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Show LATLST DISPATCHES. GENERAL. KoKTV-Timti) roN(;iir;ss. , SENATE Washington, 10. Morrill, Me., moved to fix Monday next for the consideration ot the bill reported on Monday from tho joint select committee com-mittee to frame a government for the district of Columbia. Agreed to. A resolution appointing George Bancrutt member of the board of regents for the Smithsonian Institute, in place of Cieu. Sherman, resigned, was adopted. V right, of Iowa, gavo notice that bo would ask the senato on Friday of next week to proceed to tho consider-alion consider-alion ot tne bill reported last session from the judiciary committee declar-' declar-' mg the true intent and meaning of the Union I'acilie railroad acts approved ap-proved July 1st. lSdl', July m2d, ISijj, and July 3J, llij. The senate went into executive session and referred a large number of nominations to tho appropriate committees, and on re -assembling adjourned. HOUSE. Heck offered a resolution calling for a report oi too conuiuon oi uuaira ui the freed man's bank; adopted. Ford introduced a resolution to print 25,000 copies each of tho agricultural report ot 1S72 and 1873; referred. Swann, from the committee on appropriations, appropria-tions, reported the coa-anar and diplomatic appropriations bill. It appropriates $l,o44,7tv5. The bill appropriating $30,000 for scales to be kiruished the poslotlice department passed. The house went into committee ot the whole. Tho committee of the whole resumed re-sumed tho consideration of the bill authorizing the issue of 3.G5 converti-blr converti-blr bonds. Slowell, rising to a question of per-BOnm per-BOnm privilege, referred to a charge made against him by o-ie Porter ol having Bold a naval cadetsbip for $1,000. lie denounced the cliarge .13 lalse, and asked an investigation by the house. The matter was referred re-ferred to the naval committee. Flolman ottered a resolution to amend the rules so as to make it in order to move to amend any proposed bill by abolishing any office or public employment, or by reducing the salary or compensation of such ofliee. Re erred. Williard, of Vernon, offered an amendment providing that greenbacks green-backs shall not bo legal tender in payment of debts contracted before July 1st, 1S75. Dawea oppesed the hill iu a long speech. He said ie rejoiced that the bauds of congress were being held up in tbe effort, if it had courage to make it, to bring tho country back to the laws trade, and argued that the direct inevitable consequence con-sequence of the pending bill, instead ol beii'g a relief by appreciating greenbacks green-backs to t;o!d, would be to sink it 10 lo lo per cent., thereby taking from the laborer that per cent, of tbe purchasing pur-chasing power of bia day's wtges. He concluded as follows: "Those who are responsible or public aflairs have no time to lose. We can put oti our duty on the premises no longer. The republican parly has just three months to save or destroy its existence. No other power than itself can accomplish accom-plish its ruin. It will pass out of mind and memory in the politics of this country il at all by iu own hinds it has the power and privilege of accomplishing ac-complishing either of these results. Whatever awaits that party in the near future, let it not die Jor want of courage |