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Show GENERAL. : FUHTV-TUIUD CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington. 2S. Morrill (Me) from the committee on appropriations, repined favorably on the bill to pay tho interest due 1-Vbru try 1st on the 3 05 bonds of th-j District of Columbia; pjt-ied. Btn;y submitted a resolution instructing in-structing the judiciary comnrttee to enquire into the expediency of repealing repeal-ing (he act oi June 1st, 187l2, granting grant-ing a subsidy to the Pacific Mail steamship company. Sprague R. I.) objected to the prrseut consideration o( the resolution and it was relerred to thy judiciary committee. The house bill granting the right of way and dwpot grounds ti the Oregon Central Pacific railway company through the public Unds from Winne-niucca, Winne-niucca, Nuvada, to Columbia river in Portland, Oregon, was amended and passed. After the presentation of a large number ot petitions against the restoration resto-ration of the duty on tea and coffee and for the repeal of the act of 1S72, rHiieTiug cermiu loieigu jjilwui ul IU per cent duty, the business on the calendar was proceeded with. At the expiration ot the morning hour the Louisiana discussion was resumed. Conkling took the floor and and the galleries were densely crowded crowd-ed and many persons having the privilege of the lioor occupied seats there. The following bills were brought up and passed: Senate bill providing pro-viding for the appointment of a commission com-mission to ascertain the right of subjects of Great Biitain to lands in the territory which was the subject of tne award ot the emperor of Germany under the treaties ot '40 and '71, between be-tween the United States and Great Britain; senate bill amendatory and supplementary to the act of March 1st, 1872, entitled an act to set apait a certain tract of land tying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone river, as a public park. ' Conkling said tho time had come when silence only prolongs the wraugle. He thon referred to the pres dent's message, which ho said should have ended the discussion by its manliness, Thurman, who occupied occu-pied tho time of tho senate for hours yesterday, did not tell what to do with tho Louisiana question, though he was the recognized leader ot the democratic dem-ocratic party. It had been the gospel of democrats to keep up the ferment since reconstruction began,-and it was incir policy to uo uns lui mo nnuon demanded that a change of any kind bo artinued ; that Warmouth, leader of. the opposition, made the eiectiou in 1S72 a fraud. He was to have carried the stale lor Greeloy, and therefore the election in Louisiana was an organized or-ganized fraud. His control of the election machinery was worth twenty thousand votes. Congress, courts and the president decided agaiDst Mc-Kiery. Mc-Kiery. Tiie resident ivas not responsible re-sponsible for the doings in New Orleans Or-leans on the 4th. The president only heard of them like any .other citizen through the papers. Conkling then stated tne president's reason for sending Sheridan south, which was the suffering there, not the elections. Had the army been withdrawn from New Orleans the president would have been ' openly in league with murderers and traitors. Ho referred to the whisky riot in West Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania when Washington quelled the riot with lo.OOOmen. White leaguers had seized United States arms in September, Sep-tember, and though often commanded to lay them down, bad not complied. He arraigned Schurz for declaring that he would speak , with calmness and impartiality, and then condemning condemn-ing the president without stint and without knowledge. He justified the position taken by Sheridan, although unfortunately his advice could not legally be followed. Conkling then argued ar-gued that it was the encouragement which the democrats of the south received re-ceived from those north that caused these outrages. .Northern democrats must no longer seek to deter them oy denouncing tne laws ot congress. He next referred to the recent out- break in the penitentiary at Lincoln, Neb., and the call of the governor for federal "troops from Omaha, which was instantly obeyed. This was a parallel case. Thurman wanted to know where was tho law to punish the revolting convicts. Conkling said he wasglad that even the convicts in the Nebraska penitentiary peniten-tiary were not without somebody to speak for them. Wh had. none of those who supported the temple of liberty brought lorward a resolution in regard to tho use of troops at Lincoln? Lin-coln? There had not even been a apasm of virtue here in regard to it. Without concluding the argument the senate adjourned. HOUSE. Noon. Roll call still continues. There is no probability of any understanding. under-standing. The members show little signs of weariness. At the last call 170 voted. There was no change thioughout the atternoon. McCrary asked when it would be in order to move to amend the rules and break the dead-lock. The speaker said not till Monday. McCrary then cave notice that on Monday he would make such a motion. mo-tion. This was objected to, and the roll call was continued. This indicates indi-cates the policy of the majority to re- now hot) fnniW th mmirtn .1,;U was made and defeated last Monday to amend ths rules so as to prohibit for the rest of tho session only the speaker (rom entertaining dilatory motions whenever such measure is before the house. Under such rule the passago of the i ivil' rights biil and other acts having the support of the majority of tho members would be plain sailing. Tho roll call stiil continues. Many delegates appear pretty thoroughly wearied and disgusted. It is not unlikely un-likely the proceedings may run all through the night. The last roll coll showed the presence of 150 members. |