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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE, Washington, Kl. Wet, from the Committee on Transportation, reported re-ported adversely on tiie House bill providing for the construction of a Fort on the St. Phillips Canal, and the commiitec'were discharged. Weit reported from the Committee on Transportation an amendment to the River and Harbor Apprvjbriation bill, providing for the appointment by the President of a boara of engineers to survey the mouth of the Mississippi, Missis-sippi, with a view to determining the besi method of improving tiie eh ui-uel. ui-uel. and appropriating x),000 for the expenses of said survey. Morton, in iiresentin-r a veix.rt e.n the case of Senator Mitchell, said it afforded him great pleasure to suite : that the committee w ;is unanimous in I the opinion that the charges contained nothing against Mitchcllre.'juiiingthe I action of the Senate. Sherman, from I the Committee on Finance. rerorted ad Tersely te the House bill amendatory amenda-tory of tiie act of May, "72, to provide for the abatement or repayment of taxes on disuiied spirits in bond accidentally accident-ally destroyed. Wright, from tiie Judiciary Committee, called up the House bill providing lor the coliee tiun of moneys due the I bihd State's from the Paciric Railroad Co.'s. Allison submitted an amendment providing that the L"n:on Pacicc K inroad Co. shall operate its entire line as a continuous con-tinuous line iiyl providing a method by which suits brought agaiDst the I rood may be hc:wd and dttermmed. '-oLik.iiug said the amendment was j not iicrmain to the b;;.;f Whig a I uuesuon as to whether me terminus i ci the road was in Nebraska or Iowa. He- k::rw it -- an inijmrtant ques-li' ques-li' -n, but t:iouj:-t it i t-tier to he oile-red ;ts :m ii.uepeueie-nt measure.' Allison i.iA w:;eu - -lls were iTuiight :igniii.-l the L'liien P.tehic lUiiro;ui in hjwa ai,d Nebr.isa it w.io imp-.'ssibie to liud the preper i::io.rj on whom to ei-ve l'toe..; -. the-y wi.-ie in B- -t- 'ii it rl.-v'wiiere. Tiie- Judiciary ' 'iiruiucc I'liiend-ment I'liiend-ment was agre-rl to, and tho l-hi p;U,-ed. The Ciiair ! id b.-'ure the Senate the Holi-c re-s.4uuoii disogree-ing disogree-ing with the Con ten nee report on tiie Curreney bill, and a-.kii.g for a ik-w Cetnlereiiee Coininitlee. Ivlmund.-moveil Ivlmund.-moveil that the sub;i.-c-t he referreil to tiie Finance Committee, a further conference being u-h-. Sherman ?aid it would be rather unusual to re-. re-. fuse a reouest ltum the huuse for a ! new Coiil'Tcnce Commiitt-e; he would ! vole for a new committee, though he j did not think anything would result if'rom it. Thurmau hunported FJd-i FJd-i munds' motion to refer the que.-iion to the Finance Committee, and ap-1 ap-1 pealed to Western Senators to accept j tiie proposition which hml leen pre-I pre-I senled tor arhitn-tion in tiie West and iSiiith of forty -six millions currency cur-rency as the only thing that could le done on llih .cation. It could not he settled ly Congres. hut must be for tiie people. Scoit tavoreil ihe new conference, and taid 'he had nut yet Ut ah hujie. id-j id-j munds' motion to reter L.j the Finance j Committee was re-jeeted, md Wright's ; motion thai tiie Senate L-isls on its amendments and grant a m-w eonfe r-ence, r-ence, was adopted. Tho House disagreement to the 1 Senate amendments to tiie bill abol-i abol-i iihing the luoiefica was receivtd, and a committee of conference grantid. A number of bills ol" ti private nature na-ture were uassed. Adjourned. lioist. ! The -.-t'jn opened amid great ; noie and cunthdoii. many members! seeking the floor. Flu.dly Jtoberts, from the committee ol Ways and Means was recognized and rcporteil j back the Senate amendments to the ; bill repealing moieties, and the llou.-e proceeded to vote upon them without discussion. The material amendments amend-ments which were concurred in were the following: Appropriating -VlOO,-W) to pay for information, etc.;. declaring de-claring the H'tUcmcnt of duties .-hall be final and conclusive upon pavtic-. after the expiration of two years from the time of entry. The Senate amendment amend-ment fixed thrco years. The amendment amend-ment fixing the salaried of eiistom-otlicers eiistom-otlicers was stricken out. The! amendment nlative to public cartage1 w;is amended by providing for letting it to the lowc-t bidder, alter Ju1)' '7-1, and was then agreed to. All the I other material amendments were rejected, re-jected, and the bill sent to a conference confer-ence committee. Mayuard then made report from tho conference committee on the currency bill. Clymer, a member of the conference, committee, who did notsigu the report, gave as reasons, for his dissent that he regarded the substitute as a transparent fraud, intended in-tended to allow the Republican party to escape condemnation and to bridge over the coming election. His axiomatic ax-iomatic financial principle was that the only standi nl of moucy was gold and silver, and he would not favor indicting in-dicting further disgrace and misery upon the country by voting for the conference report. Maynard regi cited ci-ted the absence of Clymer's name from the report, because it might seem to give a sectional character to the question of currency; but he hoped that the vote of the House would obliterate any such idea. The IJouae thenpnveedeil to vote on the and it was rejected; yeas 10S, nays uc. ; Dawes then moved that the subject be sent to a new conference committee, commit-tee, agreed to. ! The House then went into Commit-1 tee of the Whole on the subject of the civil appropriation bills. The item of' $112,000 for furniture in the new State Department building was rc- i duced to $75,000. The item of Sl'OO,-000 Sl'OO,-000 for furniture in all public buildings build-ings was reduced to 1-0,000. Butler, But-ler, of Mass., offered an amendment to abolish the civil service commission. commis-sion. Haskins moved an amendment by providing that in the appointments I to oliices in the departments preier-' preier-' ancc shall be given to soldiers and sailors and their dependent relatives, j The amendment to the amendment i was adopted, and without further j action the House adjourned. |