The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1874, Page 5

WASHINGTON. Congress Laborious at the Eleventh Hour. ————+-_ BILLS AND APPROPRIATIONS. Rushing Legislation Through the Senate. _ The President’s Message on the District Affairs. FINANCE IN THE HOUSE. Three Hundred and Eighty-two Million Dollars the Maximom of the Currency. The Civil Rights Bill Not Passed. WASuINGTON, Jane 20, 1874, WASHINGTON, June 20, 1874. President Grant at the Capitol. The President was at the Uapitol to-day and had | @ conference with various meribers of Congress, The District Affairs. The Joint Select Committee on District Affairs to-day examined General Mack, of New York, an employé of the Custom House in that city; but upon What points the committee for the present decline to make public. It is said that the experts who bave been examined and have made com- parisons of Netuleship’s writing with the anony- mous letter to Mr. Harrington, apprising nim of the attempt to be made to iob lis safe, pronounce the letier to be in the bandwriting of Nettleship. The committee expect to make a report on Mon- bean 3 Question of Adjournment.: + It is generally conceded that Vongreys will ad- Journ on Tuesday at twelve o'clock, it being the extreme limit which can be fixed for Vonday’s session. To accomplish this the Senat. wiil have to work both night and day, as the J e is far in advance with its business, and the’. ,, othing in the way to prevent this branch ~ Uong.ess from being ready to close up, provi'ed the Senate take action on the several appr2priation bilis euw be- fore it. Bills Signed by the President, ‘The President has approved as follows :— An act to provide for the election of Congress men at large for the State of Alabama, AD act making appropriations jor the legisia- tive, executive und judicialexpenses of tne gov- June 30, 1875, and for An act granting a medal to John Hova for his heroic exploits in rescuing men, women and children from drowning in the Detroit Kiver, Au act to authorize the issue of duplicates of agricultural scrip where the originals have been Jost or destroyed. An act to correct the date of the commissions of certain officers of the army. AD Act making additions to the fifteenth section Of the act approved July 2, 1864, entitied “An act to amend an uci to ald im the construction of a Yailroad and telegraph line from the Missourt River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use o: the same tor postal, mili- tary and ocher purposes; approved July i, 1862.” The President has signed the bill providing fora Rew goverument for tue District of Columtia, Nominations by the President. ‘The President sent the following nominations to the Senate to-day: . Bluford Wiison, tv de Solicitor of the Treasury, vice Banfleld, resigned; Join M. Allen, to be Pen- Bion Ager: at Topeka, Kansas; M. Grinages, to be Register of the Lana Ofice at Worthington, Minn. ; Captain William Meyers, tu be Quariermaster, with Tank 0 major irom January 18, 1807, and take rank Lext below Major Jubn S. Chandler; Passed Ag- aistant Kogineers Joun B.,Carpenter and James L, »Vau Clain, to be Chief Engineers in the navy; En- Lewis Heilnor, to be Master; Engineer Charies F. Nagie, to be Passed Engineer. Whe Government and the Union Pacific Railroad. ‘The Attorney General is considering the course of proceedings to be adopted against the Union Pacific Railroad under the act recently passed re- quiring vhe collection of the five per cent on net earnings. It is said that after the expiration of thirty days irom tue demand made by the Secre- tary of the Treasury, should the money notbe paid, the Department Will Move for an adjudication in bankruptcy. An Exccutive Message on the District of Columbia. ‘The President sent the following message to Congress this afternoon: To THE SENATE aNP HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- TIVES: I respectfully invite the attention of Congress to ne jeature of the bill entitled “An act for the government of tie District of Columbia and for other purposes.” Provision 18 therein made for ment of the debts of the District in bonds to be ed by the sinking fund commissioners, running Sity years and bearing interest at the rate of taree and sixty-five one hundredths per cent per annum, with payment of the principal and interest guaran- teed the United States. The government by which these debts were created is abolished, nd no other provision seems to be made for their payment. Judging from the transactions an other bonds there are good grounds, in my opinion, jor apprehension that bonds bearing this rate of interest when lssued will be worth much Jess than their equivalent in the current money of the United States. This appears to me to be un- Just to those to whom these bonds are to be paid, and the extent of difference between their iace gnd real vaiue looks like repudiating the debts of the district. My opinion 1s that to require credi- ters of the District of Columbia to receive these bonds at par when it ts apparent that to be con- verted into money they must be sold at a large discount will not only prove greatl; Anjurtous to the credit of the District, but will reflect uniavorably upon the credit and good faith ofthe United States. I would recommend, there- fore, that provision be made at the present session of Congress to increase the interest upon these bonds, #0 that, when sold, they will bring an equivalent in money, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to negotiate the sale of ‘these bonds at not less than par and pay the pro- @eeds thereo! to those who may be ascertained to have vaiid claims against the District of Columbia. . S. GRANT, EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, June 20, 1874. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. SENATE, WASHINGTON, June 20, 1874, Mr. Hircrcocs, {rep.) of Neb., called ap the ‘House bill supplementary to the act to authortze the Washington City and Point Lookout Railroad Company to extend a railroad into and within the District of Columbia. Mr. EpMUNDS, (rep.) of Vt., objected to its con- sideration. He moved to postpone the bill, and that the Senate proceed to the calendar (or the consideration of unobdjected cases, Agreed to, Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va., presented a resolu. tion of the West Virginia Legislature for a resale of the government property at Harper’s Ferry. Lala on the table, Mr, Wapieicn, (rep.) of N. A, from the Commit- tee on Military Affairs, reported favorably on the bill to Nx the salary of the Clerk of the United States Armory at Springfield, Mass. Placed on the calendar, Assistant AssistaDt BILLS PASSED. The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of the unobjected cases on the calendar and the following bilis were passed :— The House pill for the relief of Peter 8. Patton. ‘The Senate bill for the restoration to the market of certain lands in the Territory of Utan. The House bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to setMe and pay the accounts of Wiliam Pelham, late Surgeon General of New Mexico. — The