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Show CONGRESSIONAL. WKXATC. Washington, 27 Tiiis being tho day et apart for eulogies upon the lab- Senator Sumner, the Senate galleries were tilled long before tho hour of meeting. Vice President Wilson was present but did not occupy oc-cupy the chair. After the usual opening formalities Boutwell offered a resolution that as an additional mark of respect to the memory of Chas. Sumner, long a Senator from Muss-.busines be suspended, that tho friends and associates of the deceased may pay a fitting tribute to his public pub-lic and private virtues. Kirwjtved that the Secretary of tho Senate bo instructed to present the resolutions to the House of Itepresen-i atives. Tho resolutions wero ag reed to. Boutwell then began a speech. Ho paid a high tribute to the pure purposes pur-poses of ttiQ deceased, in private and public life. His devotion to liberty and his arduous labors in behalf of freedom, would secure for -htm tho grateful rcmcmbranco of his' country-men. Thurman alluded in feeling terms to tho personal friendship between Sumner and himself, and culogued the personal qualities of tho deceased. de-ceased. Spencer, Morrill, of Vt., Pratt and Sargent also made brief appropriate remarks. Adjourned. no us v.. ' Under the cull of States many bills wero introduced, including one by Lawrenco,to facilitate tho resumption of Hpceru payments and prevent Uuc-tualions Uuc-tualions m the value- of United Status notes; one by Crossland repealing repeal-ing laws taxing State bankn; ono for a tux of five per cent-on incomes ovor ,000; one by Albright declaring i t opprcssivo to iuipoio additioua 1 tajtation and inexpedient to retrench tho necessary appropriations already inudo in tho intere.it of commerce, and providing aa a temporary relief tho issuo of an additional f0,000,-001 f0,000,-001 1 of legal tenders. Poland introduced a bill to provide for a syHk-in of free national banking and for the resumption of specie payment. pay-ment. Tho following is a synopsis: Sec. 1 repeals all acts limiting tho amount of bank circulation. Section 2 provides for issuing circulation to all banks which may bo organized Under the existing laws, who furnish the required securities. Section ft provides that as fast as circulation is issued to banks 60 per cent, of tho amount shall be retired in greenbacks ( until the amount of greenbacks shall 1 bo reduced $200,000,000. Section 'I ' imthorizes tho issuanco of $100,000,- . '0 of U. S. lxmds at 5 per cent, for twenty years, or o per cent, for Lhirty years, to be used exclusively for retiring greenbacks; mid provides that ! uvory holder of greenbacks iniiv ex- ' uhango tho UII.IUU for such bonus, all ' greenbacks thus exchanged to ho can-:oIi:d. can-:oIi:d. Section 5 provides that after Inly lnt, lb7o, Government shall pay -ill U.S. notes iu coin, on prescntii- -ion, and tliutono half of all custom duties may bo paid in U.S. notes. Hoetiou 0 forbidfj tho payment of interest in-terest by national bunks to other national banks on deposits, oxegpt by banks acting as redeeming agents for other bunku, and then only to the amount tho taw authorizes them to keep as their rcservo in tho hands of i such redeeming agents. A bill was pilled amending the Shipping Conimiflsioneirt Act so it will not apply to vessels engaged in the constwif-e trade or the trade between be-tween th.' l;nilcd States and British North American possessions, or in ;uiv ciiso where seamen by custom or agreement, urn entitled to share tho pP'hts ol a cruise or voyage. The Semite resolutions witli refer-'onee refer-'onee lo Sumner wero received, and K. li. Hoar ottered similar resolutions which were a'ophd, mid Hoar addressed ad-dressed the Mouse. He reviewed his career to thl: hour of his death, which lie attributed to Brooks' iia-trtiilt, iia-trtiilt, and ciili-ii:izcd his great integrity integ-rity and honesty of purpose. Lamar seconded the resolutions iu a speech which I'tlraeted profound attention. He declared that strange, as in view of the past association, it might be impossible, as it would have been ten years ago, Mississippi mourned for Sumner to-day, and sincerely united in honoring his meni- . mory. Hu went on to speak of Sumner's devotion to tho cause of human freedom, tho liery zeal of his tftbrU to alHjlish slavery, his magnanimous magnan-imous conduct toward the conquered South and the sympathy he had for the sullering people; alluding to his battle flag resolution as a gracious act which touched the hearts of the Southern people, though they did not " ask nor wish tho North to obliterate any record of American valor, and concluded with an eloquent appeal for the laying aside of sectional uni-mositics, uni-mositics, and for a union of heart and feeling the of pcople,who were hound together by a common constitution and destined to live together under a , common form of government, and forming unitedly but a single mem-1 ber of the great family of nations. j |
