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Show FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. 1 ki;nate. Washington, 10. Anthony, (ruin the comminittee on printing, reported tiack the two resolutions in relation to printing the dt-bates, and asked to be discharged from further consideration.. considera-tion.. Agreed to. He also submitted the following report uf the committee on the subject : A'fWivi, That the proceedings and debates shall be printed in the Record as actually delivered and taken down by the official reporter, grammatical errors excepted, and shad be furnished to the printer in season for the next publication of tho Ilesord. Windom introduced a bill for establishing es-tablishing the territory of Arizona. Boutwell introduced tho following: llesvltd, That the secretary of the treasury be requested to furnish for the information of the esc n ate the annual an-nual product of gold and silver in the United Slates from 1S-15 to 1S75, inclusive; in-clusive; also the amounts of gold and lilver in othei parts of the world for the gamo years, and an es'.imate of the amount of silver now in the United Slates. Adopted. Cameron, Pennsylvania, sent up a slip frem a newspaper, charging that aoveral senators kept private secretaries, who were paid as clerks. , As one of the senators mentioned, he denied the truth of the article. Senators Sen-ators West and Logan, whose names were in the article, denounced it as an unmitigated falsehood. Edmunds read from the Baltimore Gazette a dispatch saying that the judiciary committee wero holding back tho house witness bill, while Senators Conkling and Logan were looking up authorities for defeating it to save some of their friends who were mixed up in whisky frauds, lie eaid as a member of the committee be felt authorized to say that not one particle of influence from any person or source whatever had been brought to bear on the committee in relation to this bill. Thuiman, as a member of the aamoj committee, said he had taken the bill i up out of ita turn. Conkling said there was not an iota t of truth in the statement. The time was passing, if it had not already gone; by, when people could be gulled and ; deceived by such abusive articles. Tne time will come when abusive ' articles of misrepresentation will be I justly considered as a conspiracy and defamation against our institutions . themselves, and the question would j arise what country would next try the experiment of a government of the people, for the people, and by the j people. Logau said he did not know such a bill had reached the senate. When he did and should see it, he would advocate it or oppose it as he thought best. It was charged that be was afraid that some nf his friends in the whisky ring would get hurt. He had no friends in the whisky ring. He had never trafficked in a gallon of whisky in his life never visited a distillery, never owned a dollar's worth of stock in one never had one of his friends in frauds never knew of them till he saw it in the papers never hud one of hia friends indicted in whisky frauds. One man whom he had recommended for a position had been indicted, and many a man baa a friend whom he has recommended recom-mended turn out bad. He pro nounced all the statements concerning concern-ing him as infamous lies, and no man dare stand up belore him and charge him with these things to his face, and only cowards skulk behind corporations corpora-tions and newspapers. Men never did. Tho morning hour expiring, the senate resumed the consideration of the bill to provide for and reguUte-the counting of the votes lor president and vice-president. The bill was discussed dis-cussed by Tlurman, Christiaucy, Frelinghuysen, Johnston, Howe and Morton. The latter said if it was necessary to have an umpire at all, the safest and best way was to refer a disagreeing vote to the bu preme court of the United States. He submitted sub-mitted a plan for calling them in as follows: That the judges of the supreme court shall be assembled at the same time, and in case the two houses cannot agree the question shall be summitted to the judges, whe shall proceed at once to decide which is the valid return. After an executive session the senate sen-ate adjourned till Monday. The bill for the distributiop of the unappropriated moneys ot the Geneva i award was recommitted and made the: upecial order for the 2'J:h of March. Hunting, from ths judiciary com-j mittee, reported back the resolution j directing tho attorney general loi transmit to tho house all papers and letters asktng for the removal of judce j Bedford, district judge for the territory j ol Colorado, and the appointment of Judge Stone; also all papers appertaining apper-taining to the alleged corrupt rulings of Judge Stone. Adopted. The house then went into eom mittee of the whole, S.iylor in tha chair, on the bill to supply the de-1 ficieucy of the currency, printing and engraving bureau ol the treasury department, de-partment, and lor the issue of silver coins in place of fractional currency. The bill appropriates $103,000, aud directs the secretary of the treasury to issue silver coin in redemption ot all fractional currency outstanding. Randall, chairman of the appropriation appropria-tion committeo, proceeded to explain . and advocate the bill. Ho sent to ! the clerk's desk and had read an i argument prepared by Wella of Missouri, Mis-souri, a member ot the committee, who was unavoidably absent. Waid, Hewe'-t and Kelly npoke against the issue ol silver coin, aud 1 Uetjan in advocacy of it. Without action the committee rose. Young, from the Bub-committee on : the ventilation of tho house, made a report to the effect that it was i:n-, i:n-, possible to force into the houso sufheient quantity of Iresh air for tho i supply of 0,000 persons, and with it a resolution to exclude from the gal- Icrics all persons except those who have tiie privileges of the reporter' and diplomatic galleries, and such us may be admitted on cards of membership. mem-bership. After debate the report was recommitted. Landers of Indiana oflered a resolution reso-lution to restore the election of tho government in the District of Columbia. Colum-bia. Referred. House adjourned. |