Senate bill for the reiief of BE. Laws, Chief Engineer United States Navy. ne House bill making appropriation to pay Emmanuei Small and James Fate, of Atchison county, Missourl, for carrying the mails. The House bill to remove the political disabilities of Bonry H. Bibjey, of Fredericksburg, Va, | ‘The bilities of ' The Senat | | and distribution, $20,000, Senate bill to remove the political disa- homas M. Jones, of Virginia. te pill to reli ©, D. Anderson, of band ol bis political disabilities. ‘ue fleisch’s sons. The Senate bill to remove the political disa- bilities of Dabuey H. Maury, of Virginia. The Sen: bil to remove the political aisa- bilities of Charles M. Faunt eroy, of Virginia. ‘The House bill to appropriate lands for the sup- port of schools in certain iractional townships, rhe Senate bill to protect the timber land oF the Untied States governient reservations and lanus purchased by the United States, Mr, HAMLIN, (rom the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported the House joing resolntion to urchase Che Wutcb presented to aye by Jeneral Washingtop, and avihoriying the restora tion thereo! to (ue heirs Of Laayette. Passed. Mr. scot, (rep.) of Pa,, called ap the wouse resolution jor the transier of twenty condenmed cannvn jor a statue o1 General George G. Meade in Fautrmount Park, Puilade’piia. Pus-ed, Mr. TrproN, (rep.) of Neo,, called ap the Honse resolution amending the joint reso'u:ion of April 16, 1872, relating to a statue or phe jate Adimiral Farragut. Passed. OCRAN STRAM LANBS. The motion o: Mr. Spragne, rep.) of R. I., en- tered several days ago, to reconsider the yote bv which the bill Was passed to provide jor the esiab- lishment of an tnternational commission of mart true Powers to tay. down Ocean courses tr sream vessels and othelwise provide for the mereased salety Of sea truvei, was laid on the tavle on Motion of Mr, Sherman, and the bill was sent to the House for the concurrence of that beady, The consideration of unovjected bills’ on the calendar was resumed and the loliowing were passed :— ne House bill to place on ‘he rettred tist of the pavy M. H. Plunkett, late second assisiaut engi- eer Of the regular navy. House bill for the relief, of Martin Kalb- | The Senate bil! explapatory of the resointion for | the relief of settlers upon absentee Shawnee .anu3 in Kansas, approved April 7, 1889. The House bill tor the relief of Colonel £. Mc- ‘arty. , me Honse bili for the relief of settlers on railroad ands, ‘The House bill for the relief of Robert Coles. The Senate bill to extend the time allowed for the redemption of certain lands by the arst sec- ton of the set oi June 8, 1872, entitled an act to provide tor the redemption and sale of lands beld by the United States under th. several acts levy- ing direct taxes, aud to sr ad the operation 01 the fourth sectiou of saie A, The Senate bill grantir omght of way through public lands to constrn, wod maintain 2 ratlroud in the States of Alab and Fiorida. ‘rhe Senate bill { _.e relief of Washington Cros- and, Cig House bill ‘vr the relief of Mrs, Louisa P. ‘olioy. Tue Senat’ dill for the relief of Marcus Otter- bourg, late Cousul of the United States at the City of Mexico and Minister to the Repuulic of Mexico. THE VETERANS OF 1912, Pending the consideration of the calendar the regular order was demanded, being the oil] amen- datory of the act granting pensions to certain sol- diers of the war 0: 181Z ana the widows o; de- ceased soldiers, approved Feoruary 14, 1571, and to restore to the pension rolls those persons Whose names wer stricken therefrom in consequence of disioya'ty. Mr ! ORRILL, of Vermont, moved that that bill be: stpoved and the Senate proceed ty the con sidevation of the bill making appropriations for sundry fn expenses of the government for the fiscal yedd ending June 30, 1875, and the motion was agreed to—yeas 36, nays 22—a8 folows:— Yuas—Messrs. Alcorn, Allison, Anthony, Boreman, Bouwweil, buckingham, Car; Chandler, Clayton, Edmunds, Fenton, ferry of Michivan, dre whguu sen, Gilbert, Hoger, Hamlin, Hitchcock, ’Hcewe, Ingalls, Mitchell, Morrill of Vermont, Morritlof Maine, Ogie-by, Ramsay, Sargent, Schurz, Sco, Sherman, qpeaests ) paste) ain Wars Wadleigh, Washburne, West, Windom, Th, . Nays—Mostrs. Bayard, Bory, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Goldthwaite, Gordon, Hamilton of Maryland fiamiion of Texas, Johnston, Kelly, Mor ‘wood, Patterson, Pratt, Kanso. Stevenson, Thurman, Tiptun—: Mr, WINDOM, (Tep.) of Minn., ‘rom the conference committee on the Indian Appropmation bill, mace @ re) ort, which Was agreed to. The CHalR laid before the Senate @ message trom the President in regard to the rate of interest on the bonds authorized to be issued by the bill to provide for the goverament of the District of Columbia. Ordered to be printed. Mr, THURMAN, (dem.) Oo! Ohio, moved that it be re- ferred to the joint committee appointed to investi- gate the affairs o: the District of Cojumoia. Agreed to, r. GORDON, (dem.) Of Ga., gave notice that he would ask the Senate to take a recess irom six to seven o’ciock P, M. for the purpose 01 haying the Pension bill, just post,oned, considered in tne evening session. SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS, The Senate proceeded with tne consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation bili, aud the umend- ments of the committee were agreed to, as 1oi- low Ty, Merrimen, | Nor- Roustton, Saulsbury, tions on the sea and lake coasts of tie United States, $342,304, For the purchase of machinery for the macera- For the establishment of new hfe-saviag institu- | tion of national bank and United States notes, | $10,000. Reducing the appropriation for the survey under Professor F. V. Hayden to $75,000, aud providing that $160,000 be ppamouriaien lor & survey in Utab Territory, under J, W. Howell, For the erection of an equestrian statue of Na- thaniel Greene in Washingion, D. C., $40,000. To enable the joint apn thee on the library to urchase such Works 0! cYor orramenting tue Bapitot as may be ordered and. App roteae $10,000. For the pay o! two asawtauts im the Library of Congress, in the copyright department, $3,200, To enable tho Secretary of the Treasury to col- lect and arrange for the use of aii vouchers, papers, &c., and to ‘take testimouy asto claims against the United States, to be paid only upon the certificate of che Commissioners of Claims, 20,000, To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the proprietors of the New York Tribune for aaver- tising in that journal, $839 10, i For payment oi the expenses of editing the Re- vised Statutes, preparing the same for puDdlication To enable the Secretary of the Navy to complete the observations of the transit of Venus, $25,000. For collecting information respecting tie con- dition and :mportance of the lur trade in the Ter- ritory of Alaska, $10,000, For the District of Columbia, $1,300,000, to be ex- pended by the Commissioners of said vistrict and applied as toilows:— rst.