Show BY TELEGRAPH congressional SENATE washington 14 windom from the committee oi on appropriations reported malth with amendments the house bill making appropriations for fer the support of the army and it waa wab placed on the calendar cockrill bald eald s al dhe he w would biot object to the bill being taken take up now with the understanding that its ita consideration be deferred until tomorrow it had just been printed with amendment amendments and sand senat arshad not time to exam ille lile it windom accepted the proposition of cockrill army bil bli bill was taken up with the un understand ider stand I 1 ing ng that it should come up as unfinished finis finia lied busl busi business ness tomorrow to morrow whyte submitted an amendment to the deficiency appropriation bill appropriating lon lor continuing operations under the direction of the united states fish commission connect ti with the propagation and of shad and other food during tho the present fiscal year referred windom submitted an amend mew mea to th thu thi taime bill appropriating 1200 nor for expenses of preparing for publication and indexing a volume ume umu containing the proceedings of the electoral commission and of the two of congress in regard to the counting of the electoral vote referred Harri harui hamlia lilt introduced introduced a bill authorizing the purchase of the picture known as the polaris in her antwin winter quarters in ea 1 providing the cost of th the e picture does nol not exceed emceed referred the vice president was authorized to fill the vacancy on the oom corn mitte on pensions occasioned by the resignation of davis and on the committee on transportation routes to the seaboard occasioned by the resignation of saunders he thereupon appointed voorhees ea to fill both vacancies after an ex executive the senate adjourned washington 15 dawes presented a remonstrance of 45 national banks of boston against the passage of the bill for the of silver the petitioners petition ers set forth that they are required bylaw to hold many millions millio BS of U B S bonds and are apprehensive that the passage of the bill will greatly depreciate their value and have a bad influence on the business of the auntry referred sargent reported without amendment a bill providing for certain deficiencies in the pay of the navy and marine corps and for ot other 1 l er p purposes u s and it passed without d discussion c it now goes to the president for his BIg signature nature eaton baton introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution providing for a tribunal by states for the decision of ail all contested issues arising in choice of electors for president and vice president referred at the expiration of the morning hour the senate proceeded with the consideration of the army ap bill washington 15 the army ap bill was passed with the amendments report reported pd by the committee on appropriations and alsean amendment providing that the at army shall not be r recruited a above b ove ovo ft men instead of i as authorized by liy the house hoube eaton dehls demanded a separate vote on the amendment limiting the ormy to anen instead of twenty thousand men raen were enough to take talce care of our interests on the frontier if soldiers had bad not been stationed tatlo ned nod where they should not have bave been bix six monts moats ago there would have been brea no n need eed of that carmage carnage carm carn ageon on our frontier which we have seen men the tha amendment made in the committee was to pa 9 nays 19 other amendments were made madd in committee of the whole and concurred in without division and ind the bill was then rad read the ahe third time and passed it now vow goes back to the hotine of f fr or the action of L t tbt g t 1 body 0 dy lanthe 0 amend amond amendments merits davia davis of of west virginia la gave notice that tomorrow to morrow he would call up his hla resolution regarding discrepancies in the books and accounts of the treasury the senate then went into executive session and boon foon after adjourned 1 jour ned washington 16 at the expiration pi ration of the morning hour davis of west va called up the reb rei resolution alu by him providing for a committee to en quire quire into discrepancies in the hooks books aud and an accounts ot of the treasury department part ment and made a speech biech thore there t on ry WASHING tonj TONI 16 morr submitted an as a substitute for ibe thereso reso lugiori af pf da vin vis the following that a committee of three be appointed to investigate the finance reports report si books and ac counts count df the treasury department particularly the reports from 1869 to 1872 inclusive to ascertain whether or not any actual differ or diacre discrepancies exist and aldow hether bether or not any alterations in the tho amounts am 6 abts or figures have been made and report the thae facts to the senate and that hald bald committee shall have power to employ a stenographer og ogra rag rap pher h C r davis spoke at length declaring that differences and changes involving millions were evident frow from the reports reporter that bec sec secretary detary bristow and the finance committee omit such unexplained corrections correct ione ions that only since 1871 the reports have differed and that other reasons