| Show LATEST TELEGRAMS I FORTY8EVEKTH CONGRESS I I REGULAR SESSION I I > SEX ATX I Washington 12At 125 p m Shermans funding bill was proceeded proceed-ed with Garland haying the fleor He quoted from decisions to show the relations existing between banks and government Garland argued to show that the relation of banks to government was that of inert fiscal agents and Fists amendment was su logical and legal sequence of funding He was not wedded to the idea of a 3 per cent bond The debate was continued by Allison Al-lison Sherman and Plumb The fact became apparent at 420 that as several senators desiring to speak had not yet bean heard the matter could not be disposed of today HOUSE Washington 12Robeson from the committee on rules submitted a report increasing the membership of the following committees Ways and means to fifteen judiciary to nineteen banking and currency to thirteen commerce to nineteen agriculture ag-riculture to fifteen foreign affairs to fifteen military affairs to fifteen postottices and postroads to fifteen public lands to fifteen pacific roads I to fifteen improvement of the navigation navi-gation of the Mississippi River to fifteen invalid pension to nineteen war claims to fifteen and accounts to eleven Bayne introduced a bill to repeal the tax on bank deposits the stamp tax on bank checks and to reduce the tax on the circulation of national banks Referred Also for the appointment ap-pointment of a committee on inter oceanic canal and foreign inland transportation to which shall be referred re-ferred all measures relative to those subjects On motion of Upton of Texas a resolution was adopted calling on the secretary of war for all the correspondence cor-respondence and endorsements and recommendations in his office relating relat-ing to the expenditure of the appropriation appro-priation for appropriate sites and erection of forts for the protection of the Rio Grande frontier Browne introduced a bill for the issue and exchange of fractional treasury notes Referred The House then went Into committee com-mittee of the whole A Calkens in the chair On the appropriatioN bill general debate having ended bill was read for amendment Holman moved to amend by adding ad-ding to the bill the following But this act shall not t > 3 construed as giving the sanction of Congress Con-gress to any contract or engagement en-gagement entered into by any officer of the government for public service beyond the limit of the appropriation appropria-tion previously made by which a liability either legal or equitable shall be created against the United States Rejected 75 to 104 the democrats in affirmative the republicans repub-licans in negative The committee finally rose and reported the census appropriation bill when it passed without divisions divis-ions It appropriates 540000 Browne offered a resolution calling cal-ling on the secretary of the interior for the following information If all the pensions arising from the war of the rebellion shall be adjudicated within seven years terminating Juno 1st 1888 and if at the end of that period the survivors of the war I with Mexico and their widows shall be pensioned at the rate of 88 per month the appropriations will be required annually to pay pensions pen-sions during the next twentyfive years Referred Baker laid before the House a letter let-ter from the secretary of the treasury treas-ury deficiency in the cen to sus apprOpriatiOn amounting 5000 Referred Adjourned till Monday |
