Show LATEST TELEGRAMS FORTYSIXTH CONGRESS LAST SESSION SENATE Washington 6Eaton from the appropriation committee reported the consular appropriation bill Calendar Cal-endar The first bill on the calendar was that of punishing tramps in the District of Columbia The morning hour expired and the army appropriation bill was read twice and referred to the committee on appropriations Garland favored the bill for the re lief of Ben Halliday Morrill McPherson and Wallace ODiioaed the bill Teller supported it He thought every claim that originated in the weat was regarded with suspicion in the Senate There bad alwnja bern a disposition not to do justice to the west This was a sectionalism that had mostly escaped comment Pending debate the Senats went into executive session and soon ad iouined DOUSE Washington GThe House went I into committee of the whole on the funding bill general discussion being limited to one day Kelly opposed the bill There never had been a more misleading statement of the question than that the issue was whether Congress had the sagacity and honesty to borrow at 3 per cent the money it had been paying 5 and 6 for Hatch offered an amendment allow ing state banks to circulate notes on depositing 6 per cent bonds with the United States treasurer Ordered printed Chittenden said be would offer an amendment repealing all legislation taxing the capita and deposits 01 banks and providing that the tax on notes of national banks issued on bonds shall not exceed i per cent and that the total amount of silver dollars authorized by the act of February Feb-ruary 1875 dial not exceed 110 000000 Tucker stated that tomorrow being be-ing private bill day he would on Saturday move to go into committee to consider the landing bill by sections sec-tions ine Speaker again laid before the Honse the reply of the postmaster general to the ilou = e resolution in reference to the abuse of the ranking privileges Brown demanded its reading I pending which a motion to Adjourn I was made Brown asked that the document be printed in the Record o Springer objected Adjourned |