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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Robertsom moved to take up his amendment as the order of business, so as to allow the House amnesty bill to be considered at the present session. Conklin remarked, that this being Saturday the Senate was very thin, a number of senators having left the city with the understanding that only executive exe-cutive business would be considered; and he hoped the motion would be de ferred until next week. lviberson replied he had given five days previous notice of the motion, and insisted upon a vote. Trnmbull did not think the Senate so thin as represented. It was the fullest full-est Senate he had ever known for a Saturday. He hoped that no friend of amnesty would allow the subject to be postponed in that way. HOUSE. Washington, 15. The House resumed re-sumed consideration of the remaining Senate amendments to the deficiency (bill. |