Show T J 4 isen ate t jward dward hdward howard introduced a joint resolution prohibiting applications for the alteration of railroad charters by companies who have recil received ved land grants unless the reasons the defor are specifically set forth drake introduced a joint resolution extending the operation of the internal revenue law to foreign telegraph companies having boffl offices I 1 ces in the united states referred sherman reported with amendments the house maxand tariff bills with amendments the house bill authorizing the settlement of the accounts of officers of the army and navy was concurred in the post postoffice umee Office appropriation bill came up amendment for fon penny postage was rejected 19 to 29 and nyes ayes for a two cent postage 23 to 28 and for allowing all newspapers to go free to donadd bonafide subscribers in the united states 23 to 25 also dra drakes 8 allowing five hundred dollars to each member of the senate and house for postage the latter was rejected without division the abolition of the franking privilege will not take effect till october sherman from the finance committee reported that the members of the committee unanimously recommended concurrence non uon in the house amendments to the senate currency bill and asked for a conference committee sherman warner and sprague were appointed bayard presented the memorial of W aj L smith president of the international ocean telegraph company proposing 0 s for five hundred thousand dollars F r a byear year to be paid by the united states for twenty years to establish and maintain international telegraph cables from sali san francisco japan and to china and a third from the united states to europe conditional upon it never being consolidated with any existing transatlantic cable boand never charging more than five dollars gold for each message afterwards referred raf erred sherman reported a joint resolution to determine the construction of the internal revenue act so as to exempt sums added to the contingent funds of insurance companies passed the post office appropriation bill came up and Trum trumbulls bulls Ps amendment limiting the franking privilege to the departments was rejected 22 to ramseys Ram Eam seya proposition to repeal the franking privilege was reject rejected ea 26 to 28 casserly voted for repeal and cole corbett nye stewart and williams against it the bill was then passed the consular and diplomatic appropriation pria tion bill was cons considered ered in a committee among amone the amendments way waa one for in liberia and another raising the japan mission 11 to the highest grade the bill was then reported to the tile senate the naval appropriation bill wa waa was considered in committee and a large amount was added thereto by amendments for use in the ordnance construction st and steam engineering bureaus an amendment striking out the proviso that there be no discrimination between officers of the line ami and staff was agreed to drake from the naval committee reported amendments revising the entire pay cistand list and regulating promotions the bill was laid aside and the tax and tariff bill was called the senate adjourned HOUSE in the evening session bills were introduced trod authorizing the president to open en 1 negotiations with the british 9 north 0 rth american provinces for their admission as states of the union also for the annexation of dominica providing providing the public surrender to the united unite states the public buildings and for fon fortifications tint tift ca cat ions tiong to be incorporated as a state in the union the united states to pay in gold to liquidate the debt of dominica also aiso a supplementary act for the relief of the widows and orphans of the the oneida A resolution was offered instructing the ways and means committee to report a bill reducing thi the duties on potatoes and all kinds of offish fifty nitty ty per cent which the house refused to table tabie 05 65 to 85 and referred to the committee on ways and means the house considered and pa passed ased the fortification bill appropriating the army bill appropriating was passed cullom reported a bill to authorize th the people of new mexico P oo 00 form a constitution and state government and for the admission of jor such state as the state of lincoln re committed cox from the committee on banking reported a bill requiring the national banks going into liquidation to release their circulating notes passed maynard asked leave to ommer offer a resolution declaring the full fall concurrence of the house to the statements made in the presidents cuban message filibustering bu commenced and the resolution was waa withdraws i schenck reported back the funding bill with one slight verbal amendment and asked that ib it be made the special order in the house for tuesday next randall objected and schenck withdrew kew it saying he would take es of its being made a special order in t he the house next monday under a 4 suspension of the rules palmer from the pacific railroad committee reported a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the missouri at or near council blurts nebraska by the missouri river siver railroad company butler of mass 60 aiom rom in the committee on reconstruction reconstruct loni ioni reported d a general amnesty act for