Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS LAST SESSION SENATE Washington 14A large number of petitions from temperance organizations organ-izations praying for legislation prohibiting pro-hibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages were presented A number of unimportant bills were introduced and placed on the calendar Booth introduced a bill authorizing authoriz-ing the payment of prize money to officers of Farraguts fleet for the destruction of the enemys vessels in 1802 A resolution was adopted without with-out objections by Ingalls calling upon the district commissioners for I information as to the damage done to Long Bridge by the flood and whether in repairing some method can be adopted that will diminish the probability of inundation of the city hereafter By Hoar directing the secretary to report to the Senate the rules of admission to customs oflicials New York approved by the President on March otu 1S79 and January SOth ISbO and such statement of proceedings pro-ceedings under the same as may show the practical effect of the operation op-eration and rules upon the public service By PJatte to instruct the committee commit-tee on postofllces and postroads to inquire whether the practice of the postofllce department disposing of contracts for transportation made to persons who though the lowest bidders bid-ders therefor do not intend personally person-ally to perform such contracts but make them solely for the purpose of peculation is in conformity with the public policy and if any means can be devised to prevent the same and report by bill or otherwise The postal appropriation bill was proceeded with the pending motion to table the subsidy amendment being withdrawn and the proposition proposi-tion to perfect the original amendment amend-ment ported from the committee on postoiflce being overruled as not in order the rule The votes on these propositions ranged as follows 16 to 12 14 to 3 and 10 to 4 An amendment by Morgan to allow steamships to be of steel as well as iron was agreed to on a viva voce vote Bayard compared tho subsidizing of steamships which he construed I as the taking of public money fur private uses as identical with the communist idea and as a violation of democratic usage and doctrine I Whyte reviewed the history of American subsidy legislation beginning i be-ginning with the plan proposed by the king in 1741 appropriating 1 000000 annually for a term of years for foreign mailservice the bill in that instance being covered with the same sugar coating of equitable distribution dis-tribution that is presented at this time and coming down to the Brazilian experiment he added We were asked within five years after that disastrous failure to repeat the folly During the ten years up to 1875 in the which government had paid to the Brazil line 1500000 our imports were doubled while our exports increased but oneeighth The Pacific mail furnished another experience that ought not be forgotten for-gotten and he would if he could draw a veil before the eyes of the American nation and save them from a recollection of that scandal that smirched congressmen and excluded ex-cluded one member from the floor of the House Beck said he had heard that no complaint of tho American ocean i postal facilities were deficient I Morgan replied that southern 1 ports has been closed to the United States mails by the policy of government govern-ment and the south now asked that mail facilities be extended her Beck and went to I replied on argue that the amendment wrfuld not have the effect of adding a single steamer to the lines now running but that the 81000000 here provided would go to the Pacific Mail and Brazilian compallywith the exception of abou 12 per cent which would be left for other lines to scramble for He suggested among other measures of relief that Washington be made exclusively I ex-clusively the place of registracy for the vessels of the foreign carrying trade that a system of American apprenticeship on these vessels be instituted that a contract be mane witn tueir owners oy Which ships nay be made part of our navy in a foreign war that they be relieved re-lieved of focal taxation and that consular and pilotage fees be paid by government and their burdens otherwise lightened Bayard asked Maxey if he favored the free importation of ship building build-ing materials as well as of ships already constructed Maxey replied that he was a free ship man in the most unqualified way and he would allow ship building build-ing materials to be admitted under reasonable tariffs such as would provide a revenue for government He then quoted from statistics to show that while the commercial and agricultural growth of the country coun-try had been unprecedented in the last thirty years the carrying trade alone of all our industries had declined de-clined in volume and almost disappeared disap-peared and thatthe cause of this was to be found in our navigation laws A dt issue had been pre sume uy Morgan s resolution anu had been negatived The construction construc-tion placed upon the amendment now pending in view of the rejection rejec-tion of the other proposition had deprived it of that which in his judgment made it valuable namely the free ship principle In this connection he presented statistics statis-tics showing that of a total of over SlOOuOO paid by the United States for the carrying of European mails SloSOOO was paid to the owners of foreign bottoms and 38000 to Americans and commented on this as a national humiliation Teller moved to lay the amendment amend-ment on the table to avoid further I discussion Agreed toayes 34 noes 14 The committee of the whole then reported the bill to the Senate when the amendments were agreed to and the bill passed fmally Withers from the appropriations committee reported with amendment amend-ment the district appropriation bill Calendar After debate on the priority of business the House funding bill was taken up and informally laid I over as the regular order of business busi-ness for tomorrow On motion of Thurman the judiciary judi-ciary committee was empowered to sit during the sessions of the Senate for the remainder of the session The cattle diseases bill was then taken up and five of the eleven sections read when Thurman criticised the machinery to be created by it as cumbersome and complicated At this point a message from the House announcing announc-ing the death of Representative Wood was read and as a mark of respect for the memory of the deceased de-ceased the Senate Adjourned HOUSE Washington 14Clymer Forney I and Hawley were appointed a conference con-ference committee on the part of I the House on the army appropriation appropria-tion Bills introduced and referred By Stevenson resolutions of the Illinois legislature urging the passage of such measures as would relieve the active commerce of the country from unjust discrimination by railroad rail-road corporations and protect inter commerce by law By Townshend Illinois fixing the first Monday November as the time for the assembling of Congress By Cox to admit free articles intended in-tended for the international exhibition exhibi-tion in 1883 also authorizing the President to invite representatives of foreign governments Carlisle reported back the bill regulating the manufacture of vinegar vine-gar by the alcoholic vaporizing process Hill reported back the resolutions declaring the policy of the United States in regard to the oceanic canal The Senate amendments to the joint resolution authorizing the President to invite the government and people of Prance to join the covernment and people of the united States in celebrating the centenial of the surrender of Corn wallis were concurred in District business was then considered con-sidered The House went into committe of the whole Townshend of Ulinoi in the chair upon the Senate bill to provide for the pending 8 per cent certificates of the District of Columbia Colum-bia but before any action was taken thereon the committee rose nut Speaker Randall announced tIll death of Fernando Wood who hac entered the House forty years ago and had he lived to fill the nexi term for which he was chosen hi would have served twenty terms Tucker of the ways and means committee of which Wood was chairman presented the customar resolutions and moved an adjournment adjourn-ment After a short address by Cox the resolutions were adopted The Speaker appointed a committee commit-tee to superintend the funeral ceremonies cere-monies and the House as an additional addi-tional mark of respect adjourned |