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and polls of the city of Washington, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, who is hereby authorized and directed to make such rules and regulations as shall be necessary for the collection of such tax; and the same shall be assessed and collected in the manner now provided by law for the annual collection of municipal taxes of said city. The amendment was rejected.]
1 Congrcssional Globe, 1857-1858, Part 2, pp. 1463, 1464, 1469.
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE PRINTING OF OBITUARY ADDRESSES 1 April 7, 1858. Mr. Houston. I move to take up the resolution which I sub- mitted yesterday, as a substitute· for the report of the Committee on Printing, in regard to printing the obituary addresses on the death of certain members. [The motion was agreed to and the Senate proceeded to consider the resolution.] Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas. I ask that the resolution be read. The Clerk read it as follows: Resolved, That there be printed in pamphlet form, for the use of the Senate, ten thousand copies of the addresses made by mem- ters of the Senate and by members of the House of Representa- tives, upon the occasions of the death of the Honorable A. P. Butler, of South Carolina, Hon. James Bell, of New Hampshire, and Hon. Thomas J. Rusk, of Texas, all late Senators of the United States; and that the Printer to the Senate be directed to prepare them in a similar manner to the eulogies on the life of Hon. John M. Clayton. [Mr. Johnson, Mr. Stuart, and the President pro tempore spoke.] . Mr. Houston. Mr. President, no remarks which I may offer to the Senate on this occasion can possibly be construed into any disrespect for the Committee on Printing, or the judgment which they have formed upon this subject. I congrat.nlate the country upon the spirit of economy and retrenchment that is manifested by the report in this case; but it reminds me of a farmer who determined to be very economical. His pigeons were sometimes troublesome, and they were in the habit of going into the gable end of his barn, and there destroying some of his grain. He con- cluded that he would stop that waste. He closed the gable end, but forgot to shut the door, and all the smaller animals and barn- yard fowl got in. So this is really beginning to retrench upon
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