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Show GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington, 17. Morton submitted submit-ted a resolution instructing the special committee recent y appointed to inquire in-quire into the Inte election in Mississippi, Missis-sippi, to inquire also into tho recent alleged killing of people and outrages committed near the Mississippi and Louisiana line at Bayou Sara. He read dispatches received by Governor Kellogg, now in this city, from P. C-Clark, C-Clark, his private secretary, dated New Orleans, May 17th, staling that fugitives from the scene of trouble had arrived and the details were hor- riule; inai Sii nuue mtrii weie ttiuuu iand sixty negroes killed and hanged, and asking that the special commit-lee commit-lee of the senate be authorized to investigate in-vestigate the matter. The resolution was agreed to. During the morning hour the senate passed the house bill authorizing the appointment of receivers of national banks and for other purposss. Mitchell submitted a resolution instructing in-structing the committee on commerce i to inquire into the extent and condition con-dition of the salmon fisheries in Col-'umbia Col-'umbia river in Oregon and Washington Washing-ton territories.and report a bill for the the regulation of such fisheries and the protection of artificial hatching in aaid river. Adopted. Sargent oalied up the eenato bill granting a site for observatory to thettrusiees ol the Lick observatory of the astronomical department of the University of California. The amendment amend-ment providing that if the land granted be used for any other purpose pur-pose than for said observatory it shall revert to the United States was agreed to, and the bill passed. About 1 o'clock legislative business was suspended, and the consideration! of the articles of impeachment agaimt W. W. Belknap were resumed with closed doors. At 5 o'clock the doors were re-Ci-tned and without a decision the senate adjourned. ho i. sr. The speaker laid before the house a communication from George M. Adams, clerk of the house, asking for an investigation into the charges made against him in the Chicago lnttr-Oceant charging that a member of congress claims to have in bis possession the facts which lie will make public showing that he (Adams) has been selling his appointments at sums rangiDg from $100 to SoOO. He respectfully asks for an early and thorough investigation and says the charges are absolutely false. The matter was referred to a special committee of five. The report in regard to the government govern-ment printing office was then taken up and discuacd. The proposition to give the printing of the debates to Franklin Kives was amended so as to leave it open to competition. The resolution in regard to the government printer was debated at considerable length. Ballou defended Clapp, saying he had received an anonymous letter threatening him with being "killed off," whatever that meant, hut he would continue to stand up for anyone any-one unjustly attacked. Vance and hingleton defended the course of the committee, and criti-. cized the management of the govorn- j ment printing office. ' Gartield argued against tho abolition aboli-tion of the government priming office or turning over the work to contractors. He reminded the house that under the Cornelius Wendell regime the latter had paid as contribution contri-bution to a political party 43 per cent, of bis grois compensation. Vance said tho entire cost of printing, print-ing, the swindles and ail, would not cover tho exceea in charges in one single year now. Garfield said tho trouble was in tho rates controlcd by tho printers' union, which were oO per cant, higher in Washington than in A"ew York, Baltimore or Philadlephia. Finally tho discussion was closed and the resolution was adopted by a strict party vole. Uaudull called up tho Indian ap propriation Lull , winch was made the special order after tho naval bill was dm posed of. It appropriates $:t,005,-771; $:t,005,-771; provides for tlia transfer of tho bureau to the war department. Ward then called up his joint resolution reso-lution looking to a treaty of commerce com-merce between tho United Slates and Canada, anil advocated it in a speech, but the matter was laid over. The hou.so weut into committee on the naval appropriation bill, and soon after took a recea3 till evening, when tho same subject will be considered. J ii tho evening session several speeches wero made, including one by Piper on the Chinese immigration. |