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Show FORTY-MNTH CONGRESS. The Senate... Washington, February 5. On motion of Sewell the Senate passed the bill heretofore introduced by him, amending sections of revised re-vised statutes relating to annual appropriations appropria-tions for militia. On Harrison's moving, business was laid aside and THE DAKOTA BILL TAKEN UP, On which Butler took the floor. Butler said the Senator from Indiana (Harrison) had either evaded or forgotten many of the facts bearing on the Dakota question. He (Butler) charged that the opposition to Dakota had first come, not from the Democratic side of the Senate, but from the Eepublican aide, and quoted some remarks of Hale in the former Congress to sustain his position. McMillan believed Hale had then stood alone. ' Butler did not care how that was. The Senators from Indiana and Illinois, he said, had referred to the vote polled in South Carolina and other Southern States,' and compared those votes with the vote of Dakota. Butler had to assume that that was done for the purpose of giving a sectional turn to the debate and arraying popular prejudice against the Southern, people. The Southern States, Butler continued, had been under fire for a good many-- years." They had survived heavier artillery than that now turned against them, and would survive this. Whatever might be said against South Carolina (and no doubt 3he had made mistakes in the past and would make mistakes in the future) never until political friends of the Senators of that side camped upon the fair bosom of the State, had her officials been tainted with a blemish of corruption. It had not happened till then, that her offioials had been compelled to fly from her border to escape State's prison, and while degrading, disgraceful and humiliating spoliation had been going on, not one word of protest had come from the honorable Senators of the other side, who now arraigned South Carolina. - The House. Washington, February 5. The Speaker laid before the House a message from the President transmitting the response of the Seoretary of the Interior to the House resolution reso-lution calling for copies of any contract or lease between the Southern Pacific Railway Company and any land grant road ot the Southern Pacifio, and of any contract between be-tween the Pacifio Steamship Company and any land grant road. Referred. At 12:50 the House went into committee of the whole on the private calendar. The Committee on Military Affairs to-day, by a vote of 6 to 1, passed favorably upon Representative Laird's bill of the people of Arizona and New Mexico, which provides for raising one regiment of volunteer cavalry IM EACH TEBBTTOBXr For one year's service, to be composed of and officered by actual residents of the Territories Ter-ritories named. Two Mexioan ponies are to be furnished each officer and soldier, and whenever these are insufficient to make a vigorous pursuit of hostile Indians the regimental quartermasters are authorized to supply the deficiency from any herds accessible without delay of advisement ad-visement or inspection, giving vouchers for such animals as may be taken from private citizens." Pack animals are to be provided as a means of transportation of supplies in addition to the governmental wagon trains. |