Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-17
CONGRESSIONAL
The senate Passes a Bill 10 Pension che
Step-Mother ola Soldier wrangle
on the Tenure Oi.Oflce Act.
The HOUSE, Amends and Passes the BIN for
the Allotment OF hands in sevsralty
~ tho Indians.
XLIN CONGRESS.
TAR SENATE,

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and commissioner Of labor at $1,000 each;
by Senator Van wyck, proposing an
amendment 70 the constitution in rela.
ton TO the election OF United States sena.
tors
Senator Blair offered a resolution 10.
stracung the committee on finance 70 in.
quire into he proprieiy OF reporting
OIL providing for a rebate on all imported
materials Incorporated with domestic
materials or converted into other articles
and exported 20 foreign countries for
sale, thereby providing Tor the extension
OF foreign trade without reducing the
prices OF American labor. Adopted.
The bill TO permit the owners OF
American vessels aud their cargoes to sue
the goyernm' mt for losses caused by col
lision with United States vessels arising
from their Encouragement was passed.
The calendar was then taken up under
the rule that single objection is sum.
Client TO have bill set aside. A oil
/ granting a pension to Mrs. barbara
/ Fuchs, stepm0ther Of a soldier, was on.
posed by Mr.. Cockrell as establishing a
new principle and was defended by
Messrs. Edmunds, Blair and PlStt. The
bill was passed and motion TO recon
slider was rejeoted yeas s, nays SO.
Mr. Beck, abiding to his remarks yes
! terday as TO the judiciary committee bav-
/ ing acted In bad faith, disclaimed any in
tention OF being offensive and said II thew
were so construed no retracted them
Mr.. Pugh said he certainly had con-
strued Mr.. Beck's remarks as personally
offensive. His statement now was en-
tirely satisfactory aud gratifying, and II
relieved him (Pugh) from q necessity
which would have been very painful
The senate then took up the unfnish-
ed business Of yesterday, being the bill
TO repeal the tenure of office acts. MIR.
Edmunds addressed the senate In opposl-
tion 20 the bill. He argued that II the
executives Of the stale governments
could not be trusted, as they were not
with kingly power, 1t was strongly Inn
portant that the national executive
should not be trusted with such
Of public safety, that OF
the preservation of liberty va executive
power and executive corruption, made Il
more important, on the question Of policy,
that the president OF the United States
should not possess entire JUS dispendi OF
every official act and Of every official per-
son In the United States, than 1t was that
the executive OF a state should not pos
sess IL. The tenure OF law was restraint
now, although the president WAS making
a great number Of suspensions The
passage OF the pending bill would be an
invitation--mOre than an invitation, IL
would be recognition, an approval OF
the idea that on purely political
grounds Of opinion the president ought,
as his predecessors had done before the
tenure of Office act in 1867, 10 remove Inn
mediately anybody who did not agree
with him, or with some department
officer, or with party. lie thought that
would be step twenty five years back
wards. He believed that all these Offices
ought TO be held for 1xed terms and he
WAS perfectly willing that the
president might, for every vacancy,
select MN OF his persuasion
II there was TO be change couple OF
years hence,a he trusted and hoped and
believed there would be, all these matters
would be removed from mere strife and
spoil ana conformation. At this point
Mr.. Edmonds was attacked with 1T OF
coughing, which forced him to conclude
his speech.
Mr.. George made constitutional and
historical argument In favor Of the bill.
Mr.. Evarts addressed the senate stating
that he would vote for the bill and that
grounds of censtitutionallty would not
cover his vote, but grounds Of expediency
would. II removals from office, he said ,
were TO turn on two concurrent judg-
ments, where the president and senate
might be opposed Ia politics, 1t would
follow that the Tepugnance Of the senate
might keep man in office whom the
president desired to dispense with and by
whosG action the president could not nc
complish his duty. At the close Of ~
4 - t,N..
ecutiye session and when the doors re-
opened adjourned.
HoUsR.
WASHINGTON, Dec. I6.--0n motion Of
| Mr.. Wise OF Virginia the senate bill was
pas ed providing that Admirals Rowan aud
Moroen may, after four years. service. be
r. tired from actual service on their own
application with the highest pay OF the
grade to which they belong.
Mr.. Dlngley Of Maine presented re-
monstr6nces against the Dunn free ship
| bill from the following associations and
firms. The boards of trade OF Bath,
Me-, Bridgeport, Conn, MinneaI oils,
Mimi, and San Francisco; tbs Pacific
Coast Shipowners' association, the Nation
al Shipping league, the National Ship.
owners association Il. Il. O'Briep,
| Thomsston, Me, Carleton, Norwood &
/ Co., Rockport, Me-, and the Harlan q
Hollingsworth Co., Wilmington, Del.
The remonstraDces, which were approprl-
ately referred, represent that the adop-
tlon OF the free ship policy wonld destroy
the ship building industry In the United
States and make the country dependent
on British yards for ships for commercial
purposes and for defense In time OF war.
The house then, In the morning hour,
resumed In committee OF tue whole, con-
sIderstion Of the senate bill for tine allot-
1 ment OF lands In severelty TO Indians.
Anumber Of amendments recommended
by the committe on Indian affairs were
adopted, and the committee having risen
the bill was passed.
Mr.. Burnes Of Missouri called up the
urgent deficiency bill for puolic printing,
reported vest rday from the committee
on appro riatlons. After a discussion
the bill was passed, and the house went
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