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Show lam mmmi GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH COXGUESS. SKCOXD SESSION. si:Aii:. Wiuhinglnn, 10. Houlwcll pre HC.ntPd a resolution ot tho Boston board ol trade, asking congress to provide for tlio appointment of a commission to meet commissioners from other countries and consider the expediency of demonetizing silver coins and to authorize the president : to memorialize foreign nations to appoint similar commissions for fix-1 ing Ihe value of silver in relation to gold coin, and until such international , convention that Biker shall not bo diiuJe ; Ifal tcmitr iui' miy tium above ton dollars. Kdmutuls presented tho annual report re-port of tlio librarian of congress. Ordered printed. Tho report shows :il 1,000 books iu tho library, and half a million pamphlets. The law library has 88,000 volumes. Copy-righU Copy-righU entered during 1870, 100,000. During tho past year the publication of the first volume oi the original hiijlorical documents, relative to French discoveries and explorations in tho north western portion of the Uuy,! States and on tho Mississippi river, tins been mado. The whole work will cover a vnst collection of letters, utc, in original French, relating re-lating to Laaallo's aud others' explorations explor-ations in United States territory. Wright introduced a bill extending for two yen tho act establishing the hoard of hod t hern claims commission-era. commission-era. : Referred, Ingalls submitted a resolution requesting re-questing the -secretary of state to transmit to tho senate the report of tho commissioners to adjust cl vinis between citizens of the United Stales and Mexico, under the conventions of lSti8, '71 and '70. Passed, with an : ameudiuent calling upon tho president presi-dent for the report if in his opinion it is not incompatible with public i interest. i Morton submitted a resolution for printing 500 extra copies of tho testimony testi-mony beforo the elections committee , regarding elections in tiie three : southern contested Btates and in re-Igard re-Igard to casting tho Oregon vote.' Ueferred. j I Windom reported, with amend-Imcnls, amend-Imcnls, the house bill appropriating j 1 for the deficiency iu tho contingent , ! fund of the house, aud lor other pur- . poses. Calendar. The senate resumed consideration I of the unfinished business, the house bill to perfect the revision of the United State? statutes, I km si:, The house was occupied all the morning in tho discussion of the bill : for a bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, which was rejected. . Tho hill authorizing the appointment appoint-ment of ft commission to an international interna-tional meeting on the subject of the relative value qI gold and silver, went over without action. Tho house went into committee of the whole on the diplomatic appro-nriation appro-nriation bill. Dawes presented tho petition of Charles Lewis Scott, formerly a member mem-ber of tho house from California, for the removal of his political disabilities. Whitthorne, from the naval com- mittce, reported tho bill authorizing ' the formation of a mixed commission to inquiro into and report the future naval policy of the government. Mado the special order for the "3d i list. Dawes presented the petition of Charles Lewis Scott, formerly mem- I tor of the house of representatives from California for the removal of his political disabilities. Referred to the committee on judiciary. The house then discussed Holman's amendment reducing ministers' salaries sal-aries aud adjourned. |