—To the payment of interest on the funded debt o/ said District due July 1, 1874. Second—To the payment of officers, employ¢s and lavorers of the District, whether of the Dis- trict proper or of the Board ot Public Works, and for the payment of auy indebedness jor which securities Of the istrict are p'edged, and the re- mainder to the current expenses of said District. Ali of the avove sums, except 80 much thereof as may be paid for interest as aloresaid, to be consid- ered jana adjusted herealter, as a part of the prover proportional suin to be paid by the United States towards the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia. For the expenses of the joint select committee to inquire into the affairs of the District of Co- lambia, $6,000. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to pay for supphes furnished the Yankton Sioux Indians during the winter of 1866 and 1367, $11,329. For sanitary purposes in the District of Colum- bia $32,000; provided that a like amount ve ap- propriated by the District... For the purchase for an Indian agency station of 640 acres of land at Lapwal Creek and Clear Water River, {daho Metignas bi heretoiore granted to the American Board of Uommissioners for Foreign Missions, $15,000. Increasing the amounts for the survey of lands in the Territories of ldaho and New from $20,000 to $30,000 for each TerTitory, and in- creasing the sum for surveys tu Oregon from 40,000 to $60,000, For latuing and plastering the under surface of the roof above the ceiling of the Senate chamber, 4,000, For repairing the defective portion of the roof on the Capitol and for erecting lire walls, $15,000. For the tunprovement of the Capitol Grounds ac- cording to the plans and under the direction of Frederick Law Olmstead and the Committee on Public Buildings and-Gronnds, $200,000, For & commisst0n, Conatsting oi Frederick Law Olmstead, of New York; William Hammond Hall, of San Francisco, and H. W. S. Cleveiand, of Chi cago, 0 examine and report to Congress at the next session by what economical measures the greatest public value may be given to the con- nected series of government yg) gn those of the Capttol and Executive Mansion, $1, 5 For extending the old Oity Hall In Washington for the accommodation of Hie district courts, Court of Claims and Pension Office, $150,000, To secure the foundation walls and fit up rooms in the basement in the Post Ofice Deparument, $100,000, For the Reform School of the District of Colum- bia, $15,000. adic Limiting the cost of the Court House and Post OMice at iii deiphia to $4,000,000. For machinery and fitting upof the new Mint Butiding at san Francisco, $15,000, to be availavle iminediarely, é For fitting up @ refinery in said Mint, $34,500. For re, airing end Stung up tue old Branch Mint at San Francisco fur 4 bub-Treasury and other government othces, $30,000, Con‘inuing te a pro, ration of $100,000 for the erect on of a puvic bavding at Covington. Ky., and lintting th cost thersof to $250,u00. Limiting the cost tine public buildings at Nash- ville, Tean., to $ . For the preparation of the granite and the com- mencement of the north wing of the ~ State. butiding tor War and Navy depart. enis, $2.0,000. the..United Staics Mint at Carson Oity, tat expenses of the New York U Secretory of War to carry ont the ‘bo enable the provisions of the ac: o! April 25, 1874, tor the relief O/ persons saderiny from the overfiow of the Lower Mississippi River, ane the joint resolution autior- izing the issue of army rations and clothing to the desitiuce people on tue ‘Tombigbee, Warr.or aud | Alabama ri ers, $500,000, \ pou the recommendation of the committee the following clauses op tie vil as it came irom we | House Were stricken out:— and flazying the loot walks around the same, and “Por improving the Capitol gronnds, for capping | for pavag the roadway at the eastern trout, $125 v0. Z if “to pay ¢ mmissions slowed by law to Collec tors of Customs acimg as Superinteudents of Lighthouses, $8,000, “Authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to hace Oo og bell at Or Nn the entrance of New ork Harbor, and extending the jurisdiction of the Lizntiouse Boa! over the Mississippi, Ohio and M.ssour Rivers,” * CIVIL SERVICE. ‘The second section o’ the bill, ag it came from the House. abolishing the Civil Service Commis sion and preveribing Tales for appomtments ip the departineut, Were siricsen out by the committee, apd a Lew section reported restoriag the Com- mason, and approvria'iug £15,000 (or «tie @X- penses thereo!, The action of the committee waa agreed to—veas 32, uays 16. ‘The amendment reported by the committee hav- ins bevn acted apon, the Chair announced that tie bill Was open to a turther amendinent. WOMAN'S MIGHTS. Mr. EDMUNDS, irow ihe Judictary Committee, by unanimous cousent made a report upon we peti- tion of Susan B. Anthony for a remission of the tine posed upon der by the United States Dis- trict Court ior the Northern District of New York and the bul introdue sd in tue Senate to enable her to pay her fine. He suid the committee reported adversely and asked io be discharged trom a fur- ther consideration of the subject, tor the reason that the committee dd uot ieel satisted that Lue | statement contained in the pettion in respect to the rulins o: the Jude of the Northern District of New York was precisely as repiesen'ed by the pee titioner; and again, ‘he committee did not believe it had the power to rc 1 the petitioner thous she could apply to vue Executive, who bad the power to pardon Her, ‘Lhe committee was discharged from the - further consitergtion of the subject and the bull was in- detinite.y postponed. Mr. CARPENTER, © xpre noriiy o1 ihe Senate Judfeiary Commitiee, regard- ing the memorial oj sudan B, Antwony, says the decision of the Court on her tital Was err neous, in iaking the case irom the jury aud directing their verdict, anu reivsing tie request of ‘her counsel 10 have the sury potied—thus denylag to the jury, not few United States Courts, ht ler conviction erroneous | ing his views as a mt- | only the moral right, but even tie power of ren- , dering a verdict curs With the t guilty, Mr. Carpenter con- jormty o1 the committee that Con- gress cannot grant the precise relief prayed jor in the nemorial; Lut he deems it to be the duty ot Congress to deciare its disapproval of the ductrine asserted and the course pursued in the trial of Miss Anthony, and ull the move for the reason that no judicial court has jurisdiction to review the pro- ceedings therein, Mr. Howe, (rep.) of Wis., submitted an amend- ment to the sundry Civil bill, appropriating $200.000 for commencing the construction of a new bu.lding ior the library of Congress, provided that | no expenditure tor ground suall be incurred; and | the joint Committee on the Library of Congress, togetier with the Librarian, shall nave the super- vision of the jocation and erection o1 said building, and authorizing the committee to sit during U recess, Mr. MORRILL moved to amend by striking out the proviso that bo expenditnre for ground shall be ‘incurred, aud said the proper place tor the new library Would be on one of the squares adjoining Caples