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Show FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. j StSATE. j Washington, 30. Tho president jjn Um, btid before tbe senate a num- j tter t bills from the house, among ih in the senate bill to repeal the h.mkrnj't law, with amendments i.t-r'Ui Hreed to by lue bouse. Mtrriniun movtd to re er the bill Miid a hi n lineuta. lj the judiciary ixjinniuiee. Beck ui jricted to the motion and dniandid the yeas and nays. Lie ttiiMj.l;'. thrt houe ameudments nhunid ie euiuurre t in aud the bill I passed. ! Conk ling favored its reference, and aaid in this body any committee could report at any time, therefore, there would be no loss by a reference. Beck opposed the reference upOD the ground that if any good was to grow out of the passage of the bill the sooner it be passed the better. All sorts of fraudulent petitions were now being tiled by persona to take advantage ad-vantage of tbe baukrupt law before its repeal. Pending tbe discussion the bankrupt bank-rupt bill was laid aside temporarily ili.it ttio mnrnintf hnsinpss might be transacted. Morrill, Vt,, from the committee ou finance, reported adversely on the concurrent resolution of Beck, declaring declar-ing it inexpedient to levy taxes at this time to maintain tho sinking fund, and the committee waa d:scharged from its further consideration. Morrill Mor-rill said the law as it now atood provided pro-vided for the sinking fund and it could not be repealed by a concurrent resolution. Kirkwood preaeuted the credentials ot Allu-on, senator from Io'.f a. Tahled. ! Butler submitted an amendment to the resumption repeal bill, so as to repeal the tax on private or state bank noteB. Ordered priuttd. ! Booth, from the committee on public pub-lic lat-.d, reported, with an amend ! ment, the bill for the relief of certain (public land Beltlera, and to pay hack certain fees and commissions paid on void entries of public lands. Calendar.' Cal-endar.' Cockrell, from the military committee com-mittee reported a bill authorizing tbe president to appoint Janus ouieiua, a brigadier general on the retired list. Calendar. Sargent, from the naval committee, reported that the conference on the naval appropriation bill had com pro miscd their slight differences. Report unanimously agreed to. 0 Alter morning business the senate resumed consideration ot tbe bill to repeal the bankrupt law. lugalls favored a" well regulated bankrupt law, a modification of the present one. Davia (Ills.) thought it a great mistake to repeal this law and, unless it or another similar one existed, debtors would be at tbe mercy of creditors He (thought it might be Bimplifitd by the judiciary committee. commit-tee. Beck a iid if the matter went to the judiciary committee it would not be heard from this session. Allison submitted an amendment to refer the bill and amendments to tiie judiciary committee with instructions instruc-tions to report a substitute that will relieve the suffering classes of debtors. , Edmunds opposed repeal. I Thurman moved to amend Alii eon's amendment eo as to instruct the jud iciary committee to report on Tnursday next. He Baid Ohio waa unanimous for a repeal ol' the law. Paddock aud others urged that no referenced made, but that the bill be disp sed of now. Thurman's ameudmeut waa rejected, re-jected, 34 to 19. i . Allison's amendment wan reiected. 36 to 18. Another vote on the renewal of Thurman's motion resulted against instructing the judiciary committee to report, the vote being 27 to 27. Merrimon's motion to refer to the judiciary committee simply, was rejected, re-jected, 28 to 23. Edmuo'le moved the bill' and amendments be referred to a special oommitiee of three. Al ison moved to adjourn, that the bill aud amendments be printed, so that it might be finished in half an hour to-morrow. Agreed, 37 to 17, Adjourned. HOUSE. The bili for the relief of Bettlera on land claimed by the North and South Alabama railroad, under consideration considera-tion lust night when the bouse found itself without a,qourum,was presented to the speaker. Af;er discussion, the bill was referred to the committee of the whole and the house went into committee of the whole on the legis lative appropriation bill, Elen in the chair. Gibson offered an amendment to the bill re organizing the mint at New Orleans, and appropriating $185,000 forits maintenance. Uibson's ameudmeut was, after a lorg discussion, defeated 96 to 71. During a long discussion on reduced re-duced appropriations for territorial gnvernmots, the republicans criticized criti-cized the action of the committee on appropriations and tbe speaker dole do-le tided the committee and condemned iIib republicans for opposing economy Garfield declared the expenses bad been decreasing since 1872. The republicans believed in maintaining the government at any cost and in economy not consistent therewith. Randall denied that the republican houae had decreased the expenses and urged them to cease resisting economy. econ-omy. Hale said tbo speaker had a hard job to control the extravagance of his party, who had reported the river aud harbor bill and the Mexican peusion bill. The economy ot the democrat- was cheese paring. Bi'ebe, Foster, Hewitt and others continued tbe aiscussiou. Conger criticized the sptaker for his complaints and said his potent and restraining voice should ba heard in democratic caucuses. Calkins alluded to the speaker's former advocacy of an increase of the members' salaries as a measure of economy. The speaker said he bad'honestly advocated that increase, but when hw found the people condemned it, be gave up bis own opinions and obeyed instructions, Calkins asked if be gave back the $5,000? Randall said no, but he would de fend his record. Williams, Wis., asked several questions regarding b s record as to cutting down and raising the salaries of members, to which the speaker replied and asserted that whenever a proposition was made to decrease the salaries be would vote for it. He believed, however, rather in reducing the number ot employe) in the departments than their pay. After further discussion the committee com-mittee rose and the house adjourned. |