Show BY telegraph 60 congressional N C R E S S I 1 ON A L washington il 11 the bill pro viding for tor the commission on the alcoholic liquor trammie traffic with an a n amendment that one member be engaged in the trammie traffic le passed yeas 29 nays 19 conkling reported a bill in aid of the polar expedition designed by james gordon bennett and gave notice that he would seek an early opportunity to have it considered by dorsey to disapprove and annul the act odthe of the legislative assembly bl ly of the territory ofner of new mexico passed january 1878 by a two thirds vote of both houses over the veto of the governor he also presented a certified popy copy edi odi D the act proposed to be annulled entitled an act of the legislative assembly of the territory of new mexico entitled an act to incorporate the society of the jesuit fathers of new Al mexico exico conkling from the committee on judiciary reported favorably the house bill to make persons charged with crimes and of lenses competent witnesses in united states and territorial courts placed on the calendar the senate then resumed consideration of unfinished business being the bill bili referring the claim of benji nenje holliday to the court of claims was discussed at length and thurman submitted a motion to recommit it to the committee on claigg claims pending discussion the senate adjourned WASHING TON 12 thurman from the committee on judiciary reported with amendment amendments the senate bill prohibiting members 0 of f Con Congre congress giesa gresa aa from beco becoming sureties on certain bonds placed on the calendar thurman gave notice that he would call it up for consideration at an early day the lye vice president submitted a communication from the secretary of the interior in answer to the timber trouble troubles 3 in montana matthews moved that it be referred to the committee on public lands without being read and be printed in the record secord sargent objected to its being printed in the record but had no objection to printing in the usual document form he referred to the course of the secretary of the interior in regard to timber matters and said it would stop all industries dus tries in many western states and territories he chehad had no objection to giving to the public in usual document form anything the secretary might desire to say eay in defense of his course but did not recognize the right of a cabinet minister to come upon the floor of the senate and make a speech or have printed anted in the record a defense of his course mat matthews said be he desired to re reply to sargent and called for the reading of the communication as part of his speech that it might appear in the JS ecord after debate upon points of order sargent objected to the present con of the motion to refe refer r the document and it was laid aver till tomorrow to morrow A resolution the 1 committee on judiciary to inquire into th the e expediency of providing that all claims against the United States exceeding 1000 in amount be arb prosecuted in the circuit courts for the districts in which the claims originated was wag agreed to the tae bill in aid of the polar expedition designed by james gordon bennett passed anani in bously without debate the howse hoase bill for the relief of wm A Ham hammond mond mong late surgeon general fas yas taken up and plumb spoke in opposition the bill then passed without amendment washington 12 the bill reported arted by the committee commit uee bee on j judiciary udica a ry in r regard gard to the pacific railroad d sinking fund was taken up and Thur thurman maix spoke at length in favor thereof davig davis ills argued that congress had the right to pass such bill and referred to the act by which congress reserved the right to amend alter or repeal the act chartering I 1 the road he quoted extensively from legal authorities to shaw the legality of therill the bill pending discussion the senate took up the west point tion but soon went into executive session and adjourned washington IS 13 nier Aler merrimon rimon nimon introduced trod a bill to provide for find regulate the counting of the for president and vice vlee president and the decision of questions arising thereon referred to a special committee merrimon expressed the hope that a report from that committee would soon be made kellogg introduced a bill to aid shenew the new orleans and pacific bail rail road company referred also to est establish ablis n a mint at new orleans and authorizing th e coinage of gold golo and silver the eat and making an appropriation referred windom from the committee on appropriations re reported d without amendment the house bill making appropriations for fortifications and other works of defence and armament thereof during the fib fis fiscal year ending june placed on the calendar matthews Matthew called up abb th e motion submitted by him yesterday yesterdays tore to refer the communication of the secretary of the Enter interior lor in regard to timber depredation sto the committee on ou public lands and have it printed in the record as A a matte matter r of jjustice as the department from which it emanated had been attacked yesterday in the senate blaine thought the secretary of the interior should be heard but the senator must be aware of the he was asking w n