Show BY TELEGRAPH cf cr gressl GRESSI onal OMAL SENATE washington T 12 from the committee on public buildings reported adversely on the petition from the friends of female suffrage asking to be allowed the use of the senate chamber to present ments menta before the committee on elections in favor of the amendment granting female suffrage in submitting the report dawes said the committee had expressed no opinion adverse to the adoption of such amendment but the senate had invariably declined to allow the chamber to be used for any an other purpose than the business of the senate sargent from the committee on naval reported favorably the senate bill to regulate the expenditures in the navy PA passed sped also tho senate bill authorizing a general account of advances for laval naval appropriations passed the following bills were introduced and referred davis W va submitted a resolution le citing elting Pec sections lions of the revised statutes in regard to the organization of militia in the states slates making an annual appropriation for arming and equipping such militia etc and calling upon the secretary of war to report to the Senat ethe the condition and strength of the militia in the several states together with any he may have to make looking to a more thorough organization of the militia ordered printed dvis divis gave notice that he would call it up for action at an early day upon motion of allison the seri ate ato insisted upon its amendments to the deficiency appropriation bill ana and a committee of or conference was ordered sargent dorsey and beck beek were appointed members of the committee on the me part of the senate pending fending the discussion allison moved that the senate proceed to a consideration of executive business and the motion was agreed to yeas 44 naya 20 the senate then went into executive ses sea session sion bion and at 8 the tiie doors were reopened and the thu senate 3 adjourned AV washington ASHINGTON 13 the regular order of business the consideration of the colorado contested election case was waa rob roe resumed umed cameron of WIS wisconsin COnSID presented petition of alvid david T corbin of houth routh r carolina asking that his claim to a seat beat from the state may be inquired into and decided upon its merits he moved that the petition lie upon the table for the pr present e and gave notice that be he W would on 1 call it up hereafter and move its reference to the committee on privileges vi and election so ordered dawes dowes introduced a bill to autho riz and equip an expedition to the arctic seas referred voorhees submit submitted ted the follow following lOg reo resolution lution and gave notice that he would call it up on tuese tuesday y jan 15 for the purpose of a submitting some home remarks thereon that it ia 18 of the highest importance that the financial cedil of the government ba be maintained and in order to do so the government sovern ment itself in all its departments part ments should in good faith keep all its contracts fon fou rou tracts and obligations entered into with its own mitizi ns at the expiration of the morning lin 9 hour con cou consideration was resumed of the resolution of matthews matthewa to phy pay bonds in silver washington 13 bayard reviewed the financial acts of the united states and took a strong position against matthews matthewis resolution declaring it historically ancor lect inasmuch as it failed to recite that after the act of congress ot of 1834 18 4 and till february 1873 the grain dollar was of greater in tri trl tible value in the market than the gold dollar of 25 3 10 grains hilver silver bullion had ceased to come to the mints for coinage and the silver dollar already coined could not liot be retained rata ined in circulation and that having become P practically ra ethically eti etl eally callY obsolete it was abolished in february 1873 so that for four years jeara lc it had ceased to exist he intended to wait until the silver bill wai was up before pre enting his views allison submitted th following amendment at n to the F liver ilver filver bill recently reported from the committee on finance and now upon the tho calendar section 2 that immediately after the passage of this act the president shall invite the governments of the countries composing the latin litin union GO so called and of hsuch other european nations as he may deem advisable to join with the united states in a conference to adopt a common ratio legal tender as between gold and silver for the purpose of establishing internationally tio nally the use of bimetallic money and securing a fixity of relative value between those metals such conference to be held at such place in europe or in the united states at such euch time within six months as may be mutually agreed upon by the executives of the governments joining in the same whenever the governments so invited or any three of them shall signify their willingness to unite in the same the president shall by and with the advice and consent of the senate appoint three commissioners who shall attend such conference on behalf of the united states and shall report the doings thereof to the president who shall transmit the same to congress said commissioners shall each receive the sum of 2500 and their reasonable expenses to be approved