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Show CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE. Washington, 20. Petitions from the National Board of Trade for a revision re-vision ot the revenue laws, against tbe inflation of the currency, for the amendment of the National Banking Bank-ing id, and for the reduction in the volume of fractural currency were presented. Oglcsby presented a petition from the National Board of Trade in relation rela-tion lo cheap transportation, and made a speech in favor of the immediate attention of Congress lo the subject, saying that in hisopimon thequcstion vas o I more imporunee than that ol finance. Bogy spoke in favor of National Na-tional legislation to improve and open National water routes from the wect to the east. The petition was referred U the committee on transportation. trans-portation. The consideration of the finance resolution was resumed, and tbe remarks re-marks of Brownlow were read by the clerk. Brownlow opposed the immediate return to specie payments. He thought the present financial system was good, but the distribution of currency cur-rency was uuLqual. The suuth and west should have more. Gordon opposed a speedy resumption, resump-tion, though be was in favor, at the proper time, of giving the country more currency and making it ilex-able. ilex-able. It would, in his opinion, be the shortest, sure method of relief, as he believed the course would bring out millions of greenbacks now hoarded hoar-ded up. Speaking of his own section, he said the south was poorer to-day than when Lee surrendered. lie hoped for the day when we would iasue money not founded on gold, but on the faith of the government, and receivable for all dues alike. Cliandler agreed that there should be more money, but he wan toil better money. He thought Government should agree to resume specie payment pay-ment on the first of January, '75; authorize au-thorize the Secretary of the Treasury to borrow $100,01X1,000 gold at that time; stop the sale of gold now, and we would have bv the time named $200,000,000 in gold to begin the r-sumption r-sumption of legal tenders. He opposed any increase in the volume of curren- The resolution was laid aside informally, in-formally, and the post route bill was taken up on the amendment by Pratt, making all bridges now built or to be built across navigable rivers, and all railroads, post routes. Adjourned. HOL'SE. Maynard, from the Committee on Rules, reported a new rule requiring all motions to suspend the rules, except ex-cept to go into a Committee of the whole, to be seconded by a majorty of tbe House, as in case of a previous question. The proposition caused a long discussion, the advocates of the rule claiming that it would protect the House from being forced to vote on buncombe resolutions, and its opponents op-ponents claiming it an infringement of the constitutional rights of the minority, mi-nority, who would thus be cutoff from, power to compel a vole on their propositions. prop-ositions. A motion to tabic tbe motion was negatived, and after considerable filibustering and numerous votes the rule was adopted. Adjourned. |