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Show SEX ATE. The House amendments, to the bib for the sale of useless militaiy reservations, reserva-tions, were concurred in. Kellogg moved, to make the gulf steamship subsidy bili the special business busi-ness for to-day alter bail' past lour o'clock : agreed to with an amendment on the motion of Caserly to include the Australian bill. At one o'clock the Senate, according accord-ing to previous order, took up the joint resolution prescribing the form ol oath to be taken by II. Ill M. Miller, claiming the scat as Se.nator from Georgia. Trumbull proceeded to show that Miller had received seven more votes for Senator than his colleague, Hill, who had been admitted, and that he had been elected by persons not dis-cpuahhed. dis-cpuahhed. Pomeroy reported the House bill to enable honorably discharged soldiers and sailors, their widows and orphan children, to acquire homesteads on the public lands of the United States, with amendment, striking out the provision allowing me ass'gument of homestead certificates, and oy aunuiliug t he see-. see-. ion allowing the entry of laud by an agent or attorney. HOISK. Under the call of States, which is the first business of the morning hour on Monday, uumcrous bills were introduced intro-duced and referred. One by Wheeler, proposed an amendment amend-ment to the Southern Pacific railroad K.ll ceil. One by Cobb, of North Carolina, to protect loyal and peaceable citizens and to perpetuate evidences of losses sus tained in the war of the rebellion, and providing for the appointment of a commissioner in each county in Ala-oauia, Ala-oauia, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Kentucky, to take cognizance of a.l Ku Klux. 'The bill was read on the demand of Niblack, and after tlie refusal re-fusal of the House to reject it, by 55 to 144, it was referred to the reconstruction recon-struction committee, ike reading of the bill and voting occupied all that was le'k of the morning hour, the object ob-ject being to prevent me air line railroad rail-road bill coming before the House. Ingersoll moved to suspend the rules so as to take up au air line railroad lull lor consideration, lv jeeted. yeas 111, nays 74, not two thirds in the ami native. na-tive. Sargent presented a communication from the Secretary of the Navy in relation re-lation to the steamship J't- ;!-.- -, intimating inti-mating that the department do -s nut entertain anv apprehensions ol' h"r safeiy, aud that no intelligence may be reccive'd of her before ihe arrival of tho Tilr at New York. |