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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, I'OItTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. EXTRA SESSION Washington, 17. The senate was not in session. HOUSE. Atkins reported back the army appropriation ap-propriation bill with the senate amendments, recommending concurrence con-currence in some of amendments and non-concurrence in others. He explained that the senate amendments amend-ments were mainly immaterial, the chief point of diflerence between tho houses being the clause limiting the army to 20,000 men and limiting il to 25,000 men. The house then proceeded to vote upon the amendments. The senate amendments reducing the appropriation appropria-tion lor expenses of the command ing general's office from $3,000 to $2,500 was concurred in. The next amendment was one striking out the clause providing that four full cavalry cav-alry regiments shall bo kept upon the Texas frontier and inserting instead of it a proviso that cavalry regi ments may be recruited to 100 men and that a sufficient force of cavalry cav-alry eball be employed in defence de-fence of the Texas frontier; concurred in without opposition. Tho paragraph now reads: "For the purchase of horaea for cavalry and artillery and for Indian scouts, and for such infantry as may be niouuted, $200,000; provided that cavalry regiments regi-ments may be recruited to 100 men in each company and kept as near sb practicable at that number, and a sufficient force of cavalry shall be employed in the defence of the Mexi can and Indian frontiers of Texas; provided that nothing herein contained con-tained shall authorize recruiting the number of men in the army rolls, in eluding Indian scouts and hospital stewards, beyond 25,000." The amendment striking out the appropriation of $50,000 for the conversion of ten inch smoothbores smooth-bores into rifles was non-concurred in. The bill now goes back to the senate for action on such amendments as wero not concurred in. L. S. Metcalfe was then sworn in as representative from the third district dis-trict of Missouri, taking the ironclad oath. Stephens of Georgia introduced a bill for the financial relief of the country, coun-try, and to facilitate the return to specie payments without injuriously aflooiing the commercial business and general industries of the people. Referred to the committee on banking and currency. It "provides that the secratary Bball have prepared one issue of exchequer bills of various denominations de-nominations to the amount of $350,-000,000, $350,-000,000, and tbat they shall be used lor the redemption ana payment oi outstanding legal tender notes, and that such exchequer bills shall be receivable re-ceivable in payment of all public and private dues and shall be fundable in 8 per cent, bonds. It directs the secretary of the treasury to give publio notice of the proposed redemption of leal lenders and to redeem them in exchequer bills when presented in sums of $50 and its multiples, which exchange shall continue until the 1st of January, Jan-uary, 1879. It also provides for a series of 3 per cent, bonds, payable in coin in thirty years, after which the bonds are to be sold or exchanged at par for coin or exchequer bills, and are also to be exchangeable ex-changeable after the first of January, 1879, for . such legal tenders as may he outstanding. j It provides that all exchequer bills and coins received in payment for these 3 per cent, bonds, shall be used in retiring outstanding bonds bearing a higher rate of interest, and in Older to meet the interest which is payable in coin until the exchequer bills of coin be on a par, the secretary is required re-quired to procure coin by the sale in Europe or elsewhere of 4 and 4 per cent, bonds already authorized. Ix empowers national banks to hold their legal reserves in three per cent, bonds, and provides that their slock shall not bj assessed by state authorities authori-ties above the par value. Swan called up the bill appropriating appropri-ating $150,000 for representation at. the Paris exposition. The house voted j to consider it yeas 1-H, nays 123 and the house went into committee ol tho whole on the bill. Swan, chairman ol the committee on foreign afJairs, sent to the clerk's desk and had read the report of the committee on the subject. He addressed ad-dressed the house upon the eubject. Hamilton of the committee Bent to ; the clerk's desk and had read the re port of tho minority adverae to making an appropriation out of the i treasury and Bpoke in support of that in view of the popular demand for economy. He said he had voted for the repeal of the obnoxious resumption resump-tion act, for the bill te remonetize silver and for the reduction of the army and he would vote against any expenditure of public money for such a purpose as that proposad in the bill. Calkins, saying his district contained con-tained several large manufacturing establishments was much interested in the matter, and he advocated the bil1- Williams of Wisconsin urged the necessity of congressional action in the matter. Without action the house adjourned. |