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Show COAtiRESSIOJYAL. SENATE. Washington, 3. The amendments of tho house lor the payment to Japan ol" the sum due on account of rents for buildings and lands occupied by the diplomatic and consular representatives of the United Suites was rejected. Tho senate bill to estabiiau military prisons was passed. Sherman, luoni tho tinanco committee, reported the house bill to relieve treasurer trea-surer Spinner from the defalcations of his subordinates. Passed. Tho credentials of lugalls, senator elect from Kansas, were presented. The house tariff bill was amended by striking out the tax of thirty-five per cent on maccaroni, and the section relating re-lating to whiskey lost at sea, and then passed. The deficiency bill as amended by the committee was Laken up and passed. Among tho amendments is an appropriation appro-priation of .jI.OUO to piy the Mon tana war claims. The house substitute bill relating to the sale of vacant lauds was passed. A dispatch was presented announcing the election of AlcMillarj as senator from Louisiana, West did not object to McM Ulan s credentials, which it was thus announced had been forwarded, but he objected lo this irregular notification. notifi-cation. Ldmundsa-id it might be received re-ceived a petition. Trumbull thought it ought to bo received. Morton said that the dispatch was merely an announcement an-nouncement that McMillan had boon elected by tho mob legislature, lie thought it had no busine-ss here. Sherman Sher-man moved to lay the communication on tho table. Agreed to. iiutlor, Peters and Puller, committee from iho house ot" representatives, appeared ap-peared at tho bar of the senate, when Butler said: Mr. Presidents obedience to the order of Uhj house of representatives, representa-tives, this committee of tne house appear at th bar of tho senate of the United states, ana do impeach Mark V. Deiahay, district judge of the United States court lor the district of Kansas, in tho name of the house of representatives representa-tives and of ail the people of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors misdemean-ors in office; and wo do further acquaint the fenate.bv order ol the hi-usestbat the h.-,nn ,n A-:a I, ma nr.'.! fnrrv.h n.rli.-n. lar articles agaiust said Deiahay, and make good the j&me; and this committee is further charged by the house lo demand de-mand of ISe sf-r.alo. that they will take order of appearances of Mar IV. Deiahay, Deia-hay, as tutl juuge, lo answer to the fame. Presiding otScer Aclhony: The senate wiii taket rd-T in tr.e premues.oi winch I due notice shall be given to the houie of repreeentuves- rhfr:nan ctiered an amp-dmer.t to the deitit-r.cy b' A, M-ro'.-r. g an aijtani treasurer of the United states at Chicago azd Cincinnati. Freiisghuv fen, from the sp'ect committee com-mittee to inve-;:gat" toe charge agv.r tt Pom-roy, present a report sigr.ed by h.mseif, B-cTKham and Alcorn. Thurman and Viewer, of the mxe com-m;i-e, presented Uieir ir.div;aui view, r rv.ir.cniiysii.'s report, alter staling the charges of Simpson and 'om against Pomeroy, and quoting tne testimony testi-mony UOIUhttC Ol VlUAUe&t aftja a majority of tie committee are of the opinion that none of Simpson's charges numbering specitc arts of bribery have been sustained With reference "to the irgie speoizc charire f York, the 'th-w. 'th-w. i itee, alter giving the statement of Yoi k that he received ?T,iaJ from Pomervy as a bribe, and ihe counter stitemm of Pomeroy that the money given mm wis ; t Page to assist bim in -tarnr g a bank, say the question for them toJ-termine toJ-termine is not which, if either, of ihe two statements.painfully irreconcilable is in all details true, but whether, taking all the testimony together and weighing it York has sustained his ciiarge. 1 ne committee then qu t fro-n ;he tsti- mony, including that of York, to rhow there arecircumstances tha; legitimately j affect the credibility ut.Yo.-k in the matter. Among these circumstances the committee cite ihe opposition of Y'ork, after his disclosure in j.'int sessi.-n I of the convention, to any recess or ad- journment to aliow the truth of the allegations alle-gations to be inquired into, or Poinerov to explain the matter, indicating fear o'f his story not being sustained. The committee com-mittee say Pomeroy is entitled, to the eitent that other men are, to the presumption pre-sumption of innocence; a presumption which they say is somewhat strengthened strength-ened by the fact that his accusers have failed to sustain their other charges of brilnrry against him in the same election. After a further review of tho testimony testi-mony the committee say there are several sev-eral questions that arise in the transaction, transac-tion, which are not satisfactorily explained; among which are the following: follow-ing: Why did not Pomeroy deliver the $7,000 to Page himself, when ho called on Monday, ai he then had the money ? Why did not Pomeroy give Y'ork the money he was to take to Page in a sealed seal-ed package? Pomeroy may have do-sired, do-sired, in view ot the coming election, to conciliate York by showing nim that he was assisting his friend Page, and by reposing confidence in him; buteven the suggestion oi mis improper motive is not a satisfactory answer to these questions. ques-tions. There are also some discrepancies discrepan-cies between the statements of Pomeroy and Page. The committee, bearing in mind that the whole transaction is the result of a plot to defeat Pomeroy, and remembering that the burden of the proof is on the party making the accusation, accu-sation, have come to the conclusion that Y'ork has not sustained tho charge by sufficient proof. Thurman briefly dissents from 'the conclusions of the majority, and asserts the belief that the testimony proves the truth both of Simpson's and