OCR Text |
Show I'OUTY-FOUItril CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. SENATE. U'.isbiugloil, 21. Tho scnalo met :ind received a notification from tue ttouso and proceeded to the hall of the home of representatives to continue con-tinue the presidential count. Tho senate relumed from tho joint convention and resumed business. Sargent, from the commiltoo' ou appropriations, reported back the deficiency appropriation bill with sundry amendments. Mitchell, from tho committee on privileges and elections, submitted a report on the caso of Oregon electors and asked that it be printed in the Record. Objection being made by Davis and Keruau, Mitchell withdrew the motion, mo-tion, and the report was ordered printed in the usual manner. The report summarizes the law and facts of the case, declares Watts eligible when he cast his vote, that under the state laws the secretary of state is the canvassing orliccr and otiicially declared the republican eiet;iors eiecicu; mat Urovcr ismed " the certificate to (Jronin instead" of - W atts, gives the facts concerning the cipher telegrams between prominent , democratic leaders and concludes with an exoneration of Senator Kelly 1 concerning his endorsement of tho cipher dispatch. iNumerous committee reports wcro ! made. The scnato concurred in the amendments of the house lo tho hill 10 ratify an agreement with certain . bauds of bioui Iudians, and also with , the northern Arapaboes and Obey, enne Indians, and the bill passed The ohair presented a message from the president in answer to a senato resolution, enclosing the report re-port of the secretary of state in regard :o expenditures by (bat deprtmnt trorn 17S9 to 1S76. Laid on the table. Alter tho morning hour, the Pacific Paci-fic railroad bill for a linking fund etc., was postponed and will bo uu-hnised uu-hnised business. Tho postolbce appropriation bill was then considered. The committee's amendments wera agreed lo increasing the compensa-lion compensa-lion for postmasters from ?7 OUO 000 lo $7 230,000; poslofflce clerks from ,200,(XW lo W.oOO.000; fr et,er 1 .nr transportation of maibj fr0m . ?W0,lW0to?900,000; for compel ! Hon to railway postoffice cierks from $1,1,000 to $1,0-00,000; for route agents from $'.U-3,000 to $1,0.50 000-; 000-; for mail messengers from $ti00 000 to ' f - 00,000, and others, j The senate also agreed to an an-lpropntioa.of$10,000 an-lpropntioa.of$10,000 to Derm it tho , pewtodi-je commission to complete its , work. Hamlin submitted an amendment I allowing tiio postmaster general to use SoxVXO'of the amount appro-, appro-, prated for mail transportation to ob-tam ob-tam pamper facilities trom the great trunk lines for service during the iiseal year ending June, 1S73 His ameudment was to enable the post-master post-master general to arrange for sixty' fast cars, and tnereby lacilitate thM 1 unai uistributtou oi mail matter. , Tne amendment was agreed to'. An amendment was agieed to' an propnating $500,000 for the China mail service; also $.300,000 for mail, rviee between New Orleans and1 hio Janeno. I The bill was then pa;scd. Windotn called up the legislative' appropriation bill and said: Tne bill as it came from the house appropriated appropri-ated $14,979,315. As amended bv lae committee on appropriations and ' ;ported tothe senate it appropriated j. ?io,.oi ,Si.'j, an increasoof $1,730- , xi. Tne legislative bid for the cur-'( ent fiscal year appropriated flo,7l7,.ji - . . 9-i3. The committee on appropriations appropria-tions hiid ad up Led tiie genera! 1 principle in considering toe bili whieii wan to reiusUte ail salaries (reduced by the h'juse to wiiai U,-y j are at pr,-sent. The committee had I taken the compromise nieaaure of last session fixing the naUrics for the cur-jrent cur-jrent ii-ieal year as their guide, and had not in a single instance increased any salary over that determine i by the compromise of last session. In few iiintances a number of employe in the executive depanmeuts had been increased, as fur initanee in the sixth au litor's of lice where tho accounts ac-counts of the postoflico department ao audited there was not a suiheient lrce. Tliere were four hundred applications ap-plications for money ord;r offices, but could not be granted on account of tiio insullieient clerical force. The money order oflicea paid their own way and lelt a small profit to the government, therefor it was deemed udvixable to iucreHse the force. All the amendments renorted by' the committee on appropriations were agreed to. Among them were' the folluwing: Increasing the appropriation appro-priation for salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, by $105,000; itriking cut of the house bill the olause reducing the number of internal revenue collection districts to 120 after June next; tho amendment amend-ment appropriating 5)039,410,59 to pay judgments of tho court of claims was a!ao agreed to. The houo, it will be remembered, appropriated $25,000 tor compensation of the president ol the United States and provided that eection 153 of the revised statntps hp. repealed so far as tho same ralates to tho salary of the president. The senato committee reported an amendment amend-ment increasing tho appropriation from $2o,000 to $50,000 and striking out the proviso in regard to the repeal re-peal of section 153. Tho question being on concurring in the amendment of the committee, Wright demanded tho yeas and nays and it waa acreed to yeas, 23: navs. 18;, The bill having been considered in committee of the whole, wis reported to tho senate, and tha amendments mado in tho committee were concurred con-curred in. Hitchcock submitted an amendment amend-ment iucreasioff the appropriation for tho purchase of garden and field seeds for distribution among tho grasshopper grasshop-per states from $10,000 to $30,000; agreed to. The bill was than read a third time and passed. Tho senate went into e-iecutivc session and when the doors were reopened took a recess until to-morrow. - IS USE. Tho houso met at 10 o'clock and after reading the testimony to sustain sus-tain the objection made against the electoral vntn n( Tinnaott nf m m Springer, who mado the objection, I introduced a resolution that tho vote bo counted. Ho explained that tht error had been made in describing the office held by Daggett as that o a United States commissioner, while the testimony shows that he held tho otlicG of clerk of a United States court. A vote was taken and the resolution resolu-tion agreed to. After the senate had retired, Kidder presented the memorial of the leiiis- 1 11 lira fi.,l.. against the establishment of a now )t territory out of the Pilack Hills. Harrison's amendment appropriating appropria-ting $33,000 for ventilating tho house of representatives was agreed lo. Alter making some progress in the bill, the committee roso and the house took a recess till evening. The house, immediately on reassembling, reas-sembling, went into committee of the whole, Buckner in the chair, on the ,L sundry..civil appropriation bill. e Boltord moved to increase the ap-3f ap-3f propriatiom for the survey of public lands from $a0,000 to $300,000 and supported hia amendment. After t discussion it was rejected. Belford then moved to fit the u amount at $150,000. A long time e was consumed in endeavoring to find tl if a quorum was present, Holman trying to eflect a compromise on 3 $100,000 and Lane rejecting the a proposition. After two roll calls the committee rose and the house took a g recess until to-morrow. Piper moved to reduce tho amount 1 of appropriation for improving tho . capitol grounds from $100,000 to j 500,000. He said ho could assure tho gentlemen that he could bring one Chinaman, aged IS, from Cali-, Cali-, fornia who could do moro work than L 511 oi the men who loafed around f the capitol under pretence of doing I work on the grounds. , Tho amendment was rejected. |