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Show himi DISPATCHES. GENERAL. P'ORTV-FOUIirH CONGRESS. SECOND SESSION. SENATE. Washington, 2. Morrill submitted a resolution authorizing tbo appointment appoint-ment of a committee to make the i necessary arraugemonls for tbo inauguration in-auguration of the president elect, Hayes, on the 5th of March. Agreed to. Sargent, from tho conference committee com-mittee on tho deficiency appropriation appropria-tion bill, submitted a report, and it was agreed to. Sargent said the points of difierence between the senate and house were items relating to a deficiency in tho department of justice and pay of the navy. The appropriations for the first-named purposes had been fixed by the conference at $o00,000, and some future congress must meet the deficiency. He had no doubt there would still bo a deficiency of $-100,000 in the pay of the navy department. Morrill, Howe and McDonald were appointed a committeo on inauguration inaugura-tion ceremonies. West, from the conference on the poslollico appropriation bill, reported that the committee had been unable to agree, and moved tiiat tho senate insist on iU amendments and ask for a new conference. So ordered. In submitting the report be said: The points of difference were in regard re-gard to tho appropriations lor transportation trans-portation of mails on railroads, Uic ' senate having increased that amount from $000,000 to $305, 000. Tho senate sen-ate confreres wero willing to reduce ' tho amount, but tho house confreres 1 would not agreo thereto. The senate also appropriated 5-300,000 for the China and Japan mail service, and a !ise amount for tho Brazilian mail 1 service, but the house confreres would ' not concur in that appropriation. The senate confreres cfiered to reduce re-duce the amount to $300,000 for each rou to, but that was not acceptable to the bouse confreres. Morrill, from the committee on finance, reported favorably the senate bill relating to the production of grape brandy, the substitute for the house bill relating to the production of fruit brandy, and to punish frauds connected con-nected with the same. Passed. MeCreery presented a petition from General A. Buford for the removal of his political disabilities. Preferred. Kelly presented the credentials of L. h G rover as United Stales senator from Oregon. Filed. Howe, from tho sub-committec on Lo uisiaua elections, submitted a portion por-tion of the report nowfiuished, and moved that it be printed. So ordered. Saulsbury was granted permission to rile and have printed the views of the minority, himself and McDonald. ' Whyte submitted a resolution call-1 ing upon tho secretary of war to fur- J nisb the senate a copy of the final report of the operations of Iroops in! tho Modoc country under General ! Gi'.lem. Agreed to. j Kansom presented the credentials of M. S. Butler as L'uited States sen- i' ator from South Carolina. Thev were signed by Wade Hampton as governor, gov-ernor, and had the seal of tho slate I attached. Placed on file. McDonald, at uis own request, was 1 excused irom service as a member of tiie special committee to make ar-i rangemeuts for the inauguration of the president elect, and MeCreery was appointed to fill the vacancy. ' Jones of Nevada, from the s'necial committee appoiuted in August last ' to inquire into the ehange which has : token place in tho relative value of , gold and silver, the causes thereof, ! etc., commonly known as thesilver!1 commission, submitted the report of, the commission. Order? I printed. ' Boutwell, member 01 the com mis- ' sion, submitted a minority report ' , signed by himself and aUo signed bv,; Protessor Francis Bowen, one of the! experts appointed by the commission. I Ordered printed. 1, - Oglt-sby called up the house bill re . ripeclmg the limits uf reservations for ; town Hite-s upon the public domain. ' ' Paised. JJ Sargent, from the ronference corn--.ir.'.Uee 011 the naval appropriation ,- bid, reported that the commitu-e had j been unable to agree, and moved that the senate insist upon i'.a aruend-! aruend-! ninls to the bill, and adk for a uew 1 ; eonleniec. eo ordered, si Padduck called up the house con-current con-current resolution to print ti0,000 i copies of tiio agricultural report for r; tLe year &7'i. '1 Anthony move d to amend ao as to -.'reduce the number to 2UU.000. Ke-, Ke-, j jfceled. . I Anthony said the publication of this report would coat $120,000, and it was no use to pais thia resolution j without appropriating the money to pay for it. He therefore introduced a bill authorizing the printing of $300,-000 $300,-000 copies and appropriating $120,000 to pay therefor. Paddock said the resolution could , be passed and an amendment could b put upon tho sundry civil appropriation appro-priation bill to-night, appropriating ' the moony to pay for the publication. After eomo discussion tho bill of Anthony wa3 rejected yeas 21, nays. 2'J und tho concurrent resolution ol tho house to print U00.0O0 copies was ' agreed to. ! Sargent, Bout well and Withers j , were appointed members of the new , conference on the naval bill. Windom, from tho committee on appropriations, reported with amend-; amend-; men la the sundry civil appropriation 1 bill, and gave nolico that he would I call it up for consideration to-night , after recess. Aliison submitted the report of the : conference committee on the military . academy appropriation bill, and it 1 was