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Show 'the blind w.a postponed, and the I army appropriation bill taken up, ' yeas 52, uay-4 13, the pending qm-H-i lion being on tbu innti u lo stnkw out the section in regard lo the army re organization. Alter some exp ana Lion the question was taken un luo motiou tj strike out all Bei-ti mi re-Uting re-Uting to army reorganiz aiua up-m the ground that there was nut time to consider them and it was gr. ed t j yeas 4.3, nays IS Wnen ttie amendment proposed by the committee on appropriations to strike out of the house bill ibe pro tiaious forbidding the uee of trumps tit elections, and making it a pnal ollente to do so, was reached u was j agreed to without dncusoou, and the ; pruviBions were stricken out yens ;M, nays 50. O her araeudmen's pro posed by Hie committee on aupropna lions, striking out of the boum bill the provision lht each member of tho next two crudualing classes ol tbe military academy, after graduating, may elect to receive the grosa sum of $7oU and mileage, and the acceptance ol this sum shall render him ineligible ineligi-ble to appointment in the army until un-til two years after hia gradu Uion. Also striking out tho section providing that officers who may be detailed to the service in tho pay department shall give bonds the same an pay m 'idlers; appointments to the grade of piy-maater piy-maater may bo mado from pertona who have served aa additional paymaster, pay-master, of not over 45 years of ajje. were agreed to. Tho Benate, by a vote of yeas 29, nays 30, refused to strike out tbe section authorizing the secretary of war to issue arm to any established college or university having hav-ing not less than 150 students. Howe aaid there was an ecc?utric provision in the first part of the bill whiih read; "fur cost of tel-grama authorized to be transmitted by railroad rail-road linea, for sovernoiebt, aud for tbe general public, at ratea to be fixed by goverumtnt acoordiug to Iho provisions of title 65, Revisod ckat-u'.eB." ckat-u'.eB." Howe said it the transfer of tho business of telegraphing to railru.id companies was to be made, h should be at least with the restrictions now imposed upon existing telegraph tele-graph companies. Ho submitted an amendment so as to provide that said railroad companies shall file their written acceptance of restrictiom and obligations imposed on telegraph companies by title 65, Revised Statutes. Stat-utes. In explaining the amendment, Howe Baid title G5 gave government tbe right to purchaao any ol the telegraph tele-graph Linea at an appraised value. He proposed to traoafer to railroad companies com-panies the Bume power to do telegraph tele-graph business that tbe telegraph company bud, but government should have tbe Bamo right to obtain tbeir Hnea at appraised value, Bjck opposed government purchasing pur-chasing telegraph linos aud doing private commercial business. He favored a repeal of the act of 1806. II tbe privilege conferred by that act be conferred upon government as to all telegraph lines, perhaps at no distant day government might attempt at-tempt to purchase them. Tha amendment of Howe was agreed to by a rising vote yeas '66, nays 20, when the yeas and nays were ordered, and discussion upon the amendment was continued. house. The committee on ways and means reported buck the sugar bill bo as to bavo it reprinted and made the pending pend-ing order. So ordered Willis, of Kentucky, asked leiva to take from Ihe speaker's table for the purpose of concurring in the senate t . .TTTriuc "uiu cj rostric; '(Jf nese immigration. Lapham objected. Hale moved to go into ft committeo of the wbolo on tho legislative bill. The motion was antagouzid by Tucker and Harris, who desired the morning hour to take up tho tobacco bill. The vote by tellers on Hale's motion resulted, re-sulted, 110 to 109. The Bpeaker voted in the negative, thus tieiug tho vote and defeating the motion. The yeas and nays were then ordered, and ro suited, yeaa 117, to 130. Cutler and Morse voted with the republicans in the affirmative and Butler, Jorgensen, Wren, Page, Davis, Stwer, Cole, Met-calf Met-calf and Pollard with tbe dsmoorats in the negative. By a non-party vote, yeas 187, nays 64, the house laid on tbe table the bill reported from the committee on war claima for reimbursing Magili. Barron and others, ot Tennessee, for supplies taken by Ihe Union army during tbe war. Springer, chairman of the com mi t tee on expenses in the state department, de-partment, submitted a report with a resolution requesting the speaker to ieauo a warrant for the arrost of George F, Seward as a contumacious witness. Ordered printed and notico was givon that the matter would be called up for action on Monday. Business on the ppeuber's labia was then considered. The bouso bill with senate amendments amend-ments to repeal the moieties was agreed to. The second bill on the tjble was the bouse bill for Iho repeal of tbe re aumption act as amended by the sen ate, providing that after tho passage of thia act United States notes shall