all e engaged in the late rebellion excepting persons educated at the military or naval academy ex members of congress and members of confederate congress ex heads of united states executive departments ministers abroad and judges of U S courts and persons dersons holding like offices under the confederate states the 1819 signers ners of the ordinances of secession governors of the seceded states persons who having public money have not accounted who have embezzled or stolen public property deserters from the army and navy and bounty jumpers A provision is also made vesting the U S in fee simple with all grounds used as national demetries cem etries and for the protection of all officers soldiers and other agents of the united states for acts or ornis omissions in the execution of the reconstruction acts washburne reported an act to pay loyal citizens in the late rebellious states for services in taking the eighth census passed ela reported a bill providing for refunding to the state of Mass tho iho the interest on the money expended on the coast de fences in the war of 1812 the case of wittemore was taken up and after considerable debate his bis claim to a seat was rejected to 24 the house went into a committee on the civil civit expenses and appropriation bid dawes made a statement that this was the last of the appropriation bills td efreb efface the estimates for next year and that the estimates were less than those of the present year the estl esti estimates mates for the year ending june 1871 were and the ampro or lations recommended by the committee amounted to the appropriations the present year were or upwards upward sot of twelve millions more than recommended for the next year yeat the house then proceeded to consider the bill it appropriates 11 including half a million for the san francisco mint and provisions for the revenue service coast survey lighthouse establishing and surveying the pu public alic lands without action on the bill the house adjourned GENERAL CHICAGO the weather on sunday was extremely hot the thermometer at 9 am being 71 deg in the shade i john mcneil a printer died of sunstroke today to day opens with scorching heattie he atthe thermometer at 8 am being 80 deg in the shade the crop reports from illinois iowa wisconsin and michl Michi ganon the whole are very favorable the dry weather which prevailed during may did some injury but subsequent rains have to a great extent prevented damage and the most intelligent opinion is that wheat in the states named will be nearly or quite an average crop while corn almost universally looks well the wheat harvest in bouthern southern South bouth mern lern illinois commenced last week and the yield is reported good the market for wheat here during the past week has been remarkably fluctuating many of the smaller speculators have failed and a of the larger ones are reported to be shaken red bed cloud and party left here this morning for their home via eort port bussel russel where horses will be furnished them by the government A special bays pays that news has baa been received there of the death on Saturday at hia hla home homo inala bama of 0 0 crowe whose appointment as secretary ot utah was waa confirmed ou on friday evening the tribunes Is dispatch says the southern pacific railroad rali Ball road question i comes up in the senate tomorrow to morrow ow morning if it that body holds to the unanimous agreement it made on friday there are two bills one reported by howard and one for which sher iman man stands sponsor howards bill names seventy gentlemen geni lemen as corpora tore Sher shermana mans maus one hundred and twenty most of those in howards are up on shermans bill the additional nifty fifty iu lu the batters lat are fremont and hla hia friends or in other words shermans Sher mans is the fremont bill while howards is antagonistic to fremont the general features of the two bills are about alike allbe the proposed road is from marshall texas on the thirty second parallel to el paso and through new mexico and arizona t to 0 t the bo pacific coast at sand Saud lego iego california the land grant i in texas comes from the state government the grant in california is twenty and in arizona and new mexico forty sections per mile all in numbered sections and to be held to settlers at two dollars and fifty cents per acre after five years from the completion of the road howards bill provides that the whole line must be built of american iron or steel Sher shermans shermana mans that all foreign is to be bloused used in texas where the grant comes from the state sher mans maws insures the completion in ten howards in eleven elevena el eveny years ears earb howards authorizes th orizes the company to issue their first mortgage bonds on all their property and rights of property to the extent of forty thousand per mile Sher shermana mans authorizes land laud bonds to the extent of per acre the lands lauds to be mortgaged and const construction ruction bonds to the extent of per mile on the track and personal property of the company both bills give the right of connection with twenty sections per mile grant from san diego to san jose cal connecting from new orleans to marshall the condition from fulton ark to near dallas texas is but the right of way howards calls enlis the