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Show RGVSK. Tue senate bill granting t'.c u e n artillery su.ts. etc., lo the soldiers' reunion at Centreville, Iowa, passed, Sessions were ordered for lTnda and Tuesday evenings next. Tiplnu introduced a bdl air.honzint Oluo, Illinois ana Indian to prnw ; cute suils against the United S'.iica , in tiie supreme court. Ut-ferrt-d. J A resolution appointing-a committee commit-tee to act with a senate committee. t" nceivc on the 22d of February, 1S79, the United States Centennial sale and us contents, was adopted. Tne committee on priming reported a bill fjr printiog tne agricultural report for 1S77, with the- senate ainenduieiit prov Jii,g for the print ine ot 5,0o0 copi3o! colouial chrter- and oiustitutioiis, and recommending non-concurrence in tne amendment. Frye rro;ed to concur. Agreed to. I yeas V2:'t nys 155, and the bit' ! p tssed. Smith (Pa.) fubmi:tti the confer- puce report on the bill making appio-prinions appio-prinions for the payment ot invalid and ni.ier pensions. Agreed to. The speaker appointed tiie f.'l'owiug rmlerence com'uittees Oa the III gielative appropriation bill, Atkin3, Durham aud Foster; on the po?totfice appropriation bill, Blount, Clymer aiJU DJklT. Consideration of the bill amending tiie internal revenue laws was ie sumcd, the pending questioc being ou the nmenduents of Covert as amended 1 by Tucker. The amendment reads as lollows: "That on and after the parage of this act, there shall be lovied and collected upon all snul) m anu factured of tobacco or any substitute sub-stitute for tobacco, ground, dry, damp, pickled, scented or otherwise, oi all description, when prepared for use, and upon all cbewiug and smok ing tobacco, tioe cut cavendish, plug or twist cut or granulated ot every description, on tobacco twisted by hand, reduced into condition to be eoosumol, or in any manner other than the oidinary mode of drying anO curine. nreDared for sale orconaump- don, even if prepared without the use of any machine or instrument, and without being pressed or sweetened, sweet-ened, and on all fine cut, shorn and refuse scrips, clippings, cuttings and sweepings of tobacco, a tax of 16 cents per puuud. On cigarB of all descriptions, wbieia shall be manufactured aud .-j.d, or removed for consumption oP use, made of tobacco or any substitute therefor, there shall be levied and I collected a tax ol $5 per luouand. On cigarettes weighing not more th n I three pounds and a ha:f per thousand, fl -o per thousand; ou cigarettes weighing more than three pounds per thousand, $5 per thousand, and all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with tbir. section, eball be aud are here.by repealed, on and alter the dale herein aforesaid. Tne amendment was adopted, yeas 137, nays 103. Further action on the bi was suspended and tne hous" venl into committee oi the whole, ou the general gene-ral deficiency bill. The amount appropriated is 4, 520,120 Blount explained that tbfl total deficiencies for 1878 was $1,970,000. the remainder was leapprnonations and appropriations prior to 180. He congratulated the country and the Jem jcrats on the reductions iu the government exoensea. There was a diflerence of $36,000 000 between the appropriations of 1870 and 1878, so Ltiat there was a saving, above dericiHUCe?, ol i $26,000,000, and allow ing lor deticieuoes prior in 1576, the saving wouid amount to $28,000,000 Foster denied the stutemenl ard iiiJ ilia nm'inni saved was not over ly.ooo.ooo. Clymer explained the navy appro priation and said the larg deficiency was tiwiDg to a recklesi defiance, of law in that department, which allowed one fund to be do voted Irom its pur po-ie. Wiilis (New Vork) said the com ojittpo on naval expeuses bad recom-in'trnd recom-in'trnd to the commute) on appropri atioDs $3,217,000 clai'ns no -'rtuiracts , from the navy department, for although the department h d ignored law yet these contractors had some rights. Whitlhorne defended bis refusal to assent to the piymeu'. nf the $3,217,-OOO $3,217,-OOO cliiims. General debate then closed when the committee rose and tho house adjourned |