Show LATEST po TELEGRAMS I FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS LAST SESSION SENATE Washington 20The Senate reconsidered re-considered the vote disagreeing to the House adjournment resolution yfa terday yetis 31 naye 21 There was a discussion on Edmunds amendment amend-ment to make the recess frum December Decem-ber 23d to January 3d The last resolution reso-lution was agreed to 33 to 26 The Senate bill refunding tile 8 percent per-cent District of Columbia certificates into fiftyyear 265 per cent bonds was amended making the rate S percent per-cent and passed The amount is 891000 Tbe VicePresident submitted a communication from the eecretary of war in response to the resolution offered of-fered by Logan with copies of ibe correspondence between General Sohofield and Major Gardner relative to the board ol officers in the inquiry of the case of iMtz John Porter aleo from the secretary of the treasury a recommendation for an appropriation ol 20000 for publishing a centennial map of the United States and the territories On motion of DAY his bill to relieve re-lieve the United Stats treasurer from the amount of 28000000 charged to him on the treasury books and deposited with the several elates under un-der the act of 1836 was taken UP He said this money would never be called for by the United States as it never had been in times of great need It tra inconvenient to carry it on the book Ingalls said the convenience of the bookkeepers was nothing compared to the injustice of giving 28000000 to older states at the expense of those which were admitted since 1836 It was the original contract that the money should clwaya be tubject to call by the United State Garland believed the debt was outlawed out-lawed l Kirkwood said that the twenty eight states interested were pooling to secure thia 28OOOCOO He now oflered as a second section of tIlls bill the substance of the 5 per cent bill allowirg the various stated 5 pel cent on the value of lands granted within tbeir hunt by military county warrant Thurman thought the 5 per cent bill ahould stand on Us own merits He objected to government giving away 28000 IOU to the states It was iQVcrnment money it is cur duty to pay as fast aa possible our 200000000 indebtedness in-debtedness every dollar of the 700 000000 or 800000000 due next year could be paid oil in ten years with out unduly burdening people Yet it is proposed to extend it for forty or fifty years and at the same time giveaway give-away 28000000 Give away the public land and increase the expen aiiurea aa we were doing and the inevitable i result of this policy is to create an irreducabla public debt to make our debt like the British consols a perpetual annuity He regarded a perpetual debt ass as one of the greatest crimes that could be inflicted upon a nation He opposed this bill as par of a tyatem of legislation l tending to bring en this misfortune Conkling thought Thnrmona argument argu-ment vitiated like many other good arguments by the incorrectness ol bis premises lu 1836 there was a surplus in the treasury raised by taxes upon the population then existing exist-ing The surplus was deposited with the states then existing subject to call by government It wa a call loan l Subsequently the quality of a call loan was taken from it by act oi Congress to the effect that the money should never be called for except by act of Congress and on due notice The doctrine of estoppel warranted the assumption that when government govern-ment in times of great need of money did not apply for this money I it i by this and various actions produced pro-duced the impression that it was not considered as part of the asset of government It was estopped from claiming the money after forty years had parsed and the states had with the knowledge of government applied ap-plied the money to various purposes On resumption it was considered asa as-a gift Conklinfc thooght the past had sufficiently demonstrated that the people the resources and the integrity in-tegrity of the country would make impossible i any failure to pay the public debt Elaine regarded the act of 1836 asa as-a great folly resultingfrom the extreme ex-treme theory that a surplus of revenue rev-enue muit be divided among the whole population To recall the money now would bo unjust not only because of tbe lapse of time and probable outlawry of the claim but also because the people who got the mney would not be the ones called on to return the money Men who then lived in benefited states had largely l emigrated The Senator from Oregon Grover would be called upon to return the share he got as a citizen of Maine in which sate tbo money was foolishly divided per capita among the population Blame was not a citizen of Maine at that time but he would have to pay his share of money now as a citizen of another state No way of returning the money oould be found The debt of a former generation genera-tion should net be placed on this generation gen-eration Thurman said that doctrine was untenable There was no