Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-17
FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON. June 16. 1886.

1 SENATE-After an executive session the l doors were reopened at 1:15 and motion l of MT. Dolph the Senate decided te take up
 the House bill providing for the repeal of | the pre-emption timber culture and desert l land acts.
 MT. Wilson obtained permission pending the regular order. to address the Senate on the bill making the rate of postage on fourth class mail matter two cents ounce, but | gave way for the consideration of the invalid | pension appropriation bill which was report ed by Mir. Logan and at once passed by the Senate
 The military academy bill was then taken up. MT. Plumb called for the yeas and nays on the passage of the bill. He believed the
 exclus1veness which was being created in the
 army was unrepub1ican and he would vote against all appropriations for the West Point academy until the law was changed to
 permit at least one-half the appointments being made from civil life. The vote result ed: Y eas 42, nays 24.
 MT. Allison said the Senate Committee on Appropriations now had bills pending,
 that there were five appropriation bills which
 had not yet reached the Senate, that we were
 within two weeks of the expiration of the
 fiscal year and in the nature of things it
 would be impossible to pass these bills by
 July 1. MT. Allison added that whatever
 responsibility might attach to failure to
 pass these appropriation bills could not be
 attributed to the Senate.
 The Senate proceeded to the consideration
 of the House bill repeating the pre-emption
 timber culture and desert land acts. The 1
 Senate Committee on Public Lands have
 amended the House bill by substituting the provisions of the Senate bill. MT. Blair of tered an amendment providing in effect as to | the desert lands that on the expenditure of | the three dollars for improvements the gov ernment should part with the title and that l none of the lands should be held in larger bodies than GAO acres in single ownership. l After considerable debate the Senate at 5:30 | p. m. adjourned without action on the bill or | pending amendments. 1
 HoUsE.-Mr. Morrison, from the Commit l tee of Ways and Means, reported back ad- | versely the resolution offered by Mir. Grosve | nor, of Ohio, declaring in favor of the resto- ration of the wool tariff of 1867 and the res olution of MT. Wilkins, of Ohio, expressing the sense of Congress as adverse to any change in the present wool tariff; laid on the | table.
 The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the legislative appropriation bill. Consideration of the bill being centin- ued the salary of the commissioner of pat F ents was fixed at $4, GOO; the appropriations for the bureau of labor were increased aggre- gating $39, ,610 Then there was a brief re- currence of the discussion of yesterday MT. I Hiscock, of New York, reiterating his statement that according to correct estimates | there would be at the close of the next fiscal l year a deficiency of from s1O,OOO,0 900 to S14, 900, GOO and MT. Morrison contending that there would be a surplus of at least S30, ,0OO, ,o00.
 On motion of MT. Cabell, of Virginia, the appropriation for the salaries and expenses of agents, surveyors, gaugers, storekeepers, | etc., in the internal revenue bureau was re- duced from $2, 900 to $1 100000.
 The committee then rose and the bill was. reported. In the House the amendments in oreasing the salaries of the assistant treasur- ers at Chicago, St. Louis, Boston and San Francisco were rejected, also was the amendment appropriating S10,000 for addi- Jional clerks, messengers and watchmen al. lhe New York sub-treasury. The other amendments were agreed to and the bill was passed.
 The House then took a recess until 3. m., the evening session to be for the con- 'ideration of private business.
 At it's evening session the House made 'ome progress of clearing the private calen- lar of a number of private measures, passing twenty-five bills, among them being Senate pill granting the franking privilege to Mrs. General Grant and House bill for the relief 'f the survivors of the exploring steamer Jeanette and the widows and children of hose officers who perished in that expedi-