existed adfor for tho the passage of his resolution morrill declared that all nil davis davia allegations had bad been satisfactorily explained edby by the reports of fiberman man and rennan kernan in 1876 1 thurman did not t think n sher ih mans mar max is report explained tha the 1 alleged discrepancies tle ile tie ile urged that an investigation be made and moved an amendment that the eghi egui committee authorized do not inot expire with h the end of the present session agreed to hereford quoted from be finance reports to show the existence of discrepancies and denied that they were attributable to defective bookkeeping the previous explanations were unsatisfactory dawes promised to amend the resolution jones submitted the following resolved that the attorney general and secretary of the interior are hereby directed ty for communicate muti muni cate leate to the senate the instructions given agents and marshals of the united states stat in the states of Alaba alabama mas florida and mississippi touching hing the seizure of logs lumber and naval stores suspected of having been taken from public lands of the united states whether or not under the orders given to said agents and marshals large amounts of property in possession of citizens of the ahe united states lie lle held heid id under the claim of valid titles 3 have been seized without a warrant supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing 1 9 things to be seized after a brief discussion the re resolution so was amended to request t the h e president to furnish the information to the th e senate and on motion of chaffee it was further amended to include the instructions given to agents and marshals in all other S states tates and territories ag as well as the states named As AA thus thug amended the resolution was agreed to ingalls introduced a bill repealing the act not authorizing the tho coinage of cene cent bliven silver piece jre berred on the motion of ili Til ingalls galla 1 it was ordered that when the senate adjourn today to day it be to meet on monday s f Ad adjourned journO WASU washington INGTON 14 wright offered a resolution instructing the committee on baning banking and currency to inquire into tho tha propriety of eo fco amending amen dint dink the banking lawi laws as to require 1 in the election of direct directors ona ora the principle of cumulative voting in states tates where stich such laws may exist and also the propriety of amending said eaid law BO so as to limit the efficiency fici ency of proxies to td two Town towns nd offered a rel res resolution alution instructing ting the judiciary committee tu to inquire into the facts of the imprisonment of robert bobert smalls Bm aIls alls colored 0 mem berof the house from South Carolina and to report whether th such imprisonment is or of ft not a violation of or the privileges of the house butler offered as a substitute a resolution resol ution giving I 1 eom committee power to send for persons and awl papers in making such investigation adopted I 1 wood chairman of the e committee on ways and means report ed back the resolution for the final adjournment of congress on the instant ava at 6 ha he said he would not call for present action but would eail call it laup up in lu a day or iwo two the house then resumed consideration of therill the bill for tho the repeal of the resumption act after futher father debato the matter went over without action and the House adjourned washington 15 bills gills were I 1 introduced n trod by nor for i ehe che cheap I 1 ap transportation between tide tlde tl dewater water on the atlantic antic and th ohio and mississippi valleys 1 by Mills MUIs fon jon for for he of the commissioner jor agriculture as a cabinet officer By Sapp for the construction construct I 1 fon a rail railway voy from new york to council blum glowa iowa lowa I 1 cobb from the me mileage c committee am anit reported agalli against the alloWa allowance nce uce of mileage for the ahw extra session Bes alen aien tabled I 1 the house hoube resumed ed consideration of the resumption rep washington 16 swann reported d a bill relative to the paris exposition it accepts the invitation from france prance to tako take part in tiie the exposition and appropriates a substitute appropriating referred 1 waddell reported a ji bill till directing th the e secretary the treasury to pay ingull to maii mail in ift the southern bouthern ou thern statch states fhe amount due under their their respective contracts for and 1661 mut out of the appropriation of gnade by congress march ad 1877 referred mills offered a resolution di directing reci the military committee to inquire into the strength of the cavalry aud and infantry regiments of the army how many regiments are employed their military management odthe frontier and what additional force is necessary to protect the people of texas from Ii mexican lexle raiders ra iders idere banning offered a substitute resolution directing the military committee to inquire into the of the army on the first of june 1 first of september septembers and band first of november 1877 kind and into the expediency ency of reducing and consolidating the army and giving the committee power to send for persons and papers the tf ruled out mit the substitute and mills resolution was