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Show GENERAL. FOKTV-TUIRD tUNtiRESS. SENATE- Washington, 17. Howe called up his motiun to ricunsidcr the vole pasain? the bill granting the site for t:io r-;-kJy eci.ool, &t. Augustine, Florida; it was agreed to by ol to '13, Borernan.Gibbert, Lewis, Morrill, Vt., Sargent, tihermau, Sprague and Tipton Tip-ton voting with the democrats in tiie negative. Trie senate resumed consideration of the resolution for the admission of Pinchback. Murton,. requested the senate to remain in session till the question was disposed of. Ferry, 01 Connecticut, opposed the proposition as it would deprive many senators of a hearing on the quet-tion. Sargent then resumed the lloor and concluded Lhe argument. At the conclusion of Sargent's remarks, re-marks, Ferry (Conn.), in a filteon minutes' speech, appealed to the senators sen-ators not to Bet a precedent so danger-oui danger-oui to tho republican institutions, as the admission of a man whose credentials cre-dentials signed by, and whose only title to the office of governor was acquired by fraud, perjury and usur pation. He had listened with pain to members of tho dominant party in tho sonate quoting from the record of pro-slavery times as the excuse for similar atrocities to be perpetrated by tho republican party. He, believed if senators would vote according to their honest convictions this precedent would not bo established. Stevenson spoke in opposition lo the resolution, and quoted from the testimony taken by the senate committee com-mittee in '73, and tho report made thereon. He reviewed and denounced de-nounced the actiou of Durcll and the telegram of Attorney-General Williams Wil-liams to Marshal Packard, ordering kim to enforce his action. At tho conclusion f Stevenson's speech Howe obtained tho floor, and on motion of Morton the BCnato took a recess till 7:30. Evening Session. Howe made an argument in favor of tho resolution admitting Pinchbeck. Hamilton (Ind.) moved to amend the resolution by inserting the word " not," ao that it would read "Pinch- back be not admitted," eta.; lost, 23 to 3G. Alcorn and Hager opposed the bill. At 1.30 a.m. tho latter was still speaking, speak-ing, with no prospect of an adjournment adjourn-ment to. night. HOUSE. The regular order being the bill in regard to the election of presidont and vice president, was called for. Randall Ran-dall wanted tho army appropriation bill considered, but on motion of Dawes the house went into committee of the whole on tho tariff bill, by a vote of i)0 to 50. The debate was limited to three and a quarter hours. Burchard made a long statistical speech in favor of the bill except tho portion relating to the horizontal ten per cent. tax. Banning and Cox opposed the in- i . ,u;.i..r um; v,at the higher the duty the less would be tho revenue collected. Chittenden denounced the bill as a comprehensive blunder aud in the name of civilized commerce protested against another tariff bill this session, uuless it included tea and coBee. Harris, Bright, Niblack, Beck and Ward, of Illinois, ako spoke opposing the bill. V .lwul tin nDiilHph)lte ux a Bpeech appealing to the patriotism of members to uphold the credit or good faith of the government. The committee then proceeded to consider tho bill under tho five minutes' rule. Southard, Ohio, moved to strike out the first section of the bill. Saylor, Ohio, opposed the motion, and protested against the section as an unjust discrimination against the western states in the interest of others which did not bear their equal burden of taxation. Cincinnati alone contributed con-tributed from whisky and tobacco between $7,000,000 and $8,000,000, which wns about double that paid by all New England. The states Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky paid three-fifths of all excUo tax collected. Garfield offered a substitute to the first section, that the tax on whisky shall be S3 cents per gallon, but not to tax tho stock on hand. Cox moved to amend the section by increasing the duties on champagne cham-pagne from $0 to $9 oer dozen on quarts, and from $j to $1 50 per ciczen on pints, and said it would produce pro-duce an increase of revenue of $076,-000. $076,-000. The amendment was agreed to. Ward (Ills.) said the income tax was the only lorm of" taxation that would reach the mass. Dawes Baid if Ward would propose it he would vote for it. He always opposed its repeal. Burchard opposed Gaificld's substitute sub-stitute and favored a tax of $1 per gallon. Garfield modified his substitute so as to make the tax $1. Kelly moved to amend by exempting exempt-ing spirits-specially prepared for use in the arts; rejected. Gunckel moved to amend Garfield's Gar-field's substitute by taxing the stock was then rejected, leaving the section as it came from the committee, except ex-cept the amendment increasing tho duty on champagne. The committee rose, and the house took a recess till 7:30, the evening session to be for business from the judiciary committee, excluding political po-litical measures. Evening session A number of bills from the judiciary committee were reported and passed. Butler's postal telegraph bill was reported, when a point of order was raised by Willar.l and supported by Garfield and Ilaudall that it should receive its first consideration in committee com-mittee of the whole. Too speaker overruled the point and Butler pro ceeded to explain and advocate the bill. He attacked the associated press and Western Union company as monopolies that sought to control the news business of the country. Pioce (.Mass.) asked his colleague if it was intended that the 70th eection, fixing the penalties for divulging telegraphic tele-graphic intelligence, should be retroactive retro-active eo as to punish persons who intercepted in-tercepted and divulged dispatches sent to and from Washington, say a year ago. This caused some laughter as Butler replied in the negative. Merriam (N. Y.) said tne bill embodied em-bodied the most monstrous proposition proposi-tion presented to the house in many a day. He thought the title should be changed to "A bill to enable a rival telegraph company to partake of the profits of the Western Union telegraph without rendering any service ser-vice therefor." He s3nt to me clerk's desk and had read a long communication communi-cation from President Ortou, of the Western Union company, criticizing 1 the details of the bili and denouncing it as the work of a jobbing move- ; ment. Butler moved the previous q.ies- i tion, which the house refused to second, 69 to 77, not two-tiiinji aifirmative. i Totter (New Y'ork) characterized i i the bill as moat extraordinary., Th-telegraph Th-telegraph lines were not the peoph of tiiel'nited States. They wart neither built or subsidized by government, govern-ment, nor even by authority of government, gov-ernment, yet it was proposed that congrfc-si shou'd take Mwsession of j private property, uumagu it and fix l the pricts upon it, F. H. Roberts defended the Associated Asso-ciated Press. Finck denouuee the bill, saying it read like a military order. Witnout disposing of the bill, but leaving it to cunie up to-morrow ai unfinished business, the house adjourned. |