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Show FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS, SENATE. Wmb:n,:ion, 1, Blaine called up the resolution submitted by bim a few cluja ago declaring that aoy radical crijtogw in our Untl t tuis time would be inopportune, i:d ttid he did 80 lor th" purpo'i ff having a vote thereon. B-fk olj -cti-il and said he pro-pm-f-d to i)ii-u the resolution as fully HH fir i mi ll. VV-ll ti t- yiVH notice that he would nub mt -un-titire for the resolution dtclati legislation upon the subject uf the t.tiiti ml tii present session ol rungrtMH, is iuopportuoe and inex pedient. Beck read the resolulious of ; the democratic convention at St I Louis in regard to the tanfl. Wnllace aked if the democrats at a previous national convention did not remit the subject to the congressional districts. Sargent asked Did not the convention con-vention remit it to the congreesional districts because it nominated the chief of protection ista, Horace Greeley? (Laughter). Beck denounced the present tariff Our ships might go out with cargoes but they could not land them free and they could not bring cargoes home on account of the protective tarifl. Ue said the legislators would soon replace those who vote for protective monopoly. Blaine thought it was ananomaly that the seat of Henry Clay in the Semite should be a place from which comes a free trade argument. Beck expressed the Bentiment which to day retards progress in the Bsuthern states. He declared our shipB do bring home a great deal more trim South America than we Bend there. Garland introduced a bill providing for a commission tc examine into the subject of the tariff, with a view to facilitate legislation relative thereto. K ferred. Dibale followed as to when the resolution of Blaine should bo considered. con-sidered. Pending tho diacuadon the morning hour expired and the subject ami laid aside. Consideration was then resumed of the bill to repeal the bankrupt law. The motion of Edmunds submitted yesterday, to refer the bill and the hou?e amendments thereto to a Bpeeial o immittee of three senators, wan rpjected, j Matthews moved to amend eo that the not shall not Uke eflect until the , 1st of January, 1879. A vote w3 taken on Matthews' amendment which resulted, yeas 25, I nay 22 Cballee, Spencer, Dorsey, Ing ills, Dawes and Patterson, who would have v.itrd in the affirmative, were paired with OsjUhy, Cameron (Wis.). Garland, Gar-land, Withers, Plumb and Teller, who would have voted in the nega live. The question then reeurred on the amendmeut of Christiancy as amended amend-ed by that of Matthews. Agreed to, nays 23, yeas 29. j Beck, referring to the vote by whish the bill for the repeal of the :baukrupt law originally pasied the ;aenate 31 yeas to 6 nays read the i names and he was then asked by ! Allison ti read the names of those senators who did not vote, which would show that had they voted the .bill would not have been passed by ' so large a majority, j Back Those who did not vote were ' not doing their duly, j This remark brought a number laeuatoi-a to their feet who explained ( why they were absent when the vote I was taken and Beck apologized for his remark. Alter further discussion D ivis (HI.) moved to refer the bill to the judiciary com mil tee that the saving clause mii:ht be perfected. Agreed to 37 to 10. McMillun moved to refer the bill to ihe judiciary committee. Rpjected 31 to 22. The q lestion recurred on the amendment of Matthews to have the rrp-al tuka efldct on Janu iry lit, 1879. Thurm in favored the amendment,' The country did not want the act repealed re-pealed immediately. The amendment waa then agreed to - yeas 25, nays 22. Edmunda stated tbt the bill eould be reported back to morrow morning. The resumption repeal bill was then taken up, aud will be unfinished business to morrow. Allison stated it waa not the intention inten-tion to press the bill to a vote to-morrow. Alter executive session, thB senate at'j iLirnid. A number of scnato bills were re 'errtd. The house then went into committee commit-tee of the whole on the legislative appropriation ap-propriation bill. Finlny moved to strike oat the cUuart which directs that the cleric! torce employed on the medical and surgical history of the war shall be amployed on work no eaaary to the caymtut of pensions. Cunger charged the democratic aide of the house with the responsibility of reducing the force in the surgeon general's gen-eral's office to such an extent aa to crevent the examination of applications applica-tions for pensions. Alter the debate, which partook somewhat of a political nature, a vote' w:iatakeuon Fmlay'a amendment. I and it was agreed to 101 to 07. Cameron otlered an amendment authorizing the detail to the surgeon general'a bureau of a number of euliated men BulUcient to do the work necessary for the prompt payment ol pensions. Adopted. Atkins aaid the force appropriated for was ample. Nobtdy, evuu lormer confederates, desired to obstruct lh prompt p-iymeut of pensions. A ohght political diacmsion then ensued among Cox (Ohio), Baker, Chittenden and others. Garfield regretted that the speaker bad yesterday started the debate. Tee speaker aid bad he introduced perontilities he might have ahowu inconsistency in othera mora glaring Uian auy he had been accused of. Chittenden blushed lor his country when her pensionera were put oti with weak and unfaithful apologies. Fmley'a amendment waa agreed to It '4 to 67. Cannon's amendmeut, authorizing a detail to the surgeon general1! bureau of number ot enlisted men sufficient lodo the wort necessary lor a prompt payment of pensions, was adopted. Dunnell moved to increase the clerical force of the general land office, whose work was tilteeu years in arrears. Rejected. Without final action, the committee roee. Robertson, from the Mississippi levee (ommittef, rpported a bill appropriating ap-propriating $:,S71 574 for clos ug creva.-wps and strengthening leveeu on the Mississippi river. Pnuied and recommitted. Tbrrck morion int reduced a bill limuine the rules (or the transportation transporta-tion of freight and passengers over the Pacific railroad bridge at (Joi iha. Recess. Evening session for debate only. |