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Show I GENERAL. . FORlT-FOURTa CONGRESS. si;atf. W;i-!iingtin, Tiie chairman laid before the Bf-natoa mc-satjf) fr3m the president enduring acommunica-tion acommunica-tion Irorn the secretary of tiie interior in rrg.ird tn th deficiency in the supplies at KitI Cloud Indian agency, and recom!neiKlii;g favorable action on tlio (climate Hubruilted. Shertniin, fruni the eomniitteo on finance, reporUd adversely on the senate bill to amend section 5,138 of the revised Htatntcs of the United States permitting national banks to organize with a capital of $50,000 in Intjalla, who introduced the bill, baid he had received numerous letters from national banks in cities as well iih country towtiH, asking the passage of this bill, and il" the chairman of the committee on finance had no objection objec-tion he would like to have tho bill placed od the calendar with the adverse ad-verse report. So ordered. Bayard, from the eomniitteo on finance, reported favorably on the senate hill extending the time for the rtidnmption of lands held by the United States under several acts levying levy-ing direct tuxes. Passed. Morton roso to a personal explana-t;on explana-t;on and read the. published testimony of J. L. Lyon before tho house committee com-mittee on foreign atlatrs yesterday, in regard to the Emma mine. Morton said the report of the testimony would lead to the impression that he had accepted a fee ot 520,000 in the case referred to, aud had participated in an eflort to have Judge McKean removed, re-moved, in which there was not one syllable of truth. He was on his way homo from the senate in lS71,when Senator Stewart came to him on the train near Pittsburgh, and made a statement as to a lawsuit in Utah and said he desired to have him (Morton) retained a3 assistant coun sel, stating that if they were success- ful a large fee would be paid him. ,He introduced a gentleman to him named Lyon then. lie (Morton) supposed at first that it was legitimate professional employment, and told Stewart he would take it under consideration con-sideration and meet him in Salt Lake. He afterwards became satisfied satis-fied that it was not a case in which be as senator could properly take a part, lie afterwards receive.! n telegram tele-gram from Mr. Stewart to meet him in Salt Lake, but he did not meet him and never had any further conversation con-versation with him on the subject. He (Morton) never had anything to do with'the Emma mine. He now felt satisfied that the ohject was to secure his political! influence, though lie did not mean to say that such was Stewart's motive for tho removal o I Judge McKean, but he had nothing to do with it. He (Morton) went before the bouse committee on foreign affairs this morning and met Lyon there, and made his statement to the committee, com-mittee, which Lyon said was correct. Morrill of Vt. submitted a resolution resolu-tion instructing the committee on public buildings to inquire as-to the' expediency of allowing the artists having samples of their work on exhibition in the National statuary hall at the eapitol, to exhibit the same at theCeuteunial exhibition at Phila delphia, after making proper arrangements arrange-ments for its safe return. Agreed to. The senate resumed the consideration considera-tion of the bill making appropriations forth- support of the military academy aca-demy for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1S77, the pending question being be-ing the amendment of the commit tec on appropriations to strike out the clause appropriating $-,49G for sixteen six-teen musicians for the companies, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: fol-lowing: Eor the pay of military academy band $14,SS0, and it was agreed to. The next amendment proposed to increase the appropria-i tion for contingencies for superintend-! entofthe academy from $12,000 to $20,000. Vhyte opposed the increase, and said at the proper time he would move to strike out the whole clauae for contingentespenses. He thought this money was expended principally in entertainment. West favored the increase. Said the superintendent of the academy had to incur expenses in entertaining, and during our Centennial exhibition he should be allowed to entertain upon a scale commensurate with the dignity of his position. Next year the appropriation appro-priation for contingent expenses could be cut off. The amendment was agreed to. Other amendments of the committee commit-tee striking out tiie appropriation of $100 for printing catalogues for the library, and appropriating $8,000 for continuing tho system of sewerage trom the barracks and quarters, were agreed to. i The bill having been considered in committee of the whole, was