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Show GENERAL. FOUTV-FOL'Uril CONGRESS. SKCOXD SKi-UON. ni; A I K. Waihinglon, 31. The president pro (on. ot tho Henato presented a 1 rommunifation from Juaticps Clifford, .Strong, -Miller anrl Field announcing that tiity yenterday, in pursuance of tho electoral count bill, nelcted Juntico Jas. 1. Bradley as tho fifth member. Hertford, elected to the senate from Wr-flt Virginia, took the oath of olfirie. Thfl chair presented tne credentials -f MrJ'hereon, senator elect from Xew Jersey; yilaeed on file. 1 Anthony, from the printing cora-'fnittco cora-'fnittco ruportwl bfk Wright's resolution reso-lution to print 10.000 extra copies of : lie prenident's meiwago approving 1 the electoral bill, with an amendment making the number 25,000. Adopted 7 to 14. (Jn motion of errimon the resolution (or distribution of tickets, was reconsidered and amended so as to include cabinet officers, supreme murt judges and their families and other oflieuds in the distribution. A concurrent resolution waB adopted providing that nobody shall be admitted to the south wing of the .-nnitnl dnrinf the electoral count icnpitoi uuring mo cieciur.u luuih except perHnns holding tickets issued by tlie president of the senato and the speaker of the house, to be distributed equally among senators and representatives. represen-tatives. Alter tho morning hour, the un-finMbed un-finMbed business bill creating the niuki'rig fund to pay the Tacilio railroads' rail-roads' indebtednGt-a was resumed. I'hurman continued his speech in lavor of tho judiciary committee's report. I Bogy and Sherman favored tho bill reported by the judiciary committee. Pending discussion, thero was an executive session and then the aenate adjourned. no 5 si:. Tho speaker presented a notification notifica-tion by the associated justices of the choice of Bradley aa the fifteenth member of the commission. The scnato resolution for special police at the capitol during the electoral elec-toral count, was a creed to. Cox introduced a resolution providing provid-ing for the admission of visitors similar simi-lar to that adopted in the senate and oxplained that every member would l)e furnished daily with three tickets to the gallery of the house. The resolution was adopted. i.fuuton oilercd are.olution permitting permit-ting members of tlie commission to sit us such during the sessions of the house. Adopted. Garfiold introduced a bill providing for a more thorough investigation ot railroad accidents, and asked its reference to tho railroad committee. So ordered, lie Baid it referred to the terriblo Ashtabula accident in his district. Tho consideration was resumed of tho resolution for the admission of Belford of Colorado. Kepreseutative Hurd favored the minority report declaring de-claring Colorado not yot a siate. McUrarv. Halo. Banks and Caul- field supported the resolution of the majority. Southard opposed it. The minority min-ority amendment was rejected, and the majority resolution, declaring Belford is entitled to a seat, adopted, and Belford was sworn in. Tho senate- amendments to the joint rosolution regarding admission to the galleries during the electoral count wore non-concurred iu. The conference report on the bill revising the statutes was agreed to. Knott oflored a resolution discharging discharg-ing Barnes from custody, he having delivered to tho Morrison committee the telegrams demanded. Adopted. Tho speaker presented the resignation resigna-tion of Kepreaentative Hereford of Virginia. Waldron, from the appropriation committee, reported the deficiency appropriation bill, which appropriates $000,000; special order for Saturday. Kecess till evening. EVENING SESSION. Iho speaker called tho regular order, being committees' reportB. , Throckmorton, from the com-imittee com-imittee on Pacific railroad, moved to take from the calendar and make it th e special order for Tuesday, the bill regulating freight across the Omaha bridge on the line of the Pacific railroad; bo ordered. - - ' Cox moved that the house go to the business on the speaker's table. Forster objected, saying it was understood un-derstood that this session was for consideration con-sideration ot the legislative appropri-tion appropri-tion bill, and -he would resist the attempt to transact othor buusiness. He moved that the house adjourn. I Page moved that when the house adjourn it be till Friday. The speaker ruled the motion was not in order. An appeal was taken and dilatory motions were made. After one vote tho speaker Baid there was no occasion for alarm. Only two papers were on the table. He would ask unanimous consent to lay them before the house. He read the titles, showing that they were an authenticated copy of an act to de- claro and establish the appointment by Florida of presidential electors, and the case of Wilson Call against Charles H. Pearco. Conger objected and the papers were placed in the petition box. Cox then withdrew his motion and the speaker recognized Thompson, to mako a report on tho Florida matter. Wilson of Iowa called the chair's attcution to the fac that a motion to adjourn was pending, but the speaker decided that the motion to go to the table having been withdrawn, all motions depending thereon would fall through. Discussion ensued as to the correctness of tlie speaker's ruling and a number of republicans deiircd to appeal, but the speaker would not recognize them, holding hat Thompson was entitled to the ",'ir and would not be taken from versKr -ter an exc'ted contro-the'renc0 contro-the'renc0 c'er' commenced to read l Ifbut his voice was drowned by cries of d ,,, &nd th eral cou usiou . 1 V , .T h u out tho house, wi,f'rdaf1'lir?ufe irter many effort. 1'? arm, who patrolled he ""gnt-at. with his official mace. Suse armcd The point of order havin b-ri I raised that Thompson would ha. i read the report himself, he proceed.! todo so from the clerk's desk, amid much laughter and confusion. Finally the reading was taken up by the clerk, and after some progress had been made it was agreed by unanimous unani-mous consent that further reading of the report be dispensed with, and that it bt printed in the Record; also that the minority report, wheu ready, be printed ia the Kecord, and that both reports be stitched together. to-gether. The speaker suggested that the re-iolutions re-iolutions which eiase tho majority report be read, but Conger objected. J The resolution is t!at at the late, election tho electors on the democratic demo-cratic tickc-t were f-iirly and (.duly chonen as presidential elector, a' shown by tho face of the roturua and fully ttubaUu liated by the evidence of tlie actual votes caat, that these electors elec-tors on tho fir-it Wednenday in -December cast thf:ir vctes for 'Indeu for president and H.ndri-jks fur vice pre mdcut, and coaeequsntiy are the legal votes of the stale of Florida and must , be rout: ted as such. Tiie report ia signed by Thompson, Debolt, Wailing aud Hopkins. A motion to adjourn was made on the republican side, so a. to prevent a vote on the resolution. It was resisted re-sisted on the democratic aide. At 10.3.5 the ellurt to get a vote on tho resolution was abandoned, and the houae adjourned. |