Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-26

Ark, shall not be renewed unless the Forty ninth Congress shall adjourn without having legislation with reference thereto was passed
 MT. Hale gave notice that he would move for executive session upon matters of inn portance after MT. Georges remarks on the educational bill. Tt is understood that the important matters MT. Hale referred to are the nomination of Pillsbury and Chase to be collectors of internal revenue at Boston and Portland respectively, which are reported adversely.
 The discussion of the educational bill was then resumed, MT. George continuing his re- marks in favor of the bill. Mr. George went over the record of some of the Senators op- posing the bill to show inconsistency on their part. He looked up among other things the Burnside educational bill passed by the Senate and read from the Record certain remarks of MT. Morgan and MT. Maxey which Mir. George maintained to be inconsistent with their present position.
 After further debate by Messrs. Logan and Hoar the Senate adjourned at 6 p. m.
 HoUsE.-Mr. Hewitt of New York, pre- sented memorial representing l , 165 ,00O de postors of New York savings banks asking for the repeal of the Bland silver act; refer red.
 MT. Reagan, from the Committee on Com merce, reported bill to incorporate the Att laEtic and Pacific Ship Railway company; referred to the Committee of the Whole.
 Mir. Wheeler of Alabama, from Military Affairs, reported the military academy ap- propriation bill, which was also referred to the Committee of the Whole. The bill ap- .propriates S297, ,8O5, or S114, ,27O less than the estimates. The appropriation for the current fiscal year aggregated $31O,021, or $12,216 more than is recommended in the bill for the fiscal year ending 1887.
 MT. Blount of Georgia, from Postofices and Post Roads, reported the postoffice ap propriation bill and it was referred to the Committee of the Whole.
 MT. Payson of Illinois, from Public Lands, reported bill which declares the forfeiture of lands granted to the State of Michigan to aid in the construction of railroad from Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line; House calendar.
 MT. Cole, from Railways and Canals, re- ported bill for the construction of the Maryland and Delaware free ship canal Committee of the Whole. It appropriates one million for the purpose.
 MT. Hewitt of New York, from Ways and Means, submitted report in regard to the case of L. Lehman, of New York, and it was referred to the House calendar The report states that Lehman has informed Secretary Manning that he is prepared to furnish proof of fraudulent conspiracy between the merchant appraisers and certain custom house officers in New York by which his invoice was fraudently raised, and recommends the passage of resolution requesting the Secre 1ary of the Treasury to investigate the charges and report the result to the House.
 The House in the morning hour resumed consideration of the Hennepin Canal bill and Mr. Murphy concluded his speech in advoca- cy of the measure.
 MT. Powell, of Illinois, also supported the bill
 Pending his remarks the morning hour ex- pired and the House resolved itself into Com nittee of the Whole the pension appro- priation bill, MT. Crisp, of Georgia, in the chair.
 Mir. Townsend, of Illinois, who had charge of the bill, explained it's provisions. It ap- he said, $75, 754 200, or about $15, 1000, ,000 more than was carried by the law for the current year. This increase was occasioned by the accelerated work that was being done in the pension office-and for this work the commissioner of pensions and his employees deserved commendation- by the large number of cases now being dis posed of.
 Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, differed from MT. Townsend when he attributed the increased appropriation to the accelerated work of the pension office. That gentleman had failed to call attention to the fact that the commis sioner of pensions had stated to the Commit tee on Pensions that there would be a def ciency of about $6,oOo,ooo for the ooo eo6Feh' which, had been the appTopristed for the fiscal year was confessed by the com missioner to be insufficient to meet the re- quirements of the law. The average appro- priation for pensions for the past six years was SIT, ,449, ,O0O, showing that the appropri- ation contained in the pending bill was be- low the average. Passing on to a discussion of the general subject of pensions, he said that there appeared to be well considered effort on the part of some gentlemen in the House to frighten the country with the idea that the appropriations were now so large that halt should be called. The country had lately been treated to large amount of information in re- gard to arrearages. It had had letter from the commissioner to the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations giving es- inmates as to what the passage of the limita- tion repeal would cost. Why the Committee on Appropriations or it's chairman should take this load on it's shoulders he was not the 27th of January had published the com missioners letter with startling headlines and commended the action of Mr. Randall in the premises. He was glad that there was gentleman in the house so patriotic and far seeing as to rescue the country from the dan ger that seemed to threaten it.
 Mr. Randall said the letter did not come from him.
 Continuing, MT. Henderson said the com missioners letter had not only been tele graphed over the country, but telegraphed with $3, 900, 900 lie in it's stomach. When he (Mr. Henderson, had examined the letter he had seen that it contained its face 8 repetition of the figure, $80, ,OO0, ,0OO, and he had written to the commissioner calling at tention to the fact. Two days afterward he had received letter from the commissioner affirming the correctness of his first figures A day or two later the commissioner ap- peared before the committee and had changed front three times until every mem Der of the committee agreed that the point he (Mr. Henderson, had taken was correct. Then the commissioner had yielded and written supplementary letter "a tail to the first great battering ram-to fix up the blunder he had previously refused to acknowledge. The effect of the first letter had acted like magic and carried terror to certain committee rooms. MT. Henderson then went into an analysis of the negative vote on the bill to increase the pensions of soldiers widows. The total vote in the negative, he said, was 66. The total Democratic noes were 66. The total Republican noes were none. The total noes from the North were g. The vote of the gentleman from New York (Mr. Hewitt) did not disturb him much, for the gentleman was not standing authority on any great question. There was not an economic scrap book in the land but had the gentleman as leading authority on both sides of the tariff
 question. In the late campaign in the North the Republican party had been charged with being the party of sectionalism, the party that waved the ensanguined garment. The man that would ever again make the charge | after that simple vote must close his eyes to the truth.
 MT. Tillman, of South Carolina "Consid- | ering that the Confederate States pay about one-third of the taxes to the federal govern
 ment for pensions and do not get back three
 cents of it, can the gentleman complain thai
 southern members are trying to restrain ths
 necessarily large expenditures for pensions
 within the rules that prevailed heretoforea'
 Mir. Oates, of Alabama, inquired whethel | the southern members should not have the discretion to vote as their conscience dictates Were they slaves and not permitted to us | their discretion9
 MT. Henderson -"No, not slaves. I wan
 all members on the floor to stand as equal concede their constitutional right to vot