Show CONGRESS SESSION SENATE by W t alt washington may the bouse bill providing for the payment of money heretofore hereto foro appropriated to J anies B each and his associates for tho construction of betties jetties and other works at south pass mississippi waa passed with amendments consideration of the bill prohibit ing military interference at elections was then resumed edmunds called attention to certain clauses of the constitution and to various laws and to writings of hamilton and madison as alio foundation of ho remarks on the bill and said ho biad read fram the constitution ution and from a adries aeries of laws those parts which bore on the power of the executive department to show from alie beginning of the govera been conceded and main that wherever is law there buu be power to carry it into effect and there still existed express authority for the president to exert the military powers of the government whoever the execution of the law on all occasions and everywhere is by combinations too powerful for the civil authorities to sup pres HOUSE reported from to remove the disabilities of J C of philadelphia Phila delphTa aavo rise to api amu aing colloquy between and cox which inott cut short by moving the previous question and the bill pawed boyd from he committee on account reported a bill directing the of committee clerks and pages to be computed from the first day of alie session some objected to because tin s would double their salaries sparks denounced it as an outrage on the treasury the bill went over alie house went into committee of the whole en the private calendar and refused to adjourn to monday tho resumed consideration of warners silver bill and weaver advocated a double standard there was barely enough gold in the world to pay tho interest on th e public debt mitchell enquired if weaver had not voted in 1868 for grant weaver replied that lie had Mit cLell then enquired if tho act biad not been based upon the platform upon been elected weaver replied eliat lie did not so understand it he acknowledged that he biad boon then in the same situation as a great many of hi friends wore now and knew nothing about chii financial question but ho had now light now |