extraordinary privilege 46 ito have this document so printed lie be reserved to himself the right to reply to its it because the dockum document e nt was in reply to what he said in the senate upon a recent occasion sargent opposed the printing of the document in the record as setting a bad precedent and not because the contents of it was so very creditable to its author that be he feared them H he argued that the document was made up from the statement sta of spies who followed the men into their thein places of business and reported their conversation he referred to the action of congress in abolishing spies in the custom service and bald said congress then put the stamp of condemnation upon using fouches bouches Fou ches method of spies after some further debate matthews read the reply of the secretary of the interior as part of his we remarks the communication having been read blaine spoke at length on the action of the secretary of etheln the interior he said the secretary did not happen to be a native of this country he fie bould mould rot help that and he blaine blaine BI aine alne did noti hention it as a reproach to him he was born in the kingdom of prussia which was square miles less in extent than montana and the secretary perhaps with the instinct of his boyhood applied the land laws of prussia to montana and not the land laws which hal have been used in settling the united states blaine argued that the secretary of the interior forgot the magni magnitude tuder of our country althoff although h he hajwas was charged with administration on of that department which should study it carefully and that the one dollar per acre stump ageg exacted U by him from of montana was excessive the woodland within sight of the spiro of trinity church c h new newyork york eity city ity would not bring the page pago which the secretary of the interior demanded of the people of montana it was a thing conceded by the government that the hardy pioneer r who went forward to hettle settle the country should have the water air and wood free Ro referring ferrIng tb the abolition of the informers systemic bys the custom service bervice abolished a la few years ago ike ibe bespoke spoke of the course of the tho secretary of the interior when a member of the senate and said he waxed wroth because a rich importer was wag interfered with by detectives tee tec t e c tives but now the lonely settler in montana could be visited bv by i spies and pimps pending discus discussion slon sion the subject was laid aside and the west wea point appropriation bill taken up washington 13 various amendments reported by the committee on appropriations were then greed agreed to as follows appropriating pria ting for longevity pay of professors increasing the appropriation pria tion for the pay of cadets cabets from to appropriating for a hospital building in creasing the appropriation for coin corn plating the sewerage from to and appropriating for procuring an adequate water supply purchase of lake etc the committee reported in favor of striking out the third section of the house bill which provides that only such number of graduates of the academy in any one hearshall ye year arshall shall shail be entitled to appointment as sec beo ond lieutenants in the are required to fill the vacancies in that grade existing on the of july in each year those entitled to appointment tohaid to said sald vacancies to be determined by the academic board on the basis of their standing in the graduating class and hereafter no supernumerary officer shall be attached to any company or corps of ofa the army and all graduates of the j academy who are not appointed to the be army lunder lunden under the provisions of this act shall bhail be discharged upon the graduation of their class sargent submitted the following as a substitute for that section the cadet at large at the military academy shall not hereafter exceed ten in all and no new appoint xian tiwa tk aw oft vos VMS til the number of such euch cadets cabets heretofore appointed falls below ten sargent said that by habit babit the appointment of ten cadets cabets at large had been made every year years instead of every four years and there therefore fore there were forty cadets cabets at in each class blaine submitted the following as an amendment to that of sar bar gent that we the ten cadets cabets appointed at large shall in all cases cabes be taken from among the descendants of those who have served in the army or navy of the united states sargent said be he did not think it be proper to amend the bill now so as to cut off from the appointment of cabets cadets at large those of at least half tates of this union referring to the southern states of course be knew senator blaina did not mean to do that but hut the amendment would have that effect blaine elaine said he had no such buch intention and he did not think the amendment would have such effect he blaine did not bring the question here about discriminating against half the people of this count country rv it was brought in bythe by the senator from california sargent if he insisted on that issue then he blaine would say all right let nim him take it those who fought for the union deserved the appointments after sime further discussion aslon windom made the point of order that the