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Show LITEST TELEGimiS. i FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS- SENATE. Washington, 19. A communication communica-tion was received from Davepjrt, aupervicur of elections a'. New York, btigesting amendments in tlie naturalization natur-alization laws. Kef erred. Cbristiancy reported a substitute for the bill of Beck to repeal sections o! the Kevtsed statutes, lue euusu-tute euusu-tute provides for tbe repeal of section 820 providing a teat oath for jurors. Ordered printed and placed on the I calendar. Beck gave notice that he would call the bill up for consideration to morrow. mor-row. Dorsey, from the committee on appropriations, reported favorably on the house bill to provide for the doti ciency in the transportation of maila by railroad. McDonald introduced a bill to reimburse several states for interest paid on the war loan, and for other purposes. Jteferred. The house bill appropriating $150, for the transportation of mails by roil mar) a nuoJ The vico-preaidont announced the following as a select committee under tho Blaine resolution: Messrs. Teller, Cameron, (Wisconsin), Kirkwood, Mitchell, Plumb, Bayard, Wallace, Bailey and Garland. Mitchell (Oregon), and Plumb, (Kansas), at their request were excused. No appointments are yet made to fill the vacancies. The vice president appointed, as a conference committee on tbe part ot tho senate on tbe fortification appropriation appro-priation bill, Windom, Allison and Withers, and on tho coniular and diplomatic appropriation bill, Windom, Win-dom, Dorsey, and Wallace of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Davis, West Virginia, introduced a! bill making an appropriation to improve im-prove the Little Kanawha river iu West Virginia. lief erred. After taking up the bill to amend the port laws, several amendments I were made and rejected and, pending discussion, the bill was laid aside informally. in-formally. Burnside took the floor to explain the provision of the bill recently re-! ported from the joint Gommiitse for the reorganization of the army. Ho said the officers of tho army were law-abiding law-abiding men, and while they might disagree os to regulations aud customs, cus-toms, alwayB obeyed tholaw. Nearly all tbe troubies between the staff and line had arisen from uncertainty as to the regulations of tbe service.and it was lor the purpose of turning them into law thai the committee had ingrafted numerouB army regulations in the bill. Tbe committee tried to kep in view, both tbe efficiency and economy ol tbe service. He quoted at length from tbe bill and said it wsb most likely that, in a few years heuce, some of the cavalry regiments might bo changed to infantry regiments and thus tbe expense of che service be decreased. Kelerring to the provision forbidding tbe further manufacture ol arms by the ordnance department, lie aaid he thought it was calculated to stimulate the invention of arms throughout tbe country. It had been said, by tbe opponents of the bill, that it curtailed the powers of the secretary of war. He denied that such was the case. In no way did it abridge the powers of that officer. The general-in-chief had no power to appoint staff officers. Tbe bill provided pro-vided that they should be appointed by the president upon tho recommendation recommen-dation of the commanding general, and he (Burnside) knew of no one who was better fitted to recommend appointments than the commanding general of tbe army. In the earliest days of the government, govern-ment, the secretary of war was not considered a part of the army. He had always been considered a civli officer. In conclusion, Burnside said he was satisfied that a system of reform re-form was necessary and should be made at this time. The bill for reorganizing the army was then laid aside. Dorsey then called up the house bill to amend the act of June 20, 1878, and to fix the rate of interest on bonds authorized by said act, to be issued by tbe commissioners of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. The bill passed 3S to 16. Tbe senate tbn resumed consideration considera-tion of the bill to amend the statutes in relation to patents, and Windom gave notico that be would hereafter submit the following ns an additional section: In any suit brought in aDy court now bavingjurisdictiou in patent case?, for an alleged infringement ot any patented article, device, process, invention or discovery, where it shall appear that tlie defendent purchased tho sime from the manufacturer thereof, or from a person or firm engaged en-gaged iu the operation, aula or prac-tU.l prac-tU.l application thereof, or that he manufactured or applied the same for and to his own use and not (or ealo nor for making a product for sale, if the pluiniifl shall recover p judgement judge-ment for merely nominal damages, the court shall adjudge that he pay the co3'.s of the suit, and if the plain-tifl plain-tifl shall not recover the sum of $30 or