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Show iioi;ne. The senate's amendments to the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill were non concurred in. The bill providing that the election lor rt'pri'-i iitatives to the Forly-aixth congress from West Virginia, shall be held on Hie second Tuesday of October, Octo-ber, passed. A bill was also passed fixing the election for representatives in congress con-gress in North Carolina, on tbe Tuesday Tues-day after tbe first Monday in November. Novem-ber. j Knott, chairman of the judioiary j committee, reported a bill for the relief re-lief of purchasers of land sold tor direct tuxes, in insurrectionary states. 1 Referred. It provides that the Becre tary of the treasury shall pay, withoui interest, I he proceeds of the aale ef lands sold for direct taxes, In insurrectionary insur-rectionary slates, and tbe owner thereof, provided the owner shall ex erute a complete quit claim conveyance. convey-ance. The following bills were also paBS'-'d : Fixing the election for representatives to the next congress from Colorado for the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The bill exempting municipal and county buildings used as Buch from lew and sale, A bill for attaching the assistant atiorney general (or the postoffice department to the department of justice. A bill exempting employes in tbe postal Bervice from military and jury duty. The bill reorganizing the life saving , service, after discussion, passed. j The botiBe then went into com mittee of the whole on the tarifJ hill, and by a vote of 129 to 86, limited the I general debate to two hours. Burchard favored revising the tariff and reducing the duties in fairness to (all interests. Even the imperfect bill ! now before the house was infiuitelv better than the present tariff O irfield appealed t the house not to U.t no threatening a bill become law. He would, after the first clause was read, move lo strike out the enacting clause. Wood moved that the committee rise, and the committee refused. Wood then moved it be read entire, and after some objections, the clerk commenced reading, when Conger moved to strike out all afltir the enacting enact-ing clause, but the chair (fnket) reiused to entertain the motion, and the reading continued amid great uproar. up-roar. Butler proposed a square vote by yeas and nays, at noon to morrow, which was assented to. The committee then rose and tho house took recess. Tne evening debate is to be on the Mexican award bill. |