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Show l'OKTV-THlKl) lOMiRKSS. SENATE. j Wa.-hh.gton, o Tne credentials . I of senator-elect Landolph, of New. i Jersey, were pr. S'-nt d and filed. j S::erman presented a memorial ' from tiie Cincinnati coiUibcr of com- j merco iu UVo; of granting tho aid j qak.d by the Texas Pacific railway. Weal presented a memorial ol P. B. f1. l'inchback, asking action on i his claim for admission to a seat in the seinite. Referred to the commit- i Ue on elections. Clayton, from the committee on' turr:lorii, reitorted back the bill to j organize tiio territory of Oklabama, j with the recommendation that its further consideration be postponed j until the second Monday of December I next. So ordered. I Morton, from the committee on privileges aud elections, reported hack the senate bill to regulate the , countimr of the votes for the president and vice-president; also a concurrent resolution to amend the twenty-second twenty-second joint rule, and askid the com-laittee com-laittee to be discharged from its further consideration. So ordered. Morton also reported a bill to regulate regu-late the counting of votes for president presi-dent and vice-president, and a deci-u'mn deci-u'mn mi miPrttinurt aririinc theretrom. Placed on calendar. I Morton gave notice that lie would ask the senate to consider the bill on Monday next. Spraguc, from the committee on public lands, retried withau amendment amend-ment a bill to provide lor the sale of dcdctt lands iu Lassen couuly, California. Cali-fornia. Tne vice-president called for tiio business on the calendar, and several bills relating to the District of Columbia Colum-bia were passed. Sargent moved that the rest of the day bo assigncel for the consideration ol the bills ou the calendar and that at the close of the session Schurz' Louisiana resolution be taken up in orelcr that it might be the unfinished business on Monday, when he thought he would be able to uddren. the senate. sen-ate. Chandler objected, and moved to tako up tho house bill to revise, amend and consolidate the steamboat laws. Agreed to 27 to Iti. Conkling opposed the bill aud declared de-clared it was being argued by a paid lobby nud subsidized newspapers, aud that there was no reason for a change in the present laws. Morton Mor-ton favored the bill and disputed Conk ling's statement. Pending the discission, Cameron moved to an executive session. The chair laid before the senate a number of house hills, including the civil rights bill, which was read tho first and second times and referred to the judiciary judi-ciary committee. The senate went into executive session and soon after adjourned. HOUSE. Poland made a majority report from the committee appointed to investigate in-vestigate the aflairs of Arkansas, recommending re-commending no action in the - case. The minority report signed by Ward, of Illinois, was also presented. He favored the restoration of Brooks and the overthrow of the present constitution consti-tution of the stale. The Hennepin canal bill whs then taken up. Parker introduced a bill for the transmission of correspondence by telegraph. Referred. This is the postal telegraph bdl of last session. Cox oflered a resolution calling for information in regard to the material used on public buildings by the late supervising architect of the treasury. Keferrcd. In the debato on the Hennepin canal bill, MeCrary, Croftpn and Wilson Wil-son of Iowa favored the passage of the appropriation, and Burchard, Holman and Davies opposed it. Hol-man Hol-man thought it was the initial job of tlie session, the pioneer measure which would in the end take a hundred hund-red millions from tho government; and-if the scheme stocd by itself would receive little support. Burchard Burch-ard believed the conitruction of the canal by the proposed route would cost from twenty to twenty-five millions mil-lions of dollars, and in view of the treasury was opposed to the bill in any shape, even although his own district might be benefited by it. May mini of Tennessee favored the bill. At tho close of the discussion it was moved to table the bill, and pending the vote the house adjourned. |