over, the court shall adjudge him to pay his own costs unless it shall also appear that tbe defendant, at the sale of such purcha&e, manufacture, manufac-ture, or practical application, had knowledge Or actual notice of tha existence of such patent, and that such purchase, manufacture or prac-i tical application was an infrigement 1 of the rights of the plaintiff Laid, over to be submitted hereafter. j Davis, Illinois, spoke ol the imperfection imper-fection of the existing patent laws and submitted an amendment to tbe fitat creation of the bill, that if any suit be instituted in any one circuit court of tbe United Statei, the validity of the! patent shall be determined upon (he1 final hearing and any other circuit court may recognize said decision and in its discretion graut in lb, net ions based thereon, to continue pending the appeal to the supreme court of the first suit, and it tbe validity of any Bucb patent has been decreed against in the suit instituted in any one circuit court, any other circuit court may, in its discretion, grant a stay proceedings in auv United Slates suit brought under the said paten?, pending an appeal to the supreme cuurt ot tbe United ti;au-s iu said firt suit. Tue senate resumed consideration ol the patent bill, and Curisttsncy fpoke at length of the imperfections in our patent laws. Oa nijtioa of Wadleigh, further consideration of tbe patent bill was po.-tpoizeJ until Tuesday, January j Tne vice president appointed Hoar! a member of the select couimi!:e-! under the Blaine resolution iu the ! place of M.:cr:e.l, who declin d, nun i McMillan a member in the place ot ihinih, who also declined. Teller, ch iirinsn of the select committee, com-mittee, submitted a re.-oluiion au'.hor-izinE au'.hor-izinE tMe committee to employ such clerks ani stenographers as may be necessary. Voorhees submitted a-resclut;cn in structing the census committee to inquire in-quire into the advisibility ot including in the next cecsus lull particulars regarding the Indians, iu Indian territory. terri-tory. I 1 he bouse joint resolution exud ing tbo time for the joint committee j on the transfer of the Indian bureau I to report was passed. ' Alter executive Beesicn the Benate adjourned. I 11 0 1 St. J. 3. Young took the seat made vacant by tho death of J. J. Leonaid, from tbe Filth Louisiana district. l'he house went into committee of the whole on the Indian appropriation appropria-tion bill. Cubell hoped (be objectors would be noted. Townsend, New York, inquired if j the members were to be menaced in tbe discharge of tbeir duties. He understood tho gentleman for Virginia Vir-ginia to call out, in a meuacing manner, man-ner, that he wanted it noted who objected, ob-jected, and that it was a breach of privilege. Speaker The reporter are bound to note objections. White Oh 1 It did not alarm anybody. any-body. Cobell I neithor menaced anybody any-body nor intended to menace anybody, any-body, and when I intend to do so I will make a demonstration thegentle man (Townsend) will not mistake. I merely wanted to put on record who objected to a simple resolution of enquiry. buarks The minority have a right to objeot and they avail themselves ol that right very frequently. There was a great deal of confusion in tbe hall and Acklin sugceetsd that the riot act should be read. Townsend, New York, remarked that it should have been read during tbe lato election in Louisiana, to which Acklin retorted that the aame thing might be said of Now York. Hnalsfl moted to strike out the clause appropriating $15,000 for tbe expenses ot the Indian commissioners, After a long discussion the matter was rejected. On motion of Scales, the number of Indian police whb reduced to 400 privates and fifty officers. Throckmorton ottered as a new section an amendment for tho transfer trans-fer of the Indian bureau to tbe war department, but subsequently withdrew with-drew it. The committee tobo and reported tho bill to tbe housB. A separate vote waB demanded on the amend-! amend-! ment, agreed to in the commit ;tee, prohibiting the removal of tbe Indians of Arizona and New Mexico to Indian territory. Adopted yeas, 97; nays, 94. Tbe bill then passed, j Harrison, chairman of the commit-, commit-, lea on civil service submitted there-port there-port of tho committee in reference to the investigation made by it as to the charges made against certain members of the house for receiving money and aiding in the passage ol the bill providing for tho payment of interest on 3.65 district bonds. The report stales that there was not a particle of testimony Bbowing that any money had been used, or that any corrupt influence was brought to bear. Tbe charges wore wanton and 'u wholly unjustifiable attack on the members of this house. Committee discharged. The speaker appointed Durham, Clymer, Smith (Pennsylvania) and Baker (Indiana), and Singleton as conferees on the part of the bouse on the military academy and fortification appropriation bills respectively. ' Adjourned. |