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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington, 18. Voorhees presented pre-sented a petition of the citizens: of , Warren county, Indiana, praying for i the remonetization of the silver dollar iand the repeal of the specie resumption resump-tion act. The Vice President It will be re-ferred re-ferred to the committee on finance, , under the last clause. ! Voorhees The repeal of the specie resumption act is yet to come, and I 1 1 hope it will come soon. A resolution that the sesate should ; consider bills on the calendar not , objected to was agreed to. The bill to enable Indians to be-'j be-'j come citizens was taken up during ' the morning hour, and YVhyte spoke i'in opposition. At the expiration of the morning hour, further consideration of the bill was postponed till Monday next. . Chaffee introduced a bill to provide , for the election of territorial governor, secretary and other territorial officers I in the several territories, lie ferred. The resolution of Beck to have an inquiry into the legislation needed to prevent the introduction of yellow i i fever into the country nae adopted. I Cameron presented a petition from I the American iron and eteel aisocii.-1 aisocii.-1 tion remonstrating against any change in tho present rales of duties ou imports. Referred. Cameron (Pa.) introduced a bill to reinstate certain officers of the United States army. It provided that all officers of the United States army who i bave served therein more than twenty years continuously, and served also during the late rebellion, and who 1 were wounded and brevelted for gal- lant service in the field, and who were , honorably mustered out of the service, under section 12 of the act of July 15, 1870, be retnBtated and retired as of late they were respectively mustered out. t Withers, from the committee on pensions, reported back the resolution I instructing the committee to consider as to the expediency of reducing and 1 readjusting compensation of pension agents and also as to the practicability i ol having pensioners paid directly from the treasury of the United States together with the views in writing of ' various public officers, to whom the f question had been submitted, and moved that they be printed and re-I re-I committed. So ordered, Withers also gave notice that to 1 morrow he would call up for coneider- ation the senate bill amending the , laws granting pensions to the soldiers , and sailors of the war of 1812 and , their widows. Corsey submitted an amendment ' to the resolution rectntly submitted by - Voorhees, instructing the committee . on judiciary to procure information iu relation to the bonds ot certain rail-' rail-' road companies on certain contingent ' land grauta of lands of the Indians of i Indian territory. The amendment instructs tho committee to ascertain what amount of mousy baa been ex- ' pended by the several Indian tribes 1 of the Indian territory in the support of delegates to Washington during j the past five years, and in opposing the organization of a civil government over said territory, and whether any such money has been taken from the i school funds of any such tribes, and if so, what legislation is necessary to prevent in future thediveraion of such school funds from their legitimate purpose. It further instructs the committee to ascertain whether a civil form ot government cannot be organized over the Indian territory for the better protection of life and property aud whether the lands now . held iu common by said Indian tribes - i cannot be divided among the Indians Indi-ans without confirming conditional grants of lands to certain railroads. Ordered printed. The following on the calendar were passed: The senate bill fir the relief of Bet-tiers Bet-tiers on public lauds under the preemption pre-emption law. j Paddock, in explanation of this bill, , said it was to allow a settler who had occupied a tract of laod a year or more to change his settlement and take up under the homestead law, and the time spent on the former tract to be countnl a part of the five years required under the hone-stead hone-stead law. IIOL'SE. The silver bill, with the seuate amendment, was rem mod to tho home immediately after the commencement com-mencement of Hie eeesion to tiny and placed upon the speaker's table with other accumulated buainrss which has precedence. After the reading of the journal the roil was called uponi private bills. Tim regular Monday i cull of states for bilis.Mid joint resolu- tiens will be interrupted for consider-j ation ot reports from the committee j on the District of Columtja. The' silver bill may b reached to-morrow by a majority vote to set aside all previous business ou the speaker's table. A contereuce of the friends ot the bill will be held immediately upon the adjournment this afternoon to consider the bill in its present i Urm and determine action. On motion of Ening, the Bland lilver bill, with the senate Amendments, Amend-ments, was ordered printed. Tmo bill compensation George H. Giddinga, for mail service rendered prior to the war, waa passed; yeas 152, Day- 90. Bills were introduced utid ra'urrcd us followd: By RoberLfon, a resolution of trie Louisiana as-iemhly, iu fuvur nf the Texas Pacific bill r,d the Bidnd silver bill. By Southard, a joint resolution of the Ohio legislature, declaring that President HayeB and Secrplary Sherman, Sher-man, in opposition to the silver bill, do not represent the views of the people of Ohio, By Riddle, to protect the urgaui zation of national banking associations under the existing Uwj, aud to re-charter re-charter those now in operation. By Burchard, to promote deposit aaviuga and refund iug the uational debt. By Corlett, to incorporate the National Pacific railroad, i At 2 o'olock the floor was awarded the chairman of the committe on the District of Columbia for District business. Hendee reported back the bill pro viding a permanent form of government govern-ment for the District, which was made the special order for March 4th. The house then went into committee commit-tee of the whole, Springer in the chair, on bills relating to the District, hut without action the committee ro'e. The following bills wore then introduced intro-duced and referred: By Garfield, to provide for a more thorough investigation of railroad accidents. By Banks, granting a privilege of the floor to one representative of every newspaper having daily telegraphic tele-graphic communication with Wash ington. House adjourned. |