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Show i GENERAL. j FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS, i " SENATE. Washington, 21. Windom presented pre-sented petitions signed by 48,883 farmers far-mers ni the northwest asking an appropriation for the improvement ot tiie Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Ite-ferred Ite-ferred At the expiration of the morning hour the bill for the admission of Colorado was called up as uuiieishul business. The new tax and tarifl bill was received re-ceived from the house and referred to the committee on finance. Harrison, from the committee on elections, made a report on lliePmcii-back lliePmcii-back case, with a renolution that Pinchback was not elected, and that Sheridan was, aud is entitled to bis seat. Smith (N.Y.) made a minority report re-port with a resolution that Sheridan, the other contestant, was not entitled to the seat; ordered printed and to he called up hereafter. Pike, from the same committee, reported in the Arkansas contested election case, that Ganse, the con-, con-, test mt, was not elected, and that Asa Hodges, the i-itiing member, is. Logan presented resolutions of the Illinois legislature m favor of the improvement im-provement of tiie mouth of the Mississippi; Mis-sissippi; ordered printed and laid on the table. Logan, from tho committee on military alUire, reported favorably on the house bill authorizing tho promulgation pro-mulgation ef eeneral regulations for the government ot tho army; passed, j Hitchcock said the committee on the bill, and from information gathered gath-ered felt certain that Colorado had a population of nearly 140,000. This was tho only objection that could bo made against her admission, and as other Btales had been admitted wi'.h no more population he hoped this would not be urged. Sargent objected to the large land grant made by the bill; a.Uo to the twelfth section, which provides that 5 per cent of the proceeds from sales of public lands in Colorado, which have been or shall be sold by the United States prior or subsequent to the admission ad-mission of said state, shall he paid to the state for the purpose of making such internal improvements as the legislature may decide. He moved to strike out the words "have been or" and "prior or" so that the 5 per cent. Bhould be paid upon sales ot land subsequent lo the admission of, the state; agreed to. Sargent moved to amend the twelfth section by adding a proviso! that tho section shall not apply to any lands disposed of under homestead home-stead laws, or any now or hereafter reserved for public uses ; agreed to. He moved its further amendment by inserting the word "agricultural" so as to read "5 per cent, from sales of agricultural public lands," etc.; agreed to. Huger offered an amendment excepting ex-cepting all mineral lauds from the operation of this act; agreed to. ! Edmunds moved so as to provide i that the proclamation ordering the election of members of the constitutional consti-tutional convention shall be issued within ninety days next after the 11. of Sc,vt Vr,. inetcflft of 90 days irom the passage of the act; agreed to. He also offered an amendment fixing the election to adopt or reject the constitution for the month ot July, '76; agreed to. Hagerjmoved to amend the soctio'i by providing that the 50 sections of land to be selected for the purpose of erecting public buildings in the stale shall be selected with tbo approval of the president; agreed bo. IngallB moved to amend the thirteenth thir-teenth section so as to make section '237-S, revised statutes, applicable to the state, when admitted instead ot the act of Sept. 4, '41, entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of sales of public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights;" agreed to. Hamilton, Md., called attention to the fourth section of the bill, which he said campelled the people of Colorado to enact the civil rights bill before they could be admitted. He moved to strikeout in that section the words "provided that the constitution consti-tution shall be republican in form, and make no distinction in civil or political rights on account ot race or color except, that Indians shall not be taxed." Sargent demanded the yeas and nays and it was rejected yeas 17, nays 39. The bill was then reported to tho senate, and the amendments made in committee of the whole were concurred concur-red in, the bill was read a third time and passed-43 to 13, Bogy and Kelley voting with the republicans in the affirmative, and Sprague with the democrats in the negative. a Ane house Dill lor the admission of " New Mexico was taken up. 1 Sargent moved, eeriatim, all the i amendments made to the Colorado 5 bill, which was agreed to. Merriam offered an amendment moved by Hamilton to the Colorado i bill in reference to civil rights, and it , ; was rejected. The bill was then re- ported to the senate, the amendments ; oi' the committee of the whole con- 1 cmred in, and the bill passed, 31 to k 31; Bogy, Dennis, Gordon and Kelly i voting with the republicans in the j ! affirmative; Frehnghuysen, Ed- t munds, Morton, Pease and Pratt with r the Democrats in the negative, ( ' On motion of Morton the senate e bill to provide for, and regulate the c counting of votes for president and t vice president, were taken up. ( Cameron moved to postpone the c biil and take up the bill to place head- f stone at the graves of soldiers in a certain cemeteries. A vote disclosed a no quorum present, and after inef- j, frctual eflorts to secure one, the senate c adjourned. e HOUSE. After tho passage of a number of bills by unanimous consent the chairmen of various southern committees com-mittees endeavoured to secure a consideration con-sideration for their respective bills, Hoar pressing the Louisiana, Poland the Arkansas and Coburn the caucus "force bill." Finally Garfield moved to suspend the rules to go into committee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation appropria-tion bill. Agreed to, 145 to 101. The democrats voted for the motion. mo-tion. The house then went into committee commit-tee of the whole on the sundry civil appropriation bill. It appropriates !