Show BY 1 congressional 1 sate nate 1 7 WASU washington INGTON 12 the VA e ureal Preal dent presented commux tion from froni the to the senaie senate resolution and ing the report of the bet set been seen D tary rya 0 the navy of the appropriation ba for and expend expenditures itu res by the silv navy department part ment from march to june 1876 also niso announcing that a similar statement for the war depart mentia 10 0 0 of preparation pa ration ordered printed aniam and referred i he also presented a tion tiou from oord cord committing the statement expenditures on account of the army rl ny and navy pensions from march ath 1789 to june 1876 referred A bill pas passed authorize authorizing authorising autho rising gig the taking oriand for public use ube at the intersection of pennsylvania and mary uary lund land avenues ou the front of the capitol sargent introduced 4 asking the tho odthe the navy wavy to inform ohp th senate if thu the statutes statute a promotions in ju the navy are aia complied compiled to the senate then benti into executive session and adjourned NV washington ASHINGTON 13 during the morning houra hour a number or jot idt bills were introduce dand dud referred jaco Q appropriate prop among mong them thum the following i i I 1 Byj ly McDonald in relation to dla dia tilling and rectifying rectify ing spirits by Garland to authorize the election of a delegate to congress from the indian territory booth chairman of ithe the committee on manufactures was at his bia own request excused from further bervice irl in that committee he also sub submitted m bitted a resolution calling upon the president to inform the senate of the cause cau causton of chenez the nez berces perces war L the number of indians and soldiers engaged therein the number ol 01 lives ilves lost joist cost of the wani wari e and pd what disposition had beeh made maue of vf chief joseph and thase who surrendered nan ran alered with him agreed to at the expiration of the hib nib morning riling hour chaffee called up the resola tion submitted by him last week in regard to the management of the paci pacific flo railroad Bail road rond and spoke ko a at t length in regard to the thi 0 bu subject syo b c t washington 13 tile the house bill making appropriations for the support of the army for the fiscal 5 ar ending june 30 1878 was read uy y its ita title and referred hamlin from the committee on foreign relations reported the banate resolution authorizing the appointment of a commission to ascertain upon what terms a treaty with mexico can be arranged and moved its reference to t he the committee on fi finance bance io so ordered davia dayla eave gave notice that on oft thursday next he would submit some remarks in explanation of the resolution in regard to the alleged discrepancies in the books of the trea trel bury eury department the senate went into executive session and when the doors were opened reopened re adjourned washington il 14 ingalls from the committee on in dlan ulan dian affairs reported report edi eai with amendments th the benita bonita to tb enable indians aus ans to become citizens ns of the united states placed on the lendar calendar da conover introduced a bill to grant additional homesteads to soldiers upon public lands in the baates of alabama mississippi Louis louls louisiana lanai and florida referred to committee on public lands linds windom from the committee on up appropriations pro prIaM reported with amendments the house bill making appropriations for the support of the army and it was placed on the calendar at the bonc conclusion lusion of the morning hour maxey called up mhd tion submitted byham by him A a fedda few days Y ago instructing the committee 6 on military annaira to eq guire quire into tire expediency of construe constructing a system of defensive the aitio grande grando frontier df 0 f kiib kilo united state yand land spoke at length inde ind e gard to aho ibo raids from mexico into texas anu and ahe tibe necessity adf for such defensive as I 1 12 the army UP as us ra ported reported from the thew wh alwon ole oie on sat bat arday came up for consideration as the tho regular the fairst ameid amendment wj waa out tho the clatin claus e prohibiting ruing rec lec of the army beyond the tho number of men on the tho ne oin orn the at of 0 f sov november Nov embel embon ed MU MJ 1 she the nt of thailour thac that four lour cavalry dk valry ruef regiments l be recruited to maa man edich comp any auy to be lie employ employed eif elf in ni de f fuco eu of tilo mexican und and fron liters of texas provided noth lilg herein con contained shall autha ilze ilzo men mon was mit con in yeas seas nays re publicans public ans aus voted solidly the amendment ies les and aud were wore joined M y GIddin gidd irs and arid bohi eicher the amendment au la stuff officers shall fanti entitled to or receive an any rank p py ply J or al allowance lovince w wab waa as rejected aas nays the negative vote va warf given by A republic republicans ii 1 s back baek backed ed py y blackburn carlisle cook oh liar har hiob P ekhoff bf muller uller potter 6 11 tair villie willie wilp and ard IP rando Hando andolph loli Gai garfield field flold sent to the ciero clero anti anu had read ft letter ietter roni the se brict breci i ay iy war hin e f from rr mafli