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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. GENERAL. ' ... FORTY FIFTH lOXURXs'S. EXTRA SESSION. skvaii;. Woshington, 17. Beck intioduccd a bill authorizing payment of half the custom duties in legal tenders. Referred. Re-ferred. Thurman presented the crrd;niiulit of Spotfcrd of Louidiann, and asked that lie be b worn in. ' Mitchell moved that these credentials be referred to iue eiujuuus HuruiimLue. .1. uid-cuflsion uid-cuflsion on points of ordnr followed. At the rcqutstof Kdmunds Thurman allowed the whole matter to go over till to morrow. MCrary introduced a bill :o repeal re-peal the bankrupt law and all amendments. amend-ments. He argued in its behalf. Ordered to lie on the table to be taken up hereafter. Edmunds moved that the commit' tee on elections be discharged from further consideration of K.ellogg's credentials. Laid over at request ot Thurman. The senate then went iuto execu live Ben ion. Edmunds submitted the following, which was laid over until to morrow, at tho request of Bayard: Jiesolced, That a seleot committee Ul BtJVfll HeilKlUEM UW lippuiliicu, ttuuou duty it shall be to take into consideration considera-tion the law respecting the ascertaining ascertain-ing and declaring of the result of the election of president and 'vice president presi-dent of the United States, and that said committee have power to report by bill or otherwise. Among tbe numerous petitions referred re-ferred was one from Iowa citizens, asking tbe passage of a lawmaking silver legal tender (or all sums, and others of similar tenor. Bills were introduced authorizing tho citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the territories to fell and remove from the public domain timber for mining and domestic purposes, and to prevent pre-vent abuse of the sale of pcBtage 8 Urn pa and stamped envelopes. Grover was, by rcqueet, excused from service on the committee on enrolled en-rolled bills. . Morrill's resolution for filling vacancies va-cancies in the committees was agreed to. Matthews (Ohio) and. Wallace (Pa.) were put on foreign relatione; Cameron (Pa.) on military affairs aud public buildings; Armstrong on railroad and enrolled bilis; Grover, private land claims; Ferry was made chairman of the postal committee vice Hamlin, who remaius on the committee, but is chairman of the foreign relations committee vice Morton, Mor-ton, who remains chairman of the elections committee. The latter change was made at the requeat of Morton. Adjourned. |