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Show FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. HOLME. WaihinV-Ou, 18. Stephens aiked that iih lit put upon rscord. Ue waa ahaenl oa Uave tit tbe house, yester-j tiny, wlifu the vote was taken upon! what it known us tbe Potter resolu-j lioli, Hu i paired with Harris, j Bui tor the pair be wuuld bave voted agaitirtt the resolution as it stood. I Kills rnported a resolution declaring i that there tiad been no fair, free and peaceable election in the first con I gressional district of South Carolina, ' and Hurt neither Kainey (sitting member) mem-ber) nor Richardson (oonletiLaut) was entitled to tbe seat. He stated that he would call tbe resolution up on Thursday next. '1 he speaker appointed Sparks, oingieiuu uu wjuicidco u io Indian appropriation bill. Durham, from the committee on the military appropriation bill, reported re-ported that tbe committee had been unable to agree. A further confer 1 ence was ordered, and Durham, Clyuier and Smith (iJa.) were ap pointed conferees. A bill lor the election of a delegate to tbe house from the Indian territory was ordered to be printed aud recommitted. recom-mitted. On motion of Smith (Pa.) the senue amendments to tbe pension appropriation bill were non concurred in, and Smith (Pa.), Hewitt (N. Y.) and Soarks were appointed conferees. The house then went into com mittee of the whole, on the urroy ap propriation bill. Hewitt, New YorK, who has charge ot the bill, in bis statement, said be regarded the crucial test of Btatea manship to be a reduction of the burdens of taxation, so that the band of labor might reap its reward, and keep it when earned. That idea hud been tbe pole star which the committee commit-tee on appropriations had set before it. Tbe reduction of expenditures in 1877 had been $25,000,000. Foster I beg pardon the reduction reduc-tion does not amount to $12,000,000. Htewitt reaffirmed his statement and added that expenditures should be still further reduced $25,000,000. The coat of the army in 1SG0 amounted to forty Qve cents p t Iipbi-1 nf tho entire no nutation. ami in 1877 to fifty four cenu. That made a ditlerence of between $1,000,000 and $5,000,000. The pu-udinc bill afieoted a saving of $3,-861,000, $3,-861,000, and that without reducing tbe strengtk of tbe army by a sinylu ausket. The saving wa efl'acted in -he administration. On tbe teat of population the army ' contained now, as corapired with I860, a surplus of 007 officers, and o( 7,228 men; on the teBt of army DOita being useless, there was also a Mirplua in the strength of the army. He thtugbt there waa no danger of an Indian war. As to tbe U6e of the .army to put down labor strikes, he id it was not in accordance with tbe republican principle of government to keep an army to restrain any por lion of the people from exorcisiug any Just right. .( these strikes give rUe to disorders it was tho duty of slates individually to repress them. What governmeat ought to do was to organize a national mil itia system throughout tbe country. Hi; win in favor of eooouraging rifle clubs for a republican country need never fear disorder when the people i wore armed. As to communism winch waanauniea oetore congress as a re.iaon why tbe army Bbould be increased, that never hid had a looting and never wou'd have a footing in this laud, unless congress ebouKl uudertake to police the ununtry with a standing army. II that were done communism would breik out in every town in tbe country, but i if communism Bhould break out the president was authorized to call out the militia. If tbe militia cou'd : not be trusted republican institutions were a failure. While' the pay j roper ot a general of iliHi.rmy was $13,000, his actual pay1 (with commutation allowanced) was $17,000; the py proper ot a lifjuteo ;vnt general, $11 000 actual pay, $13 066; the pay proper ot a major general, $7,500 actual pay $9 504; tbe pay proper of a colonel, 3.000, or with longevity pay, $4 500 actual piy, $6,177 and so on all way down. The actual p;iy averaged from 25 to liO pr cent, over the pay proper. The bill proposed to change all tuesa al lowances for forage, fuel and quarters. The fbnge would be tup-plid tup-plid to those officers who usd horses ia public Bervico, and none would be supplied to those who did uot so use borsep. On the whole, the provijions ef tbe bill on the subject of compensation were liberal and ample. ' He claimed that the bill did not reduce tbe strength of tbe army by one musket, that it did not force out of tbe army a single officer, who chose to remain in it and who ought to remain in it, that it did uot reduce the pay ot the army but only cut ofl allowance that are eu cd an aouje tnat it leaves army dtlicers with better pay than is received re-ceived in civil life for equally important impor-tant services, or than is received by tbe officers ot the navy. McCook critized tbe reductions pro posed. Referring tD the bill prepared by the chairman ol the committee on military afLurs he said a section in that bill providing fur the disband -in cut of tbe army bad been 6oriouly contemplated and bad received the j sanction of distinguished members of thut committee and possibly ot the appropriations committee, Hewitt I object to any such statement state-ment as to the committee on appro priations; it is entirely unfounded in , fart. - - . ! McCook I said ''possibly." I mrnt, and I ask tbe gentleman to cod Sua bitmelt to the (acts. McCook It is an unquestioned fact that such a section, providing fr the disbandmeut of tbe army in case ol a failure of congress to pass tbe army appropriation appro-priation bill, was incorporattd in an army bill; that it was discussed and defended, and that for over two months it was obstinately adhered to, and that should make us hesitate be fore agreeing to follow other sugges tione from the same Mnurce, even when adopted by the committee od appropriations. The committee then rose and the speaker stated that he woul 1 bt-atwent bt-atwent tbe early part nf nest wek. V.lon rJfrar o raan.ltiA .,r,. ....... ing Sayler speakj' pro ttm. Adopted It was arranged that there snou!d be evening s tea ions lor regular business busi-ness purposes all next week. . Adjourned. |