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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SESJ.VTE Washington, 16. A number of billa were introduced during the morning hour and referred. Coke submitted a resolution instructing in-structing the committee on judiciary to examine into the expediency of repealing all laws providing for compensation com-pensation by fees of United States attorneys at-torneys and substituting fixed salaries Agreed to. Beck submitted a resolution tbat the secretary of the treasury appear in person, on Wednesday next, and inform the Benate what reason he had for failing to answer the resolution of the 3d of December, 187S, in regard to the amount of silver coin, received for customs duei, and whether he has applied it or any part of it to the payment of interest on bonds and notes of the United States, and if nut so applied, to Btatg the roaeon why. After a brief debate the resolution was laid over. At the expiration of tho morning business the resolution of Blaine in regard to elections in the south was taken up. After a brief coiloquy the amendment of Thurman waa agreed to without division. Wallace moved to lay the resolution of Blaine on the table. Rtjected. Davis, of West Virginia, McCreery and Wallace voted iu the affirmative and all the other republicans and democrats in the negative. Cockling submitted an amendment to have the investigation maue by a special committee of nine senators iustead of the judiciary committee Aereed to yeas 34, nays 9. Blame then Bubmitted an amendment amend-ment aulhoriiiog the committee to take testimony by iiacli, or by any sub-committee, and to visit any portion por-tion of the country when such visit mav, in their judgment, facilitate any portion of the object of the inquiry. Butler moved to amend the amendment amend-ment so as to provide thai Hie committee, com-mittee, or any sub-commiltie thereof, shall Bit with open doors Blaine Will the senator explain his motive? Butler replied that hi mo ive was to have a iree, fair and full investigation. investi-gation. Blaine opposed the amendment amend-ment of Butler, ani said there might be a case- where a witness wit-ness would bo eiiib.irrtts.scd by titli-fying titli-fying openly. Vury many men who had been intimidated at the poils were now intimidated on the witness stand. He would leave the whole matter of open eessions of the committee with the commiUee itself. Butler said bo understood that tbo senator from Maine objected to the amendment on Ihe ground that, in certain parts of the country certain witnesses were willing to testify secretly but not openly. The senator had spoken about so and ao being auegeu in ro j gard to depriving citizens of their j right. There was oot a particle of , pruof of the fact, lie (Butler) us a senator in part representing the state 1 of Suuth Carolina desired to say to the senate and to the country tbut the people of bis etata dedired the most complete and fullest investigation which could be made, and any witueBS who appeared before the commiUee in South Carolina could testify just as safely aa be could in tho tsUte of Maine. Euatis said it occurred to uim as an extroardinary situation for the senator from Maine to occupy when, in ad-minrp ad-minrp nf (lift pxftminalicn of a sinele Witness, be took the liberty of Btating ; to the poople and country that the1 people of Louisiana had no more rights as votera than the inhabitants , ot Senegambia. He (Eustia) could I demonstrate that the elections in Louisiana were fair and peaceful, and there were a great mauy reasons why I the democratic candidates were elected. Colored people exercised the right of BufTrane and discrimination. Blaine said Butler either possessed or affected great ignorance of past ouoni in Smith Carolina. Ho re ferred to the troubles iu that Btate and said he had 200 letters giving details of the great outrages on tho rights of suffrage. If the senator desired a free and lair investigation, free from l intimidation, he would leave it to the committee as to whether the doors should be opened or not, and not let witnesses, whito and colored, be notified noti-fied that the doors would be opened, and if they appeared before the committee com-mittee they would do so at their peril. Butler Baid tbat if tho senator desired de-sired a full and fair investigation, as he claimed, he would vote for the amendment to open the doora. The senator (Blaine aaid ho bad 200 letters com plaining of outrages. He (Butler) understood tho Benator to say, in his speech on Wednesday last, that he based bis statements upon nowspaper publications. If newspapet statements state-ments were evidence, the senator from Maine, as well as himself, (Butler) would have been hung and quartered long ago. He did not mean to say that newspapers did not communicate the tiutb, but when correspondents were sent to hia country to write down everything bad about the people, and EUppreBs all that was good, he thought it time to complain. He (Butler) could go into Maine with a corps of deteoiives and make a like stench in the nostrils of the world. Blaine You have a right to do bo under this resolution. The amendment of Butler was rejected re-jected yeaa 30 naya 30, a strict party vote. Davie, West Virginia,, renewed, re-newed, in another shape, tho amendment of Butler requiring requir-ing the committee to sit with open doors, and Bayard spoke in favor thereof, saying the resolution and amendments had thus far been acted on almost with unanimity. He hoped it would continue in regard to this