square. r. WRIGHT, (rep.) of lowa, Offered a substitute instructing the Committee on Library and Li- | brarian to tuquire into the necessity of erecting a | | new building, probable cost thereoi, and wiether the present liorary can be enlarged; also upon what terms suitable grounds ior a new building gan be obtained. Peuding discussion on the library amendments, Mr. SHERMAN submitted an amendment appropri- ating $16,100 for udditionul clerical torce in the office — ot Aureed to. Mr. WADLEIGH, from the Committee on Military the Comptroller of the Currency. | | hesitate to teel that the fixing of the maximum Affairs, reported favorably on the House biilgrant- | ing ton condemued cannon to the municipal au- thorities of Leximgton, Muss, for monumental purposes, THE INDIAN APPYOPRIATIONS. A message was received trom the House refus- ing to agree to the report 01 tne conference com- mittee on the Indian appropriation bill and asK- ing a new conference. . Mr. Winvom said tne point of difference was in regard to the appropriation for Apaches in New Mexico, He moved that the Senate Insist pon its ainendments and grant the , coniereace. reed to, and the Chair was dl- rected to appoint the committee. The report o! the cunjereuce committee on the Judiciary Appropriation bili fixes the appropria- tion for the Apaches of Arizona and New Mexico At $550,0u0 1ustead of $700,000, as voted by the Senate; aud compromises on $65,000 for the Indian ser m Caliiornia, the House item of this purpose having been increased by the Senase to $80,000, The appropriation for the Apaches last year was $750,000, and for the year berore $825,0u0. The discussion was then resumed upon tne amendments in regard to the new llorary, pending which Mr, Fexny, of Michigan, moved that the benate take a ess Unt eiyht o'clock. Mr. MoRRILL, Civil bill could be finished by eight o’clock and sent to the House, but ii recess be taxen it would be throwa over til Monday, and tn that case Con- | gress could not adjourn on that day. | eXico | | For the Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb , in the District of Columbia, $29,000, For building @ steamer tor tae Coast Survey, for use on the Gulf Coast, $76,000. ‘ For re-establishing the lighthouse Igiand, Rockport harbor, Maine, $9,000, For building & lighthouse at or near Solomon's Lump, becween Tangier Sound and Chesapeake bia $15,000. ‘o enable the Light House Board to continue tts experiments ip relation to fog bells or other sig- nails for the protection of the commercial marine, $5,000, For continuing experiments with the Moffat system of breech-loading cannon under the direc-* tion of the Secretary of War, $10,000, For the purpose of testing Lee’s breech-loading in, $10,000, Providing that the appropriation heretofore made for the construction of a floating iron dock remoming unexpended may be used in completing (ue repairs on the doable turreted monitors Mian- tonomah, Puritan, Terror and Monadnock. Providing further that che period of retirement for naval constructors shall be at sixty-five instead Of sixty-LwWo years, as now provided, Limiting the cost of the Custom House and Post Office at Cincinnati to $3,500,000, Increasing the appropriation for paving, grading, fencus" aud sewerage at the Post Office and Court House at New York irom $160,000 to $198,868, Increasing the appropriation for heating and ventilating, hoisting apparatus and machinery, to 236,000. ’ Increasing the appropriation for furniture, coun- SOTB, CATE WC, SOM $200,000 0 $375,000, at Indian | The motion of Mr. Ferry fora recess was re- jected—yeus 13, nays 34, The substitute of Mr. Wright in regard to the new library Was agreed vo—yeas 27, nays 15. Mr. Howe appealed to the Senate to lay the whole subject On the table, and said the com- mittee wou.d be unable to tell the Senate next session any more than it knew now. He moved to lay the whole matter on the tavle, Agreed to. Mr. SARGENi, (rep.) 01 CaL, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted an amendment ap- propriating $10v,000 tor a continuation of the work on the new jalt iu the District of Columpbta. Agreed to. Also an amendment appropriating $300,000 for army pensions, to be available immediately. Agreed to. ir. BUCKINGHAM, (Tep.) of Conn., submitted an amendnient appropriating $50,000 ior_the support ot the Hydrographic Ofice of the Navy Depart- ment. Agreed to. THE REPORT ON THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE. Mr. ALLISON, (rep.) of Lowa, from tne juint se- lect committee on District aifairs, submitied a re- port upon the message of the President submit- ted to the committee to-day, stating (hat tbe com- mittee had not clianged its views on the subject of the rate of incerest on the bonds named. He said he had the highest authority ior saying that the President was satistied witi the bill as it was passed, after oeing made familiar with ajl the facts. Mr. SARGENT thought that an extraordinary statement, and called the Senator to order, The Cuark ruled tuat the statement was not out of order, The report was ordered to oe printed, and the committee was discharged irom the tur ther consideration of the subject. The following is the report on the President's message submitted by Mr. Aliison:— ‘The joint comiunttee on the affairs of the District of Colunibia, to Whom was referred the. message President reiative to one feature of the bill entitied “An ct for the government oi the District of O for giher purposes,” report that the investig by (his committee discloses the fact that much of the ine debtedness proposed to be funded into the bond provided for was created when there was nO adeqnate provision for nent and Ubon & basis of credit, the contractors understanding at the time that they wore to receive evidences of indebtedness, the time of payment or which ‘as uncer ein. by reason whereof. these évidences were Topreciaed Veiner, pnd there were no means whereby thé committee could deter al e mine the matte! wil ysolite certainty, atter giving the matter careful consideration th ie 0) AS that 4 bond of the characier provided jor youl rule, tay aa it sn value what the contractors ex- eoted to receive under their contracts, Begides this, he sunding proposed is permissive and not compalsory. The credivors have all the security they had when the debi was created, ond in addition the opion to ageept the bonds provided tor. No injustice, theretgié, will b done jo any creditor who shall take such bonds in én of the securides he now holds. ‘The-idew that there $s an thing like repudiation in the bill is a mistake. The bil does not compel any holder of District securl- fies to take bonds for them; it merely gives bim the option to do $0 or to retain them and feccive payment thereof when the District may be able to pay. The eharges made in regard to the District government do. not dis-harge or impair Its contracts or Uiubilities, The DUL thererore, 18 Not repudiation, for is it unjust to May holler of District securities, Which may be junded ander It Aw to small creditors,’ such as laborers, &e., the DIl contemplates their payment in