Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-06
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, March 5, 1SS

SENATE.-After routine business the edu- cation bill was taken up. MT. Logan offered an amendment, which was agreed to, pro- viding that the money expended under the bill should be through the Secretary of the Interior and commissioner of education with the approval of the President.
 An amendment by Mir. Ingalls, was agreed to providing that the annual report from each State shall show the wages paid to com mon school teachers.
 An amendment by MT. Dolph was agreed to that the census of 1890 should be the basis of distribution-the last census to be used until the next is taken.
 An amendment by MT. Evarts was agreed to that if any State should decline to receive its quota the amount should be added to the others who do take it.
 An amendment by MT. Spooner was agreed to requiring the Secretary of the Interior to investigate complaints of discrimination in the application of the funds.
 An amendment by MT. Ingalls, to include the District of Columbia in the operations was agreed to.
 Mir Teller moved an amendment extending it's benefits to the Indians, which brought on discussion between Senators Chase and h. gals on Indian education.
 MT. Teller subsequently, withdrew his amendment. Several amendments about matters of detail were offered and agreed to.
 The bill having thus been perfected was
 
 amendments made as in Committee of the Whole were agreed to.
 On motion of MT. George the section that the design of the act was not to establish an independent school system, but only to ex- tend aid to the State governments was re- stored by unanimous vote.
 MThe bill was then read third time and passed; yeas 36, nays Il. A number of pairs were announced owing to the necessary absence of some Senators. The vote was:
 Yeas-Berry, Blackburn Blair, Bowen, Colquitt, Conger. Cullom. Cal Dolph, Eustis, Evarts George, Logan, Malone, Manderson, Miller of New York, Mitchell of Oregon, Morrill,, Palmer, Payne, Pugh, Vance. Van Wyck, Voorhees,, Walthall and Wilson 'i Nays@cockrell, a Coke Frye, Gray. Hale Harris, Ingalls,, Jones of Nevada, Maxey, Plumb and Will son of Maryland.
 Immediately on the passage of the bill Mir. Edmunds moved to take up the resolution reported by him from the Judiciary commit tee expressing the sense of the Senate on the refusal of the Attorney General to send to the Senate copies of the Duskin papers. The motion was agreed to.
 The urgent deficiency appropriation bill and the invalid pension appropriation bill were received from the House and on motion of Mr. Dawes referred to the Committee on
 On Mr Ingalls, motion the Senate at 6:15 D. m adjourned to Monday.
 HousE-The urgent deficiency bill was re- ported MT. Burns, of Missouri, explained the provisions of the bill. The total amount appropriated by the bill is $634, 452, of which $5 590 is for the compensation of special agents of the treasury, $6, 900 for repairs of the Treasury department building, $12, ,000 to continue the propagation of food fishes in the Gulf of Mexico, $l75,000 for furnishing artificial limbs to Union soldiers For the fees of jurors and witnesses $150,000 is appropriated. The large deficiency was mainly caused by the Mormon trials in Utah. The armament for the cruisers required $251 1863. This will in clude twenty-one six-inch guns, eight eight inch guns and two five-inch guns. Some of these were completed and others only par tially completed. There was an immense amount of work for the Naval committee to do and in his judgment it should be done regardless of all consequences if it was de- sired to save profigacy in the use of the public money. The first appropriations for the cruisers had been unguarded and left too much to the discretion of officials. The leg islation under the direction of the Appropri- ation committee had been vast improve ment over that which had preceded it.
 After considerable discussion which took on political turn the committee rose and the bill was passed; yeas 229, nays 20. The House then went into committee on the private calendar. At 4:40 P. m. the committee rose and the House took recess until 7:30 this evening for the consideration of pension bills. At the night session, after passing fifty pension bills, the House ad- iourna6