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Show CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, 13. Chandler w.is excused from further service on tho 1 Committee on mines and mining and Jones was appointed to his place. Anthony reported a bill lo regulate public printing, authorizing the Cm- I gressional printer to have work done ' by private contract when the best interest of government would be preserve pre-serve thereby, and limiting tho prices to such as obtained in Baltimore Balti-more Philadelphia- or New York; 1 placed on the calendar. j I lie bill authorizing tho i.-vsuo of arms to tho authorities uf Nebraska v;uj discuwd without action, until the expiration uf the morning lio'ir. Carpenter was entitled to the Ifjor 1 on bis Louisiana election bill, i-ul : gave way for the Territorial rail mad . bill. The vote agreeing to W.ul-lcigh'a W.ul-lcigh'a amendment on Friday v. .is reconsidered, and the amendment ' modified so as lo give lo Con- , grcsa only the power lo alter ' or repeal the net, and it was l hen agreed to. llaer moved an amendment giving the legislature of any State formed out uf a Territory in which a railroad authorized under tho act may bo located the same power over the corporation as over one of its own erection; agreed to. Amendments Amend-ments were a L-o agreed to providing that the United blutes shall not be charged more than private parties fur transportation and making every stockholder in such a railroad liable for all debta of tlic corporation to an amount equal to his slock at tho time the debts were created, at par value; tho bill pased. The Senate concurred in the IIouso amendment to tho bill authorizing aliens to act as engineers and pilots. Adjourned. not'SE. I Under the call of States, the usual number of bills were introduced and referred. On motion of Packer, Cnainnnu of the Post Office Committee, the House suspended the rules and took up and passed the bill for freo exchango of newspapers between publishers, and the free transmission of newspapers by mail within the county of their publication. Stone movjc! to suspend tho rules and adopt the resolution 1 ceiling gross abusea and irregularities in letting mail contracts, and providing for tho investigation of such abuses. Tho motion mo-tion was not seconded by a majority. Beck called attention to tho fact that every Democrat voted for and every Kepublican against the resolution. Slowed, member l the I'ust Office Committee, said Slono had an opportunity oppor-tunity of making his proofs before 1 he commutce, which would give him a hearing to-morrow. J 'acker, chairman of tho committee, made a liko statement, state-ment, and said thai without a preamble pream-ble tho resolution was unobjectionable, Pago charged that a statement had been telegraphed to the pre."H of California, Cali-fornia, at the instigation of Luttrell, to the ell'eet that he, Luttrell, was trying try-ing toget up the investigation, but could nut, a statement which I 'ago ( declared wan false; that Luttrell camo before tho committee and was requested to put h s charges in writing writ-ing and sign them; that lie afterwards eamo when there, was no quirum. These dispatches were hchI to Luttrell, Lut-trell, and while he denied the authorship author-ship of the dispatches he declared they were ti ue, and continued "My 1 colleague is very uniMtive. I elated to him and to the committee that serious charges had been preferred in regard to certain post office tranmic-lions; tranmic-lions; that I was not dif-poi. d to implicate im-plicate the Post .Master General, but that then; had been a post office ring formed whieh was defrauding Government, Gov-ernment, an I hid defrauded lo tho amount of Sll.ll),()()U. I alterwanls wcntbijfoio Hie cuminiltei! as agreed to, but my col lea gun did not appear, and there was un quorum. I mado these charges on tho authority of thy very best in 11 iv.Stale, Republicans, who would bu ashamed of tho action of their represeiilativcK heiolo-day. I do not come hero with Iceland Stanford's 1 collar around nip miek, labelled ns a tool of monopoly. come as the representative of tho working man.'1 A scone ofconfusion ensued, Pago and Luttroll both gesticulating und both speaking. Members gathered in tho aisles in front of tho Speaker's desk ahd it was with tho greatest difficulty that order was finally restored, re-stored, Tyner, member of U10 postal committee com-mittee said all of Stone's charges were beforo the Comiiiiltno last Con- Kress and fully investigated; that though tho ovidenco showed the de- : partment had been victimized by atraw bids, no official had been implicated. im-plicated. I Handall, another member of the Committee, didn't quite agree with , Tyner. Page returned to the charge and read dispatch ' Sacramento Union which mado statements not true. His colleague had been required re-quired by tho Committee to submit Ins charges iu writing, and lo sign them; and he had refused to sign 1 thorn. Luttroll. " Aro you nut a contractor con-tractor yourself, sir'' Page. " Yes, sir, I am, and have a right to be." (Sneers and laughter). , " Whenever my colleague wants lo discuss my rights to be a contractor I will do so with him before tho House." t luttrell. ".Not ut all nor do 1 want to dncuss the course which my colleague col-league pursued cither. It is perfectly perfect-ly natural." After further excited colloquial discussion dis-cussion it was understood the resolution resolu-tion was referred to the Postal Committee, Com-mittee, and the House adjourned. |