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Show LATEST DISPATCHES. FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. EXTRA SESSION. Washington, 23. The senate was not in -session. HOUSE. Tho regular order being demanded, Chittenden aeked unanimous consent that alter Fort's speech he (Chitten- ' den) should bellowed to apeak fifteen minutes for "Sodom and Gomorrah." Thompson objected. Chittenden then rose to a question of peraonul privilege, proposing to read from the record tbe personal atisaulta upon him. Thompson, after an appeal by Ew-ing, Ew-ing, withdrew his objection, and Chittenden waB granted fifteen minutes, min-utes, after tbe speech of Fort. Fort then advocated his substitute to the repeal bill. He had doubted wbother he should reopen the subject, hut it was deemed proper that some words should come from republican members of tho banking committee. He favored the measure because he was a republican. He commented on the fact that tbe legal tender which put down rebollion was now disowned by itt friends and kindred, while many southern members upheld it. Ho opposed all amendments. If the act wore to be repealed it should be by a single proposition. The issue was bimply whether to repeal or not. Ho asserted tht Wall street men were breeding wild oats in order to flood the country when they got greenbacks retired. Eames said there was no proposition proposi-tion pending to withdraw a single dollar of greenbacks. Fort said he was arguing that that would be the result. He blushed for hia fellow republicans and denied that he waB going over to 'the democrats, hut they were following Hewitt, who led the last campaign lor the democracy. dem-ocracy. He said tho people have determined de-termined to retain legal tender cur rency and if neceaaary change the bouse, senate and president. Chittenden criticized Ewing's speech of yesterday, and comparod it with his Bpeech in Columbus in 1875, where bo had predicted thnt the country would bs left within a year without a dollar of currency, paper or silver, under the eQcct of the chaugo of paper for silvor. That prediction was about like that of yesterday, when he represented that the conflict between capital and labor wculd end in the destruction of capital. He had denounced capitalists capital-ists and capital; pointed at New York oh the Sodom and Gomorrah of robbers rob-bers and bloated bondholder. (Laughter.) As evidence of the absurd notions prevailing about the currency, he said in the spring of 1875 Richard Schell, democratic representative represen-tative from New York city, told him he favored digging a ship canal from Now York to riau Francisco, to employ em-ploy the idle labor ol the country, and that he would set priming presses to work to print ofl greenbacks and pay the laborers and that that was tbe only remedy. Ho read from the proceedings of the rag money convention conven-tion in Nashville, where resolutions were adopted tavoriug a monthly issue of ten millions of greenbacks until tho distress of the country ceased. Ho assorted that il congress adjourned for a year, gold and yreon-tmcks yreon-tmcks would ho at par within sixty days. Concerning the question of (personal priviloge, ho said that wucd . he went to the democratic side y ester-I day, be did not, in the confusion, hear the unpleasant remarks of Felton of Georgia. He thereupon read, with considerable excitement on his part and with shouts of laughter from the members, Felton 's allusion to the storm at sea and pointing to himself aa the wrecker waiting for bis prey. ''There I stood," he con tinued, "all unconscious of being made the representative and embodiment em-bodiment of all horrid capitalis s and blo&tcd bondholders, who live along the sea. (Shouts of laughter ) Now, I auk the gentlemen who have bulled their blowa at me ae a 'wreckor.' and who are oleased to repeat that kind of stuff, and to circulate circu-late It in the newspapers so that anonymous lettnrs are sent te me about it, (laughter) to look at me. (Roars of laughter.) There U not a man on thiB floor who is us much interested in-terested ai t am in maintaining the interests of tbe debtor class. What has the gentleman from Ohio (Ewiug) to do with them? Nobody owes hiui any money. (Laughter.) What does lie know about tht interests or necessities neces-sities of the debtor class of this country? coun-try? The books of the linn in which iny all is involved have to-day upon them the accounts of frdVn 3,000 Uj 8,000 debtors, scattered all over tho country. This should be a lesson to members of congress, who come hero and talk impudently, wildly, viciously and wickedly, each adverb pronounced with emphaaisaud bailed with Bhouts of laughter, about the awful capitalists and awful representative)! repre-sentative)! of New York, which suilered more in loaning its money to the west and south than any other city on the earth. Mr. Speaker, I am indebted to the house for this opportunity. oppor-tunity. (Laughter and shouts of "Go on," "Proceed.") I will not trespass another moment. I should throw no additional light on the sub ject (laughter) and I am weary. I have only to express my thank?." The speaker ruled that all the amendments were before the house and must be voted on. Springer desired to withdraw the one which he had offered, but objection objec-tion was made by Garfield and the objection was sustained. The first vote wm lakeu on tho substitute oflered by Fort, and it was agreed to without division. It repeals re-peals all that part of the resumption act which authorizes the secretary of tbs treasury to dispose of United States bonds and