Show LATEST TELEGRAMS c FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS I of REGULAR SESSION SEKATU Washington 7 Anthony from the committee on printing reported favorably the House joint resolution authorizing the public printer to fur rush all applicants with copies of bills reports and other public documents docu-ments hereafter printed by the order ol congress end distributed from the document rooms on such applicants paying the cost of euch printing with 10 per cent added Passed The bill for the relief of the heirs of Constantine Brumidi passed Walker from the committee on public buildings reported a substitute for the House bill for the establishment establish-ment of titles in the Hot Springs and for other purposes Calendar Voorhees from the committee on library submitted tho annual report of the librarian of Congress together with a resolution providing for the printing of the usual number of copies for distribution Referred Morgan submitted a resolution requesting the President to inform the Senate what action had been taken under the act of 1878 for the distribution of Mexican claims commission com-mission awards the grounds of such action and what further action was rtquireu Auupiuu While considering the calendar the fortifications appropriation bill was reached but passed upon the suggestion of Allison who has it in charge The bill admitting free of duly contributions for colored emigrants passed On motion of Voorhees who had previously objected to it the bill to relieve the Kansas coorcd emigrants by admitting articles duty free sent there was taken up and Voorbees hoped it would be passed Bailey moved an amendment that such goods should be transported by government and that the act expire June 1st next instead of February 21st IfiSl He knew tho colored men woulJ be hoodwinked and foreign governments sympathized with the exodus movement and it was well the negroes should understand under-stand that tho act was limited He subsequently withdrew his amendment amend-ment and the bill passed I Here occurs a break in the report 1 JCirkwnod thought it a singular and unfair thing to move when a bill was first taken up to indefinatsly postpone post-pone it Edmunds had done this under tho rules preventing any amendment being proposed by its friends which might make it more acceptable to the majority Hoar asked why the claims of thcEe states were net properly referred to the court of claims I Thurman thought the claims rested On broader grounds than the strict legal construction of the contracts and were therefore more proper sub jecta for congressional action than for adjuoation by the court of claims He did not understand this to be a logrolling log-rolling bill as might be implied from the remarks of Hoar Plumb disclaimed the idea of logrolling log-rolling on the Dart of the supporters I of the bill In the course of his remarks ho referred to the charges that this was pot or divide JJ and said the Senate tcday had made a special order for Monday next of a bill the national educational bill which proposed to divide up not 5 per > cent but the whole of proceeds of the sale of public lands Allison advocated the postponement 01 further consideration of the bill until next December It had been barged that the bill would lake 10 000000 out ot the treasury He thought an investigation would show it would not take that amount The discus slots in March on the national educational educa-tional bill might materially modify the views of the supporters of this bill yet the Senator from Vermont prc posed to allow no time for investiga ion onAfter After further discussion Edmund moved to lay his motion to reconsider on the table Lostyeas 19 nays 24 L Edmonds then moved to indefi uitely postpone his motion to recon der Lost yeas 20 nays 32 |