agreed to. Anthony submitted a resolution to print oOO extra copies of tho proceedings proceed-ings before the olectoral commission, Agreed to. Jiecrss until 8 p.m. EVENING SESdIOS. After debate, the consideration of the house bill to amend tho statutes in relation to damages for infringements infringe-ments on patents was indefinitely postponed. West from the conference on the postotlice appropriation bill submitted j a report similar to tho morning's1 report, stating that the committee disagreed. He moved that t tie sen-ato sen-ato insist upon the amendment and ask for further conference with the house Agreed to. West, Doraey and Bogy were appointed mombers of the committeo. i McMillan called up the house bill to provide for compensation to owners of certain lands-on the northeastern boundary, ceded bv tho United States to Great Britain by tho treaty 0 Washington. Passed. Windom, from tho comniilteo ol appropriations, called up the sundrj civil bill. A largo number of amendments amend-ments reported by toe committee were agreed to, among one that the public printer shall not pay a greater prico than 00 cents per thousand ems, or 4G cents per hour. HOUSE. Alter prayer by the chaplain Walling Wall-ing demanded the readiug of the journal in full. The speaker stated that the journal clerk had been taken sick and the journal bad not been completed, and thereupon Wilson moved to suspend the rules so as to dispense with the reading of the journal. The democrats demo-crats by declining to vote left the houso without a quorum, and the speaker ordered a call oi tho house. The roll call showed 104 present and the reading of the journal was dispensed with. Immediately nearly all tho members mem-bers congregated, shaking bills in front of the speaker's desk. A number num-ber wero for the payment of clerks and pages, and were put through under thq suspension of the rules. Waddell moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution that Wells, Anderson, Caseuave and Kenner, members of the Louisiana returning board, in custody of the bouse, are in the judgment of Ihe house the peers of the majority of the electoral commission wno have, in inaugurating inaugurat-ing the persons whom they have jointly voted into tho office of president presi-dent of the United States, over the votes of a large majority of the legal voters of the country. Conger said that if it were necessary I to exhibit such a specimen of spito bo had no objection. The motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution was defeated, there being only eighteen votes in the affirmative. Waidron made a confereuce report on the deficiency bill, and explained it. He said by the conference report the bill showed an increase of $1,152-,-000 over the amount appropriated by the house, including an ittniof $500,-000 $500,-000 for deficiency in the pay of the navy, and an item of 300,000 for deficiency in the department of justice. jus-tice. The report was agreed to. Ciymer made- a conference report on the military academy bill. Agreed to, Atkins, from the committee on appropriations, moved to suspend tho rules and put upon its passage the array appropriation bill. He Btated that this session was so far advanced thatitia tlin nnlv nrrtrlihle mlhn.l of dealing with the bill. (1 Tho bill was read. It provides 3 among other things, for tho reductior of the cavalry regiments to eight, tin 1 artillery regiments to four, and the , infantry regiments lo sixteen; thai the officers of tho discontinued regi- mcnts may be assigned to other regi- mentsof their respective- arms, and that any officer on his own application applica-tion may bo ordered to have a dis i charge with one year's pay (or every eight years service from the date of his commission; also that there shall P be no distinction in the service on account of color; also that there shall be no new enlistments in the army till the number of enlisted men shall bo reduced to 17,000 ; also that no part of the appropriation shall be used in support of the claims of either of the governments in Louisiana or South I Carolina, until such governments (shall have been duly recognized bv 1 congress. After some discussion a motion to suspend tho rules and pass Uhe bill was agreed to without the 1 yeas and nays. I Keagan moved to suspend the rules jand pass the river and harbor nppro-Jpriation nppro-Jpriation bill. It appropriates $2,512,-j300. $2,512,-j300. The ruoticn to suspend the rules land pass the bill was defeated yeas 1 115, nays 112. J Hurd offered a resolution that it (was decided that tho pre dent of the Un!ted States may be inaugurated on I the fraudulent action of the Louisiana ! returning board, and tho men who havo contributed to the election ol I the chief magistrate of the Union! ought no longer to be in confinement i' and deciding that the members of the j Louisiana returning board be dis-1 charged from custody. Pejected yeas, SO; nays, 07. 1 On motion of L-.len the rules -wre ; suspended and the bill for the pay- ! meut of claims passed upon bv the 1 commissioners of soul hern claim's was ' passed. It appropriates $474,000. 