wag adopted reported the deni deficiency clency bill which he will call up to tomor tomer mor row the bill the following items for the payment of judgments in the court of claims library of congress treasury department varl vari various oua item items postoffice Post office department salaries other items executive office contingencies 3 loo the house of representatives various items supreme court printing t ex of payment of bo bounty u rity money ac total appropriated the postoffice post office item is a re appropriation 16 the consideration of or the bill relating to resumption being resumed the house was a id by hart who ho opposed its ita passage garfi Garli said was a well discussed topic its features were oid bid he appealed to the general judgment or of mankind on the question of currency in 1860 there was general prosperity and then it was the best beat settled of all questions that the only safe and trustworthy trust orthy standard of value was coin boin of ascertained weight and fineness or a paper currency convertible into coin at the holders will that was then and had been beim for a long time the unanimous opinion of the american people only twelve years had passed since the house with only six dissenting votes resolved co to stand again by the old ways to bring tiring the country to sound wind money and now whai what was found group of schoolmen scho abbo olmen and doctrinal rea tea ethe ithe latter iatter unknown twelve years ago were found in favor of what they called absolute money declaring that a piece of paper stamped one doliar dollar was a dollar that gold and sliver were apart part of the barbarism of the past pasty which ought for ever to be abandoned that resumption never take place and that the eras of prosperity were paper eyad coming back to the prosperous era of 1850 1880 he asserted that although banking was free rree there was but ef bf paper liap 1 er money in n and about in coin how much was wa in circulation today to io day flay seven hundred and twenty steven teven millions in greenback fractional curr curre epcy pey and fractional bliver an d about nine biffi millions ions lons of copper in all exclusive of the gold circulating on the Pacific coast const he deputit put it to the judgment df ot the house whether if la fia 1860 1660 under free banking t iggi with no restrictions was the limit of the possible currency in circulation almost twice that amount was wag needed and hardly enough in 1877 ile he affirmed t bat that the vast majority majo mojo rity of the credi creditor creditors tors torp of the country were poor men aud and that the vast majority of the debtors blon bion belonged ged to the rich classes in the first place the poor man had to borrow money and in the second place it was the laboring man who placed his bis surplus money in the savings banks and it was the rich who borrowed from the savings banks thus thug did the poor lend to the rich in the name of the laboring man main therefore he denounced the attempt to repeal the resumption ti on I 1 law a w if I 1 it t were repealed the country won would d be plunged into juto the necessity of sailing the same tempestuous ocean with an uncertain result if it were repealed and no substitute made for it the day would hot be far distan distant when congress would look back from the depths and horrors of the evils which would surround the country for the second time and would earnestly regret the day when the resumption act was repealed the struggle now pending ing lug in the hoube house was on the one hand e to make the greenback ck better and on the other to make it worse in the name of every man who wanted his own when he earned it be he demanded thau that congress tre gre ss should not make the ibe earned the poor man to shrivel and shrink away but the greenback should be made better until the plow holders money should be as us good as the bond holders money this was an era of pacification of the states and the citizens were equal before the law so that the motto of the country ml might abt be equal states equal men and equal d dolla ollar Jand wiand dand a complete tion alon would be achl achieved eved two yearb years ago his colleague ewing had predicted that the silver curren currency cy then proposed to be issued would be immediately med lately absorbed and withdrawn ff from oni circulation so his hh colleague thought now that the gold coin would be absorbed and withdrawn from circulation ewing irig ex explained that when bie fie h e made that statement the dou country wast flot aware of the rascally act demonetizing de silver and silver was then ab at a high premium over the he greenback garfield suggested that the trouble about the explanation was waa that silver coin was of 12 per cent less value than old silver so that there never was the slightest danger of its ity being bought up for silver the gentleman ewing thought there was some danger about gold but if it an eastern farmer removing to the west sold his farm firm for he be was likely to load himself with for forty ty pounds weight of gold or pounds weight of silver he would rather take bib bis payin pay in ten tea 1000 bills and carry it wes west t in that convenient form in conclusion be he any the amendments propose to make the resumption act more safe more certain more |