York's charges. He rejects Pomeroy' explanation explan-ation of the payment of $7,000 to Y'ork, as inconsistent with Page's testimony, and so opposed to tho usual circumstances circum-stances attending business transactions, as to be altogether improbable- Vickers says briefly be has not been able lo arrive at a decided conclusion that tho charges are sustained by the 1 testimony. I In the evening session, on motion of Schurz, tha senate insisted on the amendments to the Japanese indemnity bill, and a committee of conference was ordered. Schurz presented the memorial memo-rial of Wm. L. McMillan, announcing his election as senator from Louisiana, and that his credenfals are "on the way, and asking the senalo to take notice of his election. Edmunds, from the committee oi conference con-ference on the Geneva award bill, reported re-ported the conference unable to agree as to the class af losses to bo paid, and as to the war premium; and they therefore recommend the investment of tho money in the five per cent registered Bonds of the Uniled States, to be held to await the future action of congress. jKeport concurred in. The proposition for tho increaso of salaries, making members S7.600, was concurred in. Tho Patterson expulsion resolution wai tabled. noise The house met at 9 a.m. in continuation continua-tion of Saturday's session. Uurchard, from the commitlee on ways and means, reportod a bill to refund the internal revenue re-venue tax on import duty to persons manufactured or imported prior to the liSrd of November, 1,S0S. Passed. Stevenson, from the committee on pnblic lands, reported a substitute for the senate bill authorizing tho entry of 100 acres of coal lands at tne rate of $10 per acre where the land is not within fifteen miles of a completed railroad, and $'J0 an acre where it is. Passed. A conference committee was appointed ap-pointed on the river and harbor appropriation appro-priation bill. Sargent, from the conference committee commit-tee on the sundry civil appropriation bill, reported and said the senate amendments amend-ments increased tho appropriations about $';.000,U00. The conference had reduced to $3,300,000. Among the items struck out were $i.OOO for the further improvement of the capital grounds and half a million for the new elate department depart-ment budding. Among the amendments amend-ments reuined was the appropriation of S 100,000 for appraisers stores in San .Francisco. Beck made a vehement speech in oppoiition to the conference report and declared that all corrupt schemes having any prospect of passago wero put in the genoral appropriation bills in the senate and then without ever being read in the house sent to the confer-once confer-once committoe. He declared congress had already appropriated this sosaion nine millions of dollars mora than tho most extravagant estimates asked. Voor-hees Voor-hees questioned tha propriety of Bock's insinuation against the senate, but Beck repeated that the house was a more honest hon-est body than the senate. The report was finally concurred in. Butler of Massachusetts, Peters and Potter were appointed a committee in tho impeachment case of judge Deiahay. The conference report on the post oflico appropriation wa3 concurred in and tho business on tho speaker's desk taken up. Tho conference report on tho army appropriation bill was submitted and agreoa to, and tho house went to the business on the speaker's table. The senate amendment to the houo amendatory amen-datory tarifl'bill was rejected aud a conference con-ference ordered. The senate amendment amend-ment to the bill to roimburso Montana for tho expenses of the Indian war was concurred in. Tho request of the son-ate son-ate for a conference on ibo agricultural college bill was refused, and the bill lies on the table. The New Orleans aud Mexican steamship bill was Ubltd. Garfield presented tho conference report re-port on tho legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill. The amendment amend-ment increasing thesalaries was opposed by Farnsworth, JSiblack, llawley of Connecticut, Burchard and Stevenson, and defended by Butler of Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Kandall and Banks, and agreed to, lua to yi. Dawes, from the committee on ways and means, reported the temimrmv tnL-n in tho matter of the Pacific mail subsidy, sub-sidy, to be deposited with tho clerk of tbo house to be laid by him before the next congress; aud stated that nothing in tbo testimony implicated any member mem-ber or employo of tho house. Kocess. In the evening session Sypher obtained ob-tained leave lo print in tho Globe his defence against certain charges made against him in connection with the alleged al-leged frauds in the Louisiana election . Dunnell, from tho committee on public pub-lic lands, reported a bill allowing tho Atchison, Topka ifc Santa Fee railroad to extend its route from the western line of Kansas to Pueblo, Colorado; and a branch road from a point on the main line southwesterly to San Felipo, on the Kio Grande. Pa&sod without objection. objec-tion. , The house again went lo the business on tbe speaker's table, with iho under- standing that no bill should pass without with-out a two-third vole, and disposed ol a nu ruber. The senate bill to establish an assay otlico in Helena passed. On motion o'f Voorhees. a resolution of thanks to speaker Blaino received a Unanimous vole, Tho senate bill to provido for the care and preservation of the U. cemetery, near tho City of Mexico, parsed. The senate, bill to appoint captain Georgo Preble of tho navy, commodore, passed. The senate bill to allow lieutenant B, M. Mason, of the navy, to accept a decoration from the emperor of Brazil, passed. The senate bill to establish the custom house value for tho English pound sterling, at i-l-b-i, G-lOihs, passed, Boih houses were in session at 'J o'clock. |