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Show FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATE Washington, 22. Garfield, from tho committee on publio lands, submitted sub-mitted a minority report on the claim of McGarrahan, together will a bill placing all the claimants to Eancho Paroche Grande in California in tho court of ciaima, with the right of appeal to the.eupreme court. Laid on tho table, the bill and report to be printed. Edmunds reserved the right to object ob-ject to the amendments on the ground that they proposed new legislation. legis-lation. Ho would not ask to have the point decided now. Tho followine bill passed the senate: sen-ate: Tho bill to declare certain lands granted to the Pacific railroad companies, com-panies, by the acts of July 1st, 1802, and July 2d, 1864, subject to taxation by the states or territories in which they may bo located. The house bill, reported from the committee on finance yesterday, to facilitate the refunding of the national ; debt, was paeaed unanimously. Edmunds moved to take up bin resolution declaring valid the thirteenth, thir-teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. It was rejected by the senate and consideration of tbe uaval appropriation bill was resumed. Blame speakiDg in favor of bi amendment ol 'yesterday. Blaine said he did not intend to criticize- the administration of the navy department. It waa the duty ol congress to make reforms and corrout errors and nut to leave tbe matter lo i the secretary of the navv and tlwt bureau of officials. He spoke of tue large number of officers in tbe navy, Haying: We bad one officer to a little over three men. By dispensing with surplus officers and useless navy yardu we could largely reduce the expanses ol the navy. T tiers never was a navy which did uot grow out of a commercial marine, nud in that reaped re-aped we were eadiy deficient. We stood, now. furnishing alni-t as much oceau freight aa any Lao counlrieH of iho world and gaining nothing from it, or eo little that it ouly served to point the moral. Beck said tie felt some amazement that the senator from Maine should indulge in men a tirade of abuse i against tiio hill or free shipping which l-.fi (Beck) introduced. Tne senator ( Blame) waa a member of tbe com mines nu appropriations us well as himsflf (Bet:k), aud that senator lailed in lay bt-jre the ouiaiuittre a single grievance of which he complained to-day. He had no right to .seek tn iutroJuce new legislation legisla-tion upon the appropriation bill. J he senator ( btiaine) was a mem bur of the naval committee and be could property bring the eulject to the a'.teutiou of that committee, iiu mado tbe point of order tbat Iho amendments of Blaine cou.d not he considered, as they proposed new legislation. |