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Show SENATE. "Washington, 17. Tho house resolution resolu-tion to adjourn on the od of Juno was referred re-ferred to the committee on linance. Tho river and harbor appropriation bill was reported with amendments, and made tho special order for next Tuesday. Tues-day. Tho amendments increase the appropriations ap-propriations $H0,OO0, and add an item of $150,000 for tho removal of tho raft in Ked liiver. The house steamboat bill passed. At the expiration of tho morning hour, tho Jia.b:a$ corpus suspension bill eamo up, and after an inelfectual effort on tho part of Stockton and others to have the bill postponed, al the request of Bayard, who was absent, until his return, re-turn, Scott addressed the senato in favor of the bill, followed by Pratt on tho sumo side, when it was ordered that tho bill bo take a up again on Monday and disposed of on Tuesday. The conference report on tho Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. Sherman Sher-man moved that the senate request the house to return the senate resolution for a anal adjournment on tho SUth of Hay. lie said the business of the session was not now in a condition to admit of an adjournment then. Trumbull objected ob-jected to the resolution as discourteous to tho house, and it wont over. Tho army appropriation bill being up, Stewart Stew-art raised a point of order on tho amendment amend-ment reported by the committee on appropriations, ap-propriations, repealing section 9 of tho army appropriation act of March 3d, 1871, that it was not gcrmaino to the bill. Tho effect of the repeal is to rUow tho secretary of the treasury to retain the amounts duo by government to the various Pacific railroads on account of tho transportation of troops, freight and mails, and to apply tho payment of the interest on tho bonds of said roads guaranteed guar-anteed by government. Tho vice-president sustamod tho point of order, but said ho would submit tho question to the senate. Ponding a voto tho senate wont into oxocutive session and adjourned. HOUSE. The houso went inlo commiltoo of tbo whole on tho tariff bill. The item of paper was again amended so as to niako tho duty on printing paper, whether sized or not, equal, and twenty per cent. ad valorem. A largo number of minor unimportant amendments were made, aud lieck moved that a parn graph bo inserted to authorize that customs duties du-ties bo paid in legal tenders; which, at the suggestion of Butler, of Mass., was modi tied so as to mako it one-third, which was agree .1 to. A number of amendments woro offered and acted upon, and tho committee having hav-ing renchca tho internal rovenuo sections sec-tions of the bill, a motion was offered by Spoor to repeal tho whole internal revenue- system, on which no voto was taken until tho house adjourned. |