Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-12
PRIVATE BILL DAY In tho House, But Very Little Accomplishs%2s Whole.
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 q At sheff' ; d Sure ThIng-HIll anf Income Tax. s sst's Latest.

WAsaINaTcN, Jan. 11.-A house bill au- thorizing the Laporte, Houston and North ern Railroad company to build bridge over Galveston bay was passed. Also the following:
 Authorizing the Little Rock and Pacific
 Railroad company to bridge the rivers in Arkansas which it's lines will cross. Authorizing the Tennessee Bridge and
 Ferry company to bridge the Tennessee
 river at or near Sheffield, Ala. For the relief of 1. II. Hathaway & Co. of Philadelphia. contractors for the harbor
 work at St. Augustine, by the issue of duplicate check for S104, no, the original having been lost in the mails.
 Extending the time in which the Tex | arkana and Fort Smith railway may bridge
 the Little river.
 The bill to repeal the law of 1890 relating
 to shipping commissioners, which, by agreement, was proposed yesterday, was called up by Mir. Eithian, chairman of the
 committee on merchant marine ana fisher-
 ies. Mir. DingIey proposed substitute, which retained the law of 1890 that had been found beneficial to the seamen en- gagged in the coastwise and near by foreign trade. The substitute had been accepted by members of the com mittee. It was agreed to by the house and the bill passed. Under the rules of the house this was
 private bill day, and on motion of MT.
 Flood the house resolved itself into com- mittee of the whole to consider bills on the private calendar, for the first time since July IS last, and MT. Tarsney, democrat, of Missouri, took the chair. Three hours were spent in an unavailing
 consideration of a bill that engaged the at tention of the body on the day last devoted 10 the private calendar. It was for the pay
 ment of S13, GOO for stores and supplies taken from a loyal Tennesseean in the war,
 as adjudged by the court of claims. The bill elicited discussion from the general policy of congress with respect to other bills, and Mir. Bowers said that if 1t was the intention to settle the bill, the sooner the better it would be for the peace of mind of the representatives from the southern states
 MT. Cockrell, democrat, of Texas, said he had no request to make for the con- querors on account of the claims advanced by men who established their loyalty to the government thirty years after the war ended.
 MT. Cookery said that for himself he would repeal the Bowman and Tucker acts,
 abolish the committee on war claims and
 declare the war closed. No action was had <! upon the bill.
 Upon the recommendation of the com mIrtee oI , se whcie the com .Gl4 ca the table the bill to remit to the contractors for building the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius the penalties imposed for delay in her con- structlon.
 At 4:05 o'clock the house took recess until o'ciock, the evening session to be devoted to consideration of private pension bills.
 IN THE SENATE.
 The debate in the senate today on the subject of income tax occupied the better
 part of five hours. Most Of that time was used by Mir. Hill in advocacy of tfe amend
 ment offered by him yesterday, givIng courts of the United States jurisdiction to hear aud determine suits to test the exi- gency and validity of the tax. He said he hopsd the senate would help him out on it
 and that il ought not to b. inflicted upon tax payers.
 MT. Sherman said that in the main he agreed with the New York senator in re- gard to the tax, but he held that refusal oi the senate to give money to carry 1t out would tend to overthrow the principle on which the government is sLaplished, and
 would be practically wrong in regard to the
 revenue measure the senate Lad no power.
 10 originate. Speeches were also made by
 Messrs. Dubois, republican, of Idaho, Quay, republican,, of Pennsylvania, and Mitchell, republican, of Oregon.
 motion by Mir. Qaay to postpone further consideration oi the bill and amend.
 ment till the first Monday in February re- ceived one vote (his ownl in it's favor and foriy-three az ainstit. A point of order was made against the Hill amendment that it was general legis- lation on general appropriation bill and
 was sustaioed by the presiding officer, Mir. Faulkner, democrat, of West Vir- ginia. An appeal from this was taken by MT. Hill and at that stage of the proceed ings the whole matter went over till lo- morrow.
 Two of the calendar bills were intro- duced, one by MT. Vest and one by Mir. McPhereon, democrat, of New Jersey, the latter authorizing the sale of bonds. The salient points of the bill of Mir. Vest are these:
 1t makes no reference to the refunding of greenbacks; provides for the unlimited coinage of silver at the market price, the government taking the seignlorage; 1t calls in all gold a nd silver certificates and treasury notes and substitutes certificates that shall
 be redeem maoie in either gold or silver, ac- cording to conditions; il the surplus in the treasury is less than Sl00, 600, GOO to be redeemed iu silver; If more than Sl0O, 000,- GOO to be redeemed in gold; proviues for an issue of per cent bonds 10 maintain the reserve, out limits the amount 10 the S100,. 0O0 ,000 stipulated in this bill.
 The senate, at 5:20 o'clock, adjourned until tomorrow.
 SENATE COMBINATIONS.
 The senate today confirmed the nomina- lions of the following to be postmasters:
 Alabama-W. C. Dowdell, Auburn.
 Georgia--Laura A. Wilder, Forsyth.