bo receivable the same aa coin 'in the payment of 4 per cent, bonds, after October 1st, 1878, when they shall be receivable for duties on itn ports. Ewing, actiog under authority of the committe on currency, submitted amendments, first, striking out Oct. 1., 1878, ao aa to muko United States notes immediately receivable for payment of customs duties; the second amendment provided that money hereafter received from any sale of United States bonds shall be applied only to the redemption of other bonds bearing the highest rate of interest, and subject to recall, aud provided that whenever the proceeds of Bales of bonds shall aggregate $3, 000,000, the secretary of the treasury shall cease in thirty dayB from tbe date of Bucb call, and all United States notes received into the treasury shall issue a call for that amount, of bonds and interest on tbe bonds called for redemption tihall be reissued and feept in circulation circula-tion without change in the ncgreeale amount of the several denomtuaiioun existing ou May 31st, 1S73, and it shall Dot bo lawful to issue legal t tender notes of larger denomination , than .fl, 000. Ewing supported hie amendment. Referring to a scheme of resumption be saia that the people could not get a chance to obtain gold. There was enly one counter over which gold was pawed, and then in sums cf not Itss than $50. Ibis country was in a con dition of practical enslavement to a foreivner. No lea then $1,200,000. Out ui its debt waa h. 1J dhroad. It bud to pay no less Ibnn f7.COO.000 a year to :o:ei-n shipping in this way and by the spending o Americans rtsidirg aud trvrlinu abroad there wr.s a drain of probably $1,500,000,000 a year from this country. coun-try. It was that drain wtiich threat entd. Tho hoard of go!J ot the treasury ompartd with that drain $141,OCO,COO was a tpetty and con temptible provision on which to ba-e the tremendous industries ol the country which were to live or die a c cording to the euccs or failure of too resumption scheme. i j f hil.ips supported Eins anend-meut. anend-meut. Townsend (X. Y.) spoke in fivur of 'a nropoaition woih he desired lo n(li.r as an amendment, to tbe el'eet that I in the payment cf the obligations cl ! government not pp,jc;ily rt quired to bs paid in coin, gold, silver and cur-, reucy should be used iu equal propor-, tion to tne amount of theie forms ol money then iu the treasury. Kelley declared bimspll inflexibly; opposed to nn increHse of tha bonded debt and also to an artificial coutrac '.ion of tbo volume of currency, to 1 which pricrs and bufiucos bad adjured ad-jured ihenneives. Tha increase of tne bonded debt under tbe present administration was over $ 100,000, 0U0. Garfield, io a tone of bitter irony, opoke of the debate as a solemn occasion oc-casion on which the uuburied remains of that old Bubjeet.'whicb had been supposed to be laid away in its last resting place, had waudered back to iheie halls, and went on and argued against the bill and amend men Is. He said all the great business interests of the country and all wise business men were saying, "Let the currency laws alone; let business recover itself on the present bsis." lie believed that it would have been a grtat bbaiing at any time within tne last five years if congress had passed tbe appropriation b:l s and gone home, and had kept its bands oil from tinkering tinker-ing witu the currency and the busi- 1 nese of tho country. Hia experience in the house made him tear there never Would ba permanent safety '.o the business of the country bo long aa there was a greenback lelt, because- greenbacks ar a constant source ol agitation. Hi moved the bill and pending amendments be laid on tbe table. Price also argued against tho bill and amendments. Ewing of Obio, replied to Garfield. His colleague talked, he Baid, as if he bad the whole people at his bajk. In tbo elections of lust fall tbo resumption resump-tion question bed entered into the discuMriiou in almost all the utites, the republican party planting itself on its achievement of resumption and the opposition party, whether democrats demo-crats or national planting itselt on the repeal of the reeumpUon laiv, and the republican party bad come out of that contest in the minority in every state of the Union except six, his col league, therefore, should not "bank" loo bigbly on the assumption that the people of the country were content with the resnmption scheme. Burchard of Illinois, opposed par-ticulaily par-ticulaily that feature of ttie amendment amend-ment which provided that called bonds shall bear interest for only thirty days. If tho power of tho secretary to accumulate coin was taken away, in a week all the legal tenders in the country would be rushed to the treasury for redemption. It was just as necessary that the government should have a reaerve as a bank should have ono. Butler attempted lo get the floor but waa cut off' by a motion lor tbe previous question. Tbe house Iben voted on Gai field's motion to lay the bill and amendment on the table and that motion waa agreed to ayeB 141, nay 110. |