agents in Washing
ton and claimants outside pointed very !
strongly to suspicion that there might !
possibly be some collusion between parties
in the Postottice Department and certain I
claim agents in Washington, particularly
one snch agent who assumed to be above !
no, only the department, but Congress :
itself, ard dictated to claimants what pro- !
portion OF their claims they should pay :
him. That agent had oven gone 50 far as
to give his own name to an act of Congress =
passed in relation to the claims in question. =
Mr.. Chase believed the Postmaste--Gen
owed it to himself and to the Department q
to take such action as should relieve the q
Denartment from grave suspicion that !.
rested omit in connection with those claims.
de did not mean to charge, he could not
charge because he was not prepared to =
prove that any one in the Department was '
guilty, but he would say circumstances
pointed to very grave suspicious. Claims
against the Government Mr.. Chase added, G.
should need no agent for their presentation c.
orpayment. II u bill was honest it should
Npald and no claim agent should be in y
POSITION to cay ''stand and deliver" Che q
resolution was agreed to. The Senate x
then proce ded to the consideration OF bills u
on the calendar under the five n
minute rule. The following were !
passed: The bill for the encourA cement y
of the American Merchant Marine and 10 u
promote postal and commercial relations u
With foreign countries. This is Mr.. Frye's o
dill providing for the payment of so cents n
Der mile Tor carryin, foreign mails OF the n
United States; bill to provide for the sale q
Of the site OF Fort Omaha, Nebraska, and u
the sale or removal of the improvements :,
thereon and for new site and the con- Il
'tructlnn OF suitable buildings thereon; a ia
oil authorizing the Secretary of the Treas el
Try to pay the First National Bank OF 9!
Portland, Oregon, SO ,249 advanced by the Z. q
oank TO contract or for the construction ~
u tile United States revenue cutter 'Corwin" Z!
IN security OF payment to be made by the q
United States. In this case the contractor u
having failed the Government itself
lnlshed the vessel for less m',ney than WAS d
'ue the contractors. A bill to increase the lo
Efficiency of the army OF the United States. p
ms is Mr.. Logan's amended bill. The ,e ne
's'9nal bill provided for an increase OF the
rmy which provision gave rise to pro- =
racted debate in the Senate some weeks d
go: In its new form that feature OF the II II
'elgnal bill has tseen ommitted from the a.
Imended bill. After an executive session q
ne senat" adjourned until Monday. -