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Show Dana Still on (he Ragged JtUae a ltuukrupl Itiii. Washington, 29. The senate, in executive tessiou today, further considered con-sidered the nomination of Dana, but adjourned without action. The secretary of the treasury to-day directed the retirement of $1SS,141 in greenbacks, thitt beinnSOper cent, of the new national bank circulation i;sused the present month. The bid amendatory of the bankruptcy bank-ruptcy laws reported favorably from the Bouate judiciary committee today, to-day, is a measure recently introduce 1 by Thurman, with some amendments. As reported it provides that a voluntary volun-tary 'issignment by a debtor of all hit property heretofore or hereafter made in good faith for the benefit of all ol creditors, ratably and without creating creat-ing any preference and valid according accord-ing lo the law of the state where made, shall of itself, in the event of his being subsequently adjudicated a bankrupt, in a proceeding of involuntary invol-untary inuikruptcy, bo a bar to the discharge of such debtor. |