to ledeem and cancel can-cel the greenback cunency. The next vote was on the substitute oflered by Hubbell, modifying the third section of the resumption act. It was taken by yeas and nays, and j resulted, yeas 90, nays 158. j Several hard-money men voted for Hubbell's substitute (as they had done for Fort's), not because they favored either of them, but because, its Garfield intimated, thoy hoped thorebymore surely to defeat tbe bill. The next vote was on the amendment amend-ment oflered by Pound, repealing the limitation of national bank note circulation. Rejected. Tho amendment nfTared hv Cor (Ohio), providing for a gradual redemption re-demption ol legal tenders from the 1st of January, 1878, at 97 cents on the dollar up to the 1st of January, 1SS1, at par in csin, Rejected with only seventeen in the aflirmative. Tbe ameudment oflered by Cum-mings, Cum-mings, postponing redemption uutil tbe coin, reserve in the treasury ii sufficient to authorize it was rejected. The amendment by Hewitt (New York), requiring an accumulation in the treasury of $50,000,000 a year until tbe amount shall be equal to one-half of the outstanding legal tenders, after which redemption is to commence, was rejected. Disposition was made of tbe amend meuts oflered by Eden (Ills.), Keifer, Chittenden, Deertng and Aldricb, all of which were rejected without divi sion. The next amendment, by Slenger, repealing the resumption d.iy clause in the resumption act was voted on by yeas and nays and resulted yeaa 17, nays 220. i The amendments offered by Clarke (Iowa), Patterson and Willis (New York) and Morrison were severally rejected. Tho next amendment was one oflired by Ward, to add a new Boction to the bill, prov ding that debts for wages shall be payable only in coin or legal tender notes. Garfield demanded the yeas and nays, and called sarcastically on the laboring man's friends to vole for it. The count on ordering the yeas and navs was 4G to 18-1, a tie, as one-filth one-filth orderB the yeas and nays. Tbe speaker voted io, thus defeating defeat-ing tbe call, but the question was then taken by the tellers and the yens and nays were ordered. The vote waa then taken by yeas and nays. There was a good deal of merriment indulged in. Many mem bora changed their vote, so as to boon the right side of the Ui-oriog-mau question, at least. When the important relation of the amendments to the bill itself oegan to be realized, the merriment toned down into nerioitaiieda. and the friends of tbe bill, who had voted in the aflirmativo, began to change to tho negative. Tho speaker, in order to give tho members an opportunity of corroct ing their votes, ordered the list to be read a second time. After the second sec-ond roading of tbe names the final result was, ufter much delay, occasioned oc-casioned by numerous changed, an nounced as: yeas, 27; nays, 129. Tbe next vote was ou the bill as amended: that on Furl's substitute. substi-tute. The result was: yens, 133; nays, 120, so the bill was passed. Following is the text of tho bill as passed ; A bill to repeal all that part of the act npprovod January 14tli, 1875, known a3 the resumption act, which authorizes thfl BPcreUry of thu trnasury to dinpoafl of United States bonds and rodcemi and cancel tho groanback curroncy: That all that portion of the act approved January 14, 1875, entitled an "Act to proviso for tho resumption of specie payments," which roads a follows, to-wit- "And whooover, and so often as circulating notes shall be issued V any such banking ssocialion, so increasing its cupital or circulating notes, or so newly organized, as hfijresaid, it shall bo tho duly of the! secretary to redeem the legal tuudcr United States ntm in excess only of three hundntd million dollars to tho amount of 8(J par centum of tbe sum of national bank notes so itsuod to any such hanking association, aa aforostiid, and to continue such redemption as such circulating notes are issued, until there shall be outstanding the sum of llireo hundred million dollars of such logal tender United .Statu i not33, and no mote, and on and ai'cor the 1st day of January, Anno Domini 1S71), tho secret try of the treasury Bhall rcdooni, in coin, the United States legal tender notes thou outstanding, outstand-ing, on thoir presentation for redemption Ht the olh'i.'O of thu assiitint treasurer of tho United Stales in the city of New York, in sums of not less than tilty dollars; dol-lars; and toonablethu soeretary of tlje treasury to prepare and provide for redemption re-demption in this act, n authorized or required, re-quired, ho ii authorized louse a'iy surplus sur-plus rovenuus frem timo to time in tha troaury, not otherwise appropriated, find to issue, sell and dispose of, at not Ua than par, in coin, either of the descriptions descrip-tions ef tho bonds of the United Sinle don'ribod in llmnct of congress appntvird July J-lth, lttTU, entitled, 'An act to authori.i the refunding of tlnnntiornl debt,' with lilie qualities, privili-gi!? and exemptions, t nn extent nectary tol carry this act into full effect , ana to U4 the prce edu thereof fur the purposes afore-aid, "bo, and sumo io hereby repealed. re-pealed. J The speaker presented some fo ty J applications for leave of absence. Vod (N. Y.) objected, except those in cases of sickness, and said he expected there could be a final ad' journment by Tuesday next. Conger asked him to have that question fixed at once. Wood declined to call up the reso lution for final adjournment on the ground that the senate w.ts not probably disposed to an early adjournment. adjourn-ment. Tbe house adjourned to Tuesday. |