amendment. There was some-un-American in thia aecret inquisition. Davis and OgleBby ol Illinois, presented pre-sented the resolutions of the manufacturer's manu-facturer's asBOciation ol the northwest, favoring the appointment of a subcommittee sub-committee of the committee ou commerce com-merce ol both houses ol congress, to accompany the excursion party from Chicago to Mexico on the 4th of January next to further establish more direct commercial relations between the two countries. Referred. Beck introduced a bill to repeal lections 820 and 8?.l of the Revised Statutes of the United States provid ing that jurors in United States courta, who have borne arms against the government, may be challenged, and also requiring the ironclad oath of jurors in the United States couita. Laid on the table. Windom, from the committee on appropriations, reported, with amendments, amend-ments, 4fce consular and diplomatic and naval appropriation bills. Calendar. Calen-dar. The vice-president laid before tho senate a communication from the secretary of the treasury in reply to the resolution of the 5th imt., in regard re-gard to the deposits of the Freed-man's Freed-man's Savings and Tru;t company. Referred, Mathews moved that the present and all prior orders be laid aside and that the Benate proceed to tho con sideration ot tho Tex -in Panifin rail road bills. Rfjcted yeas 2G: nay?. 32. no lsi: The bill appropriating $100,000 for a deficiency in railroad mail trans portation was reported from the committee com-mittee on appropriations. Tbo hill will be acted upon to-morrow. Chalmerfl moved to Buspend the rules and pass a bill making it a penal offense for any officer, agent or contractor ol the United StatCB to intermeddle with the election of mem bers of congress, or of the president, by a contribution of money, or by the use or abuse of official privilege, or by bribes, threats, inlluence, etc.; and alio making it a penal offense to' solicit or receive contributions for election purposes from perconB in the! employ of government. Rejected yeas 182, nays 103, not the necessary J two-thirds in tbo affirmative. The republicans voted no, the democrats! aye. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, voted! with the democrats. ' Bills introduced: By Banning, to place James Shields on the army I retired list as a brigadier general. By Fort, proposing a penalty of $1,000 to be imposed upon any national banking association for each offence in refusing to receive or pay out Biandard silver dollars the tame as other lawful money. Fort also introduced a bill requiring tho stcre-tary stcre-tary of the treasury to cause to be exchanged, when in the treasury and not otherwise appropriated, United i States notes for silver dollura when I presented at the treasuary or assistant treasuary in New York, in sums of i $1,000 or any multiple thereof. i Tu ri..b...r TV, arv.or.r4 5,207 of the Revised Statutes bo as to J read as follows: No association shall nereafier cfl'er or receive, United States J notes national bank notes, or gold or s:lver coin, as eecurity for auy loan of money, or for a consideration agree ! to withhold the same for use, or offer or receive the austody or promi;e of tho custody of such j notes or coin as eecurity. ; or consideration for any loan ol money. Any association offending against tt;e provisions cf this socllJii ! shall be deeniid guilty of a mitde-nieanor mitde-nieanor and be fined not ruoretLa.i; $1,000 ttLd a turther sum tqua! to' one-third of the money so loaned. The officer or officers of auyasiocia-j lion who shall make such loan ahall j be liable for a further sum ;uuul to at a quarter of the mouey loaned and ( any fine and penally incurred by a, violation of this bcdi'in bball. be! recoverable for the bciKlitof the party ' bringinp such euit. i By (j;bon, for the improvement of the Missiappi n-id its tributary and fr- m the bead oi the passes near its .mouth to its headwaters. The bill iPropoees to appropriate S3.000.000 to be expended by the eeeretary of war. By Cox, ot New York, for tbo removal of political disabilities. By Phelps, providing for the circulation circu-lation nf national banknotes of less jthan $5 after the resumption eale, ias before. Souihard offered a resolution calling on inu auurney general lor iuiuilu-lion iuiuilu-lion as to the number of hupervisors and deputy marshals employed throughout the country during Ihe late election, stating tbe length ol lime they were employed, etc. Re-i Re-i ferred. Finley submitted a resolution instructing in-structing tbe judiciary committee to j inquire by what authority of tho law , the secret service division of the treaB-' treaB-' ury department is maintained. Referred. Re-ferred. I By Muller, a bill to abolish tbe bureau of military justice. Referred, j Kelly offered a resolution calling on ' the secretary of the treasuiy for information in-formation aa to the balances on the loan account standing to the credit of the treasury in any national bank on the 1st of January, 1S7G, or the 1st of any Bucceeeling month, until January, Jan-uary, 1879, with tho name of such bank and the amount held by each. The house proceeded to the consideration con-sideration of the District of Oulumbia business. Tbo bill fixing the rate ol interest at not over G per cent, on j bonds, to be issued by the commissioners commis-sioners of tbe District to take up the outstanding bonds eo due, and tbe bill appropriasing $M0,0U0 for tbe construction of a bridge across tbe Potomao, above Georgetown, passed. I Adjourned. |