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Show In the Senate. Washington, Feb. 17. In the senate this morning, immediately after the reading of the journal, Sherman, from Urn committee on foreign relations, reported back favorably the joiut resolution requesting the president to return to Mexico the twenty-one battle Hags, now in the museum of the United ''States Military academy, which Jwere cup-'.ured cup-'.ured by the army of the United States dur- ng the late war with Mexico; passed. Sherman also reported back adversely the vsolution requesting the committee on for-jign for-jign affairs to inquire as to the practicability practicabil-ity of the acquisition of certain portion of i Mexico, and it was. indefinitely postponed. Merrill, from the finance committee, re-Iported re-Iported the bill directing the secretary of the treasury to admit free of duty the wreckage from the ships Trenton and Vandalia, prc-ijaentcdby prc-ijaentcdby the United States government to ! the king of Samoa, and to refund bc-. bc-. Inu tlie amount of duties paid thereon to 'he collector at San Francisco. Passed. I Bills on the calendar were then taken up nd acted on. One, appropriating Hhi.OHj lor a public building at Boise City, Idaho, Uas recommitted. The bill for a public building at Helena, I Mont., was rc-comraitted. - The bill for the payment to Wm. li. 'f Whcaton, ex-register, an; harles II. Chani-j Chani-j berlaiu, ex-rec eiver of tjr. nd office at San I Francisco, of &iNHl a pi jn of the amount deposited by them in the reasury as fee for testimony taken by clerks and paid by thein-Eelies; thein-Eelies; was passed. Tjhe Idaho contested election case was tbep taken up, and Gray addressed the j -c nutc in support of the views of the minority minor-ity of the committee on elections that Clag-ett,lnot Clag-ett,lnot Dubois, was entitled to the seat. |