| Show af DOINGS 0 OF F CONGRESS f f the senate So nate on tuesday passed ids bill fon for reorganizing reorganising ing the post office department part ment the national currency bill was taken up and but no vote was taken excepting g 0 on n pro proposed ased amendments in the house on the loth the report of the committee on elections P in favoro admitting I 1 flinders flanders and hahn as represent i tives from louisiana was wag the principal matter under consideration but there was no vote taken in the senate on wednesday the loth the abill bill for the removal off he W winnebago inge inne bago indiana indians wala was taken up and passed the bill to increase the number of kf major majon and brigadier t Genet generals als alb in the volunteer service making the whole number 0 of major generals bev sev seventy nty and of brigadier generale generals two hundred hun Ired and seventy was taken up and debated atcon at con sid erable leng h in the house on the lith mr ashby from the committee on territories reported bills 1 k authorizing the of nevada and colorado to farni constitutions preliminary to their atly ady I 1 bjon bion sjon into the union as abs ass S 3 atts ates A bill was wag passed to incorporate the national association for the relief rebbel 1 oi of destitute colored men and children and a till authorizing the tho independent line of telegraph between portland and to line in ae bl district i arct of in I 1 he senate on thurs Thura thursday doty i the lith mr wilmot hia eha tha joint reid redd 1 gions of the leahla Legill aure aute ure of pennsylvania requesting the senators Se natora ac 9 that St sm aketo to sois vois vate vote tor for or cholip at al af pf the daty baty on erl eri pane paz t thi b bill lil ill la relation to the ike e curr currency i cy was i i ii ka i passel passed by a vole vote of 28 2850 44 to 31 the bill to prevent and hunish Punish frauds in an the revenue was taken up amen amended de J and passed asb the bill to fix the time of holdi holding courts in wisconsin ani and iowa lowa A resolution was adopted requesting the president to communicate to the senate any information he might inight hav have relative to the te use of 0 negroes by the F rench french army in mexico in the he house on oa the the tha theli ill lil to provide for the temporary government of the territory of montana wa 3 s pasted bikit by a vote cf cr ag to 40 the fortification bill was waa taken up and passed the house concurred in the senates amendments to the bi bil I 1 far the relief relict of the citizens of allane minnesota ota who were i d sulTer alfier ers by the indians indiana last tast fall in the senate on the thi tin bill for the tha support of the g government was wag taken up an amendment was wag adopted making the interest on notes lotes authorized by the bill and certia cates of i tean ess hereafter tai kii 11 issued issue d payable in lawful laivo ua money instead of coffil coin coln also aiso ao 10 an amen amendment danl dAni aduain reducing 0 the amount of lotesto notes tnt tri be issued to instead of the bill was finally passed pissed by a vote voie oe of 32 to 4 carlisle powell richardson and wall voting nav nay nay in the on the the principal part of the be time was tak tas en up in the consider atlon of private bills in the senate seriate on saturday the mr harlan ca led up the bill to establish the guage of the pacific ra providing that the guage bhail shall be four feet fek eight and a haic half inches A somewhat lengthy discussion arose and the bill was postponed the bill aut horzing author zing letters of marque and reprisal was waa also up under der consideration anti and mr grimas grimes offered a substitute authorize auth authorizing oriz an the president in all dom arid ald foreign wars to issue letters of marque aa be he deems flat fit at ad a d make all needful rules and regulations the bill was I 1 lod iod lid ud ild dver over and the senate went v ent into executive session in the house housa on the much touch time vr wa q spent n considering consil ering reports on contested election cases the reports adverse to thos claiman claiming 7 seats from the second c congressional gressional on district of virginia virgin is to those claiming to be elected in north carolina under military proclamations cla cia mationg of general vel vei e were adopted and 3 ind the claim of mr byington of iowa contesting the seat of mr vandever ws waa wab w la rejected ted the senate on monday the had under co consideration Ide ration the conscript conscripts in bill which had been web made the special order of the daian amendment exempting exemption 0 members mem bes of congress from the p provisions rovis long lons of the bill was rejected by a vote of thirteen to twenty four tour an amendment was adopted oil on im tion af pf of mr air wilson to palie malie make nake the first class in include e lude those betteen bet be veen the ages aged of twenty a and na thirty five instead of eighteen and thirty hive give five mr suriner sumner offered a resolution tr to exempt al ministers of the gospel in the debate which followed mr mcdougal said he hoped the tho methodist Melbo odist dist clergy would not be exempted as they were a fi ht D clergy mr henderson IL said he auld have the law such that in n case of another war like tike this ministers should hareno have no inducement to advocate war in missouri ministers in many cases had preached treason and he believed if mr ddn wilson I 1 would look back he woud find hind that thal t treason had ben lin preached in hi liti state bate antl anil 1 I preachers er a had bad to a great degree been instrumental in bringing about this war if he had hi bi way he iii would put them all in the field field and make th them r tb the eba eha battlas they bag baa bad had done an a much to inaugurate tha amendment was waa rf rejected and at twelve at night the bill was passed in the house au 0 se on the iga 16 b thel natan appropriation privation pria teon tion een ien bill and the case caga of tjode chaining cla clain ining ing seata from Louls louis louisiana were under ra tion but no deci dec irion eign was made ib lu i relation to 9 either of those mat inetter kerr kerk 1 in n the S senate enat e on tuesday the the tho bill to prevent members of congress and oafa cers and abid aen a agents en ts of the from tak tab ia consideration for wap gassed passed the tho hc aal aai autar ieng king ing the pr president to ia is ie xe lettero of ciarle marta and rep re prisa rissa was yra ai ta up and aud ami aul its pj isae it sage by masars and opposed by sumner dumn r coffill IM dixon and arid cavis it was passer by a vova vota vot to toas vw 1 la ift tha flonc on oil the the op p p nev new 0 lealir ieans leans e election le cog n c casa ago aso r id AY y leetin keetin dc alUiDa tie tle arje bemb rs elect to fo seats seata |
