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Show iioi.st:. Ihir;c;ch, from tho committee on naval all nr.. report d a bill directing tiie naval estimates to be made in de-tad de-tad under the various heads of expenditure. ex-penditure. After discussion, tho bill pa,d. i-aulkiH-r, from the coinmiltco on foreign ailairn, reported a rcMilulion lirccting the committee on foreign if lairs to inquire if there was any 1 L :oniliet of eontru. tion between a .ircat Britain and the United Stales j jt ,n regard to tht extradition treaty ot i lSi-2, and what h-islaUon, if any, is n proper to remove any difficulty in d .he execution of tho said treaty, y Adopted. A'-o a b:ii to carry into u :xccu.ion the uroviaiuns ot the tour- a U-eiith amendment to lb constitution t loneeriiiny it:zo;i i ip, and to dt-tinn i; ;:erlaiu rights of United Stales cilizBtis in foreign countries. The h bill wa3 made a special order for Sat- t urday, the loth ol April. t Knott, chairman of tho committee J on the judiciary, presents! articles lo t be adopted aud presented to the. son- c ale in maintainance and support of t the impeachment for high crimen 11 and misdemeanors in office of Wm. v W. Belknap, late teeMary of war, t which were recommitted and ordered 1: printed, with the understanding that hey would be called up on Saturday next. The impeachment articles are five in number, and are worded in the usual legal phraseology, one being largely a repetition of the other. The first 'arliclo is as follows: Tiiat William V. Belknap, while he was 1 in olheo. as secretary of war, to wit: on tno Sib of December, 1S70, had power 1 md authority under the laws of the United States, as secretary of war, to appoint a person lo maintain the trading establishment at Irort Sill, a military po?t of tho United States; that said Belknap promised to appoint ap-point one Caleb P. Marsh, to maintain such trading establishment at said military post, and thcrealter said Caleb P. Marsh and one John S. Evans did enter into an agreement in writing, substantially as follows: (Here tho articles of agreement are set Cut in cxtenso;) that theroatler on the 10th of October, 1S70, said Belknap, as secretary of war, at the instance and request of said Marsh, appointed J. S. Evans to maintain said trading establishment establish-ment at Jb'ort Sill, aud in consideration considera-tion ot such appointment said Bel knap did, on or about the 2.1 ol Novi-mber, 3S70, unlawfully and corruptly receive from said March j-vl.oUO, and did at divers times .thereafter, that is on or aboat the 7lh , of January, 1S71, and about the end of each three months during the term of one whole year, while he was still in office as secretary of war, unlaw-! unlaw-! fully receive from said Marsh like , sums of $1,500 in consideration ol ; the appointment of Evans and in consideration of his (Belknap's) permitting said Evans to continue to j maintain said trading establishment at Fort Sill, whereby said Belknap, who was then secretary of war, was guilty ot hiiih crimes :usd misdemeanor misde-meanor in ofiiee. Article 5, after reciting some general gen-eral facts, charges that Belknap was induced to make tiie appointment of Evans by the infiusnco and request ol Marsh; that Evans paid Marsh as consideration for such influence and request divers large sums of money, amounting to about $1,200 a yca-i'rom yca-i'rom the date of such appointment to the 25th of Marrh, 1S72, aud amounting amount-ing to about $0,000 a year thereafter, until the 2d of March, 1S70, allot' which (acts Belknap well knew, yet! in consideration that he would permit said Evans to continue and to main-1 tain tho trading establishment that! such payments might continue to bo! made to Marsh by Evans, did corruptly cor-ruptly receive from Marsli, either lor his own (Belknap's) use or to ba p lid to his wife, divers large sums 01 money, at various times, selling out tho dale and amounts. Tiie close of the document is as follows: And the house of representatives, by protestation, protesta-tion, saving lo themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time thereafter, any further articles of accusation or impeachmeut againit Wm. V. Belknap, late secretary sec-retary of war of the United Slates, and