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Show LATEST DISPATCHES.1 GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Washington, 24. Sargent pub milted the following resolution, which was agreed to: y.Vitvc, 'That the secretary of ti .e treasu ry is directed to in form the senate of the amount in each case of O.it average of the taxable tax-able deposits on May ol, 1S75, in ihe savings institutions holding capital stuck or bonda of the respective slates or territories, together with the ; amount, of lax collected upon said capital and upon said deposits in each of the said states or territories during the fiscal year ending June 30, 137.); also the amount of the average and of tho taxable deposits in the saving institutions having no capital on May 31st, 1S75, together with the amount of tax collected upon said deposits in each of the said states and territories during the fiscal year ending June oO, li7o. Bill introduced: Kelly of Oregon to provide for the occupancy of missionary stations upon the Indian reservation. Sargent called up tiie house bill to authorize the committee of interna revenue to designate and fix poiHta at which collectors and supervisors of revenue shall hold their offices, the pending amendment being that to abolish the office of supervisor of internal revcue, and providing that after tnatdate the powers and duties of supervisor, except the power to suspend collectors and other ollicers, shall be exercised by revenue agents, though the act shall not be construed to increase the pay of siifih agents.: Sargent made a forcible speech in defense de-fense of revenue collectors of California, Califor-nia, whose characters had re.-cently re.-cently been maligned through the press by a special u-ent. Sargent then advocated a more careful care-ful selection of special agents ami a refusal to employ as such men who seek such employment for their own temporary personal ends, and discouraging, dis-couraging, instead of encouraging, the system oi coarse abuse iu advanc3 of tiie discovery of matter even'for criticism. criti-cism. Sherman hoped a final vote would be reached to-day. Of late years the office of supervisor had been made a quasi political office. If he (Sherman) (Sher-man) was commissioner of internal revenue and a special agent traveling travel-ing around the country first, gave his information to newspapers he would remove bim. He often saw in newspapers, news-papers, where special agents had unearthed something, an outline ot the allair was given just enough to let tho guilty escape. Because a special agent went to San Francisco and played the fool, it was no reason why tho office of special agent should not exist. He .(Sherman) thought the oifice of supervisor of internal revenue might now be dispensed dis-pensed with. Sarjeut moved to amend the amendment so as to provide that the number of such special agents should not exceed twenty. Boutwell opposed the amendment briefly. Sargent said his experience with all departments of government was that tney never wanted to dispense with a finale employe. He believed there were more special agents in the service now than were profitably employed. em-ployed. When a special agent was snt to the Pacific coast and bespattered bespat-tered all over with mud, men who were trying lo do their duty, and the records showed that they were doing their duty, he thought something must be wrong. The senate discussed the bill to abolish the office of sup Tvisor of the , internal revenue, until the expiration of the morning hour, when it wj-laid wj-laid aside and the senate resumed the consideration of the bill to amend the laws relating to the legal lender ot silver coin, arid Jones of Nevada took the floor. He said the act ot February Feb-ruary 12, 1873, practically abolishing silver as money was a grave wrong on the people of the whole civilized gl jbe in the interests of a tew plutocrats pluto-crats in England and Germany, and in certainly the interest of the whole pagan and barbarian world ; a wrong upon industry, upon tiie natural tendency ten-dency "of wealth toward equalization and upon the liberties of people in certain senses. The senator pro ceeded to argue in favor of the double standard ot both gold and silver money. In case no such amendments amend-ments had been made to the pending bill as have been oljered by the senator sen-ator from Missouri, the speaker had intended toofl.;r a simple amendment amend-ment to restore the double standard of the United States, and to base its system of money upon the money ol the world, upon which it is now based. The wrong already don-could don-could not be undone by indircc-. tion, tiie undoing must be as opon and as explicit as liie doing was indirect in-direct and implied. Tiie senator stated his plan of argument lhu: First, to Het forlii the function and nature of money, various subjtanc'H which have been used for it and the characteristics which have induced e the precious metals as a quality lo bf always reverted to for this purpoie; :" second, to chow that the use o, )f money and the preference of various i metals for money wcro both natural (' and voluntary acts not due to law oi edict, and that therefore money is ol 8 right and ought to be free and un- 0 trammeled by any regulations excepl of a kind specified; third, to trace y the stock of the precious metals in tho world from the earliest period, to 1 show its mutations up to the presont t time, and tho political, industrial and 1 social phenomena which accompanied these mutations. From this review he proceeded to show that the world's 2 stock of specie consists of nearly one i half of silver, Sand that any dimuni- 3 tion or disuse of such stock, whether reulling from tho" failure of the mines or arbitrary legislation, ia i fraught with the greatest disaiters ) which can befall society, and that , therefore the measure lo which our ( country is committed by existing laws, viz: Resumption in specie, combined with demonetization of 7 silver, are likely, if attempted to be enforced, to end in distress and du-( du-( feat; fourth, therefore one ot these measures will have to bo ahandonod, and tiiat one is the demoneliz ition of silver. We shall have to restore the double standard of d and silver which existed from 1702 to 1873; fifth, to review the value of gold and filver from the earliest times to tho present ai:d show how constant their relation has boen, particularly hince the discovery of America and tho opening of tho Kant India and Cnina trades, sinco which lime and up Ut 1873, it scarcely varied from its pivotal p lint of lijjd value. The Hources of these long continued cun-Htaiiry cun-Htaiiry of relations are then exumini d, and in their nature are found entire a'irane'S that tho relation will continue con-tinue to bu constant in tho future; sixth, the principal and almost only eaiiHu of the aberration iu this relation is found to bo various edicts or enactments enact-ments which in various countries and tunes have interfered with tho free dom of money, prominent among these ware the demonetization of silver ' in England in 1Mb', the monetary i treaty of tho five powers in lboo, our demonetization act in 1S73, and the pending measures of the Germ m government. gov-ernment. These various tnea-'u-e.