iUie charses charges hlade blade uga aga 1 1 eit elt him 0 1 iphil J to for tec tee u 4 iu A so soldiers le auw lil lne lue aft army IMI wa was I 1 dtp appropriations the secretary that the we er of re xi crts arts is clorea eti eci by la hii hil J it ta s au b i on ori even in the aban absence leb jeb witie W file the ap apt K he aa not deemed it bet to continue ic le orul Crul ting after the lat v lof for want of authority he 1 ie thought hought it 16 mu ier termen men inte service when ghen there was BO rio to tb pay py them ao an order had been ly issued is to recruit ington chelst of july suly anuil an urgent appeal had came come from major geb geh alado mcdowell well weil i the thili military tary division of the pacific approved d and urged oy by the general of the army asking authority to enlist recruits for cavalry regiments engaged in that dopart department part ment in carrying on the indian lnolan war the tile secretary yielded to th that I 1 t ap appeal diest and fad recruiting had abeln been for ar a short time permitted for chath purpose the order for this reer feer recruiting tilting was not only lawful but urgent lind tind mid necea sary and a refusal refu salto saito ato make it un der thae circumstances would have hav b sil subjected the department tb grave censure especially as the smallness of the force engaged in the indian war was the occasion odthe of the greatest delay in conquering peace and of odthe the death depth of bf many brave off omeera leers and nd men this order for recruiting had been countermanded as B oon soon as the emergency rg en cy seemed over and no no enlistments had been made pince since the impression that some men had been enlisted rece recently was an entire mistake growing g oil out t of a misconstruction of the adjutant an generals gene raps raPa telegram A supplementary mentar telegram from the secretary was as also order for enlistment was made wade nod not nofu by himsel himself fj but by the generalou gener aLof 1 the army op thih the ath of july Bann banning irig ob chairman airman of the committee on mill affia affairs ife lie also sent to the and had a telegram received idalo loday lo today anys days from the adjutant general stating that recruiting crul cr ting returns showed 1023 men had been peen enlisted d since the lat of july 1877 the principal part llad had been enlisted on the coast by authority of the general of t the hei army given on tho the ath of july to meet inept the exigencies of the indian war therill the bill I 1 was discussed by dunnell und and banning and was finally passed without division A laige large number of bills were in produced trod and referred including a bill ameny amending ding the laws regarding fallt of the third elass class thee existing banking lawa laws designating the thi time for the meeting of congress on the first monday af pf f janu january a ry to reduce the number of military cabets cadets for the payments of all cotton seized after of january 1665 1865 uso UKO to refund the tax on raw cotton collected from to 1868 by a y hunter to prohibit by constitutional aatu aehl ional lonal amendment amendments athe the day pay I ament of claims arising out ot tha the late rebellion by phillippi phil lipsi iaan paar uie tat payment 0 of import duties in legal legai tender notes as boona thay are arp quoted at paa with legal tender united states i n springer offered a resolution calling ingon an the tho secretary of bf state wate for information format iop lop as to the inde indemnity pipito p paid a ia bythe by the spanish fi government on ac aei aci count of be execution of general ryan and others in ja cuba in november r 1875 adopted the house ahen then adjourned washington 13 the reading ot of the journal fourn a I 1 was not finished until 1255 pho tile tho ho bouse house 11 so at went into lato the ep committee of the whole fu oil the file de I 1 uli ull art ait 13 nis bis werd aist by ili i banks bands an ki s to I 1 illah s irr ift IV al oti of frel freh batu gerac 1 aini to promote jidov and labor without uli P r drori of t a ay to I 1 b adv bi ing bon ton pi tibiae lands laoda to 1 whitt assistance can laif be b a gui gri bythe ovet g Q oVel e tn nm dorto citizens who desire Y to 6 1 le b to 0 o the wet met nvia for forthe the or engaging in iii agriculture I 1 br by of iiii tila ia re resolution s 61 4 4 instructing the combette com committee gitte bItte e tua on anil currency to ili ItI guire quire inq etc nto the expediency bf WI winding n dint ding up P th the tho national ban banks withdrawing 9 their circulation aud and substituting or other similia cur reny n y 1 after fier discussion OB thi the tho bill 4 in wb I 1 climb louila who had charge oi of 1 he the blidt bill ahas J eda ed a rigid inquiry eran gf the pay fund the late iao secretary might bet ed md cellar calla x to garbit ift and trl tai a ie not lafound ha found a dinki singlea dollar R u lii 01 ill the miff luus luns hau that had passed through 18 hadd haeem appropriated to a purpose outside of til the maintenance of thu Aine hcan avy in a proper mariner the bill passed without division I 1 i te the house then considered th the a 61 iii jtb p simply repealing tho third section iana and ana providing that there thero lb no further issue of national banri badRi notes except to