CONGRESS, UNITED STATES. 



vices on the day of election. The last clause 

 of the first section of the bill provides that 

 no part of the money hereby appropriated is 

 appropriated to pay any salaries, compensa- 

 tion, fees or r\i uses under or in virtue of 

 title -jr of tho Revised Statutes or of any pro- 

 V'IMOII of said title.' Now, if gentlemen will 

 look ut that title of the Revised Statutes they 

 will see that it covers the appointment of dep- 

 uty marshals, their duties, pay, etc., the sub- 

 poenaing of witnesses in certain cases before 

 the supervisors of elections, etc. I will say 

 that the clause in tho bill which I have quoted 

 is a very sweeping one, and is intended to pre- 

 vent the enforcement of the supervisors and 

 deputy-marshals clauses of the Revised Stat- 

 utes during the next fiscal year, so far as a fail- 

 ure to appropriate money for their compensa- 

 tion will effect the purpose. 



" In the second section is a provision that all 

 sums appropriated in this bill shall be in full 

 for the persons and purposes designated for the 

 next fiscal year. And to that we have added 

 a clause by which we slightly modify the exist- 

 ing law, to the effect that ' no department or 

 officer of the Government shall, during said 

 fiscal year, make any contract or incur any 

 liability for the future payment of money, 

 until an appropriation to meet such contract 

 or pay such liability shall have first been made 

 by law.' The present law is that no depart- 

 ment of the Government shall involve the 

 Government in any liability for the future pay- 

 ment of money or make any contract until the 

 money shall have been first appropriated. Wo 

 have added the words 'no officer of the Gov- 

 ernment,' and have also added the words 'or 

 incur any liability.' 



" In section 3 of this bill we have included 

 what is generally known as the jury clause, re- 

 pealing the juror's test oath, and providing a 

 new method of drawing jurors. In that we 

 have only followed out the frequent recom- 

 mendations of the Attorneys-General of the 

 United States, and particularly of Mr. Pierre- 

 pont in a letter to the first session of the 

 Forty-fourth Congress, that some uniform sys- 

 tem was necessary. There is no department 

 of our Government that ought to be purer in 

 its administration, but I am sorry to say that 

 there is none where, in proportion to the 

 amount of money appropriated, greater scan- 

 dals are involved. I think I can say that upon 

 the authority of some of the Attorneys-General 

 of the United States. 



"We have also added a proviso which will 

 not be found in any of the previous bills 

 passed by this House upon the subject, provid- 

 ing that ' no citizen possessing all other quali- 

 fications which are or may be prescribed by 

 law shall be disqualified for service as grand 

 or petit juror in any court of the United States 

 on account of race, color, or previous condition 

 of servitude.' The purpose of that amendment 

 will be apparent to every one. It is intended 

 only to demonstrate what was already tho fact, 



that we did not in any way intend to abridge 

 tho rights of our colored < -itizena a* jurors, and 

 that we intended to guarantee them ull their 

 rights everywhere, whatever may be the State 

 law upon the subject. 



" We have added another clause, section 4. 

 In looking over tho reports of the Attorneys- 

 General we discovered a very extraordinary 

 fact. We discovered that the report which the 

 Attorney-General makes to the House of Rep- 

 resentatives of his annual expenditures in any 

 one year covers only the amount expended 

 during that fiscal year out of the funds appro- 

 priated for that particular year. To illustrate, 

 if at the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 



1879, there was left an unexpended balance of 

 $500,000, and that amount should be expended 

 for obligations incurred during the year ending 

 June 30, 1880, it would not be found in the 

 next annual report made to this Congress for 

 the expenditures of the fiscal year ending June 

 30, 1879, nor would it be found in the expen- 

 ditures for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 



1880. Therefore a very large amount of money 

 is and may be expended by the Department in 

 that way which is never accounted for to Con- 

 gress anywhere. Your committee, therefore, 

 have never been able to ascertain what was 

 annually expended by the Department in any 

 one fiscal year." 



The Speaker : " The question recurs on the 

 passage of the bill." 



The question was taken, as follows : 



YEAS Acklen, Armfiold, Atherton. Atkins, Bac!i- 

 man, Beale ; Beltzhoover, Bicknoll, Blackburn. Bliss, 

 Bouck, Bright, Cabell, Caldwell, Carlisle, Clardy, 

 John B. Clark. Clymer, Cobb, Coffroth, Colcrick, 

 Cook, Covert, Cravens, Culberson, Davidson, Joseph 

 J. Davis, Loundes H. Davis, Dcuster, Dibrell, Dunn, 

 Elam, Felton, Finloy, Forney. Frost, Geddes, Gibson, 

 Guntcr, N. J. Hammond, John T. Harris, Hatch, 

 Honkle, Henry, Herbert, Herndon, Hill, Hooker, 

 Hpstetlcr, Hull, Hunton, Johnston, Kcuna, Kimnu-1. 

 King. Klotz, Manning, Benjamin F. Martin, Edward 

 L. Martin, McMahon. McMillan, New, O'Connor, 

 Persons, Phclps, Phistcr, Poehler, Reagan, Robert- 

 son, Ross, Roth well, John W. Ryon, Sainford, Saw- 

 yer. Scales, Simonton. 0. R. Singfeton, Siemens, Hez- 

 ckiah B. femith, William E. Smith, Sparks, Spring- 

 er, Steele, Stephens, Stevenson, Taylor, Thompson, 

 Tillman, R. W. Townshend, Oscar Turner, Upson, 

 Vance, Waddill, Wellborn, Wells, Whitcakcr, Whit- 

 thorne, Thomas Williams, Willis, Wilson, Wise, 

 Wright 102. 



NAYS; N. W. Aldrich, William Aldrich, Ander- 

 son, Bailey, Baker, Barber, Bayne, Bingham, Blake, 

 Bowman, Brewer, Briggs, Bngham, Burrows, But- 

 terworth, Calkins, Camp, Carpenter, Claflin, Conger, 

 Crapo, Crowley, Datfpett, George R. Davis, Deering, 

 Dunnell, Erre't, Fair, Ferd<>n, Field, Fisher, Fryo, 

 Garfleld, Godshnlk, Hall, John Hammond, llarmer, 

 Haskell, Hawk, Hawley. Huyus, Hiseock, llorr, Hum- 

 phrey, Joyce, Kctt't-r, l\illinirer, Loriiur, Marsh, Ma- 

 son, MoCoid, McGowan, McKmley, Mitchell, Mon- 

 roe, Morton, Newberry, Norcross, O'Neill, Osmer, 

 Overton, Pound, Price, Rice, D. P. Richardson, Rob- 

 inson, W. A. Russell, Thomas Ryan, Sapn, Shallen- 

 berger, Sherwin, A. Hcrr Smith, Stone, Thomas, Ty- 

 ler, J. T. Updegraff, Urner, Valentino, Van Aernain, 

 Voorhis, Wait, Wilber, C. G. Williams, Willits, 

 Thomas L. Young 85. 



NOT VOTING Aiken, Ballon, Barlow, Belford, 

 Bland, Blount, Boyd, Bragg, Browne, Buckner, Cv 





