Year: 1874

| Senate.
| WASHINGTON April l0.-Mr. Sherman pre-
| sented live tariff He said nothing could be
| done before the tariff bill was before the
committee.


The Committee on Commerce reported
| adversely to the bill that bridges over the
| Ohio should have four hundred feet spans,
and one hundred feet pivot draw.
hfr. Butler, of Massachusetts,, withdrew
his motion to reconsider the vote on the
postpOnement of the consideration OF the
currency bill, and said he did SO to explain
to the House his purpose, which was to pass
the Senate bill and then go and perfect the
House bill


Mr. Clark, of Tennessee, asked if the
gentleman would support the free banking
feature of the House bill; he had declared
in favor of greenbacks.


Mr.. Butler said he would favor a kind of
free banking, but did not approve of the
kind presented in this bill. In the course
of his remarks he said he did not think the
executive would veto bill to give relief to
the people, while the Senate and House
were perfecting other measures for that
purpose. He sought the passage of the
Senate bill, not as the best measure, nor
one that he by any manner of means ap-
proved, but as the best thing he could get
now, and to settle the public mind, and
give relief to the business of the country.


Mr.. Kellogg, of Connecticut, asked if the
gentleman asserted the President would
not veto the bill.


Here the Speakers hammer fell heavily,
and he said that such an allEsiOn was en-
tirely out of order.


Mr.. Kellogg said he had thought SO, and
for that reason asked the question.


The Speaker said the chair had not no.
ticed such words spoken, or he should have
stopped them.


Mr. Butler said he had only spoken of
what was said by the newspapers, and
he begged pardon of the House for doing
so. He had expressed the opinion that the
President would not be influenced by the
motives assigned.


Mr.. Davies asked if it was not equally
out of order to allude to a matter mega
lively as to allude to it atfirmatively.


The Speaker said it was.


Mr.. Butler-Then it is unparliamentary
to say you don't think a man will do
foolish thing.


Mr.. Cox, Of New York, said the gentle
not veto the Senate bill ; the House had
right to demand his authority.


Mr.. Butler-I did not say SO.


Sounds of the rapidly and heavily falling
of the gavel Of the Speaker drowned the
voice of the two gentlemen, although both
continued shouting at the top OF their
voices.


The House spent the whole day in voting
on the currency bill.


The motion to make the postponement
vote of yesterday Il tinality was defeated
by the casting vote of the Speaker, and
thus the bill came up again for action.


The most important votes were those by |
which the seventh and eighth sections of |
the bill were stricken out. The seventh
provides for banks without circulation. and |
the eighth for the monthly issue of |
1000, 900 OF gold notes as substitutes for |
an equal amount of legal tenders, that were |
to be Cancelled. The latter section was |
stricken out by d vote of l49 to "a.


Mr.. Kelley's convertible three sixty-five !
bond proposition was defeated, the vote on |
its adoption being llS to I22.


The House adjourned without coming to |
a final vote on the bill, which comes up
again tomorrow.