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Show WIT MM FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SENATE, Washington, 10. The house joint resolution authorizing the expenditure expendi-ture of $36,000 of the $200 000 appropriated ap-propriated to give greater stability to the foundation of the Washington monument passed. The president presented a communication com-munication from the secretary of war transmitting a communication from Charles F. Atkinson of Mo line, (lis ) water power company, aud from the chief of the ordinuuee bureau, renew me his recommendation that $157.-350 $157.-350 be appropriated to complete the development of the water power at Rock Island arsanal. The secretary approves the appropriation- Ordsred printed and to !a d on tab'e. Also a report from the chief of the bureau of statistics answering the recent resolution regarding the consumption con-sumption of the tniill articles. Ordered printed. . Considerati jo of the bill to repeal the bankrupt law was resumed and Muxey continued hi i argument in favor of the till. Maxey aud Hill fivored repeal. MeCreery said the date had much the appearance of no repeal at all. Alter further debate, Thuriuan'a amendment, making tbe date of the repeal September 1st, waa agreed to 27 to 21. Beck moved to strike out Septem bor 1st and make the bill take effect immediately. Lost nays 24, yeasj 22. j The judiciary committee's amendment amend-ment au amended nas then agreed to1 yeas 2(i, uaya 21, and the bill paaned. It now goes to the house lor concurrence. Sargent called up the post office appropriation ap-propriation bill, which will be unfinished unfin-ished business on Monday. Sargent submitted a resolution ask ing the secretary of the treasury lor information regrding the ciicum stances under which tbe receipt of deposits at the d liferent mints for coinage into trade dollars was suspended sus-pended in October, 1S77, and all ittrrespondence relating thereto Agreed to. Aiijourned till Monday. HOLME. Wood introduced a bill providing that the indebtedness of the United States to importers for excess ol de-j posits for unascertained dudes or other monies paid under protest, when ascertained under the provisions of the law, should bo paid regardless! of the time of the original payment, tbert'df, with interest aud cml legally, due, u nder Bections 089 and 966 of the revised statutes, from the permanent annual appropriation for that our pose I in section 3,689. Referred, The committee on naval expendi lures presented the testimony taken by that committee accompanied by resolutions recommending an appropriation appro-priation of 3, 217,736 fur the pay ment of certain claims against the navy department, and directing the secretary to cancel contracts amount ing to ?'o. 600. 000. Made the special order for May 2-tb. Dunnell intrcductd a bill providing that notice of contest under ttie pre i-uiptioD, homestead and timber cul-ure cul-ure laws must be printed in a news- pfr ia tlia couuty where such con-1 test lies. Passed. Garfield, from the commiltte ( n rules, reported a resolution ameLdit.g tbe rules ot toe bouse so as to j ru vide that bills touching tbe revri ut and public debt reported from tl e committee on ways aud rueuns my be made a special order by a nm-j'jrity nm-j'jrity vole; also a resolution providing provid-ing that all bills originating in Hie senate which appropriate money, lands or properly of the United Stales, shall bavn their first eonsider-Btijn eonsider-Btijn in committ3e of the whole, and all senate amendments to house bilij, not germain to tbe suhjnjt matter of the b 11 as pasecd by the house, shall have the same consideration. considera-tion. Ordered printed and laid over i lor further consideration. The speaker called the committees) for reports of a private nature The bill to aid the improvement of ' Dismal swamp canal, guaranteeing j government payment of the interest ol i I the bond of the company to an amount not exceeding $4U0,000 was ! referred to the committee of tbe whole. j Th houie then weot into commit-tRp commit-tRp of the whole nn the private cal eiidf, tie pending business, tbe William and Mary college bill, being pai-sd ever without action, Goode auling th t he w ju'd not press the bill tuiw si-cSinii. The bill appropriating $3,300 to I ' Richard Heater of Virginia for stores land supplies taken by the United States army, led to discussion, j Kiefer advocated the bill, stating that Heater bad been loyal all through the war, aod had a son in the Uni n army. I Bragg opposed the bill. He bad been in Virginia during the war and never heard of a citizen of that state being loyal to the Union. Loyalty in Virginia meant loyal to Virginia. Hunter Baid there were many Unionists in Virginia throughout tho war. Fiuley accused the republicans of trying to make capital by opposing these claims. Thornburg advocated tho bill. He favored paying the claims of men who