Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-04
nn1NcS IN r0NGREgS
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ruE sUNDRY APPROPRIATION BIZ
STILL BEING DISCUSSED.

q Leads Gibson of Louisiana to Dror
INTO Poetry-stin Stirring the Dust oi
the Confederacy- The Army Appro-
priation Bill in the House.
WASHINGTON, August 1.-Plumb, from the
Committee on Agriculture, reported back
,be House bill to enlarge the powers and
dutiss OF the Department OF Agriculture.
and create an executive department to be
Known as the Department. OF Agriculture.
In the bill as reported provisions OF the
House bill for the transfer OF the weather
bureau from the War Department to the
Department of Agriculture, was struck out.
Evarts, from the Committee on Foreign
Relations, reported back to the Senate the
Joint resolution authorizing and empowe
iug the President Of the United States to
take such measures as in his Judgment may
be necessary to obtain indemnity promptly
for injuries, losses and damages suffered by
the Venezuelan Steamship Company Of New
York by reason OF wrongful seizure and de-
tention OF the company's three steamers in
1871 ard to apply such means or exercise
ueh powers as may be necessary.
The Senate resumed consideration OF the
suNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION BILL,
the pending question being an amendment
offered yesterday by Call, appropriating
10000 for the recovery of the property OF
the late Confederate States now held in /
adverse possession to the Government.
Edmunds said he had been on q commit i
tee few years ago which had investigated |
that whole subject, and he was satisfied /
the appropriation would be useless waste
oimoney, and that the wisest thing to be i
done with the assets Of the late Confederacy
as with the unpleasantness itself, was to
forget all about them and let them 90.
Gibsop opposed the amendment. He
admitted that it was not proper at this
late hour toicall in question the validity
Gintegrity of the surrender that was made
W the officers of the confederacy on the
nd or sea. The confederate States had
id q noble death on the field of battle
many years ago, all that survived being
that sentiment OF honor which had beaten
hgh in the hearts OF men who represented
that fallen power. For one, he would
have engraved on it's tombstone the
epitaph engraved on Shakespeare's tomb:
"Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear,
To touch the dust enclosed here;
4
And cursed be he who moves these stones"
Call said be did notsympathize with Glib
son in the opinion that
THE DUST OF THE coNFEDERACY
Ihould be buried and it's good friends let it
lone. The Confederacy would live in his !
ory for the great and heroic characters it
lad developed. There was no need to leave :
heir dust undisturbed. Their fame was ]
written in the immortal pages OF history by !
such illustrious characters as Lee and
lsckson, and he was glad to know that the | e
loyN heart of the North and OF it's soldiers
responded to that sentiment. He was not
ashamed OF the Confederacy and did!not
ask that it's dust remain undisturbed. It
could not he shouted down or overlooked. z
The Confederacy had no dust, but il had
an immortal glory OF heroic character, Of
noble seli-sacrifice.
Allison moved to lay Calls resolution on is
the table, agreed to. Bill then reported !,
back to the Senate and all the amendments :
,oncurred in except that -aPP-eP-;~tins = =
500 600 for the widow of Professor Baird, tt
N which Regan demanded the yeas and Y
nays. The amendment was concurred in, lo
yeas %, nays IL. Y
Sherman explained that he had not voted n
on the amendment because he thought
The appropriation too large. He would u
have been willing to vote for an appropria- ol
tion OF $25 900, and he suggested that the I'll
amount be reduced by the conference COM !,
mittee, and the bill then passed.
Allison stated in response to query that
there now remained undisposed OF, five OF Z
the regular appropriation bills: The army IL
bil navy bill, sundry civil bill, general def re
cisncy bill and fort6ction bill. He thought Of
II might be safely assured that all the ap- q
bills could be disposed of next N
week. Could not say when the tariff bill
bill would be presented. Adjourned. ii