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Show GENERAL. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS COSTISL ED FROM FIRST PAGE. SEX ATE. The District of Columbia 3-G5 bond i question being under consideration L)aw .- said all agreed that these 3-G5 bonds were to ail intents and pur posis government; bonds. They had become part of the public debt of the nation. The monthly debt statement would hereafter, if it correctly stated the liabilities of tho -government, show there had been added a debt ot $15,000,000. There are people in the country who will ask why it is that1 in time ol peace $15,000,000 has been added to the public debt. They would look on the proceedings of the two houses of congress for explanation of this and there they would find that the law organizing these commissioners commission-ers was passed without attention being be-ing called to the fact that a new debt would be created. They would find that in one bouse of congress the chairman of the committee who reported re-ported the bill creating the commissioners commis-sioners said no obligation would bt incurred. It took eight lawyers and two attorney generals to decide the question whether 3-05 bonds were a United States bond or not. He believed be-lieved the commissioners had placed aa erroneous construction upon the law which created them, but he had tho highest respect for their integrity. The bonds issued by the commissioners commission-ers to pay for new work he believed had been issued under an erroneous construction of tae law, but they must betaken care of now. Morton said his friend from Ohio (Thurman) the other day, alluded to the opposition which he (Morton) oflered to the bill to form a govern ment lor the district, reported by the senator from Maine (Mjrrill) at the last session. He (Morton) opposed that bill because it proposed to abolish autfrage, and had he been in the senate sen-ate he would have voted against the ,act of June 20, for the same reason. It took from the people of the district the right to regulate their own atfairs. The act was at variance with every' principle of our form of government. gov-ernment. He Baid tho national nation-al government was bound to provide for these bonds. Congress authorized the making of them because the people of the district could not help them being made. The national government was pledged for these bonds just as much as it was lor the 5-20's. They were in substance and ellect both bonds of the United States. The issue of these 3-G5 bonds at the low rate interest which depreciated depre-ciated them and then forcing contractors con-tractors to take them looked very much like repudiation to him. If that had been done by a state or corporation there would have been but one opinion. Thurman inquired if this interest was payable to-morrow. Morrill replied that It was: Thurman then asked if there was no law by which It could be paid if thiss bill should be passed. Morrill of Muine, said ho did not think the debate in order. He did not think the proposition before the senate admitted of debate. This was the last day; it was now well nigh the hour of grace; if the siin should bo allowed to go down without passing pass-ing this bill tho credit of the United States would go to protest, while tho senate of the United 6iatea had been indulging its fancies in regard to tho conduct ul" public servants, who had been vested with discretionary powers. Thero was not a particlo of proof that tho commissioners of tho di-trict had committed any wrong. All that the senate was asked to do was to provide for the payment of interest due to-morrow. The bill did nut propme to take $220,000 out of the treasury; it did not, but only directed the commissioners of tho district dis-trict to pay the interest out of their revenues. I Ogieaby said one pod thin? caused by this debate, would be to attract the attention of the country to tiiodislrict again. As he listened to the senator Irom M.issai'hiisetts (Da we-) it became be-came plain to him that the extrava-ginco extrava-ginco in tho district would never otnp until God in his wrath put his foot upon it. Conjrt-r-a should stop the lefiue of another bond, otherwise the commissioner!), no matter how honest, in the atmosphere ot" this district would not top until the issue reached $!00,i,njO,ijO. Miles and miles of handeouie highways had been made tor these povurtv -stricken people, aa they had been t'poken of. Why beautify the capital for the people who cuiHd not pay their taxes, or for the bread they ate? Tue people here must cume down to plainer walks of life, like those of the west. They must live plainer with soma regard re-gard to the purse strings. Bayard said he was not willing to let this bill pass without submitting sub-mitting some remarks which thus rar he had not been able to do. It was well known that the house had adjourned for to-day. and that the amendments proposed by the senate must be concurred in by that body. Ho did not believe tho credit of government would go to protest tomorrow. to-morrow. There was chubs for congress con-gress to pause in regard to any further expense for this district. Ho hoped the amendment of Sargent would be printed that it might be examined to-morrow, and moved that the senate Wind am presented resolutions of the Minuesola