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Show GENERAL. ! Tile Amnesty BUI. J Washington, 17. The Republican Senators will hold a caucus this morning, morn-ing, to determine what action shall be taken in regard to the House amnesty bill. Senators who favor its passage and who have canvassed tho Senate carefully, claim that a majority of the Republicans will vote in "favor of the bill, and that it will be made a party measure and passed by an almost unanimous un-animous vote. Those who are opposed to it, on the other hand, think that they will be able to defeat it ia caucus. They say that tUy will never support sup-port such a measure until the Ku Klux stop their killing. The President is reported to be in favor of amnesty, but to doubt the expediency of giving it just at this time, just after the New Hampshire election, A high government official called npon the .Presir;! to urge him to recommend, in hlsroepiie about the Ku Klux, 1 that tue bill to provide for suppressing disorder in the South be followed by a general amnesty. It was urged that such a measure would remove all idea from the minds of the Southern people, that the Ku Klux bill was aretalia-l tory or partisan measure, and would greatly strengthen any legislation that Congress migh enact in that direction; and it was also urged that if this measure should be adopted now, it would seem magnanimous; ttat if several sev-eral of the dose Stales should go Dem- i ocratio in tho fall elections, and that then a general amnesty bill i-hould be passed next winter, tho opposition i would charge that it was done in order to save tho party in 1S72, and not from . any sense of justice or magnanimity. i Tho President admitted the foroo ol i this argument, and gavullio gentleman fo understand that, personally, he i thought a generous policy the best one, but lio seriously doubted that tho peo-plo peo-plo wero ready for it. Several Southern South-ern senators say that if the members of Congress would only consider the sense of the measure on the South, instead of inquiring how their own constituents con-stituents would Icel about it, amnesty would bo granted at om;c and the North would, in less than a year, be convinced of the wisdom of the action. ac-tion. lu!ck Pabtnge. Portland, Me., 17. 'flic steamship Scandinavian, from Liverpool 7, Lon-dondery Lon-dondery 8, arrived yesterday morning, having made the quickest passago ever made by a steamer between the two points. She brings over eight hundred passengers. Illlllnrds. Chicago, 17. A deposit of S250, in behalf of Cyril Dion, in hi-i billiard match with Prank Parker, was made yesterday by some friends. Parker is in this city. No notice has been received re-ceived here as to whether D;on will be here at the time fixed for the game. Republican. Caucus. Washington, 17. The senatoria1 Republican caucus, after an hour's discussion, dis-cussion, tabled, by a vote of twenty to sixteen, tho proposition to change the order of business in the Senate, so as to admit action on the House amresty bill this session. The proposition was advocated by Robertson, Sawyer, Sherman, Sher-man, Lewis, Logan, Buckingham and Wilson; and was opposed by Chandler, Morton, Scott, Edmunds, and Rico, the latter making the motion to lay it on the table. Monetary and Stocks. New York, 17, 2 p.m. Gold strong. Governments firm and hiirher. Sixe-s of 81, 17; 5 20's, 62. 131; C4, 13?; 65, V',i; new, 121; 67, 12.; 68, 12 j; )0-40's, J. Currencies, 15.. Stocks sfrone. W. U. T., 585; Pacific mail. 44; Wells, largo, 41 i; Union Pacific, 31i |