$l'5,2S5,97S as against estimates, $oo,S7o,2-3o Garfield, chairman of the committee commit-tee on appropriations, madeaeneral statement in regard to appropriation bills, and taid the committee had attempted, at-tempted, this session, to pursue the ssme policy as it did last year in keeping keep-ing down the appropriations. All appropriation bills had now passed ' the house except this sundry civil ap- I propriation bill and the deficiency . bill. He thought the inductions on : all appropriation bills would be a Ii;- i tie oyer 17,000,000. l When the item for $.,000,000 to delray the expenses ol United S:at- s courts was reached, a etiarp debate arcse, the democrats attacking furi ousiy Attorney General Williams and the department of justice. The republicans re-publicans defended VilIiarun, and ; Butler (Mass.) said if he tud done anything wrong let them impeach him, not blackguard him. Tiie discussion dis-cussion finally drifttd into the qius tion of political troubles in Alabama, and a dispute arose between Lm'r.-il, of the Alabama committee, and Pel-hum, Pel-hum, in regard to the ailegfd use of bacon sent iy government for the relief of sutlertrs by the overflow, to procure republican votes. Finally the committee returned to the consideration con-sideration ol the biil, and alter disposing dis-posing of nine out of t-ixiy-eight pages, j ro-e. j A scene of some confusion then j arose in the house over a personal colloquy between Sypher and ELriiigu over i. remark ol the laiter in a recent HJRVC!l. Tiie house look a recess till evpn-ing, evpn-ing, the s'.-srion to bo for the considcr-! considcr-! atiuii id tin. sundry civil appropriation j bill. j Evening cession. Garfield moved to go into comuiittft; ot the whole on I the sundry civil appropriation bill. I Rejected. Poland called up the report on the Arkansas case. ! Coburn wanted the caucus force j bill taken up. Considerable excited and colloquial discussion ensued, the more it advanced the republicans do daring their willingness to have an extra session of congress rather than permit the cancus bill to be left unacted un-acted upon. Poland's motion was defeat d, and j Garfield renewed hit motion to go into committee of tho whole on the appropriation bill; rejected. Randall moved to reconsider the last vote and called tor the yeas and nays. Cessna gave the democrats notice that every minute of time occupied in dilatory motions would oe deducted from the time left for disscuiwion of the bill, a statement which provoked a general laugh among the democrats. ; Tue democrats refrained from voting, land the result was no quorum ap-j ap-j peared to be present. This now style I of filibustering eluded the rule against jit. ! Butler (Moss.) wanted to know of Speaker Blaine in the chair, if there was no power to compel a member to vote, as there was evidently a quorum present. The speaker replied that it was the duty of every member present to vote. i Butler: "Is there no way to compel them?" Tne chair replied that he knew of no way to make a horse drink, though he may be led to water. (Laughter.) I Hynes said there was an attempt to j defeat the recent amendment to the i rules to prevent fillibustering, and Bkedif members couldn't be compelled com-pelled to vote. The speaker asked if he would indicate a mode by which a member can be compelled to vote. He thought he com Id, and moved that Randall be required to vote. (Contemptuous (Con-temptuous laughter lrom the democrats. demo-crats. ) Hawley (111.) sought the same information in-formation from the speaker as asked for by Butler and Waynes, and received re-ceived the same answer. Butler, (Mass.)Maynard and others I insisted that there ought to be tome way to compel members to vote. The speaker replied that he knew of no i way, and remarked that whenever a I majority of the house was willing to proceed with the business it could do i- The trouble was, certain members mem-bers Ot the noun --i .,. ;. ,r to be present, were absent. Finally the roll was called and showed 217 members present, largely more than a quorum. Butler then moved to close the door and send for the absentees. This opened a new chance for fillibustering not covered by the rule, namely that individual members could be excused. Tho vote being taken by yeas and nays, the speaker ruled such motions were in order before issuing the warrant war-rant to the sergeaat-at-arms. The speaker recognized that the admission ad-mission of motions to excuse tho absentees ab-sentees before their being sent for would practically defeat the call. The hoine indicated its unwillingness to decide in favor of such motions although al-though it found no preceni for them. The space in front of the clerk's desk was filled with a crowd of members making suggestions and creating great confusion. During the colloquy collo-quy the speaker said ho knew no case where absentees were sent for while there was a Quorum Dreaent ' . During the evening several democrats demo-crats asserted that the eveningsession waa with the understanding that it would be for the consideration of tho sundry civil ippropriation bill, and said they had been willing to devote the time to that businea3, as was agreed. . Finally, at 12.15, Wheeler, Maine, paid it was pUin the night would be inttered away and members be incompetent in-competent to work to-morrow; he therefore moved an adjournment, negatived, 94 to 115. There are now enough dilatory motions pending to preclude the idea of auy legislation to-night. |