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Show j CONGRESSIONAL. ! SENATE. i W ashinglon, '2y. After a "debate of an hour the Senate Sen-ate refused to Uikc up tho centennial bill, and tho naval appropriation bill was then taken up. The financial question has I teen postponed until Tuesday next, on account of the sickness sick-ness of several Senators. 1 Tiie bill to provide for tho appointment appoint-ment of a liquor traffic commission was taken up. Flanagan supported the bill. Ho said ho bo'ieved the ' use of aleholic liquors caused tlie late split Ix'lween tiie north and south. 1 West reported tlie army appropriation appropria-tion bill; ordered tabled and printed. Tlie Senate then went into executive session and soon adjourned, HoL'sE. Tne Committee on Appropriation has finished the Indian appropriation bill, it appropriates about four millions mil-lions lesH than ihe estimates of the In-tarior In-tarior Department. Ten thousand dollars are appropriated for the suit-port suit-port of the Modocs. hum onimiiiiy on vv ay aim .Means has agreed to report a bill fixing the duty on still and imported wines at fifty cents per gallon in casks and two dollars per case in Kilties. G. F. Hoar akid leave -to oiler a resolution directing the Committee on the District of Columbia to reort forth with a bill to compel the payment pay-ment of the teacher of the District, and on objection lving made, he gave notice that he would, next Monday, move to suspend the rules for tlie passage pas-sage ol the ni-oltition. He statid that the teachers had not been paid for nearly a year. The louse took a rotxt.s. the evening even-ing session to be tor the con id oration of the Codiiicaiinu Bill. |