The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-07-10

siderat'on Of the general deficiency
bill, and by vote OF 124 yeas to So
nays confirmed the action OF the Com
miitee of the Whole in agreeing to the
amendment asking an appropriation
to meet the Fox and Wisconsin river
claims.
A stormy scene then ensued over
the amendment granting to the House
and Senate employees one months
extra pay. The House was in great
confusion, which was increased when
Mr.. Reagan charged that the amend
ment had been tampered with and
made to iucluds the official reporters
and Capitol police. He stated that the
amendments, as agreed TO in commit
tee, had not included these employees.
Mr.. Hepburn la. !, who had origin
ally drafted the amendment, stated
that no change had been made in it,
and Mr.. Reagan admitted that he must
have been mistaken.
The opponents of the amendment
failed TO secure the yeas and nays on
its passage, and the amendment was
sgreed to. They however secured a
roll call on a motion to rec onsider and
lay on the table.
The latter motion was agreed to-
yes, ZIG; nays, l04. So the amend
ment remains in the bill.
Pending further action, the House
then took recess until 8 o'clock, the
evening session to he for the consid-
Grafton OF pension bills.
The Senate.
Senator Sewell, from the Committee
on Pensions, presented the report in
the case of the vetoed bill granting
a pension to Margaret D.. Marchand,
widow of Commodore Marchand.
The committee repeats its former re-
port in the case, and recommends the
passage of the bill over the Presi-
dents objections. Referred.
Senator Hosr offered a resolution
calling on the President for informa-
ton as to the seizure or detention in
any foreign ports Of any American
vessels, the pretexts or alleged causes
therefor, and what efforts have been
made t. provide redress for such
seizure, and to prevent their recur-
renee. The resolution went over.
Senator Call offered a resolution
calling on the President to direct the
American representative in Mexico TO
investigate the truth Of statements
made in the newspapers that citizens
of the United States are confined in
Mexican dungeons without trial for
alleged offenses against the laws of
Mexico, and that their final trial has
been postponed without cause, and
requiring the United States Govern
ment (if such statements are found to
be true) to demand the trial of ouch
persons and their humane treatment.
The bill to incorporate the Atlantic
and Pacific Ship Railroad Company
1.-THE Odds DilD, and Senator Hears bill
concerning federal elections were gen.
orally objected to, and went over.
The Senate then went into execu-
tive session. Immediately after the
doors were closed an order was made,
upon motion of Senator Ingalls,, that
the public should be excluded from
the upper corridors, lobbies and com
mitt2e rooms, which order was car
ried into effect at once. This resulted
in closing the offices of the Associated
Press, and the Western Union and
Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Com
panies, and the ejectment Of all the
reporters from their quarters in the
Senate wing of the Capitol. The ad.
verse report upon the nomination OF
Solicitor General John Goode was
then taken up. 1t is said that
programme oil operations in respect
to this case had been arranged by
the Republican members of the Judi.
csry Committee, by which Senator
Edmunds had assumed the task of
speaking upon the subject of Mr.,
Goodies alleged incompetency, as evil
denced in decisions on file in the De-
partment Of Justice. To Senator Hear
was assigned the task of exploiting
Mr.. Goodies alleged connection with
the tissue ballot system Of carrying
elections, while Senator ingalls, WAS to
dwell upon the Pau-Electric develop
ments and Mr.. Goodies connection
with the matter. After long debate,
the nomination OF Mr.. Goode was re-
jec'ed, there being four majority
against him.
The secret session then ended, the
DOCS OF the Senate and the other
doors were reopened, and the Senate
n liOnrnad