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Show GENERAL. FOKTV-FOURTH CONGRESS. Washington, 2.5. Hamilton presented pre-sented a memorial of a delegation of Crow Indians in relation lo kinds due them under the treaty of 1Sj2 and the act of 1837, for the support of orphan children of that tribe. Wright, from tho committeo on civil service and retrenchment, ro-ported ro-ported back the bill fixing Ihe Balary of the president of tho United States at $25,000 per annum, together with the message of the president vetoing the same, and recommended that the bill be passed, notwithstanding the objection of the president. Wright aaid he had been direntpd hv the committee to request the eenato to act on tho bill as soon as possible. It was placed on the calendar. Paddock reported ft bill looking to the restoration of the franking privilege, privi-lege, which was placed on the calendar. calen-dar. At 12:35 legislative business was suspended, and tho Benato resumed consideration of the Belknap impeachment im-peachment case with closed doors. At 5 o'clock tho doors were opened, the executive session followed, and the senate adjourned. IIOLSE. The senate amendments to the bill authorizing the appointment of re-ceccivers re-ceccivers of national banks were non-concurred non-concurred in. Ihe house thou went into committeo commit-teo of the whole, Springer in the chair, on the bill to revise and simp lify existing laws imposiog duties on imports and to reduce taxation. Morrison, chairman of the committee on ways and means, proceeded to address the committee in explanation of the bill. The Emma mine report went over till to-morrow, and Hondce, member of the committee on the District ol Columbia, presented to the house as ' it privilege question, the fact of the ' clandestine procurement of the report ' which the chairman of that committee commit-tee had prepared, and of its publication publica-tion in the New York Tribune anil in the Washington Slur. As that report had gone to the couniry ns the report of tne committeff, he declared that no report had been n greed upon, and had not even been discussed for more than an hour, a;.d he offered a resolution reso-lution instructing the district committee com-mittee to inquire as to the manner in which a copy of that paper had been obtained for publication, and by whom and from whom it was obtained. ob-tained. Adopted. The house, at 5 o'clock, adjourned. |