money, For the reasons Above given, and Also because it would be anwise, In the opinion of your committee, wo set_an example of issuing pay year bonds bearing & higher rate ot interest than 8.65 per cent, they have fixed that rate inthe bill, and their opmion remains anchanged. That there pay e no misapprehension as to the pledge of the United states we here repeat it tn the exact words of (he bill :—"'And the (aich of the United states is hereby pledged that the United States by proper propor: onal appropriations, as contemplated in this act, and by causing to be levied upon the property, within said Vis trict such taxes ag wiil do so, will provide the revenues hecessary to pay the interest on sald bonds as the same ney, become due and payable and create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof at maturity." Your committee ask to be discharged from further con sideration of the message, LYMAN K, BASS, NUUYRURMANG OB h A&G. 1 OBERT HAMILTON, WILLIAM M SMewarn, JAMES A, IUHSELL and J. N. WILSON, HUGH J, JEWETT. Mr. MiTcHELD, (rep.) of Oregon, supmitted an ameudment to the Sundry Civili Dill, appropriating $7,000 or the expenses of the land office at Dallas, Oregon. Agrecd to. submitted an amend- Mr. GoRDON, (dem.) of Ga, ha et ap who represented Of Maine, said that the Sundry” ment, limtt! the cost of the lic building at Atlanta, tanto $250,000. “greet A large bumber of other amendments for the payment Of claims or to begin improvewents were supmitted by various Senators, but were ruled out | on points of order raised by Mr. Kdmunde that th invoived Lew legisiation or were not recommend: by tue Committee, ‘ihe Cuaik appointed Messrs. Sargent, Bucking- ham abg Gordon as the new conference committce on the Indian Appropriation btil, ‘The Sundry Oiy!l bill wag then reported to the | Senate, aud all the amendments made ia the Com- mittee of the Whole were agreed to, except that relating to the jurisdiction of tne Lightnouse Board over the Mississipp!, Obio aud Missouri rivers, | which was digagroed to, Mr. Scorr suom tted an amendment, fixing the gore zeetion of the Assistant secretaries of the reasury, the Solicitor of tae ‘Treasury and tue comm nero} Cuscoms at $4,500each. Agreed to. Mr, ALCORN, (rep) uf Miss., submitted an aimend- ment pl cing the control of the ievee system of the | Mississippi River under the Secretary of War and | appropriating $2,000,000 to carry on the work. Ruled out of order, Mr. STEWART, (rep.) of Nev. moved an amend- | ment providing that the portions of the Union Pa- cific Kallroad und the Centrai Pacific Railroad, or their branches, upon which trains Save been rua during tue past year shall be accepted as com- plared within the meaning of the act to aid m the construction of the road, Ruied out on the ground thut If Was a new legislation, | Mr, SARGENT moved au amendment appropriat- ing $15,000 lor building a relief lightship. Agreed | 0. : | Mr. EDMUNDS referred to the item appropriating | $15,000 .or the purchase for an Indian agency sta- tion of the 640 acres of land situated at Lapwat Creek and Uiear Water River, Idaho Territory, heretolore grapted to the American Board of Com- | massioners ior Foreign Missions, and moved to re- consider the vove by which that amendment was NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1874-QUADRUPLE SHEET. assured the two gentlemen from Connecticut and Maine (Messrs. Hawley and Hale) that from session to session, and from election to election, the issue Would brought by the people until the government should be found to raeuse in the people and not in the small iraction of t! peouie hat dwelt east of the Hudson or in the monéyed ceatres, Mr. MARSHALL, (dem.) of Il!., a member of th conference committee, advocated the report, it avoided, he said, most of the controverted ques- Hons that nad divided both houses,but it prournt Jorward g measure tuat was manifestly demanded by justice and py the rights and interests of te | bevple of the Sodth and West. It was a measure | Which should have been adopted the tirst week of the present session as preliminary 2, boy sCUS> pion of the fnauciat question. ‘The West he to @ great extent misrepresented in speeches made by memvers irom other sections of the country and py the press of the country. The people of the West were not, in auy sense, in favor of repudiation or of anv fnancial system that wouk! lead to the repudiation of any of the honest obligations of tue government, and would never dehberate'y sanction any measure tending in that direction. ‘Yhey were, he believed, unanimously in favor of some Mnancial jegisiation taat looked to an early en- hancement ol the circulating Bedium (oa par with gold, But at the same time ther were upnosed to any system of contraction that would put them within the grinding power of the moneyed monopo- been | ‘usetts, by unanimous cone salary to olerka roe ‘Gopartones a who are legislated out of office by the reducwon. of the force, and it was agreed to. asked, but failed to Mr. AVERILL, (rep.) of Minn, obtain permission, to have abil passed limiting allowed jor the the rgtio of compensation to be ution Of Moneys appropriatea for public dist: bailenes Mr. WILSON, (rep.) Of Ind., from the Joint In- vestigating Committee on the Awairs of 1) | District of Columbia, made a ‘speci report on the message of the President | to-day. He referred to its sugwesting | that the rate of interest fixed for bonds tuerein provided for be increased from 2.65 to a rate which | will enabie the bonds to be disposed of at par, | The report states that much Of the indebtedness proposed to be undead tn those bowus was created when there was no adequate proviso for its pay- ment, and on the basis of credit, the creditors un- | derstanding that they were to receive evidences ot | indebtedness the time of payment Of Wuich was uncertain, and on that account these evidences | were depreciated. The coummittee believed that a | 3:5 per cent bond would be, as @ rule, jully equal iu value to what the contractors ex- pected fo receive under tueir contracts; besides the tunding proposed was permissive, not com- ulsory. The creaitors had all the security they had when the debt waa created, and, in additiol lists of the country, As ao original proposition he | tue opportunity to accept the bonds provid wouls not favor the establishment ofthe national for. “No injustice, thereiore, would be bank system. He wouid not, ii tie had the power, done any creditor, The idea suggested by Strike It from existence now; but he Would devise | the President, Wat there was anything some Ineans by whic it would be wound upas | like repudiation in the bill was & rapidly a3 it could be done withoat matertally | mistake. ‘The hull did net compel any holder of affecting the business of the country. ihe bil be- Jore the House was right, just and equitable, but | it could not be regarded ‘gs a settiement of the financial question. It let the present vicious sys- tem in inti force m all other respects except as changed ip the conlerence report, The peopie agreed to. He intimated that the claim was