also replying to his anawers which lie shall make unto the articles herein preferred against him; and of ollering proof to tiie same and every part thereof, and to all and every other article of accusation or impeachment im-peachment which shall be exhibited by them as the case shall require; also demand that the said Wm. W. Belknap may be put to answer for hiyh crimes and misdemeanors in office herein charged against him, and that such proceedings, examinations, examina-tions, trials and judgments may be thereupon had and given a3 may be agreeable t' law and justice. The ; committee also reports the following 1 resolution: V.V.jof'.'J, That Bevcn managers be appointed by ballot to conduct the impeachment exhibited against Wm. W. Bi Iknnp, late secretary of war of the United States. Campbell, Illinois, introduced a bill for a commission of three persons, one of whom at least shall hi practically prac-tically identified with the laboring interests of the counlry, who shall hold office for one year, and who shall investigate tho subject of wages and hours of labor, and thedivisiru of joint profits, labor and capital between tho laborer and capitalist, and the social, educational and sanitary sani-tary condition nf the laboring clashes of the United States, and how the same is allccted by existing laws regarding re-garding commerce, finance and currency. cur-rency. Referred. The house then resumed the consideration con-sideration ol tl lo bill appropriating Pi:;,000 for the deficiency in the printing and engraving bureau ol the treasury department, and for the issue of silver coin in place of the fractional currency, Tiie first vole on the amendment offered by Reagan, providing thai silver coins of the denomination ol ono dollar shall be a legal tender at lh' ir nominal v duo for any amounl not exceeding $-) in any one payment pay-ment and that silver coin of less than one dollar be a legal tender for its nominal value for any amount not exceeding $2-5 in any one payment. Oliver offered as a substitute foi Reagan'a amendment an amendment providing that tho trade dollar be n local tender only to the amount ol one dollar in any ono payment, ami that tho fractional eilver coinage hi legal tender only for any amount les.-than les.-than one dollar. Kcgan's amendment was rejected. Tho next vote was on the amendment amend-ment ot Wells, to add to llolman'. amendment the proviso that if silver bullion is not presented for coinage in sulfieicnt quantity to meet tin demand, tho trc-inury may purchase bilvi.T bulion for the purpose of twin-age. twin-age. On a vole by tellers, there was a tie -eighty-eight on each Bide-whereupon Bide-whereupon Cox, speaker to (an., voted aye. The yeas and nays were then demanded and ordered, and the amendment was agreed to yeas 117, nays li7. Tho next ainrndmont was that off-red by Holman, prohibiting the secretary of the treasury from making any larlh'T im-rensc of tho intercat-bearing intercat-bearing debt of the Unitul States by tiio issue and sab: of bonds for the purchase of silver bullion for coinat-u, but silver bullion shall be received by tho several mints for coinage fur private parties on payment ol n seign'orafo, provided that silver coin and bullion shall not exceed the amount of tho fractional currency now million.' d. Jiurehard moved to strike out the first part of llolman's amendment prohibiting tho increase ot the debt, i Rejected. The qv.Cbtion nas then taken on . Holman's amendment, as amendod, 1 aud on motion of Wells, it was re-' jectcd. . Reagan again offered his amend- , ment making silver coin a legal ten- der to the amount of ?"0. Adopted, , yeas 112, nays 95. Without dipo- ; ii:g of tiie b;il the bom e at -1.0 took ; a reciss till 7.o0, the evening sissmo ; to be for consideration 01 the legi.s- l ' iative appropriation bills.' I At the evening session th house went into committee o! I tho whole, Cox in ihe chair, on the legislative appropriation bill. Aller three hi.urs spent in diseuising the paragraph for pay of clerks and employes in tho house without coming j to any deci-ion, the committee rojc 1 and tiie house adjourned, when there was an announcement for a demo ; cratic caucus for to-morrow night ; alter the evening session. |