reported to the senate, and the question being on concurring in the amendments made in tiie committee. Whyte moved to strike oat the clause appro-oriating appro-oriating $l,0o;) for contingencies for the superintendent of the academy. Rejected. On motion of Wright, the senate took up the bill declaring the true intent and meaning of tho Union Pacific railroad acts approved June 1st, 1S02, July 2d, ltol, and July 3d, 18' '.0. Wright Baid he did not expect to have this bill acted upon to-day. Tho question had been discussed last session, and ho hoped the senate would dispose of the bill with as little delay a3 possible. Sargent asked if tho tfiect of tho bill was not to negative several propositions propo-sitions which Government had always maintained heretofore. Wright replied that the bill was in entire accord with 11 departments of government, and was approved by all. Pending the ducusaion the sena-lo wont into executive session, aud soon adjourned. IIOtSE. Speaker Kerr laid before the house a message from the president urging the necessity of an immediate appro-propriation appro-propriation to supply the deficiency at lied Cloud Indian agency. liandall, chairman of the eomniitteo eomniit-teo on appropriation;, said that the committee had considered (he subject and had been unable to procure information in-formation they deemed essentia), fiic committee therefore reported a resolution, which had been adopted by the house requesting tiie president to detail an army officer to go to Ke i Cloud airncy rind report on the causes of the deficiency. Unless tho report of that officer were unreasonably unreason-ably delayed, lie thought the committee commit-tee mignt wait for it. There had been grow frauda connected with that ;tg"ncy, and thcro ii!o had been a disregard of law, but il tin' president doomed tho mutter of aiiflicieut im-jKrtance im-jKrtance to send a communication to congress on thu wubjeel, the commit- 1 tee on appropriation! Would proceed at once to consider it. U.inniiig inquired whether an army I ' officer had beru sent out. I liandall Xho prtiideut so slates. The message was referred to the com- 1 mittee fin appropriations. ! Kelly, by unanimous consent, iu- . troduced a bill empowering tne secretary secre-tary of the interior, the secretary of tiie Smithsonian institute aud tiie librarian of congress to re-urt to such mt-aaurs as will most eflWrtivcly re-; s'.ore the writings in the original manuscript ol the declaration ot" hide-; pence with, the signatures appended thereto, now in the patent office. .Sailer, Jrom the committee on pub-; lie latnh, rep .rted a bill to amend j the act to encourage the growth of1 timber on the western prairies; a's ) a bill explanatory of tne timber culture cul-ture act. K'jconiniitled. Uurleigh, from the committee on naval atlairn, reported a bill directing the method ol annual CatimaUs of tx-penditures tx-penditures for the navy department. UecommiUed. The house then teok' up the bill which was up a few days a ), limiting limit-ing the cost of the cu-Uoin houso build in" at Mom nl lis. Tenn. . to $100,000, and after discussion the bill passed yens 17-1, nays 87. j Tlio house went into committee of j the whole on tiie bill amending the laws granting pensions to soldiers of the war of 1S12, the question being j on the motion to strike cut the sec-, tion restoring to tiie pension lists the names of persons stricken therefrom on account ot sympathy with the rebellion. re-bellion. Xeal advocated the motion to strike out and Uiand opposed it. Jenks moved to amend tlm section by providing that no arrears of pensions pen-sions shall be paid fur any portion of the time during the existence of the rebellion to any one who either participated par-ticipated in the rebellion or held any ofiice under the Southern confederacy. confeder-acy. He made an argument in support sup-port of his amendment. He thought it fair to say that from one to two score million dollars wcro involved in the bill. Cook insisted that by the decision of the supremo court the whole question ques-tion of the right of these pensioners to be restored to the pension rolls had been settled and that after the president's presi-dent's proclamation at the close of the rebellion all legal rights were restored. Kasson said tho estimate of the commissioner of pensions, based on the bill as originally reported, was that it would require an annual pay-'roent pay-'roent of $2,140,000, and that by the peculiar phraseology of the bill all who hael scrveil in the Mexican or Indian wars would b:: entitled to pensions. Hurl but said there wag an impression impres-sion in the public mind that this care fully-word ed and skill fully-managed bill was but the entering we-dge to other claims