2076 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. MA.ROH 2, points and forests, it iS totally impo ible for any revenue-cutter to (H. R. No. 3621) to abolish the we tern district of Arkansas, a.nd for prevent liquors being landed at any place other tha.n the ports, and other purpo e , with Senate amendment , and to move that the House then it comes around a,nd gets through to the settlements of the In­ non-coucur in the Senate amendments, and ask for a committee of dians; and it being there, with no means of proving that it has conference. been smuggled, what is the customs officer nuder the law authorized Mr. HODGES. I object. to do about it Y The customs officer under the law has no authority Mr. SENER. I move to suspend the rules for the purpose I have that.Iknow of-if there is l wish it might be produced- to seize.liq­ intimated. nors except for a violation of the customs laws. There they are. Mr. SPEE:U. I hope this will not be obj ected to. The bill was What are you to do f I have shown you, as I think, correctly, that unanimously passed by the House. they have .no authority to arrest anybody; they have no authority to Mr. SENER. I t is only a question of standing by our own action. t:llke affidavits in support of a prosecution; they ha,ve no a.uthority I move tb suspend the rules. to caiTy anybody out of that Territory at all. The SPEAKER. The Chair will recognize the gentleman for :1 mo­ Under the Indian laws of 1834, giving power to the Army to expel tion to suspend the rules when there is a quorum. There is evidently intruders -and liquors that are found in the TeiTitory and to arrest no quorum no.w. offenders and carry them out for trial, you h.we a means; but wiping these out entirely, you have, so far as I know, no means of doing any­ LEGISLA.TIVE, ETC., APPROPRIATION BILL. thing except doing what you can by a' ship preventing liquors from The SPEAKER. The Chair announces as managers on the part of getting in; and once in, your power is gone. the House of the new conference on the legislative, &c., appropria­ Mr. MITCHELL. I should like to ask the Senator from Vermont tion hill Mr. RORA.CE F . MAYNARD of Tennessee, Mr. CHARLEs if it is not the fact tha.t the law of 1 34 is a.bsolutely nugatory so br O'NEILL of Penns_ylvania, ::md Mr. J. C. ROBDJSON of Illinois. as it has any app)tcation to Alaska., in tha.t under that law the mili­ tary are only authorized to detain a' party arrested for a violation of ORDER OF BUSINESS. the non-intercourse laws for the period of five da.ys. There are no Mr. COTTON. I submit the following resolution : courts there, :;~ , nd it is perfectly in1possil>lo to get to a court in three R.JsoltJed, That the rules be so suspended us to permit the Committee on the Dis­ times five days.· trict of Columbia to no-w report House bill No. 4840, for the support of the govern­ 1\Ir. EDMUNDS. My friend is perfectly right; the law is not right ment of the Di trict of Columbia. for the fiscal year endin"' June 30, 1876 and for as it is for that very reason; but your customs officer ha.s no a,uthority other purposes, for consideration in the House. o ' to detain anybody for five minutes, and he has no authority to carry I will simply say that the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. anybody out of the Territory. If that be so, then. the only difficulty RANDALL] and the gentleman from Indiana, [Mr. WIL ON,] have as it now stands in respect to getting rid of the offender i~ that the amendments which they wi h to offer, and I propose to permit those military authority have not time enough to carry the offender out. amendments to be offered for the consideration of the House. They did carry one out, and he was set free in Oregon by Judge The SPEAKER. Why does not the gentleman get his proposition · Daduy. in shape; so that the Holli!e cl\n vote on it directly Y Mr. 1\ITTCHELL. He wa.s detained in imprisonment two mont,hs 1\lr. RANDALL. Allow me to submit a statement. The gentle­ in Alaska. before they umlertook to take him to Oregon--.:a- very great man from I owa, [Mr. COTTON,] in charge of this subject, has a long harclship. bill, which embraces other subjects than that which relate properly 1\Ir. EDl\IDNDS. That was au abuse undoubtedly if the milit:try to the