such buch as are nie muti 0 id 4 of C pent s ent to trie clerks desk an and had a re read ad a memorial rial of the national nal nai board oard tiie the i dr aught draught of a substitute for ton or the pending bill prepared by that body he then stepped to the cle cie clerks dl desk esi esl himself and addressed the house honse e holding up aio alo a 10 legal tender note he be said he was very much mistaken if the bill before the house was wab not repudiation thle this note in his hand was a promise of geva I 1 to pay him 10 bub aut but ho 0 date was fixed for payment T the h 0 note was issued in 1875 and ont anthe e day of that year congress had enacted a law declaring that hat this debt of the government should ie be paid on the iet let of Ja january nuary buary 1879 government must keep its promise faithfully or it would become the leader of all repudiations in the lahd including every defaulting town c city Y an and d state the question b bf honor was the coti contract tract and vital vita point in discussion her ciati iced the opening speech made b bini binl lips contraction frim c ine ino pt act pad dd id no pig il 1 to do alth 1 the la present Butle rin tin rings k e r nor lor ot the 6 country ob n ey than it t had bad to do with the frozen froien feet of the turks in the the limitation of paper currency should be left to adjust itself under afree banking system guided by the eager intelligent and aggressive enterprise of the people there was but one alternative an exclusive greenback currency subject at all times time to the caprice the pending bill was hurtful dis creditable and ind with without out excuse A greenback was the most powerful enemy the country had ever encountered sla sia slavery very aito alone excepted it wai was a fraud it was a shame it familiarized individual and public con conscience with shams it muddled muddied muddied ail all the springs of solid thrift and solid enterprise Mouroe assumed that be the whole country would be po glad giad 0 IQ o a see ee a greenback dollar equal to a coin dollar in value ho re quoted from the SL platform bounced the republican party for noti novi having taken any stops steps toward resumption and yet the democratic part bad brought in a bill which repealed the on only ly step taken toward res resumption he also quoted from the republican platform showing that hat thai hai party arty was wael also ill in favor of 01 resumption prelly suggested eu that all ahe the he republicans public ans did not together upon udon that plat piat platform forin iye ble 1 he lle himself had gone bone under lilah hilah official kius aus dices to indiana indians ohio and central contral pennsylvania and expressed to e every v er Add audience lenee lence he be addre addressed saed hia protest p the financial doc of tile tuh tue republican party and tha tho views expressed by iby hayes an and in their letters lettera ance and that was wa the year yean when Ohi ohl ohad been wo p monroe monjoe said it hut but little more patience and the victory of specie resumption would be achley ed eil if the prent present bill passed a feeling bt t eit ti would ou d prevail prevA ii flip the landai vahid leard leh ieh rd kiy to nind find a 0 tt resumption bf specie and f specie bay menta nt write nat iba bea the present c reu nil fil es t iri bb 1 I 1 f hlf his closed io s ed the tche A 16 the dai dal 3 glover offer offered e d a r resolution e a ferrn ve veat veal arilo all ahe departments urtle untie er government eu i the sanie samid rego reso iti ti al was adopted aethel af a thet tet thel tel begin nil nih congress delred referred adjourned j jour on i ned nea i 1 l 1 1 i iii hii AMERICAN SA FRAIJO ISCO 12 the tl N north orth point dock bonded warehouse was almost entirely dest destroyed royed by are this thib afternoon the building was two high and covered about an acre of ground the of the nire fire fire fife a unknown the building was wash being wien the tle lit nire fire broke broko outland outi orti and the employed emp loyes were absent a at dinner tte tie p contents oon jente tente comp comprised i wines liquors sugar g I 1 bagi bagg glass erg erp crockery ekery ekers iro imon iron p etc ele the loss on the conte contents rits is estimated m at f ur upwards of A a quarter pf af a million mostly covered by insurance in foreign egl companies as well weli as the building which wag wa valued at insured for the wai wal walts walks as ot the dilding are standing wreck in eq caprol 01 of r thui the of the tho Ac alcatraz atraz holat bolat 1 ay iy denied ili in every particularly by the he armyl headquarters here every opportunity is ommie offie offered hed fed to the representatives of the press tp inspect the prison and converse with those conch aed there in relation charges es vr t 12 11 the com mi f of the general land of alpe has today to day issued an order bofill er to tho the thir pacific coast land offices revoking the order idt tot tut october ad which prohibited te farther re rei caption of applications for entries of desert land under thel act of last list march he now dow gives directions allowing them io ib be recel received receiver ver if accompanied by absolute evidence olt oll tea lem truly uly desert character of the anc iii lanna ianna designated 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