1 Toe house tuen took a recess until i ' 5 this evening. j ! EVES ISO SIXMOS. j Glover, chairman of the committee I ?n real estate pool, asked leave to .report and bave printed certain tc-sti-muny having reference to Garfield, j Wilson of Iowa objected, and denounced de-nounced it as an outrage that any ! committee should h iw taken testi-1 testi-1 rnony atieetin- mr-rjibers of the li0U-:e wit:. out first notifying them. I A member Garfield knew all 1 about it from the day the first depo-: depo-: bilion was taken. Wilson He says he did not. Glover I know that he did. Some of those witnesses went to Garfield's house before breakfast and talked to him about it. Garfield mud while lie had been engaged en-gaged eight or ten hours a day on the electoral commission, he learned that several witnesses hud been examined belore the committee on real estate pool, and day before yesterday he received the first notice from the chairman, Glover, that there had been any reflections made upon him. He then went before the committee and cross examined one witness, but ho now learned that several other witnesses had been examined, of whose testimony be knew nothing. If the gentlemen desired to assail him now was the time, but he object.id to have printed as part of the records ot the house a mass of matter assailing him of which ho had no notification. Glover moved to suspend tbo rules bo the testimony might bo reported and printed. A vote was taken and resulted yeas 03, nays 61, not two-thirds two-thirds in the affirmative, but less than a quorum voling. Glover then withdrew the testimony for Ihe present. Field, from the committeo on privileges, privi-leges, reported a bill lo provide an leilectual remedy for wrongful intrusion intru-sion into the otlico of president and vice president, and count tho votes of persons ineligible at the time of casting cast-ing their votes, and the court must investigate any other fact necessary to the judgment of tho rights of the parties, the judgment to be rendered within ten days after the verdict of tho jury. If tho defendant be adjudged ad-judged not entitled to the office, he shall be excluded from it, and if the claimant bo adjudged entitled to it ho shall enter immediately upon the duties of the office. Appeal may bo , taken to tho supremo court of the United Slates within ten days' notice of the judgment, and the judgment shall not bo executed until the decision of the appeal, and if the supreme su-preme court bo not in session when that appeal is taken, it shall be immediately convened by tho chief justice. Execution of the judgment may be enforced by a proper writ issued to any marshal of tho United States. Field proceeded to explain the bill and to argue in Eupport of its constitutionality consti-tutionality and its expediency. The j bill, ho argued, would bring conciliation con-ciliation for tho present and safety , for the future. Burchard of Illinois and Lawrence . stated some of the constitutional, , legal and practical objections to the . bill. Townsend of New York said though thero might be a difference of opinion between the two houses as to ihe right to count in a president, thero was no difierence of opinion on the point that tho man who was , counted in constitutionally should be president of tho United States for four years. Conger interposed a motion to suspend the rules and adopt the resolution discharging from custody Wells, Anderson, Kenner and Cassi-uave Cassi-uave of the returning board, but the . speaker held that Field had the floor, on a question of tho highest constitutional constitu-tional privileges. The bill was road. It provides that when porsona intrude into or without a due election holds or exercises the office of president or vice president of the United States his title, if there is any claimant thereto, may be tried and determined by ac-, ac-, tion in the nature of a quo warranto ! action, which may be brought in any circuit court of the United States, and t Bhall be tried by a jury or by the court if a jury trial be waived. The trial is to be commenced within . ninety days after the service of the summons. The court shall inquire whether the electoral votes were cast by persons duly appointed in the manner directed by the state legislature, legisla-ture, and shall receive evidence tending tend-ing to Bhow forgery, falsehood or the invalidity of any certificates of any governor, canvassing, or other officer. This very proposition was an abomination abomi-nation and disgrace to the eye. Field replied and demanded the previous question of tho passage which was seconded, and the bill was rejected yeas 66, nays 99. Holman from the conferenco committee com-mittee on the postofiice bill reported that the committee had agroed upon most of the amendments, compromising compromis-ing on a reduction of tho amounts proposed by the souato, but as to four of the amendments the confer-once confer-once committee bad disagreed. The first was. an increase of SGO.000 in tho nature of a subsidy to railroad companies com-panies for the transportation of mails; the second in regard to an appropriation appropria-tion for a postal commission; the other two points were proposed subsidies sub-sidies of $500,000 each for a mail, one from San Francisco to China and Japan, and New Orleans to Brazil. The report waB adopted except on Ihe disputed points, and a new conference con-ference was naked on the other points, Holman, CJvmer. and Fosirr hfii appointed on the same. Connor moved to suspend tho rules ; and discharge the returning board. Lost 79 to 79, not two-thirds. ; Lamar moved to suspend tho rules ' and report back the bill extending ; the time for completion 0 the Northern North-ern I aciflc railroad eight years De-fealed-Olycas, 72 nays, not two-thirds. |