by the secretary of state and the amount necessary to pay such compensation and expenses is hereby appropriated put of any money in in the treasury not otherwise appropriated ordered print LA eed fed hill opposed the resolution lle fie he said the question was one of law the tha refunding act of 1870 declared the bonds redeemable in the coin of the then present standard value that is when the bonds became due they would be payable in whatever might then be the coin of the united states but the coin must ba be of the standard value of 1870 rhe the whole depended upon the coinage law which might prevail in the thu united states at the maturity of the bonds matthews said supposing that on the day of the passage of the act of 1870 the gold dollar contained 25 8 10 grains how many grains of gold must a dollar contain to pay the bond boud when it matured should gold then be the coin of the country hill replied twenty nive five and eight tenths grains of course that is a simple question matthews then if allver silver sliver should be the coin how many grains must rne lue bo in the dollar hill four hundred rand gand twelve rand and a half matthews then theli aljy w ay iy not make silver a coin coln hill said baid he was not willing willingto to say bay what should ba done thirty years hence this congress con Uon gress gresa bad no right to settle such a question in advance allison regretted exceedingly that matthews had thought proper 10 antagonize his resolution to what he conceived to be the main question before the senate namely what should be done with the allver silver sliver unless silver should take its pince as money rending pending the discussion anthony from the printing committee reported favorably the senate bi blit bill it regulating gu lating the purchase of matet material iAl for the printing office passed hereford took the floor on the matthews resolution but the tho senate went into executive session at four and at gao adjourned washington 14 the vice president laid before the tho Senate bonate a communication from troal the secretary of the interior calling attention to the law in regard to compensation for government advertising advert izing and the complaints daily received as to the inadequacy of such compensation he suggests that the law be BO so amended aa as to allow the department to pay the same rate for advertising ver as the papers receive from private individuals referred to the committee on civil service and retrenchment edmunds introduced a bill to extend the operations of the act of february 1875 to provide for a settlement with certain hallwa railway y companies for one year referred washington 14 t argent presented a petition of sarah J knox of san jose cala asking for the right of suffrage and said ha he had bad known this lady for thirty years during the past rast ten years she had been a widow and managed her own affairs and paid over taxes and yet she could have no voice as S to how the money paid by her could be expended rile the vile petition was referred to the committee on privileges nud aud elections A atthe tahe expiration of the hour hereford made some remarks 0 on n mattheas matthews resolution after which the senate went into executive session with the understanding that the doors should be reopened soon and legislative business continued at 4 05 the doors were opened reopened re and sargent from ithe conference on the deficiency appropriation bill made a report the committees total appropriation as agreed upon was sargent said to a question of davis that the franking privilege was retained and also extended to the vise vice president the report was agreed to and the bill passed merrimon on an account of the late at e hour declined to speak on matthews resolution and it was unanimously ordered that the vice president declare the senate adjourned tomorrow to morrow immediately after reading the journal sargent said the paris exhibition bill the deficiency bill and probably two others would be ready for signature on motion of the vlee vice president he was allowed to sign such bills to morrow the senate then proceeded to consider the post route toute bill and ferry said all the amendments had been carefully considered by the committee and as the bill was a long one there was no necessity for reading it edmunds objected and said that no bill should pass pasi while he had a seat in the chamber without being read the bill was wag then read the amendments agreed to and it was passed I 1 on motion of mcmillan it was ordered that the testimony taken in the investigation of the charges against senator grover of oregon be printed sargent said the rouse house had passed a bill relative to the burial of the officers and wid others of the united states navy who perished by the wreck of the united states steamer huon the bill had been received by the senate and referred to the committee on naval ann aff affairs airs but the not yet jet been able to consider it all the members were in favor of the bill and be e therefore moved that the com cittee be discharged from its further i ther consideration tion by the senate so 60 ordered the bill was then read the third time and passed adjourned wasi washington INGTON 15 during the reading of the journal a message was received from the house hoube announcing noun cing