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Show FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. The Senate. Washikoton,-December 9 After the transaction of some, routine business, the following bills were introduced in the Senate Sen-ate and referred: - By Sewell To amend Section 1661 of the Be vised Statutes, making an annual appropriation appro-priation to provide arms and ammunition for, the militia; also, to authorize ColoneJ W. Getty, retired, to be placed on the retired re-tired list with the. rank and pay of a Brigadier-General. By Cullom To reimburse the several States for interest paid on war loans. By Jones of Arkansas To provide for a deposit in the Treasury of the receipts of the money order system, and for the payment pay-ment of its expenses out of the approprir-tions; approprir-tions; also, to secure cheaper telegraph correspondence. cor-respondence. By Mr. Wilson To prohibit the mailing of newspapers containing lottery advertisements advertise-ments and prescribing a penalty for a violation viola-tion of the same. It provides that it shall be unlawful to carry by mail or deposit in any receptacle for mail matter any newspaper newspa-per or other publication containing any advertisement ad-vertisement of a lottery," and provides a penalty of $2C3 for each violation of the act. By Mr. Plumb To forfeit the unearned lands granted to the Atlantio & Pacifio railway rail-way company to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line through the States of Missouri and Arkansas to the Pacific Pa-cific States, and restore the same to settlement; settle-ment; also, to provide for the contesting of 6urvevs of rorivate land grants. By Mr. Van Wyck f o tax unpatented lands owned by the railroad companies; also for the relief of settlers and purchasers of the public domain in Nebraska and Kansas. The following joint resolutions were introduced: intro-duced: By Mr. Blair Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending ex-tending the right of suffrage to women. Referred. Re-ferred. Also, proposing an amendment to the Constitution Con-stitution in relation to alcoholic liquors and other poisonous beverages. This, at Mr. Blair's request, was laid on the table for the present. Mr. Hale offered the following resolution, which was agreed to: Whebeas, It is alleged that S. S. Brown, a citizen of the State of Maine, has been instrumental in procuring the removal of certain postmasters in said State, and the appointment of others to serve in their stead, and, Whebeas, It is further alleged that the said Brown has written to certain parties, whose appointment he has secured as aforesaid, afore-said, letters in form and substance like the following: Washington Dear Sir: I have secured your appointment as Postmaster at your place. Your papers will be Bent in a day or two. If you feel like sending a small sum to help defray the expenses of attending attend-ing to our Maine matters, you may do so. Respectfully yours, S. S. Brown." Therefore There-fore Resolved. That the Postmaster General be and is hereby directed to furnish to the Senate a list of the postoffices in Maine and the names of the persons removed and those appointed as postmasters at the same, where the said S. S. Brown has favorably recommended recom-mended the same or endorsed the applications applica-tions therefor. The following resolution offered "by Mr. Vest was agreed to: "That the President be requested, if not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit the correspondence had by the Government of the United States with the Governments of Italy and Austria-Hungary in relation to the appointment, by this Government, Gov-ernment, of A. M. Kiely as Envoy Extraordinary Extraor-dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary first to the Government of Italy and then to that of Austria-Hungary; and also any other correspondence cor-respondence or information which may be deemed by the President of importance and pertinent to the subject matter of this resolution. reso-lution. A resolution offered by Mr. Morrill was agreed to, requesting the President, if not incompatible with the public interest, to transmit to the Senate any information or documents received from our Consul-General at Paris, or from our special agent sent to the financial centers of Europe, in respect to the establishment of such an international ratio of gold and silver coinage as would permit of the coinage of both metals at the mints of those countries and our own. A resolution offered by Wilson, of Iowa, was, at bis own request, laid on the table for the present and ordered printed, calling on the Secretary of the Interior for a copy of each report, made by the Government Directors Di-rectors of the Union Pacific Railway Company, Com-pany, from the date of the first appointment j of ench directors to the present time. j Adjourned. ! - THE HOUSE. ! The Speaker asked and received the per-j per-j mission of the House to appoint a committee I on rules, accounts and enrolled bills, j Morrison of Illinois offered a resolution j for reference to the oommitte on rulea, when 1 appointed, continuing in force the rules of j the Forty-eighth Congress, with certain 1 modifications, among them being one for the distribution of the work of. the appropriation appro-priation committee among the other standing stand-ing committees of the House. I Springer of Illinois presented for immedi-I immedi-I ate action the code of rules prepared by him, which have already been publisnea. Herbert, of Alabama, raised a point of order or-der against the proposition, but withdrew it for the present to enable Springer to explain his proposed code. Hammond, of Georgia, offered a resolution resolu-tion declaring that pending the consideration considera-tion of the proposed code and until the rules of the House shall be adopted, the House shall be governed by the rules of procedure of the last House, so far as practicable, and by Jefferson's manual. Considerable debate ensued as to whether the House was governed gov-erned by the rules of the preceding Congress until new ones were adopted. |