main li neThe texas pacific railroad while sher mans names it the southern trans railroad the point that the fight will be over is whether fremont and his friends shall be allowed to have a hand in the work or not near woodstock evening mrs bertzel Wert zel a german woman while temporarily insane attacked with axe and razor her son aged eighteen and daughter aged eight inflicting terrible injuries she then cut her own throat the children may recover but she will die washington specials say that the working men are urging the senate to pass a bill prohibiting contracts for servile labor the recent importation of chinese shoemakers into massachusetts has stimulated this action BANGOR ble ale george barthers Har steam saw mill at carmell was burned today loss no insurance ST louis the board of army officers of which general schofield is president appointed by gen shearman to select and report upon small arms and accod cements for use in the united states army concluded its experiments perl peri ments last week the variety of small arms accoutrements presented for the consideration of the board was unusually large consisting of forty eight different systems of breech loading rifles carbines pistols and revolvers each possessing distinct peculiarities and being a reliable improvement on former systems seventy two sets of and cartridge boxes were presented for the inspection of the board the board subjected all arms to rigid experiments the result of which will be promulgated only through the official reports among the arms tested were several sent by european eurg Eure parties and in use by some foreign governments but although excellent weapons they were found inferior to many american inventions hereafter the rifles for the infantry and the carbines and pistols for the cavalry will be the same system of breech loaders As soon as the selections of this board are introduced among the troops it is thought that they will be armed and equipped superior to any of the foreign armies some of the officers have also been engaged in the revision of the tactics for cavalry artillery and ana infantry this part of their thein labors is also rapidly approaching completion the government printing office at the de apartment part ment headquarters is being engaged in printing the ninal final reports for washington they have harmonized the tho tactics forthe for the three arms of the Bervice service as asfar far fan aa as practicable and introduced many neli neif new and important revolutions and simplified the whole bysted system of commands establishing them upon a regular and uniform basis A committee of thie the board is now at fort hayes edyes where companies are assembled to allow of the new tactics belfi being practically tested FORTRESS MONROE 19 I 1 A jary military f force has been sent to drive the negro squatters from a farm at ocean view cincinnati the grand picnic occurred today to day forty thousand persons were present the steamer engaged in carrying the parties to the picnic ran into a bridge and knocked down her chimneys demolished the pilot house and injured several persons creating aoingan an intense panic many were restrained with difficulty from jumping overboard BT ir yesterday Yea Yes jacob cerf shot and killed W L Smi thin a quarrel NEW YORK yore 29 20 yesterday was wag a scorching day the thermometer at three pm was a hundred and eighteen in the bunin the shade there was a little breeze stirring the street cars were almost stopped owing to the effects of the thereat heat beat on the men and horses there has been an alarming number of sun strokes three mad dogs running along the streets were shot by the police the usual sunday murder was perpetrated wm mra hamilton a fireman shooting fatally patrick friell a letter carrier in a quarrel about some trifling matter A party of reached here from boston yesterday it is reported that they failed to get employment in that city late aspinwall dates state that a great many cubans had reached there having fled from spanish cruelty there was great anxiety en on the isthmus especially in relation to the location of the projected canal the th commercial importance of the isthmus has diminished very much since the completion of the pacific railroad and the people now look forward to the canal as their only satisfaction advises advices from the darien expedition to may SO say that the weather continued tin ped unfavorable rains were falling daily and swelling tile the streams to torrents which made it difficult the working parties provisioned the survey from the bayou of san bias had however proceeded twenty miles the highest elevation found was sog feet the elevation of the rivers feet it was believed that the survey would be continued till the party cross the dividing ridge and communicate with the surveyors from the nyck on the pacific side who have gone some distance up the brauo river and were about to leave it for the harmonia Mar monia the general health of the expedition was fair there was ao no sickness except fever and ague the men were dissatisfied with capt Self ridges determination to prolong the stay ou on the isthmus and five had deserted from the ship guard the officers and men complain that their endurance is id taxed to the utmost i and say that a longer stay will be dangerous most |