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Show COIVG R ESS lOIVA L. SKA' ATS. Chandler offered a resolution to appoint ap-point a select committeo of five, to inquire in-quire whether any steamer lino should be subsidized by government, and if so which, and to what extent : objected to and went over. Tho post otlico appropriation bill was up, and the amendment to increase the subsidy of tho Pacific mail to ono million mil-lion dollars, whs amended to give government gov-ernment tho right to take the vessels in case of war, at a price not greater than the first 'cost; and was concurred in. The amendment striking out the section to piohinit ex-oihcial3 of government from acting as claim agents was concurred con-curred in; and so was the ono increasing tho subsidy for tho Brazil mail service to S400.IJ00. Ciisscrly offered an amendment amend-ment to increase the'subsidy to tho San Francisco and Australian line to $-100.-000, for a semi-monthly service: tabled, lie also oil ored ono requiring the Pa- uiihj man inio ita a uuuuiuon oi me increase in-crease of subsidy to continue its line between be-tween San .Franci-co and New York, by way of Panama : agreed to. Adjourned. IIOCSB. The bill extending tho privileges of goods in bond from ports of importation to tho port of a an Diego, California, passed. Tho senate Amendments to tho deficiency defici-ency bill, and the senate amendments to tho Indian appropriation bill, wero disputed of, and the house went info comitiitteee'gn tho tariff and Us bill. In the evening session u bill was introduced intro-duced which provides that ull oilicors on duty in any point west of a line north and south through Urn una, and north of a lino drawn eu;t and west on the southern boundary of Arizona, shall be allowed sixty days leave of absence, without deduction of pay or allowance, onco in two years, or tliroe months once in threo years, or four months once in four years; and a bill placing enlisted men of the engineers on the same fooling in respect to compensation for tixtra daily service, as other enlisted men. llio senato anienUineiils to tlio bill declaring tho lands constituting the Port Collins military reservation, Colorado, Col-orado, subject to pre-emption and homestead home-stead entry, passed. atouglitou reported a bill to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, sail-ors, and their widows and orphans, to acquire homesteads on public lands, and allow an assignment of their rights Tho biil Was dobnted at length, its opponents op-ponents declaring it was in tho interest of ipoculators, llouso adjourned, |