-iare adverted to and deemed i;s mi.-ciiiev-ious interferences with trade; Fcvrnth, the impracticability of abolishing tiie double standard is greatly strengthened strength-ened by reference to the annual supplies sup-plies o gold and silver separately since the beginning of the present century. From this reference it appears ap-pears that the supplies of gold to the world have fluctuated between five million and one hundred and eighty-two eighty-two million dullaru per annum; that the supply has been diminishing -dnce So2, and' that it is at the present time insutlicient to meet the demands of the world tor that metal for use in the arts, and to keep good the wear and l. ss ol coin. On the other baud, tho annua! supplies of silver have always been and are now but little above tho fjaverage. Moreover, gold is shown to be essentially a British product, while silver is essentially American; eighth, he shows the impossibility im-possibility of resuming specie payments pay-ments in gold, the disadvantages and dangers ot" attempting to demonetize silver, the impracticability of demonetizing demone-tizing it permanently, and discusses tho various objections that have been urged against the demonetization; ninth, he shows the effect of demoneti zing silver or rehabilitating the double standard will be to equalize more nearly tho values of the metals, so as to restore or lend to restore the relation that lias hitherto, up to within a late day, existed between them for three centuries, and io 'aflord a great impetus to the industrial indus-trial and commercial prosperity of this country; tenth, he shows that gold and silver together, as a relation fixed by law, is the constitutional money of this country, and that all the acts of legislation intended lo subvert this institution are illegal and void. When Senator Jones was about half through his speech the senate adjourned, HOl'SG. Fort introduced a bill to organize a better government for the Indian country, and to establish United States courts therein. Campbell introduced a bill to increase in-crease national bank notes, to relieve ; national banks from the tax on their 1 circulation, and to strengthen the public credit. O'Brien introduced a bill to reorganize re-organize the navy. It provides that there shall be on the active list six rear admirals, eighteen commodores, fifty captains and seventy-five commanders, com-manders, and that promotions in these grades shall not cea.e until those numbers shall be reached. Faulkner, from the committee on foreign aflairs, reported a joint resolution resolu-tion requesting the president to take such steps as may tend to obtain tiie early release of Edward M. Condon from imprisonment in Engl tnd. Pas-ed. Gibson offered a resolution for the appointment of a select committee of nine to make a thorough examination examina-tion into the conduct and management manage-ment of the New Orleans custom house, and theotlices of the marshal, district attorney, postmaster, a.e-sor and collector ot internal revenue, and of such other federal officers as they may discover to be implicated in wrong doing and in violation of law, with power to sit in New Orleans during the recess of congress. Hurlbut objected to raiting a special committee with such powers, and ruggested that the subject should be referred to oue of the regular committees. com-mittees. Gibson moved to suspend the rules. Lost 146 nays, 77 yeas. Tne vote was strict a parly oue. Itriston luvesttzatcu. Washington, 24. The committee on expenditures in the treasury department de-partment met to day lu investigate the charges against Bristow in relation to the rcleahe of tiie bark Miry Mr. i t. Bristow appeirtd in his own behnlf. Judge Gate, who introduced the resolutions reso-lutions in the house, has called for the names of tiie parties who furnished him with the information. He gave H. H. Chittenden, K. E. Johnston, S. E. Weiss, Levi Flubbell, G. W. Hnze!-ton, Hnze!-ton, and Northrup. He suggested that perhaps it might nut be necessary neces-sary to summon more than one nr two of them, as tiie facts could be obtained trom that number as well as all, and tho expenses of summoning all of them might be saved. He did not think it necessary to summon Judge Hubbell. Secretary Bristow said it was late to talk about economy in this matter. He had been arraigned be fore the country, and he wanted the fullest and mos minute investigation, and desired the attendance of till the witnesses, particularly Judge Hub bell, as he desirrd to show under what circumstances Hnbhc-ll went out of office. He questioned Cite as to all tiie sources of his information, and desired a list of all persons with whom he had conversed on the Piibj.jcc. Members of tiie committee having objected to his questions, Rrijtow said iic had no hesitation in saying these charges had been instigated by what was known in the country as tiie whisky ring of Milwaukee, and he interrogated Gate to bring out those iacts, and put tho information on . record. Gate said tho committee ; would try to tako care of their side : ot the case. Ho (himself) wished to appear as prKeculor. Secretary Bristow But you must; you will do so; you cannot help it. After further discussion the committee com-mittee decided to summon all the witnesses named. Secretary Bristow said some newspaper had declined to furnish original papers in the caso. Ho wished to state that while in obedience to an executive order he should decline to furnish original papers in cases under investigation, yet in every case against himself ho would take the responsibility to produce pro-duce before tho committee every original paper. Ho theu gave the committee tho following names of witnesses to bo summoned: 1. Lyman, Ly-man, C. F. Conant, Buiord Wilson, J. H. Robinson of the treasury de partment, John Finland, W. L. and S. E. Trice of llupkinsville, Ky., and Walter Evans of Louisville. Tho committee then adjourned, to meet at the call of tho chairman. |