amendment proposed new legislation but it was decided that the point was made too late windom then moved to lay jay the amendments amend agents of blaine and matthews on the table agreed to hoar moved an amendment to that of sargent as follow follows nut but this division shall not be held to require the discharge of any cadet heretofore appointed the amendment of hoar was accepted by sargent and the amendment as amended by hoar was agreed to I 1 the bill was then reported to the senate the amendments made in C ommittee committee of the whole agreed to and it was waa read the third time and passed paddock called up the senate bill supplementary to the act in relation to the hot springs reservation state of arkansas it continues the commission ap appointed p 0 lu tete tede by that act to hear the ba cases se s 0 of f the claimants an etc until the of october 1878 and pro provided videl that they shall each receive dompe compe compensation lisa zisa tion atthe at the rate of per annum dorsey moved to amend the hill bill so as to continue the commission coth mission until february instead of october 1878 agreed to he ab also submitted an additional section authorizing the superintendent of the reservation tp lease the sites sties with privileges for furnishing baths etc to the hot springs mountain Water Company giving ao to said paid company the right to construct a rese rege reservoir on the hot springs mountain to supply the reserva tion tien with water etc agreed to the bill was then read the third time and passed conkling called UE up the house bill will to make persons charged cliar geil gell with crimes and of fences competent witnesses in united states and territorial courts passed thurman called up the pacific railroad sinking fund bin bill that it might be unfinished business to morrow and the senate at pm adjourned washington 14 A number of pension bills were passed during the merging them one granting 50 a month to the widow of bear rear admiral charles wilker voorhees introduced a bill pro proe viding for the payment of all customs duties and all other debts due the united state states in legal tender notes at par except in cases where it la Is otherwise expressly stipulated on the face of the obligation or contract referred consideration was resumed of the unfinished business being the bill in regard to the pacific rail bail road sinking fund and matthews spoke in favor of the bill reported by the committee on railroads washington nan xaN II 11 under the call of states a number of bills were rec tec received elved anu ana referred by ewing a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution ution providing that in order that the people of the united states may be furnished with a perma wa kp congress shall provide for issuing blank million of dollars of united states notes not bearing inte interest rest which shall ahall be legal borall for tor fill debts public and private except for such existing debts as are by contract payable only in coin and that the number pf af such note notes shall be bd increased each year at a rate equal iqual to the average increase bf population and that the tha first issue 61 nidd said sidd note noti notes es shall be used as batas dar far as lleces necessary in retiring united states s notes hotes not bearing Jn interest terest now outstanding and the remainder re ia in reducing the interest bearing debt it further provides that no law of the united states or of any state ahall shail authorize the issue of notes payable on demand for the benefi benefit of any person or corporation and congress shall provide for withdrawing from circulation all bank notes n now outstanding by riddle biddle to reduce tho the present ta tax x on whiskey and tobacco B by y to issue certificates on d deposits of silver bullion or ba bars rs by crittenden to issue certificates on deposits of silver bullion by martin by Te request quest to abolish t the he court of C claims laim 8 by patterson fixing the meas measure urel of damages in suits waged by governments ern ments for timber cut on public lands by fort for the preparation of uniform silver gilver bars of the value of land and 1000 standard ellve rand for the issue of certificates thereon which shall be receivable for all public dues ByH By Harmer petition of citizens and type founder of the united states requesting that in order to prevent fraud in the introduction of foreign type into the united states the duty may remain a specific one as in the bill now before congress and not bb bt changed to an ad valor va lorent eni duty at the expiration of the morning hour the house went inta committee of the whole on the diplo matiu iq appropriation abill alid and R newitt hewitt witt addressed the house at the close of hewlis he heis vs speech th tho the 0 committee arose and bayler sayler from the committee on ways and means reported as the flie unanimous action of that committee the joint resolution prescribing pie scribing the time for the payment of taxes on di distilled stille d sp spirits iritz and had it referred to tp the committee of the whole on the state of the union he then moved 10 g go 0 1 into n t 0 e committee 0 m m i t e f fon for 0 r t the h e p purpose u r to 0 s e 0 of f c considering 0 n 1 d e r 1 n te 1 it t this motion was rejected and |