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Show LATEST TELEGRAMS. I FORTY -SIXTH CONGRESS. ! EX I RA SESSION. AKSf ATE Wnfrhirglon, 28. The UyirMive, tX;cuiivo uud judicial appropriation hill was received irom (he houae and referred to tho committee on appropriations, appro-priations, The bouse joint resolution to repeal cL-rUiu clituaed in tlm tjuudry civil ' appropriation act of Marcu 3J, 1879. 1'a-eed. It maku appropriations fur the extfriiniou ot military telegraph lior-a in Montana and Texas, and repeals re-peals the authority heretofore givtn to the secretary ot war to It-ann the water power at Molino, to thu Molioe Water Power Company. Williams introduced a bill to regulate regu-late the legl value of metal mout-y and provide for a free and unlimited coinage of gold aud silver bullion and r;utore coin to circulation. Referred, It proposes to make all gold and ail' ver coins, including trade dullaru, equally legal tender (or all deblej, public and private, to any amouut, and at their nominal value. Pendleton introduced a bill to in crease1 educational facilities and establish estab-lish normal training Bchools for tbe benefit of Indian tribes who have educational claims on the United dtates. Keforred. A bill giving scats ou the floor of the senate and house to the he ado of departments was taken up, aud Pendleton Pen-dleton made a speech in its advocacy. He said that this measure appealed to o par tin an interest. It touched the relation of two great powers in the seData, and sought to improve their methods of communication with each other. Morrill contended against mingling the executive and legislative functions and urged that it was needless and unrepublican. Oo motion of Pendleton, the bill ' was, lor the present, laid on the i table. Clay scouted the idea that the de-I de-I partments were a part of the constitutional consti-tutional executive. They were creatures of congressional enact- ments. The aeunto then passed the bill for , publication of the Revised Statutes, after which came the executive bcs-' bcs-' sion and then adjournment. |