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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, 22. Sargent presented present-ed a long petition of Susan B. Anthony, An-thony, relating the circumstances of her registering find voting, in Rochester, Roch-ester, and tier tut 'sequent indictment and trial fur illegal voting, before Judge Hunt, of the U. S. Supreme Court, stating her trial was not a fair one, and her conviction in violation of the btntutes, and asking that tho fine imposed upon her be remitted. Referred. Refer-red. Sherman introduced a resolution instructing the committee on Public Buildings and Grounds to inquire into the expediency of suspending tho expenditure ex-penditure of the appropriations for all public buildings commenced, aul to cover all unexpended appropriations into the Treasury. Agreed to. The resolution from the Committee on printing, prohibiting the printing in the tunjressional Jia-ord any speech or part of a speech, not actual-ly'dclivered actual-ly'dclivered in the Senate or the House of Representatives, was passed. Morton submitted tho following resolution, which w;ts laid on the table and ordered printed : Reso ved that the Committee on Transportation Krmlrs to the Seabo'ird be iuctriictcd tovonsider and report a bill creating a eomiiiissiou of live eminent, skilled persons, to be appointed by the President, Pres-ident, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall examine ex-amine and report U) Congress what legislation is necessary anil practicable practic-able in regard tu inter-State, railroads to promote the following objects, vi?.: spceiiy transportation at reasonable rates of freight and p.usengers; safety ami comfort ot pa.-seiigers by providing provid-ing for -the inspection of biidges, tracks, locomotives and cars; and the reform of any abuses; liiat may exist1 inconsequence of extortion and un-1 just discriminations in the transport alion of freight and passengers, and in general, what regulations are nee' c-ss:iry to proinoti! the efficiency of railro.ids in inter-State commerce, and the conveyance and safety of the traveling public. The morning hour expiring, the consideration of the resolution of the Finance Committee, was resumed. Boutwell addressed the Senate. He referred in his opening remarks to Schur.'s criticism of his opinions, which., during the past live years were embodied in the financial policy of the government; and said that the recent finance panic, while it had taught a lesson, did not show that a policy which had been tried should be abandoned for one not tested. He ilaimed that the numbers of , failures of legitimate business men during the late panic were few; the laboring classes alone have suflered, and are alone entitled to consideration in furnishing fur-nishing relief, and in his belief an inflation of the currency would inflict a lasting injury upon the working men. He contended that the hirge accumulation of currency in New York, ami the consequent speculation, specula-tion, was the cause of the panic, pan-ic, and argued that un nidation of the curremy of the country would, in time, produce sim-ihaj sim-ihaj results. He was therefore opposed op-posed to any increase in the, volume of paper, but was also opposed to any contraction of it. He then took up ' the tiuestion of Lhe resolution of the forty-four millions reserve, and declared de-clared .ttio right of SeereLiry.of the .Treasury to reissue it ought never to have been questioned. He denied the correctness of the statement that in the past fuur years no progress toward specie resumption had been made, and cited the decreasing value of gold during that time in prool of his vote ; a decrease which he attributed raaiuiy to the increased business of the country. He opposed a tree banking system as unreliable., and opposed Sumner's convert :i hie Umd proposition on the ground that it won la result in the j contraction uud hoarding of moiiev, ! and bonds would also t.e bought up ; by combinations of .-peculators, wiio Would be able to u.-e Uiem lo increase liie ciniviiey and iiiiLite prices "to suit their schemes. Toe pLu of resuming resum-ing coin payments in a year !rJm now he urgucd was impracticable, because government had not gold enough and could not get it. He was also opposed to borrowing money. He concluded that there is but oneremtdy and one means to ward of the evil, and that is taxation.'' He Would not Say what, but taxation must be, or eioo too disgrace of burrowing bur-rowing money Ui p.iy the expenses of government. ii. lween lamJeu and disgrace he would put the burdens on the people of the country be lore submitting 'o disgrace. Boutwell, having in. the course oi his speech referred to tlie prosperity of the South, Gonlon gave statistics, showing a decrease in the value oi farms and other real estate, and in the amount of farm products in Georgia, Geor-gia, between lfuU and 1870, of from thirty to fifty per cent. Adjourned. . . '. . ' HOUSE.' Davis, from the Committee ou Ways and Means, reported back adversely ad-versely the bill to repeal all taxation on bank checks and lriction matches, and stated there was a strong desire in the community to remove these Uixcs; lie-therefore, instead of having the ail verse report laid ou the table, sub siU'itlio, moved their reference to a committee ot the whole for discussion, discus-sion, -and to make them a special border for Wednesday: agreed to. I Dawes also reported a bill to fix the amount of legal tender notes to four hundred millions. This bill was prepared pre-pared by Beck, and it declares that the provisions of the law existing1 prior to the act of April 12th, '66, are in force so as to authorize the issue of legal tender notes of the United States to the amount of four hundred millions mil-lions in general circulation; and that the total amount of the United States notes issued, or to be issued, shall never exceed four hundred millions. He moved to make the bill a special order in Committee of the Whole, for Thursday next. Maynard, chairman' of the Committee on Banking and Currency, while disavowing any feeling feel-ing of jealousy between the two com-1 mittees, suggested that the considera-'tion considera-'tion ot this bill might be so arranged to go on in connection with such measures and policy as the Committee Commit-tee on Banking and Currency might present. Dawes' motion was agreed to and . the bill was made the special order in the Committee of the Whole for Thursday next. The House then resumed tho consideration con-sideration of tho West Virginia contested con-tested election. After a long discussion, discus-sion, and without coming to a vote, the House, at 4j o'clock, took a recess till7i, the evening session to be for the consideration oi the bill revising and consolidating the statutes. |