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Show CONG R ESS I O N A L . WIC.VATli ""'"MKlc.n, 11 .-At tho lirt roll or mi v','n"" ",u'l"riini,.imlC!li,l- a tiiiorum respond. -,1 ' , J'raafmm tho Con,lllUtro J( biouh reported adversely , , mimlmr of petitions ofM!?" V' fn war ol 1 HI ii, and thoir wi.luw,, ,"(,ul, , tho committeo had inslruetrd id,,, t( report favorably upon tho Hoiiio grunting them a pension of $8 a mouth. Conovcr introduced i reaolutign wbi'di was laid over, asking the Trcis- 1 dent I'or Lho correspondiMico in the e ise of Dockei-y, arrested by the- Cuban Cu-ban authorities. At the expiration of tbo morning hour the Senate rosuiuod the conside- : l-.ition ol tho biiuinci; Bill, tho pending pend-ing qucstii n being Wright's amendment, amend-ment, making the proportion ot legal le-gal tenders retired on the isnno of the new Xational Bank notes 50 instead in-stead uf 25 per cent. Wasliburno argued that government govern-ment should take steps for the rc-siunptiun rc-siunptiun of upeeic payment by maintaining main-taining and increasing tho specie reserve, re-serve, and. that the nation "was better o(I without the passage, id' this bill. Wright's amendment-" was then adopted, Chandler then moved to table the hill; rejected. Wright movtd to amend by making the rate of interest on tlie redemption bonds proposed by the bill four and a half instead of five percent.; agreed to. Ho also moved lo make tho time for the payment of these bonds ten instead ol fifteen years, and t fix January, 187S, instead of 1S77, as the date for resumption ot specie payments, pay-ments, by tho issnancj of these bonds ; both agreed to. Conkling then moved tin amendment amend-ment by striking out all alter tlio enacting en-acting clause, and inserting tho bill for the withdrawal of -lii,000,tHM of National bank notes from the States in excess, and its redintribution among the States short of their proportion. pro-portion. p.Merrinion ofk'red a tubalitute uro-viding uro-viding for the substitution of green-. green-. backs for National bank notes, to repeal re-peal the tax on State banks, making of customs duties, thn resumption of ' specie payment in 1-S7S, the substitution substitu-tion of.silver coin at a certain date for fractional currency, &c. Conkling's amendment was rejected. Wright moved to sultslitutc the word "shall'' for "may" in tho clause authorizing tho Secretary of tho Treasury Treas-ury to reit-suc the United States notes redeemed after July, 1S78, as provided provid-ed in the ninth section; agreed to, Conkling again ollercd his redictri-bution redictri-bution amendment, which was "again rejected. ij Several other amendments were of-I of-I fercd and all rejected, and the bill passed. Adjournal. j HOftE, I The bill aaiend.itory to (he Free l-! l-! men's Saving and Tnut Company's j charter passed. I The House then went ink) Coni-, Coni-, mittee of the Whole on the Deficiency bill. Shanks movd to strike the item :of $'.in,iN)0 fur the lent of u building in Wiishinton b' louu'ing to John G. i Wright, explaining that he made the tnoii m in o:d -r to put on record , the fict that the Interior Department' rented a building Jr. -in a man who .robbed the Indium; and built a house with the proceeds. ! i Nomith thought if Wright robbed the Indians it was Tin reaMUi lor j Government rubbing Wright. The amrndment War. rrp cttd. The item of -rbSi-.Nl iAld. to reln- bnre tlie fund of the District of .Columbia rclurm bcbuol in the hands of Harry D, Cooke, ircn-urcr at lhn( .time of the failure of Jay Cooke & .Co., was amendid by instructing the Attorney General to investigate tlie' matter of the In-s. I The bill was finished and laid aside, and the Committee took up the ' Con-ul.ir and Diplomatic Appropriation Appropria-tion hilJ, npprnprmtiiig o..'il7,oDl, of, : which nearly -J utM.LM) nru for tho ' payment of the elaims of British nub- j JCCtH. ! --.v.mm .t,. I.,;,,..! hill and without with-out ui Inm tin- Coniniiltet io,-e and , n iH.rt.-d t. tlie H.ei-e the Derickney ! bill which w;is paajLl. Adioumed. , |