Show LATEST TELEGRAMS s FORTV SEVENTH CONGRESS REGULAR SESSION SENATE Washington 17The Chair submitted sub-mitted a joint resolution of the i Iowa legislature asking Congress to donate public lands to the states and territories which may provide colleges for agriculture and the mechanical me-chanical arts also that the state may loan the fund derived from the sales of real estate security The resolution of Brown against the contraction of the currency by I the withdrawal of silver certificates was referred to the finance committee commit-tee The post office appropriation bill was taken up and the Senate 41 to 15 passed an amendment restoring the franking privilege Several amendments made on committee of the whole were concurred in by the Senate Ferry opposed the franking proposition pro-position 7 he first part of the amendment allowing the secretary of the Senate and clerk of the House to use official envelopes passed Call said members were entitled to be relieved of the expense of postage upon necessary correspondence correspon-dence His correspondence was from S3 to 84 a week The proposition was then adopted 41 to 15 It allows congressmen to send through the mails free any letter or package containing only written or printed matter not exceeding ex-ceeding two ounces in weight Yeas Aldrich Allison Anthony Beck Blair Brown Call Camden Cameron Pa Davis W Va Dawes Fair Frye German Groome Hale Hampton Harris Harris Hoar Jackson Jones Kellogg Lapham Logan McGill I Mahone Miller N Tf Mitchell Morgan Morrell Platt Pugh Sawyer I Saw-yer Sewell Vance Van WyckYoor hees Waller Williams Wiudom 41 Nays Cocknll Coke Conger Davis Ill Farley Ferry George Howe CoL McPherson Maxey Pendleton Ransom Saulsburry Sherman Slater 15 > Plump and Cameron of Wisconsin Wiscon-sin paired with Johnston and Test The bill then passed The fortification appropriation bill was reported by the appropriations appropria-tions committee and passed A resolution was adopted directing direct-ing the secretary of the navy to furnish such information as had been collected by the bureau of navigation nav-igation relating to the problem of interoceanic communication by the iEiierican Isthmus Sherman introduced a bill for printing 30000 copies of the memorial memo-rial address on Garfipjd delivered by Blaine with the proceedings on that occasion 10000 for the Senate and 20000 for the House Referred On motion of Plumb the House joint resolution passed granting the use of camp equipages tents etc for the soldiers and sailors reunion at Topeka Kansas and for the encampment en-campment of late troops and of the Indiana soldiers reunion at Grand Island Neb and for the encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of Pennsylvania at Gettysburg The tariff commission bill was then taken up and Pendleton briefly discussed the subject BOUSE Washington 17TheSenate bill was passed extending the northern boundary of the State of Nebraska Page asked unanimous consent that private business be dispensed with and the House resumed consideration con-sideration of the Chinese bill promising prom-ising that he would call the previous pre-vious question tomorrow at 3 oclock Rice objected Page then made a motion to that effect but failed to obtain the necessary twothirds vote After disposing of a number of private bills the Speaker laid before the House a communication from the secretary of war transmitting the estimates of the number of persons per-sons made destitute by the overflow of the Mississippi River and tributaries tribu-taries The communication estimates esti-mates the number of persons destitute desti-tute at 25000 as follows Missouri 2200 Illinois 2000 Kentucky 800 Tennessee 500 Mississippi 3000 Arkansas 2000 Louisiana 15000 Rations distributed 173000 The appropriation already made is sufficient to purchase 800000 rations of a substantial kind The supply is to be distributed in Arkansas Iis sissippi and Louisiana about the 21st No estimate can be made of the time during which necessity for congressional aid will continue No further demands are expected from Illinois and Kentucky but from Missouri Tennessee Arkansas and Mississippi Mis-sissippi the department has information that the necessity for subsistence will continue for a period variously estimated at from thirty to sixty days The department depart-ment has no information from Louisiana but it is thought it maybe may-be placed in the same eat g ry as Mississippi Dunnell oE Mississippi from the committe on ways and means reported re-ported a substitute for the bill to amend the laws relating to internal revenue Printed and recommitted f The session tomorrow will be for general debate only on the Chinese bill Page endeavoring in vain to have included in the agreement that the previous question should be or dered tomorrow liThe substitute for the bill to amend the laws relating to internal revenue ported to the House by Representative Dunnel is a modification modifi-cation of the report on the Carlisle bill to amend the laws relating to internal revenue in accordance with the views of the majority of the House expressed in the recent caucus cau-cus of republican members The first section of the original bill re ducing the tax on distilled spirits to 50c per gallon is omitted and the second section providing for ware house bonds to secure the collection of taxes upon all spirits with I drawn or removed from the special bonded warehouse is retained with an amendment increasing in-creasing the penal sum of the bonds When the largest quantity of spirits spir-its to be stored in a warehouse asset as-set forth in the distillers statement and declaration does not exceed fifty barrels of forty proof gallons j each the bond is fixed at 81800 instead I in-stead 81000 In all other cases the bonds are just doubled When j exceeding fifty barrels the bond will be 2000 but in no case shall the penal sum of any warehouse ware-house bond be greater than SJ o il o The limit as to the time Uuniig which spirits ° may remain m titmd is extended indefinitely uy the amendment which provides that the bonds given under this section shall remain in force as to spirits remaining in warehouses on the 1st day of May following the execution and approval of the bond and shall remain in full force for the collection collec-tion of the tax upon all spirits covered cov-ered thereby which shall have been I unlawfully withdrawn during this period for which this bond was given A further amendment to this provides that in case a person required to make a statement and give the bond aforesaid shall die shall become of unsound mind or shall in the opinion the collector col-lector or commissioner of internal rexenue become otherwise legally incapable of making such statement or giving such bond the statement may be made and the bond given by by his executor administrator guardian trustee or other personal or legal representative Section three is amended by striking out the words not exceeding three in number and authorizing the commissioner com-missioner of internal revenue to establish at his discretion one or more special bonded warehouse in any one collection district Section four relative to the removal of spirits from one distillery warehouse to another incase in-case of permanent discontinuance I is amended by restricting the removal re-moval to another distillery warehouse ware-house in the same collection district Sections five to ten inclusive of the Carlisle bill are embodied without change or amendment in the substitute substi-tute bill Section eleven regulating I USH t allowance to be made for the loss of spirits while m bonded ware IK uses and providing for regaugiiig to ascertain the loss is amended by striking out that portion which provides that this provision as to loss shall apply to foreign spirits imported into this country Section 12 of the Carlisle bill fixing the tax on foreign brandy and distilled dis-tilled spirits and all cordials or bitters bit-ters containing distilled spirit at 8150 per gallon anti section 13 referring re-ferring to vinegar bitters are stricken out All acts and paits of acts inconsistent with the provisions of the bill are repealed |