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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SJvN.VTE, Washington, n. Kdmunils, iroiu the Judiciary Committee, reported adversely on Lthe bill supplementary to the act to develop the mining resources re-sources of the I'uited States, and recommended re-commended that it be . indefinitely postpoued. He said this was a Sulro Tunnel bill, 'and at the m-uest ol both parlies interesti-d he wouLl nsk j that it be placed on the calendar. So ! ordered. The joint resolution for the termination termi-nation of the commercial treaty of July '5S, between tlie United plates and Belgium -passed. ' 1 Allison, from the District ol" Colum-1 1 bia investigating communee, reponeo a bill for the government of the District, Dis-trict, and gave notice that he would ask the Senate to consider it at an early day. The bill authorizes the President with the advice and consent con-sent of the Senate, to appoint a committee com-mittee of three persons who shall exercise exer-cise all the powers now vested in the Governor or Board of Public Works. Logan, by request, introduced a bill to incorporate the Commercial .Railway with four or more tracks between be-tween -Vow Y'-;k i t 'hieago and St, Louis, with a capital of sirO.WO.OoU; taritls to be fixed by a commission, but not to ex-Cecil ten cents per bushel for grain; thirty-six cents a barrel for Hour from Chicago to Zs'cw York. Conover submitted an amendment to tho House Supplemental Tarill' bill proposition to impose a salary tax of one-twentieth of one per cent, on all Bales of bullion, coin, stocks, and one-tenth per cent, on all option sales of cotton; referred. The Conference report ou the Army Appropriation bill w;is received and agreed to. Tho bill for the admission of New Mexico as a State was reported and placed on the calendar. The Senate resumed its discussion of the moieties bill, and several sections sec-tions were striken out. Several auieudnientojvero agreed to and tlie Senate adjourned. HOleE. Douuau, from the committee on j printing, submitted a report with tho ,, testimony in regard to the cost of printing debates; ordered printed with the views of the minority. The majority ma-jority report endorses and favors the continuance of the present plan of printing the debates as more eeouom-lcal eeouom-lcal and satisfactory every way than the contract system. The House then proceeded to vote 1 on the Louisiana contested election I c.ise of Pinchback versus Sheridan, 'and after the rejection of all r.tbor 1 propositions the majority report was j adopted without division. The majority ma-jority resolution declares the testi-; testi-; mony is iusu llicienl to show election j of cither claimant. Sener reported a bill to abolish ihe I Western district of Arkansas, ami to ! annex its territory to the Eastern dis- trii l; passed. j Speer, a member of the committee juu contingent expenses in the deijart-ineut deijart-ineut of justice, addressed the House 'on the subject of the cnonnnn ,,r. I penditures in the western district of Arkansas, lie showed up the record of the judge of tiie district, and of Marshal Britton and his successor, Logan H. Roots, and showed them to have robbed loth the government of the United States and the people of ' Arkansas. He showed the enormous ! expenses of the district which in 1.-72, when tne population was less "',ixi, were over s-l'1.im, more tliaii those of all the New England Sbtes for the same year. At tlie cI.rjc of Sperr's speech, Seller's resolutii.n directing di-recting tlie Attorney-General to iu-.-liuite a full and thorough imcsti -a-lion into the character of all tiie allowances paid at tiie Treasure Department De-partment anil the claims stdl due for expenditure in the Marshal's office lor the Western Arkansas dL-trict since lt-70, and to report the result b I the House on the lt of May n. xt. i was adopted. The House then took up thcGui sva award bill and I'oUnd ordered a substitute sub-stitute therefor. Butler, Mass., spoke in advocacy 01 his bul, and in upoi-1 upoi-1 don' to any proposition to reimburse the losses of Lnaurance Companies. Treniaine spoke in opposition lc Butler's But-ler's bui, and aaeertai that it never could have been at if the JI;it'i.u Insurance Company had not been provided for in it; yet the first acr of ihe cnah-m.m who" had cii.irgn 0f "the Jbill was to admit an amendment striking ti:at provision out. Fry as-(at-ned L.atii.e commiuee were dehb-ieraU'ly dehb-ieraU'ly cheaied into ailmitung ttiat ! amendment, an assertion which Tre jmame md.gnanily denicil, I After runner debate the House ite.'k recests nil evening, the session to I be for general debate. I At tiie evening session, W'ilsou, of Indiana, reporic-d a bill to reorganize tne Dietnct government; orvlertd priu tc-d and recommuud. |
