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Show FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. si; VTE. Washington, 13. Bayard and Hamlin were appointed a committee to arrange for the funeral of Representative Rep-resentative Schloischer and accompany the remains to Texas. The bill was passed, without discussion, dis-cussion, appropriating $250,000 for a fire-proof building for the national museum. It was then voted to attend the funeral of Mr. Sohle'scher, and recess was taken. Ingalls, from the pension committee commit-tee reported, without amendment the house bill relating to aoldierB while in civil service in the United States. Placed on the calendar. It provides (or the payment of their pensions to any persons who wore deprived thereof during any oortion of the time, from from the 30th of March, 1865, to the Gth of June, 1866, by reason of their being in the civil service of the United States. 1 The senate proceeded in a body to the hall of the house to attend the funeral and upon returning to the chamber, adjourned until to-morrow. 1IOLSE. The report of the committee on (oreign aflairs, waa unanimously adopted recommending payment ol the remainder of the salary of the late Representative Schleischer aj a member o( the Forty-fifth congress to his bereaved family, and requesting the next congress to make a Birailar appropriation of his Balary as a member mem-ber ol the Forty-filth congress. The funeral services will take place at 3 o'clock, to which time a recess was taken. Long before the termination of the recess the galleries were filled by, Deople, and at the appointed time1 senators and Bupreme court judges entered the hall. Soon afterwards the body o( Mr. Schleischer waB borna in and the funeral services were read by the chaplaina of the house and senate. At the conclusion of the funeral services, at which the president and cabinet were present, the remains were removed from the hall by the committee and escorted to the depot, where they will be sent to San An tonia by Ibis evening's train. Huuse adjourned. |