a | would not regard it as 4 ttlement, Congress irauduient one, | failed, and wofully iailed, discharging its duty Afr, OGLES?Y, (rep.) Of I, agreed that it waea@ | to the country. valid claim, and denied that there was any iraud | init, The mouon to reconsider was agreed to— | yeas.29, nays 20, The Fenate then refused to agree to the amend- ment as made in the Committee of the Whove. | ‘The bill Was then read # third time aod passed. | Mr, SARGENT, Irow the conlerence commitvee on the Deficiency and Appropriation bill, made a re- | port,.wuict was agreed to. i} On mMowon of Mir, CHANDLER, (rep.) of Mich., the Senate tnen proceeded to the consideration of the River and Harvsor Appropriation bili, the pending | question being o1 an amendment proposed by the committee reducing the appropriation lor inci- | dental repairs at harbors ior Wulch there 1s no special appropriation from $75,00 to 25,000. { Mr, CUASDLER satd the committee would with: | draw that amendment, leaving the amount, as | paszed by the House, $75,000, ‘The commitiee aiso withdrew the amendment to | strike Out OF the second section of the House will | that directing an examination aud survey of various river's, and the section was agreed to. Mr, West, (rep.) of La, 1rom the Trans,ortation Committee, suvmitted an amendment providing jor & bowd of five engineers, to be ap- pointed Ly the President, to make a survey of the mouth 1 the Mississippi River, with & view to de- | termine the best method of ovtainiug and main- — §352,000,000. Like the gentleman f:om illinois (Mr. taming & dept of water sufficient jor the pur- Marshall), he had unhiormly denied the right poses Oj commerce, ether by a canal from said of the Secretary of tie ‘Treasury to in- river to the waters of the Gulf or by deepenm, crease or diminish the volume of greenback one or more of the natural outlets of the said | currency, The tiird feature of the bill was the river. Agreed .o, redistribution feature. He had voted and spoken | Mr, Ransom, dem.) of N, ©., moved an amend | ment to increase the appropriation for the mm- | provement of Cape Fear kiver, North Carolina, irom $100,000 to $200,000. Agreed to, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N. J., moved an | amendment appropriating $50,000 jor opening and improving the channel between Staten Island and New J@rsey. Kuled out on a point of order that | 1t was not recommended by any committee. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, : WaSHINGTON, June 20, 1874. A resolution was adopted continuing the powers ofthe Committee on Arkansas Adairs during the vacation. THE CURRENCY BILL. Mr. RANDALL, (dem.) of Pa., said he had hereto- fore, a8 A member ol the Committee on Banking, Jound himself unable to support, either in com- Inittee or in tie House, any of ihe bills emanaung from that committe», because there were none of them that did not propose to extend and increase What he considered the great evil of the hour—tie national bauk system. Every one of them pro- sed to increase the national bank currency and he profits to the favored sew, to diminish green- back issue and to substitute interest bear- ing indebtedness — for _non-interest — bear- ing indebtedness, There were three distinct features in the bill which commended themselves, and which induced him to support it. He wished it coniamned provision; that fixing the time for a resumotion Of specie payment, The first feature he approved was the provision doing away with the reserves | On Circulation, He had never been able to see the reason for that reserve. Bebind the national bank crreulation Were bonds the market value or which averaged 115 per cent, and as the iaw only author- ized currency to the amoupt oi ninety per cent of the bonds there was a murgin ol twenty-five per cent to protect bill holders tu case of the failure of a bank. Another feature winch ne approved was that settling the volume of greenback currency at against any increase of volume of currency, either national bunk or greenback currency, but had always expressed @ Willingness to vote for an | He was | honest redistribution of bank circulation. sincere in bis words then, and meant to ve sin- cere in his vote now. one section of the country should have advantage in that respect over another. New England and New York and bis own State had bad that money ior a lonr penod, while the South had been languishing and the West had been unabie to secure banking facilities to move it® crops to the seaboard. No jusv man could deny to the South and West that redistribution. He believed great good would result trom it. The South would have (a- cilities for banking and would bloom und blossom | as of old, and the West would once more be satis- | an additional | There was no reason why | District securities to take bonds .or them; it merely gave him the oppor‘unity to do so or to retain them, and receive payment therefor when the Dis- | trict might be able to pay. Tne bill, theretore, was not repudiation, nor did it do injustice to @ holder o1 District secufities, as to the si creditors, such as laborers, &c, The bili contem- | plated thetr payment in mopey, The opinion of | the committee, therefore, remained unchanged as | to the propriety of fixing that low rate of inserest. | The report is signed by a@il the members of the | committee, | Mr. Wiusown proceeded to state that a sub-com- mittee had waited on the President to confer with him, The President had acted under a mis- apprehension in regurdto the facts o. the case, and there was no disterenc? of opinion between the President and the committee. Mr. Dawes, of Massachnserts, raised the point of order, that it was unparilamentary to state | the views of tte President on any pending meas- | ure of legislation. | ‘The SPEAKER so ruled, and Mr, Wilson satd he | would withdraw his statement, Mr. KELLOGG, 0: Connecticut, ingnired whether | there were not many, laboring people who had these certificates in payment of their wages. Mr. HOLMAN, (dem.) of Lnd., repued that most of | them were in tne hands of stock jobbers, who } would make fifty per cent on them. | Onthe motion of Mr. WILSON that committee | Was discharged from the further consideration of that subject. Soon alter this subject was disposed of the House had | ANOTHER SCENE OF DISORDER AND TUMULT, in the midst of which Mr. Beck, (dem.) of Ky. moved to adjourn, remarking that the republican Side of the House waS 80 noisy that no business | could be done, Mr. Conage, (rep.) of Mich., asked that Mr, Beck's words be taken down, us reflecting on his fellow-embers, The SPEAKER remarked that Mr. Beck had only stated an obvious truth, aud that nis words were not in any degree slanderous. Mr, CONGER said that he was only prevented by courtesy from making the same point in reference | to the Speaker’s remarks. The SPBAKER expressed his desire to have them | taken down, | Tne House then resumed consideration of the | business on the Speaker’s table and disposed of | certain Senate bills, among which were the iollow- | ing :— | to relieve ships and vessels from compulsory pilot ices in