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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. GENERAL. FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUSE. Washington, 22. Faulkner, from the committee cn foreign affairs, reported a bill in regard to citizenship and to define certain rights of United States citizens in foreign countries, and certain duties of diplomatic and consular officers, and proceeded to address the house in explanation and advocacy of it. Cor offered a substitute. He would have his argument printed in the Record and then the bouse, after reading the bill and substitute and argument, would be able to vote intelligently. in-telligently. Reagan objected to tbe sections of tbe bills which permitted aliens to hold real estate in this country, and which provides how marriages in foreign countries, between United States citizens and aliens, shall be contracted and solemnized. The further consideration of the bill was postponed till Wednesday next, and the bouse took up the bill reported by Douglas, chairman of the committee com-mittee on the Freedman's bank, to amend the charter ef that institution. institu-tion. Douglas said he did not care to address ad-dress the house now, but would yield the floor to his"colleaeue, Bradford, who desired to ofler some amendments amend-ments to the bill. Bradford offered a substitute for tbe first three sections. Tbe substitute requires re-quires the secretary of the treasury to appoint a good and competent man to take charge of and manage tlie afl".iirs of ttie bank. The secre-tiry secre-tiry is to retain the general supervision supervi-sion of this commissioner. Bradford Addressed the house, insisting that action on tbe subject was due to sixty odd thousand depositors of tbe Freedman's Freed-man's bank, who were principally colored men living in the southern states; that it was a duty which congress con-gress ought not longer to Bhirk, particularly par-ticularly in view of the fact that congress was to some extent respon sible for tbe losses of depositors. Without action on the bill house adjourned, ad-journed, alter Stevenson introduced a bill to abolish the board ol health of the District of Columbia. |