bar of lim Iation to this debt The money was by law returnable on demand Debate suspended and the consular appropriation bill was referred to the committed on appropriations Adjourned BO USE Washington20 < 3Dunn introduced a joint resolution that be lands in Indian Territory to which the Indian title was extinguishedand which were I unoccupied by Indians are public lands of the United States and are hereby declared subject to settlement nnder the homestead and preemption laws He desired it referred to the I public land committee but Conger saying it was an attempt to give possession pos-session ot this territory to while set tlers moved that it so to the committee com-mittee on Indian afJurs which bad large ideas of the rights of the In diana Agreed tol14 to 65 By Morton for the repeal of the tax on bank checks and deposits Tne consular appropriation bill was I tak < = n up By Ellis by request to abolish the government directors of the Union I Pacific Railroad Co01 pany By Tbo Turner to prevent fraud I and corruption in the election ot f president vice president senators and repreeentitaves It provides that before entering on their duties the I preident and vicepresidentelectand all persons elected to either house of Congress shall take an 0 ith that they I have not procured or attempted to procure their election by bribery or j fraud and that tey Hill not during their term of office permit any contribution con-tribution or the employment ot contributions I con-tributions or of employed of the I United States for election or political purposes By Stone providing for double or return postal cards By Frost amending the Constitution Constitu-tion oo ai to make the president ineligible in-eligible for rteeUion I Calkins from tbe committee on elections submitted a report of the majority in the Massachusetts case derluring Loring entitled to the seat metead of Boynton Laid over Weaver will file a minority report F Wood said he would to morrow call up the funding bill and press it to a vote before recess Price from the banking committee commit-tee moved to enspend tbe rules and pass the bill repealing section 3418 K viged Statutes and abolish tbe stamp on the check named in that section Mills raised the point that this was a matter for the committee on ways and means and not the banking commit com-mit ee Tbe questionof money was to be taken from tbe people to support sup-port government was a question for the consideration of the committee ways and means Price thought that it was a sufficient suffi-cient argument to the objection to state that the bill had been referred to the committee on banking and currency The SpeakerDid it go there by bill or petition Price By both After further debate on this point the motion to suspend the rules was seconded 102 to 45 Mills then opposed the bill He thought there were other subjects more fit for a reduction of taxation than check stamps Why not take the duty ofi clothiug It was attempted at-tempted to clandestinely smuggle this bill through the House to prevent pre-vent the amendment taking away from monopolists some of the ill gotten gains which legislation robbery gave them Buckner wanted many taxes reduced re-duced hut because he wanted more thRu ho could have he would not refuse re-fuse to take cfl an annoying andy and-y tax Toe amount raised by ibis tax was about 170000 He bud no idea that republicans would reduce the taxes in the next Con cress and he therefore favored the striking at every head of taxation this session Hawley thought he knew that a great majority of protectionists favored fa-vored a revision of the tariO Price said there were 500000 depositors depo-sitors in the banks of the country who could not draw a dollar without paying 2o Warner opposed the bill This tax was easily collected from a elate better able to pay for it ban any other They needed the money to pay the 50000000 pension just voted and tu reduce the maturing debt He hoped the House would ueailate before it passed this bill Weaver said it was part of the scheme for funding the debt It was proposed to reduce taxation eo the debt could not be paid Tbe motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill was rejected yeas 129 nays 68 not twothirds Tbe speaker mado the following committee appointments McKinley to t the committee on ways and means Conger to tUe committee on ruler Taylor of Ohio to the committee on judiciary j The speaker also announced the appointment of Wellborn Scoville and Brown ay visitors to the naval academy Several leaves of absence were granted hut Wood gave notice that he would object to further leaves The bill was passed to enlaige and protect the San Antonio arsenal Stone nnder instructions from the committee on postofBcee moved lo suspend tbe rules and pass tbe bill authorizing the postmaster general to readjust the salaries certain postmasters post-masters This bill involving claims to the amount of 500000 was opposed op-posed and on seconding a demand for suspending the rules no quorum voted Adjourned r a |