certain cases, Mr, E. KR, Hoar moved to put it on its passage. Mr. Cox moved its refer- ence to the Committee on Commerce, remarking that it was a fight between the tug boats and the pilots, and he wanted to save the pilots. Mr, Cox's motion was agreed to and the bill was referred to fied with its banking facilities, and they would 1n | the Committee on Commerce, Mr. DAWES, (rep.) of Mags., presented the report ) of the Conierence Committee on the Currency bill | and proceeded to explain it. He regretted that the report did not contain, ag the first conference | report had, any provision, either ior an early re- | sumption of specie payment on the part of the | government, or for any retirement, under any cir- | cumstances, of any portion of the government | issne. He regretted exceedingly that it hed been | found Mmpossible to bring the’two houses together | on any such agreement. But a matter which seemed to some not only demanded by the public | faivn, but also seemed easy of accomplishment, had | been found impossible to regulate either in the | two houses or in the two conference com- Mittees, The committee, however, could not | issue of greenbacks was something gainet. It had, therefore, xed the Maximum at $32,000,000, | and required it to be kept tn circulation instead of | having part of it kept in reserve in the Treasury, to be shot out or drawn in as if on sume tramway. The second feature of the bill was equally import- ant. It was that there should ve no further in- crease of national baitk currency. Therefore the country would kuow, so Yer as this Congress w: concerned, thas the wuole voluine Of the national future have nothing else to do but fix a day of re- sumption When greenbacks shouid be equal to gold and when the bank notes would represent greenbacks, which wonid be equal to gold. Mr. Cox, (dem.) of N. Y., opposed the conference report. He believed that at least one-half o! the House regarded this measure as mere broth, with no meat in it. Others thought it inflated the cur- rency $56,000,000, or, as his friend Marshall said, tt | only releases 30 Much now tied up, This; said Mr. Cox, is not inflation, “On, no!’ You want more mouey. Why, there is now a moncy glut. Way don’t you get your snare, ye o! tae Soath and West? Come with values. Why dabble with reserves ¢ | If you want to bloat,why don’t you takea square | drink? Our political plaviorms are square for im- Mediate resumption of specie payment. Tis re- publican party fees like doing something to sup- plement their incompetency and to keep their | party in powei. i don’t want tonelp them to mere makeshilts without @ floal and uselui scitle- ment of the great problem. Mr. Porrgr, (dem.) of N. ¥., expressed hie regret that he was not abie to vote in lavor of the con- ference report. Mr. HoLman, (dem.) of Ind., expressed himself in favor of the reurement of the nationai bauk currency and the substitution of ureenbacks. _ Mr. O'BRIEN, (lem.) of Md., expre-sed nis con- viction that gold was the only legitimate money | and the only sale money, He regayded tae vill as | another prop of the national bauk system, which | @8 & colossus any conntry In modern times. It was | another concession to capital, aud was xgainst the true interests of labor aud of she mdasinial bank currency was capable of being ascertained. Anocher question which had stared the commit- tee in the face was the necessity of a redistribution | classes. Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Conn., opposed the con- ference report, because instead Oi belog a step toward specie payment it was a long step in the of national bank currency, and, as he was the | opposite direction. only member of the Conference Committee | the section of the coun- | try which had more than its share of bank note circulation, it would not have been becoming in him to oppose a redistribution. | He had thereiore given in his adhesion to a report > which proposed to redistribute $55,000,000 of the $80,000,000 now retained by one section ol the | country more than it was entitied to by the ratio | o! wealth and population, Anowher feature was | as to the national bank reserve, and on that point | { he explained what would be the effect of the bill. | He commended this report to the consideration of | the House, and Penoniets to that section of country which had steadily refused two things—an increase of the volume of currency and free bank- ig, and which bad at the sume time got $80,000,000 more than its share of currency. He wouid say to | that sectioa of the country that it could not arford | to stand beiore the people in the lignt of hesitating whether it would do justice in the distripution of | Waoat currency there is wf it refused to permit any | more. He aesired to.suggest that that section of | the country was ultimately in the power of the other section which only demanded this equitable | distrivution and nothing more. Todo equity was | the surest way to secure equity. | Mr. Haw.ey, (rep.) 01 Conn., declared as a New | Englander and as a representative of a banking centre, that he Was willing to vote for the redia- tribution of the $55,000,000, if that part of the bill were separated'irom the rest. He expected to | have voted on the proposition to that effect offered by Mr. Kasson, of Iowa. ae HUBBELL, (rep.) of Mich., addressed Mr. jawley. Mr. MAWLEY, (impetuously) —Not a word. i Mr. HUSBELL—Does not the gentleman know | of Ohio, Ross, Ruck, Sawyer, Sayler of, indiana, Saylor that it 18 tmpoxsible to vote for the distribution of | Chaat Inesis aheidon, Sherment Slog lone ae $55,000,000 unless he votes for this bitl? | Smith of Pennsylvania, Smith of ‘Louisiana, sinh’ of Mr. HawLbY—I claim tbe floor without Interrup- | New York, smith of Virginia, mith of Olio, Snyder, tion. {sdyas a New Englander, that you are at | Southard, Speer, Sprague, Stanard, standesord, stark: | liberty to take all o: this currency whicn is neces- gary tO equalize the distribution, but | will not vote for uny measure that increases the volume of irre- | | deemuble paper currency or that increases the | of the | ; Connecticut were entirely unparhamentary, volume of currency in actual ase and therepy ex- | pands prices, widens the margin between paper | and gold, and to that extent postpones indefinttely | the day of resumption. The genuiemen have got | to come to this doctrine just as sure as grass grows | and water runs, | Mr. KELLEY, (rep.) Of Pa.—No. You have got to abandon it, | dur. HALE, (rep.) of Me., said that he, like tho | gentleman from the committee (Mr. Hawley) was | Willing vo vote ior the redistribution of the bank circlation, but le went further than that. He | was not only willing to vote for it as an abstract | proposition of fairness, but he was going to vote jor this vill, (Ories of “Good! good! amen i") The | difference between them (Mr. flawiey and himself) | Was that the gentleman from Connecticut was in favor of a {air distribution when It could not ve voted Oily W, ete a Hale) was tn favor of it when it dould bé Voled on. \ Mr. Hawsry ([0 a joud and angry tone) Qn unjust and ungenticmuntly iMsinuatio: (Calis to order and joud hammering with the Speaker's | gavel.) It ts a dishonoravie statement. | Mr, MAYNARD, (rep.) of Tean.