legislature asking an appropriation for the "extermination ot grasshoppers in tho west. Agriculture. Agri-culture. Morton gave notice that as soon as the bill to pay interest on the 3-0o bonds was disposed of he would ask the senate to take up and dispose of the resolution submitted by him in regard to the late election in Mississippi. Missis-sippi. Cameron, Pa., said he hoped not, as he desired to have the Centennial bill considered as soon as that now before the senate was finished. Adjourned. no rst. Bills were introduced by Monroe to establish an educational fund and to apply the portion ot the proceeds ol the public lands to public education, and to provide for more complete endowment and support of national colleges for the advancement of scientific scien-tific and industrial education. Fort, to forbid territories incurring indebtedness in aiding railroads and other private corporations; also to prevent useless slaughter ol buffalo. Stone, organizing a national railway company for the purpose of constructing, construct-ing, operating and maintaining a double track cheap freight railway ! Irom tho Atlantic seaboard to St. Louis, Chicago and Council Bluffs, with branches to other centres. Gunter, granting 300 acres of land to each survivor of the Mountain Meadow massacre. Slemons, authorizing the construction construc-tion of a bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis. Morrison introduced an act to simplify sim-plify the appraisement of goods and merchandise imported .into the United States, subject to ad valorem duties. Sanders, Indiana, introduced a proposed amendment to the constitution constitu-tion for the levying of direct taxes according to the wealth of the respective respec-tive states. Hewitt offered a resolution calling on the secretary of the treasury for a detailed statement showing the amount of actual cash on hand in the treasury and in the several depositories depos-itories of the government at the close nFV.Mcir.ncn r.n thu Yiih nf Jurm nrv 1S70, specifying how much in the fractional currency legal tender notes, national bank notes, gold, Eilver, gold notes, etc. Adopted. Luttrell offered a resolution reciting that the Central Pacific, Kansas Pacific, Union Pacific, Central Branch, Union Pacific, Western Pacific, Pa-cific, Southern Pacific, Sioux City and Pacific, Northern Pacific, Texas and Pacific, and all the Pacific railroads and branches to which bonds and subsidies wro granted by tho Government, Govern-ment, have received from the United Suites money subsidies amounting to ovLT $04,000,000; land subsidies 1 amounting to over 220,000,000 acres ot public domain, bonds and subsidies amounting to and interest amounting to , and that it is but just and proper that the government govern-ment and people should understand the status ol such roada and the disposition dis-position by the companies of the subsidies granted by the government, nd therefore instructing the judiciary judi-ciary committee to inquire into and report, first, whether such companies have fully complied with the requirements require-ments ot the law; whether such companies com-panies have formed within themselves construction companies for the purpose pur-pose of sub-letting contracts for building build-ing and equipping their roads, and if so, whether the money, land and bond subsidies have been properly applied; whether such companies have forced their land subsidies by failing to construct and equip their roads as required by law, and that the committee Bhall report to the house such measures as shall secure to the t, , 11 ; ,1 nil.. f- .,11 JttlllUlCUU lull .IIUUIUI.J iui " losics occasioned by fraudulent transactions trans-actions or negligence on the part of such companies and for non-payment of interest lawfully due the government, and for any other claim the United States may have agaiust such companies. Adopted. Page offered a long preamble and resolution denunciatory of the Mormons Mor-mons and theit vile and degrading dogma of polygamy, charging them with unprovoked, cold-blooded and brutal murders ot men, women and children, the subornation of witnesses wit-nesses and terrorism over courts to shield and protect the moat nefarious aud infamous criminals, declaring that immediate steps should be taken to compel com-pel the Mormons to obey the constitution and laws of the United Stales. It directs the judiciary committee com-mittee to report a bill for that purpose pur-pose bo as to remove this foul blot Irom the civilization of the nineteenth century. Tho house rolused to suspend sus-pend tho rules and adopt the resolution. resolu-tion. Atkins offered ft resolution instructing in-structing the judiciary committeo to inquire whether or not the U. P. R. R company has forfeited its chartor. Adopted. Too house then went into committee com-mittee of the whole, Hawkins in the chair, on the military academy ap propriation bill. liurlbjt offered an amendment for the detail of a competent stall' officer to act us quartermaster and commissary com-missary for a battalion of cadets, and that all supplies shall be furnished at the actual cost, etc. Adoplid. Tho committee rose and the bill pa.-sed. Tho pay or cadets is fixed at $510 without rations, uud tho other amendments, except that offered by Hurlbut, wero adopted. Adjourned, |