taxation of the District. The gentleman from Indiana [Mr. officer was to blame for it; but if a revenue-cutter goes from Oregon Wn,so~ ] has an amendment in the nature of a substitute, which to Alaska only once in three months, what could the officer doY He e~br~ces only provisions relating to the taxation of property in the could not do anything but hold him and carry him to the court. D1stnct, both real and personal. I have a further amendment in That was a hardship uuquestionably. Upon strict Indian principles, the n~ture of a substitute, which wa prepared at my request by the the military officer, under the act of 1834, perhaps might have thrown board of commissioners, and embraces only taxation on real property. this man into the sea. That would have been ha.rder still. He If the proposition of the gentleman from Iowa is brought up for on­ would have got him out of the Territory in that way if he had sideration, then the proper plan would be for the gentleman from thrown him three miles. Indiana to move his amendment in the nature of a. substitute for the Mr. SARGENT. I should like to remind my friend that we are bill, and upon that I will move a further amendment in the nature nuder the five-minute rule. of a substitute for that of the gentleman from Indiana. Mr. EDMUNDS. Very good, if the Senator wishes to make Lbat Mr. SENER. I make the point of order that there is no quorum point. We will wait until to-morrow and see. pre ent. 1\fr. SARGENT. I am not making any point, only reminding him. The SPEAKER. That will be determined bv a vote. 1\fr. EDMUNDS. I only remincl the Senator that he h~s introduced Mr. SENER. The Chair made that point upon me without a vote. into au appropriation hill a distinct provision of legislation which has The SPEAKER. Very well; there have been a great many mem- no busines here. · · bers come in since. Besides the gentleman did not have in his han<l .Mr. SARGENT. Does the Senator raise a point-of order f a. bill of one tithe the importance of the bill of the gentleman from Mr. EDMUNDS. I cannot raise a point of order, because for some Iowa. reason or other-- ·1\lr. SENER. 1:t was a bill which the House had passed-­ ~h· . SARGENT. The Senator says I had no business to do it. That The SPEAKER. The Chair must exercise his discretion. · was the reason I suppo e be was transgressing the rule. 1\h'. RANDA,LL. This whole matter must stand still unless the Mr. EDMUNDS. No; I am appealing to tbe Senator on moral House act upon it to-d:ty. · ·grounds that he is loading a.n appropriation bill- not in an offensive Mr. MAYNARD. I suggest that the gentlemen having charge of son e. these matters, or interested in them, entertaining different views upon Mr. SARGENT. I move that the Senate adjourn. the subject, might get together informa.lly and agree upon some one The motion was agreed to; and (at two o'clock and twenty-seven proposition that could be submitted to the House. minutes a. m., Wedne::.day, March 3) the Senate a-djourned. The SPEAKER. The Chair has urged that for three days ; he has urged that some proposition be submitted to the House upon which the House could come to a direct vote. Mr. RANDALL. We do not want to limit debate ; the House can do th!l.t by a majority vote. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. TROMP ON. I wish to amend the resolution so as to include House bill No. 429'2. T UESDAY, 1Jlaroh 2, 1875. The SPEAKER. Do not mix that with the tax: hill. The Honse met ;1t eleven o'ciock a. m. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rey. Mr. TROMP ON. It is as important as the other. The SPEAKER. What is iU J. G. BuTLEn, D. /J. 1\Ir. THOMPSON. Under the old law the recorder of this District CIIANGE OF NAl\IE 01<' A PLEASUU.E YACHT. appointed his deputy, who was authorized to admimster oaths, t:tke Mr. PIERCE. I a k unanimous consent to report from the Com­ acknowledgments, &c. The new law changed tha,t; but, without mittee on Commerce a bill to change tho name of the pleasure yacht being advised of it, the recorder still confided the rluty to his deputy; Dolly Varden to Clochette. and hundreds of deeds aro on record in this District to-day that are The bill, which was read, authorizes the owner of the pleasure void bec~mse of tha.t informality.