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Show NIGHT REPORT. SEX AT U. Edmunds, from the committee on Appropriations, Ap-propriations, reported with amendments amend-ments tho annual pension bill, which passed. Chandler, offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the committee on retrenchment to inquire whetlieT any U. K. senator had recti ved money, under un-der cover of counsel fees or otherwise, from tho treasury of the United States, in violation of law, and to report tht rcsuh of the inquiry as early as practicable. practic-able. At tho expiration of tho morning hour the amnesty hill was taken up, the pending question being on Carpenter's substitute for Sumner's supplementary civil rights bill. Ferry, of Connecticut, Connecti-cut, nrguod against the proposed a men dm en is, considering them the deadlie.-t enemies to the amnesty bill, lie further declared that tumner's biil was not tho proper one to secure civil rights, and thnt it struck down the very bulwark of civil rights throughout the country, and took away the foundation principlo upon which tho federal system sys-tem rested, by striking nt tho principle of loyal self-government the mu:t fatal blow it had ever received. Carpenter's substitute was rejected: yeas 17, nays 05. inermnn movel to strike out section seven of Sumner's bill, which repeals all laws, state or national, that discriminate against race or color by the ire of the word white. Sumner finally, nt the request re-quest of friends of the bill consented, but Harlan objected without a vole, and the amendment was discussed without reaching t"a vote until tho senate went into executive session and adjourned. |