of a vast amount. Whenever this biil was so altered as to be confined simply to tho restoration restora-tion of those pensioners to the rolls it would have his support, but not till then. Caswell remarked that he regarded the bill as a departure from every sound principle of justice. Hooker advocated the passage of the bill and said that he had hoped that in this Centennial period the American people would manifest a de;irc to cast the mantle of oblivion over the late contest. Vance regarded tho opposition to the bill as essentially for the soldiers, not for the pi tun men of the south who had taken up arms against the government. Tlio war had not commenced com-menced among them, but in the house and senate, and members of both houses had declared at thst time that it was sweet to die for oue's nnnntrv nnrl Viirl nnnl.H (Via ln. "Go where glory awaits thee." But they had taken care of themselves, not. to go or to die worth a cent. (Laughter.) He asserted, as an humble so'dier of the south that if the country were engaged in a foreign war no men would more promptly reply to the call than the men in grf-y. Townsend ol N". Y. favored the re committal of the bill. The discu.-.-ion was further r m-linued m-linued by Hoskins, Williams, Ha n-derson, n-derson, Atkins, Koagan and Hill. Hill expressed his regret that zr-n tlemen on the republican side of the house seemed determined to go back on their record of last session, when a bill similar to the pending one was passed by the house. He had canvassed can-vassed the' state ;ol Georgia agiinst secession and he had always luund these old invalid soldiers standing by his side and opposed to secession. It was a curious incident in history that the very time these southern soldiers were fighting the enemy at New Orleans Or-leans there was a convention of Union men at Hartford proclaiming the very doctrine of secession on which the south had subsequently acted. Kaseon Did any state ever undertake under-take to enforce it: Hill (without noticing Kasson) "And I do not know that anybody engaged in that oouvuntion was ever struck from the pen; ion rolls. Atkins What lias secession to do with the bill ? Secession is dead. Why should it be brought up here and discussed in this hall? Why should tiie gentleman from Georgia fling it in our faces on this fi inr? As a southern south-ern man, I protest against the introduction intro-duction of SUCh qucstl'Miq. Hoar replied to Hill's remarks about Hartford, Conn., and said the convention was composed of men as pure, n-'lc and patriotic as ever Jived, and when they declared that a state legislature was to judge of tiie validity of an act of congress, they never contemplated any right to resist any act by force. In the midst, of a gond deal of excitement and various interruptions, Hoar went on tosay that ho was tired of such lectures lec-tures coming from the gentleman (Hill) whom the other s:do of the house seemed to treat ns its organ. In this connection ho referred to Hill's record on the amnesty hill, anil Hill again undertook to explain the resolution offered in tho confederate congress in regard to the punishment of pretended officers and soldiers of the United Stiles that might be captured cap-tured on confederate soil. Hoar coji tin lied "A gentleman on that side of tho house (meaning Cox) in tho eamo debate used language lan-guage which it is hardly decorous to repeat, and spoke of a dHtingniKhed member of this house m a hyena, an utterance that excited tho distrust of tho civilized world wherever the I telegraph extends, aud yet the other side of the houso Koiz'id the first opportunity op-portunity to place the author of that utterance in tho ttprakcr'u chair ai their representative of tho rip I or, dignity dig-nity nud decency of the American congress," Cutx replied fo Hoar and said be was silting quietly in his se.it when that gentleman's poisoned arrows were hurled at him. When he (Cox) used the language charged against him , ho di.l il under provocation and without much deliberation. Ho had no special controversy with tlio genll"man from .Mai no (Blaine) nr tho gentleman from Massaebuclh who cine for-j ward hh the defender of Hartford, anil of blue light federnliwts who hung out their signal to the IJritMli. In conclusion he said tlio best thing to be dono with the bill in the interest of retrenchment and economy was to have it recommitted. Tho cnuimiiteo rose and the house, on motion of Jlolmau, ordered the bill t . bo recommitted. Luttrell oll-.-rcd n r,Jolution declar ing it to be the opinion of the house I that the secretary of tiie treasury should at once commence the issue of the silver coin accumulated in the treaiury as a substitute for fractiona currency. Referred. Huue adjourned. |