Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
House Proceedings.

18th DAY.-The House was still cOnStruc-
lively in session as of Wednesday of last
week. The session was continued all night,
and no business whatever was transacted, the
opponents of the Direct Tax bill Directing to
every measure introduced, yet refusing to
adjourn until the bill was voted on.
S6TH DAY.-The House convened at II. 45
in continuation of Wednesdays session, this
being the ninth day of the deadlock over the
Direct Tax bill Mr. Reed demanded the
regular order. Mr.. Randall asked unani-
nous consent to make statement, but was
shut off by shouts for the regular order from
the Republican side. Mr.. Cox moved to adj
jOurn. At the demand of Mr.. Reed. the yeas
and nays were ordered this motion. AL
though the vote was party one with the
exception of Mr.. SOwden, Dem. of Pennsyl-
vania, who voted in the negative, the
ton defeated, yeas 100, nays 1873. The
scene which followed was one of wild excite
ment subsequently Mr.. Cox entered another
motion to adjourn, upon which yeas and
nays were ordered The vote resulted
yeas las, nays 1877. so the House was declared
adjourned, and the long and historical dead
lock was broken.
S7TH DAY-The chaplain offered up a
prayer in behalf of the recovery of ex-senator
COnkling from his dangerous illness. The
journal of the legislative day of Wednesday,
the period of the long deadlock, was read in
the reading. -. The Committee on Post
Offices and Post Roads reported the
Post Office Appropriation bill. Re
ferred to the Committee of the Whole
building in Washington for the use of the
Signal Office was passed -. A bill for the
payment of a claim of 500 for the occupation
of certain property in Memphis by United
States troops in 1864 was dismissed without
action. At the evening session private
pension bills were considered exclusively, and
a large number of them passed.
SSTH DAY.-The resignation of A w.
Cochran, for many years Journal clerk, was
rendered, because the House refused to maize
the position an annual salaried one. The
House went into Committee of the Whole for
the consideration of the Mills Tariff bill, and
Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas spoke in opposition
to it.
S9TH DAY.-The following bills and resolu
tions were introduced: Providing that the
daily sessions of the House shall begin at
eleven o'clock: to equaliZe the bounties OF
soldiers and sailors; a resolution directing
the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds to investigate the management OF
the House restaurant; providing for the con-
troll and regulation of railroads acquired by
the United States under judicial foreclosure
OF forfeiture; resolution decaratory of the
sense of the House. that the Secretary of the
Treasury has power to use the surplus at any
time in the Treasury for the purchase of
bonds of the United States; and that so much
of the surplus may from time to time &C
cumulate in the Treasury ought to be so used
. The bill has passed extending the time
for the completion of the Arthur Kill bridge
49, The con sideratiOn of the River and Har-
Dor bill was begun. under a suspension of the
rules. -. The following bills and resolutions
were referred For the erection Of an
academic building and a gymnasium at
West Point; for the construction of a revenue
cutter for harbor duty at New DIRK: for re-
funding the income tax levied during the
Civil War upon the salaries of commissioned
officers of the Army and Navy; declaring all
interstate pools or combinations limiting or
controlling the production, sale or price OF
any article OF trade or commerce to be IN
lawful and criminal conspiracy.