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Show ' FORTV-SiyTH CONGRESS. - - " -.The Senate. - ' , : , Washington, February 8. In the Senate to-day petitions were presented by Logan, Sawyer, Wilson, Cockrell, Palmer, Coke, Miller of New York, Harrison, Plumb-and Dawes, from various assemblies of. the Knights of Labor, praying for the opening up to settlement of the Oklahoma land and the granting of lands in severalty to the Indians. - . Also, a number of petitions praying that a constitutional amendment be submitted by Congress to the several States forbidding the disfranchisement on account of sex. A memorial of the Kansas Legislature was presented by Ingalls urging Congress to provide pro-vide for the rights of way , for railroads through the Indian Territory. - A memorial of the same body was presented pre-sented by Plumb, setting forth that the course of Land Commissioner Sparks in indiscriminately in-discriminately and indefinitely . suspending the land titles was working great hardships to the bona fide settlers in that State, and, while not wishing - to interfere with ' any effort that would prevent the fraudulent acquisition ac-quisition of public lands, the Legislature urges Congress to take such steps as may be deemed necessary to secure the earliest-practicable earliest-practicable settlement of the questions involved, in-volved, in order that the injury to bona fide settlers may be as slight as possible. 'The Eapers were appropriately referred. Mr. agallg offered a resolution which was agreed to, directing the Committee on Finance Fi-nance to inquire into the propriety of making mak-ing such an amendment to the Revised Statutes as may be necessary to require the issue of United States note3 of the denominations denomin-ations of one and two dollars. In offering the -resolution, Mr. Ingalls said he understood under-stood the smaller notes had been withdrawn and practically retired from circulation for the purpose of forcing silver into circulation, and thereby rendering silver unpopular with the people. Mr. Ingall's impression was that the people of this country wanted gold and silver as a basis of circulation, but did not desire to carry either metal in their pocket. The people did, however, desire a restoration of the small United States notes, and inasmuch as they pay all the money in the Treasury from their own resources and are owners of whatever currency there may be in the country, he (Mr. Ingalls) did not see why the people's wishes should not be gratified. He had, therefore, offered the resolution. -" |