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Show IN CONGRESS. Hiulncs? Tran3ctrl Teitrnlar in the TrtolHotw! of tbe Le;i- latlrr Ilodf. SIGNS OF PEACE IN THE IRISH POLITICS. Tried fur Ilaellns: Life Jison? tbe .Soldier of tbe (lenran Arnif. A MEXICAN CONSUL FIGHTS FOR HIS HONOR. TonthfalJJorierado, l'Lijin? the "'-Kole afapld-iip HilU ytf'Xiaiiai reVrrgr-anyS ByTelesraph totho New! CONGltCSIONAL The Sblppius 9ubldjr UIII In the VA8iiiaTON, Jan. 7. In tbe IIuum) the beuate bill iln-rea"llii; front filty lotoveuty tbe number of army otllccrn who nuy be dtLalled to military collrgts was ias.-cU. The Hou-e ueiit into Committee of tile Whole on tbe shl.iug bill Herbert (Ala.) o.)wted Ibe meau-ure meau-ure becaue lt irojoeil Indbcrim-loate Indbcrim-loate tubeldy to vtels of every character lit tbe foreign trade. It was a natural result of tlie Mc-Jvitilej Mc-Jvitilej bill. Duigley (Maine), reviewed tile decadence of American t-tiiiIii iulerests, raid ill Mich a eoimiticu as the country now found itself, with only 124 Ir cent of tbe f.irei.rii-carriuir trade. itii Great Itntaiu eiitreutned ou every ocean route, it "us obvioua that it una utterly out of the !jirtrof prHale iudmduak', wltliout awb-tauce in some direction, to diaKxlge theshii-jiiugof theshii-jiiugof Great Uriuin. It wa-ioatd Ibe bill would not do for our mer chant marine what nas claimed for It We could judge of tbat by what a similar iiolicj had done fr France. With less maritime eo. le than tme nf the UuiUd State?, uitliiu tie yearn from tbe establishment of a eutatid !-,i-teni, tlie steam ton nageof France had doubled. With the widest extent of coast known to any nation, tlie United Slated coulj reap a benefit from bUteldiea tar greater than any other nation. Italj a oted u eubtiuy iwilcy inISSo,and in four jears her b Irani marine had increased It) lr cent The maximum maxi-mum exiien-e of tbe bill the first j ear would be $2,000,001), of hich all hut about $30J100d orSJ'JOOOO would come from tau and tonnage ton-nage dues. Taking the tiijnet rate of increase in tonnage it was estimated esti-mated that as a result of the irovit-iuus irovit-iuus of tbe bill the greatest amount of expenditures that would be needed need-ed in one ear w wild lie $7.0i)a,u00, alter uhicli the rate of aymeut would steadily dlmluiah. Dockrry (Jlis.-ouri) said three .caused coii-tituted an.elTn.tual bar- . IheTAmcricau'carrjIug trade. Tlie llrstwaatbe ditTcrence ofcottte- Iv, een American aud fureigu e-1-; seeoud, tbe greater running exu-tea exu-tea American vessels w ere under; j and third, tlie harsh aud restrict e features of our navigation lawn, exacting ex-acting heavv touuae dueH,cotiruUr fees aud other dues. Furthermore, the reiiUbhcsAi puUc of exclutiioii ui IniiNirtM was ut unr Mltli the In-tercsta In-tercsta of tbe American carrying trade, lieoppoeed subsiulesaiidail other protection to pecial iuduslriesi, and asked Fartiuh.tr, chairman of the committee, how much the l'a-utic l'a-utic JIail Steamabip Companj, which at one tension, he said, corrupted cor-rupted the emploj ees of the House, would get, laCac JFarquhar replied thatit would get tbe same as all othirsteamship companies. com-panies. Dockery said that was no answer, aud asked if the I'acific .Mail slock had not risen ou the possibility ot tbe lassage ol the bill? Fanpihar warmly replied that If it were so he was glad of it, aud hoped the stock of every American coman) would increase in value. Dockery, retorting, said lieu anted to take the fact home to tlie farmers of the West that five millions were being taken out of the Treasury to su-UIn aud Miport the 2Ceu bug-laud bug-laud ship-owners. George Gould, ne understood, was one of the 'laboring men to be benefitted." Dockery then invited attention to the restrictive scojie of the reciprocity reciproci-ty advocated by Secretary Itlaine;' so far as the farmers were concerned, the defect that was fttal to su sld . uas alike fatal to reciprocity. The farmer could derive no benefit from reciprocity, because the South American countries had almost eer article iieees'jryfur theirow n consumption. Let the country return re-turn to that propitious twlicy under which it explored every sea and cast anchor in every harbor. Divested Di-vested of artificial restrictions, our marine could renew aud assert Its imKrtauce u.on the ocean. l'eudiui; further delate the committee com-mittee rose and the House adjourned. adjourn-ed. K THE SENATE. Washington, Jan. 7. In the neuatu the conference report on tlie public printing deficiency bill waa jgrecJ to. The financial bill ra taken up and Daniel spoke in favor of free coinage. Plumb followed. He credited the -liver act of the last ses-Ion with having had the effect of preventing a universal financial panic What ever might be said a'jout its shortcoming", short-coming", iiseffectou the immediate ituation had been of a munificent character. He did not share the fears of the Senator from Ohio (Sherman) as to what woulJliapiieti irom the free coinage ot silver, l'er-han l'er-han he w as not as st nslti vu on that point ai lie might have been if he had not heard similar forlodings from the same quarter had not been realized. He ( I'Jurabj w as nut able to give Ills support to the bill reported re-ported by tlie financial committee. He was opjOM-d to the first section, providing for the purchase of $12, 000,Oi)0 worth of silver. It would, of course, add that much money to the circulation, aud it would Inevitably In-evitably bear ou its face a disposl tion to help a certain class of persons per-sons at tlie expense of tlie Treasury. It was In the interest of our trade and honest nionev that the country should establi-h as nearly as joible, a parity betw een gold and silver. The populttion of the country was lncrea-inatthe rale of two and a half percent, while the buiuesswas incrvasinjr at the rate of eight tier cent Tim circulation -hcMiIil Inve reUtlon to ltli wiila-llou wiila-llou and bu-Ine-. There should lie International bimetaliMiL He did nt hold that the free coinage of silver sil-ver was a lauacta for all evils-, but he did contend that it wasawi-e and much needed st-p in the right direction. Hisceck spoke agtlnt free coinage. coin-age. The jieople he represented liad never believed the free coinage of silver would place that metal ou a parity with gold. Sawyer moved executive session. "Oh," said Edmuud' "let us taken vote on this bill now." ' ? . " ' MHiiH-i-ill Stewart expressed a desire that an early day bo fixed for a vote, ay Saturday. Kiimunds (In a tone of bitter sar-cas sar-cas uj The session is drawing to a cl. and this most Important and immaculate bill ought to be got Into tlie form of a law at the earliest jus-siblo jus-siblo moment The country, of course, Is sulTering for it Disaster aud bankruptcy are said to be Impending, Im-pending, and therefore we ought not to leave a stone unturned to get an Immediate vote upon it Executive session. Adjourned. |