were loyal wuen loyalty meant something. some-thing. All claims now pending were! not a Umth part af the losses sustained by loyalisU during tbe war. McMahon said that when the republicans obtained a majority of tho house th;y would pay $900,000,000 suoh claims. The republican house had twice paesed the William ana Mary bill about which the republicans republi-cans are making such party capital ' now. Kiofei denied this and McMahon criticized Kiefer, accusing him of hypucricy. Kiefer retorted by calling McMahon a domiigogue. Gooclo and Cabell said those who necednd did not expect anything from the government, because they Btaked their all and lost forever, ' White (Pa ) spoke with much ' w-irniih of the persecutions of souihern i loyalists in the Libby prison, j Hunter, who had crossed over to ! ttie republican side of the chamber, :and had listed calmly, but w:th evident evi-dent disrelish, to White's remarks, ! replied to them aud denied em 'piratically that any unnecesary or avoidable privations bad beenimpostd upon federal prisoners in confederate : Imiidn, and imputed to the federal government the blame for such privatiuns, in refusing to allow an j I exchange of prisoners. He deprecat- . ed the introduction of such atopic' 'into the debate. TDompson said he waa ready and j j willing in vote for the just claims of tiouthern loyal men who had stood J here and there in the south as unbent I as their native pines, aud who had been "spotted" for their loyally and had been persecuted for it. Hunter challenged Thompson to instance such cases of persecution. Cabell repudiated iudignantly that imputation. He spurned tbe idea that the souihern representative would either present or uphold any fraudulent claim. Bright tooic the floor to close the discussion but, at the solicitation ol I White, yielded one minute to that ' gentleman. White thereupon, in an excited manner, took up the same subject and aummoned before the bouse : ghostly skeletons of Anderaonville and other southern prisons, but denied I that he had any desire to stir Hp angry passions. As be become more aud aiore excited in his manner, ges-ticu'ating ges-ticu'ating vehemently aud moving aerobe tbe area toward the democratic side of the house, be waa greeied from that side wilh jeering shouts of "Louder! louder!" At tho lop of his voice he declared be was ready le meet the issue raised by Hunton. Vance asked him whether he (Wiii'.f) had been in the southern array. White etorufuily answered in the negative, but said he had been in the northern army, and had be come a prisoner of war in the bands of the confederate army. H there fore knew what he had asserted. Eden, and other members of the democratic side, claimed that White's time had expired, and the chairman so stated. White, however, paid no attention to the intimation, but continued amid a storm ol objections, calls loi order, and other iulerrupiiuns from tbe democratic side, to shout at the top of hia voice, ihe only audible sentence in his ppeeeh being that the statement of Hunton as to ihe responsibility re-sponsibility of the federal government for the Hufierings of the federal prisoners pris-oners iu confederate prisons was false. By this time White's escitemeut had communicated itself to members on the democratic side. Most of them contented themselves with contemptuous contempt-uous shouts and laughter, but Turner advanced towards While and with clinched fist in proximity to White's lace, demanded to know why be did not take bis seat as be was required to do by the rules. The chairman plied his gavel and ctlled fir the sargent at-arms, but the services of thai official were rendered unnecca sary by the interference of the sense-ible sense-ible men on both sides, who sur rounded the ceulral figures in angry disputation and led them baok to their respective teats. After a short time the stnrm spent its force, a comparative lull fell upon the house, diucu-slon was closed and tbe com mitteerose and reported the bill to the house with tbe recommendation that it pass. McMahon moved to lay the bill on the tahle. defeated, yeas 59, nays 110. Tbe bill then passed. Kefier pnsinted to tbe house a:i invitation to be present at the j Decoration day service at Arlington, j under the auspices of the Grand I Army of the Republic. Laid on the 'uble I Durham, Tom the committee nn the department o! justice, reported a bill regulating tbe salaries of United Slates district attorneys. It fixes th Balari''p of such officers at from $2,000 to $5,000, to be regulated by tbe amount of business done in their respective districts, except the salary of the district attorney lor the southern distrietof New York, which is fired 1 at $10,000, and provides that tbe fees rand perquisites heretofore received by those officers shall be covered into the treasury. It also regulates the t number and com pons ttioo of a-rsiit ml attorneys. Printed and recommitted ' Adj ;urned. |