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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. FORTY -FIFTH CONGRESS. SEMITE. Washington, 3. Senator Voorhees took the oath ol office to-day under tho recent election to fill tuo unexpired unex-pired term of the late Seuutor Morton. Mor-ton. McCreery introduced a bill to trans fer the otlice ot Indian afl'tirs from the interior to the war department. Laid on the table lo be called up hereafter by McCreery, who gave notice that he desired to submit aorne remarka. Mr. Matthews introduced a joint resolution providing tor a commercial treaty with Mexico. Teller presented a petiiion of colored pec pie of Louisiana, complaining lhl they are not protected either in lite or property; mat at the recent elec nou they were met by armed white men kuown as the democrat club; that they were shot and ni t allowed meetings. They therefore invoke the prelection, of the federal government Kefemd to a select committee of which Teller ia chairman. UaoiB, Irom the select committee on epidemic diseases, reported a bill toprevint the introduction of conta-uious conta-uious or infectious diseases into the Umttd States, and to a.Ub.isb a bureau ot public health. Ordered printed and recommended. Morrill gave no -ice that us eoon as he could obtain the floor be would call op tne bill lo provide (or taking tne tenth and subsequent cecsuc. The senate lne;, on mutiun ot Conkliog, went into executive session, j Edmunds cailtd up li.e bill, which was partly considered last week, to ! provide tor ascertaining and settling (private land claims in the territories of Shw Mexico, Wyoming, Arizona: ai;d L'tah aud states ol Nevada I mid Colorado. 19-nl. j At S o'clock p.m. dixird reopened j and senate adjoun.t.tl. noisi; LVder tho Cull of utalfca, b'l'li were! ; introduced : I I By Cutler, upriroptia'ini: $100,- 1 000,COO tar the pny-iiR-ut of arrearages! in penaione; by Burcli wd, mjihnriz- ing the issue u 4 pi-r cent, b.juda lit the amount of IU.IjUJ.UUU, Uih pro- C tie lis uf Liio e-ild of v. Inch tjlmil hu dLVuted tu the p tj uicii1. of arrears iiii penlune; by i'urt, tu eat aid tub a j Million al liuard ol cricuiiurc; by i JdC;b), Wusiurjtfju territory, extend-j in itte time fur the couipit-uuu ot the Northern Pacific rail:ud. I Alter the morning hour, Whit ! thorne moved In fcut;ptnd me rule and pass a bill to secure uuiurmity in a tlaiidard of value. It provided that gold and silver coins uf the United Estates which have been declared lull leal tenders shall hereafter be interchangeable inter-changeable at lawful value on the demand of auy bolder ut the otlice of the ajjidUat treamrpr, New York city, and at the niintt in i'mUdelphia and Han Fraixiscu, wneii presented in eumsoi $100 and iiuUip:ra tbrreol. It directs thn secretary o the treusury to provide for auch interchange, aud in all coin payments made by the treasurer to make no discnmiuution in faver of or againat euch gnld or silver coin. On a moiiuu In uu.-'pcLd the rules and piss the bill, it was .defeated; yoaa 101, uaya lfi. Wood moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution setting apart Wednesday, February 12, for reports from tho commitlee ou ways and meana aud making the augur bi'l a special order for Saturday, February 8tb, to be considered in the house aa in commitlee of the whole. Ddtealtd; yeas 130, nay 98; not two-thirds. Wuitthorne a;ked lo bo permitted to submit an amendment providing for a tax on incomes lor the payment of those bonds asked for in tfurch-ard's tfurch-ard's bill. Burcbard declined to admit ad-mit the amendment. TC5 speaker put the question on a suspension of tho rules and hinted that on tbo viva voce vole there oppoared a necessary two-thirds in the majority, the ayes coming in the greatest volumo from the republicau side of the hoiiBO and the nays from the democratic; whereupon where-upon the yeas and nays were asked for and the demand whb supported on the republican side. The vote was taken and resulted yens 140, nays 81; rot a necessary two-thirda vote. Tho house then comtneuced the memorial servicsa in respect to the late Terrence J. Quinn, representative representa-tive from New York. Appropriate resolutions were adopted and eulogieB pronouncedj and then the house adjourned, |
