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Show TELEGRAPHIC h isiii:to. lUrtml'a Silver Hill Again Thrown Ort-r. rroNpcrtM ' Adjournment of i'oimrt'WM t-nrly Kvxl vvh. WashiiiKton, 2. There w:ia a very animated alrnle in the Ikiubu to day hfinei'ti thentipporten and oppmif ntu of Hlund'ti Bllvur loyal tender hill, which came up as Ihu regular order during thu nifirinj; hour. Knsson made tho pnipositiun to Blaud to til low lh diptMifflion to run on (luring the remainder of the day and to hold ils pluee in the morning hour tomorrow, to-morrow, or to lot the hill ro over to thr next sedition, so na to yiva the currency cur-rency committee nn opportunity to examine lhe itlver question thoroughly. thor-oughly. Iiland would not areo to thia unless the opponents of the hill would pledge themselves not to filli-hiiBter filli-hiiBter to-morrow. He demanded the previous question n the passage of tho bill, thus preventing any debate. t Hewitt of New York moved that the honao adjourn. Pending that m.ition, Odeli moved that when the house adjourn ad-journ it he to meet on Saturday. The yeas und nays wero ordered on both motions, and thus the bill cannot be acted on to-day, tbo two votes con Burning tho entire morning hour. The conference committeu on the legislative appropriation bill aro milking milk-ing fair progrees toward an agreement. agree-ment. It is thought that the house confreres will accept the basil proponed pro-poned by Secretary Morrill to make the reduction in the force of employes of about GOO. An adjournment by next Monday ie confidently predicted by the democratic demo-cratic members. A caucus of republican eenatora will be held after the adjournment today, to-day, to consider various matters, including the queoLion of the final adjournment. A private telegram announces Blaine's return to his home in Augusta, Maine, to day in greatly unproved health. He will take an active part in directing the campaign in his own Btate, and later in Hie season sea-son he expects to go west and nuke a few speeches in Ohio and Indiana. Ciymer's report on the wholesale investigations by the committee on the expenditures in tho war depart inenl curing this session is ready. It is a thoroughly partisan document, whiie wiiahing Pendleton, but not tailing to severely censure the president presi-dent for allowing his brother, Orvillo, to trade in post traderehips; for extending ex-tending the riioux reservation in order to give Orviile Urant a monopoly of the poet which he bad, and tor excluding ex-cluding other citizens from appointment appoint-ment to post traderships to benefit Orviile. The report will he disagreed to by Sanford, who will make a minority report, and will craate quite a breeze in the house when it comes up. Matters will be rushed here between now and next Monday. Every objection ob-jection to an adjournment is rapidly giving way before the intense desire ot a large number of members and senators who want to go home. There will be a crowd of reports towards the close of this weelr, aud if the repub-licnns repub-licnns do not stand in the way of their reception there will be an adjournment ad-journment in a very brief space of time. The contemplated movements of the army upon the bord(rare kept with much secrecy. Gen. Sherman is very much occupied at present and fully-admits to his intimates that the Indian problem grows in ditliciiUiea daily. He is now ordering every available Boldier that can be spared from the soutt west; the forces at all the Indian agencies are to be doubled for the purpose of disarming all Indians upon the reservations to prevent pre-vent them from goiDg on the war parth. Colonel Asa P. Gardner was before the whisky frauds committee to-day and gave evidence in regard to Bibcock's Bib-cock's losses on black Friday and his real estate transactions. |