Show CONGRESS EXTRA SESSION dy W U telegraph to th SENATE maralt 20 A large number of bills wore introduced one by beck repealing BO much of the revised statutes as prohibits the appointment to the army of any person engaged in the late rebellion edmunds offered an additional resolution calling on tho secretary to report fully all information in his possession touching tho occasion and the necessity of such expenditures and provisions of law under which they acro made rejected edmunds then offered his amendment in tt modified form providing that after tho resolution as offered by wallace should bo answered the secretary of the treasury would re port tho information desired rejected wallaces resolution as amended by conkling agreed to hoar offered a resolution condemning as unconstitutional and insurrectionary the attempt of ono to make the passage of appropriation bills conditional on consent of the other house and of tho president to provisions they do not approve wallace objecting tho revolution went over wallace called up alio resolution calling upon the secretary of the treasury for a detailed statement of tho amounts paid in new york beun sylvan la ohio and maryland to data and a description of the performed by deputy marshals at elections in october and november conkling offered an amendment to include other states after debate rejected conkling offered another amendment which was agreed to covering all states but information as to new york pennsylvania and ohio is not to bo deferred before additional information An executive session waa then held and when the doors were opened adjourned until monday HOUSE ellis offered a resolution increasing aba membership of the corn on elections from eleven to nineteen and stated ho did so in the interest of economy and correctness of representation gincel it frequently happened that owing to tha drw of business that tho committed was not ablerto report on election citera until tho last days to committee barule fc |