that the speaker had signed agneda a number of bills bill samong among thene then the deficiency appropriation billj bill all of which were immediately signed by the vice vlee president cockell baid eaid it had bad to resolutions pf af re to the memery of his libi late colleague bogy before the jib lib Jab holiday liday recess but after consideration with sena pena senators tors torb it had bad been thought best to defer the matter until after the holida holidays yR he would do so on january the butler submitted a resolution for the in investigation vesti gation of or the discharge of the tiie committee on elections from consideration of his credentials at the extra cession but cameron of wisconsin objected on the ground that the resolution was a violation of the agreement not to transact new business and after an ed discussion tiie the resolution ou went over the motion to go into executive session was declared also to be the agreement but subsequently mr thurman paid there was a matter which he had been informed would be brought to the attention of the senate and he moved the doors be closed under rule sixty four agreed to unanimously rule 64 1 provides that on a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the senate on a discussion of any business which may in the opinion of the senators require secrecy the presiding officer shall direct the galleries to be cleared and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed this motion was submitted for the purpose of considering the difficulty between conkling and gordon in the executive yesterday and after the doors were reopened it was made public that during the secret session hession hamlin offered the following which was unanimously agreed to cherew A misunderstanding having arisen between hon Hou Honl honi Roscoe toscoe Conklin gand hon john 0 gordon in the cours course e of the executive proceeding 4 of the senate yes 5 es taddy and mutual understandings understanding thereon having been arrived at as tet t set et out in the follow following lag papers paper it is ordered that said paper be enter enier entered edat at large larce on the 1 eme ete laUon danal danai of tho the senate during an executive session ot of the senate seit feit it beld held yesterday yet erday words were uttered both by senator gordon ol 01 georgia gg and by senator conkling of new york wh ch were mutually felt to be unkind ani and offensive reports of an incident appearing 1 in the paper papers bof nt tois morning which are inaccurate ina lna c cur und unjust to both sneakers speakers upon uvon careful inquiry as to what was sald said b by y each speaker and what was understood to be said by the other it Is certain that the first offensive word words were inspired by an honest misunderstanding of what had been innocently said raid by the other speaker one harsh remark provoked another as too often happens but it ali all I 1 that was offensive was the of since was the fact wenho we who are mutual friends ef both senators natora ee are of the opinion that it Is due alike to the senate and speakers that whatever was felt elt to be unkind or offe offensive asive in the remarks remark 0 of f either should d be treated as if never uttered and we are now authorized to rate date ara mutually anu anti withdrawn withdraw a signed IT ba M W 11 ANSOM TIMOTHY timotny 0 howe HOWEs J 4 MoDo mcdo SALD maud the senate then adjourned until january loth 1878 HOUSE washington 12 the presentation of arguments in support ol 01 the majority and minority reports of the elections committee occupied the entire day speeches on the subject were read and interrupted to permit the following wilson from the committee on foreign affair reported ft a bill to provide for the distribution of the mexican award ordered printed and re committed this bill is reported as a substitute for that referred to the commit tte in relation to suspending the payment ol 01 claims on the benj well weil and la albra silver mining company directs the state D department part ment tc to receive the moneys paid by coon co on account of awards to amerl amert can citizens and distribute the same pro rata it also directs the payment to mexico of in mexican gold in american gold and in united states currency in the discharge of th awards made in favor of mexican citizens A conference committee was ordered on the deficiency bill and Biu sin singleton gleton atkins and hale were appointed money introduced a bill authorizing izing the southern pacific rall tail railroad company to extend its railroad alad anil telegraph line east from its present terminus in arizona to a point or on the rio grande at or near el paso and to aid in building the same sama referred huuton from the select commit lee tee on ascertaining the result 0 presidential elections reported ted t resolution directing the to take luto into consideration also lh of the presidential term adopted 1 tile tho discussion of the colorado contested election case was resumed and aud continued up to the adjournment harris chairman of elections committee announcing that he expected to have a vote tomorrow evening adjourned washington 13 the order of business consideration 0 the colerado colorado contested case was resumed butler favored sending the cas cape back to colorado warning the dem riot |