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Show CONKEKHIOIYA L. SKKATE. In the discussion on the sale of arms' resolution "Wright said ho would vote for it. There was no warrant whatever what-ever for tii 0 investigation, and i( had been shown that there was notl.iug to throw the least suspicion sus-picion on tho nation or its ollicinls. The people had already decided that Grant should accept the chair for another tern;. West followed on similar grounds. Kchurz referred to the remarks of Frolitighuysen, intimating thai Die case i was urged in the interc?t of Oennanv, and that bo and Sumner appeared to be working in the- interest of that country. Freliiigliuysen explained that lie did not intend to impugn tho mot ves of the senators, but to say that ho measure was unpatriotic. Sell u rz contended that the mailer as it now stood was emphatically our business busi-ness aud not that of Germany; and the only way in which it could affect our relations Willi foreign powers would be by our undertaking to defend tho false position in which we may have been placed. In the course of his remarks Schur. Said, "It has been said that 1 am on tho point of going over to the Democrats. Let me set at rest tho souls of those who niuho tho suggestion. I shall not go overtothe Democrats. 1 have never though t of going go-ing over to the Democrats, and I do nol think of it now. But what 1 do think is, that tlicro will bo an opportunity of opposing the re-election of the President without voting for a Democrat Candida Candi-da to. 1 think there will bo an opportunity opportu-nity of voting for as good a Republican as thero is on this floor, withouL voting for general Grant?' ' ( Applause Ap-plause in the naileries and the presiding ollicer directed the eergeant-al-arms to arrest persons applauding.) "Tho people," peo-ple," he said, "were grateful to General Grant for the capluro of Vicksburg and other plapes. but they were still more grateful that Vicksburg and those places wero no longer to be captured, and what they wanted bow was an honest hon-est and pure government.'' UUU SE. Tho houao disposed of a number of senate bills and amendments. Tho senate amendment to tho house bill, to allow the transportation of good; in bend, was nonconcured in, and a comniitteoof conference was asked. The senate bill setting npart tho Yellow Stone valley in Wyoming and Montana for a public park, pas-ed. Tho house went into a committee of the wbolo on the deficiency bill, and tho clause to repeal the law for th e publication publica-tion of tho statutes was struck out, as not in order. Finally, after getting through half the bill, the committee rose and the house adjourned. |