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Show HOLS E. Among the bills introduced and referred re-ferred duriug the morning hour are the following: By Southard, authorising tbe payment pay-ment of customs in legal lender notes. By Kills, providing that all bonds hereafter issued by government shall he payable, principal and interest, in gold, fWrer or leg-il tender notes. By Riddle, a constitutional amendment amend-ment lor a direct presidential vote. By Sexton, making railroad re - eeivers. amenable to processes of the courts in states through wbich the rOJCll DH56. i Tbe motion of Hooker to pass the bill amborizinc the circuit and district dis-trict court of e-uthern Mississippi to bold a special term lor the trial of Cites arming out of the alleged fraudulently fraud-ulently taken timber was defeated, 145 yeas, t3 yc; not two thirds. Glover moved to suspend tbe rules und adjpt tho rruluu,jn authorizing itie committee un tr ::isury expenditures expendi-tures to send eub-rommittees wherever wher-ever deenifd advisable, und giving t:.e committer luave to nil during the te.-.s'oiia i't 1 1 1 o UulHc. D.;'eatbLl, '.VJ ye:s 108 nnyd. Knott introduced a bill reorganizing the judiciary. , Singleton, from the committee on appropriations, reported the consular appropriation bill. Made tbe special Order for tbe 12th of February. McMahon moved to suiipend the rules and adopt the resolution declar ing that a graduated incnm tax should be imposed. Defeated, yeas 1165, nays S3; not two-thirds The democrats generally voted nye The j republicans voted no. Among the exceptions who voted tvye was Ptgn. Ellsworth piTtientfd ihe flidavit nl tbe doorkeeper, denying as utterly without foundation the charges against bis official integrity made in the affidavits of Coreyel and Dufly, and earnestly requesting an investigation investi-gation on the part of the house. j Referred to the committee on civil service reform. I . Adjourned. |