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Show ! aoL'.si;. I The bill passed appropriating $00,-' 0(0 for the transportation of coin and i I bullion and $-10,000 fur miscellaneous expe-nsr-s of the house. The senate amendments lu tho Indian appropriation bill wero non-concurred non-concurred in. Stephens introduced a bill d.ecril -ing the duties of tha seerehiry of the, treasury, deferred. One of its pro-visions'id pro-visions'id that when any of iho national na-tional b.inks shall fail lo redeem its notes or kIiaII withdraw them, the beca-Ury of tho treasury nhail sell lo Uio highest bidder the United States bonds depo-iitcd to Becnra the s.une for coin or treasury notes and isauo certificate-! of deposit tor coin or the notea thus received, whicii ho thall deliver in exchange for tlm notes of the baul: of exactly the muno dc nomination and pay over the bahiuie ol thv.BO certificates lo tho bunk which hail deposited and owned tho bMnls. and theso certificated nhail b. r-ceivubh r-ceivubh for public dat-s and lm n-dcemsible n-dcemsible in coin or treasury notes at. the United States trtiasitry. A Htormy di Lute anno m regard tithe ti-the southern claim bill in the course ol which Bragg stated that if the south was solid lor a democratic parly simply sim-ply for tho purpoae of getting money out of the treasury it wuuld be well for tho northern democracy il southern democrats went over to tbo republican parly and ho hoped they would d; so. Lie referred to the $35,000,001) it was claimed by southern members bail beun illegally collected from captured and abandoned property and which they claimed bilouyed to the south and" called on thoso members to count the billions of money epent to put down the war and thon to strike a balauco with $35,000,000 on the credit eide, and all tho countless miseries on tho debit side. He was willing that tho dead past should remain dead, but he waa not willing to sit by and allow it to be brought up in ono form or another, by one member or another, and from one committee or another for the purpose of getting money out of the treasury on the plea of loyalty,- when iho people felt they could not trust the treasury and intoresta of government with the democratic parly without danger ol the democrats of tho north aelling ouf, body and soul, to the democrats of the south. The party could gather recruits in the northern' states thai would fill up its ranks to a maximum and it would have no need of that class of gentlemen whom it could hold only by giving them all they wauted. Ellis, Louisiana, agreed that tho percentage of loyal persons iu the south, ns tho gentleman understood It, waa very email, but a southern man who had been born thero, who had been reared there and who hud been identified with the people, could only have been loyal when he entered tho confederate army and did his full duty ns njsoldier. They had been the ouly loyal peoplo in the south; they had been loyal to their country, u their God and to the noblest, highest and manliest emniiona that were ever breathed by a human soul. Conger desired to ask a question; Ellis refused to yield, and continuing said that hero there might have been a few persons v.' ho had espoused the Union cause, but ho did not know more than three men in his stale who had been loyal to the Union. He was willing here and now to vote for a constitutional amend ment which Bhould close the books and farever aeltlo accounts between them and the government. Tho lecture which the gentleman from Wiacouein, Bragg, had seeu fit to read the democrats of the south, came from bim with rather b.id grace. No democrata had proposed lo desert the democratic parly; no enuihern democrat demo-crat hnd intimated such a proposal yeveral republican members desired to ask questions, but ill lis refused to yield and Atkins declared that it was a family fight. Eilia, in conclusion, Baid the southern pc-oplj were as true to tbe democratic purly aa the gentleman gentle-man from Wiscontin, Bragg. It was in obedience to democratic teachings, as the southern people had understood under-stood them, that they had gone into tbe war. Before the excitement caused by the discussion bud Bubiiik'd, Ch:ilmers, rising to ft privileged question, said that he underr-lood the remarks mado , by the gentleman from Louisiana were aimed directly at him. 1 The speaker informed him that it1 was not a ejueslion of privilege, but m due course ol time he would have an opportunity of replying. "Then," Baid Chalmers, "I vuil bide my time." The house then proceeded lo the consideration of tho resolutions in honor of Iho memory of tho Uto Beverly D. Douglas, representative from Virginia. Eulogies were pronounced pro-nounced by MessiB Goude, Pollard, Hooker, Walker, Springer, Daniels, Pridmore, Chirk of luwa aud Tucker. Ths resolutions wero adopted aud tbe house adjourned, tho Mississippi levee bill, which waa to be taken up this evening, being fixed for consideration consider-ation next Tuesday night. |