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Show FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Washington, 4. The senate was not in Besiion. ' ilOlSF.. j Tiie j iiirnal pension bills passed i Ijp.1 Mht numbered 100. Auiuhk 1 1 them W'-re peinions to the widows ul, ! lienentl Robert Aittlerson, lieuerai 1 Charlef L Lovell and Admiral Charles Wiiku.. Sttp lens reported a bill lo retire five aud luree-cent silver pieces, and to atop their further coinage; also providing that fractional or subsidiary silver coin shall be legal teuder to tbe extent ot $20, and shall be exchange fable at the treasury for other legal ' tender monny when presented in sums Of 120. 1 no home then took up tbe un finished business of yesterday the legislative appropriation bill. I Banks made the point of order on the amendment ollered by Gibson for j the re establishment of a branch mint at New Orleans, that it was new legis latiou, and not in the interest ol economy. After along argument the point of order was verruled. The house then began to vote on various amendmei Is agreed to in committee of the whole. The first on which a division was asked, was une increasing the clerical force in the office of the Burgeon general. The amendment waa opposed generally on tbe democratic side and was supported on the republican side, aa being necessary for the quicker dispatch of business in the decision of pension claims. The vote resulted, yeas 115, nays 114. All republicans voted for tbe amendment am-endment and democrats, with the exception of Stephens of Georgia, and six others, voted against it. The speaker cast bis vole in tbe negative, tieing the vote and defeating tho amendment. The next vote was taken on the motion to strike out the section which authorizes the entire clerical force, six excepted, ou the medical and surgical history ol the war, to be employed on work neceesary lo tbe prompt paymeut of pensions. The motion was rejected, yeas 108, nays 115. i The amendment increasing tbe salaries sal-aries of the principal clerks in the j agricultural department whb rejected. The amendment requiring agricul turn I seeds to be distributed proportionately propor-tionately among congressional districts I was agreed to. ! Tbe amendment offeied by Gibson I appropriating $185,000 for the recs-tablishment recs-tablishment of the New Orleans mint was agreed to 125 to 91. The bill then passed. Adjourned. |