—l1 call the gentie- man to order, and | ask that his words be taken down, | Tue SPEAKER—The words were entirely unpar- | Homentary, Mr. HALE (apparently surprised) —Whose words ? | The sPHAKEK—The words of the gentleman trom | Mr. HaWLEY—So far as they may be of an unpar- | amentary character I withdraw them, | Mir. HaLn—t bave been here too long to be | cowed down by the gentleman from Connecticut. 1 was saying, und I repeat it for the benelit of the gentleman from Connecticut, that he ts in favor of | istribution when it is not Up, and has just de- ciared that he will not vote for it when it is up; but Lam tn favor of it, and will vote for it when an opportunity occurs, 1 will do it, as I sald be- fore, in @ spirit Of fairness and concession to another section of the country, While I do not believe that it is based on any fair principles of finance, aull { veheve that the section of country to which it belongs is honest in its demands, and 1aim willing to make this concession. Mr. SHANKS, (rep.) of Ind.—You think that the ¥ “ honest, but pot very sensible in this prop- | tio! Mr. KELLRY, Of Pensylvania, favored the con- ference report. It did not retire a greenback nor 1X on arbitrary day for the resumption of specie payment, nor did if add to the volume of the currency ; but tt did open & War for the use of that which was now locked up uselessly (n bank vaults, or put into circulation fraudulently and legally. In the name of the centre, the West and | the South, where the power of empire dwelt, he ) | leigh, Burroughs, Butler of Mas Mr. MayNnarD. of Tennessee, Chairman of the Banking Committee, satd he should voce tor the conierence report. He could vot do other wise, for it contained beneficent provisions. At tae same time he accepted the statement of the yeutieman Irom Iilinows (afr. Marshall) that this was not a settie- ment Of the question of the currency. The ulter- native belore the countiy, and be begged the gen- tlemen to bear 1t in mind, was iree bankiny on the one hand and annihilation of tne present natioual bank system ou the other. Tne vote was taken and the conference report Was agreed to—yeas 221, nays 40—as oilows:— Yuas—Mesars. Adams, albert, Albright, Arthur, Ashe, Atkins, Averill, Banning, Barber, Barrere, Barry, Boos, Begole, Hell, Berry, Biery, sland, Blount, “cowen, Brad! ley, Bright, ‘Brown, Buckner, bundy, Burchard, Bar- ih husetts, Butler of 1 “nessee, Caldwell, Cannon, Cason, Cessua, Clark ot Now Jersey, Clark of Missouri, Clarke of New York, Clements, Clymes, Cobb of North’ Carolina, Cobb of Kansas, Co: | burn, comingo, Conger, Cook, Corwin, Cotton, Creamer, Crittenden, Crossland, Urounie, Crucelsield, Chris, Dan: ford, Darrall, Davis, Dawes, Dobbins, Donnan, Dunnell, Ducham, “kidridge, Mield, Fort, Frye, Garfteld, Glover, Gooch, Gunexel, Gunter, Hagi Hale of Maine, Hancock, Harris of Massachusetts, liar: ris ot Georgia, Harris of Virginia, Harrison, Hatcher, Hathorn, Havens, Hawley of Litinois, Hays, Hazelion of Wisconsin, Hazelton ot New Jersey, " Hereiord, Hodges, flolman, Hoskins, Houghton Howe, Hubbell, Hunter, Huron, Huriput. ‘Hyde Hynes, Jewett, son, kelly, Knapp, Lamar, Lamison, Lamport, Linsiu Lawrenc nh, Lewis, ‘Lotland, ‘Lougheriaze, L Lowndes, Lynch, Marshwll, Marun, Maynard, Mi McDill of. lowa, McDougal, Merriam, Milliten, “Milla, Monro Morrison, Neal, 'Negley, Orr, Orth, Packard, ‘Pac Parsons, Pelham, sourt, Platt of Virginia, Piatt ot ‘Ne rk, vs Randall, Ransier, Rapier, Ray, Read, Rice, Richmond, Robinson, K. H. Koberis, tobinson of Illinois, Robinson weather, St. John, Stone, "Stowell, § Sypher, Thomas of North Carotina, t, Strawbridge, mas of Virginia Thornburgh. Todd, Tremain, iyuer. Vance, Waldron, Wailace, Ward of 'New Jersey, Ward of illinois, Wells, Wheeler, White, Whitehead,’ Whiteley, Whithorn Wilber, Willard’ of Michigai, Williams ot Indian Williams of Wisconsin, Wilhams of Massachusetts, Williams of Michigan, Willie, Wison of Lowa, Wilson of Indiana, Wolfe, Wooaworth, Young of Kentacky, Youug of Georgia—22L. Nays—Messrs. Archer, Barnum, Bass, Bromberg, But- finton, Cox, “Crooke, Hames,’ Gidiings, Hamilton, Hawiey of Connecticut, Hen Herndon, E.R. Hoar, GF. Hoar, Hooper, Kellogg, Kendall, Lawéon, Luitrell, Magee MeLean, Neimith, O'brien, Page. Parser of New S ampshire, Pendleton,’ Phelps, | Pie Potter, Schu- maker, Scotleld, Scudder ot New York. Smart, Storm, Swaun, Townsend, Whitehouse, Willard of Vermont, Woodtord—40. The bill now goes to the President for his signa- are, While the vote was being taken Mr. Pouann, of Vermont, stated that while he bad always voted on general panking measures, yet as President of a nationwl bank he ieit that he had a persoaal io- terest i @ bill which proposed to tuke away a por- on of the circulation of certaia banks, mciuding that in which he was concerned. Be seit toat he came fairly within tie rule as to personal tuterest and there/lore should not vote, Mr, Wu1son, (rep.) of Ind., from the Judictary Committee, reporied resolutions for the impeacii- ment of Judge Busteed, of Alabama, for ugh crimes and misdemeanors, ‘Mr, CESSNA, (Tep.) Of Pa, presented a minority tu pOr be rehne report was ordered printed apd recom- mitted. The SPEAKER presented a message from the President, caliing attenuon to tue bill abolishing the governiaent of the District of Columbia aud suggesting that a provision be made increasing the aterest on the bonds therein provided, and | bat the Secretary of the Traasnry de authorized B dispose of them at not less than’ par, Referred {6 thé select joint committee on the District of Columbia, Mr. LovenRiper, (rep.) of lowa, presented the conference report on the Indian Appropriation bill, and stated in some explanatory remarks that the’ bill now appropriated $5,265,000; that the bill of last year had appropriated $5,379,000, and that the bid of the preceding year had appropriated $7,900,000, Mr. BurLerR, of Massachusetts—Oh, no; only half paid. (Laughter.) Alter the disposition of several Senate bills on the Speaker’s table tie House, at ten minutes past five P. M., took a recess until eight o’ciock, Evening Session. The evening session Opened with more than the usta! noise and turmoil, and atarge parc ot the firat hour was ased up in occasional suspensions of basiness, in order, as the Speaker usually Hrages it, to allow private conversation to go on verruptedly. in one of the lulls of conversation Was the greatest monopoly that had ever vestrode | ‘To enable the Secretary of the Interior to make final settlement with the Potawaiamie Indians of | Michigan and Indiana. |} Rerersed to Committee on Indian Affairs. | _ ‘The Supplementary Civil Rigats bill was next | reached. | Mr. BUTLER, of Massachusetts, moved its refer- | ence to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. POLAND, of Vermont, moved to put it on its passage. ‘ir, BUTLER therefore withdrew his motion. Mr. ELDREDGE, (dem.) of Wis., Moved that the Hovise adjourn. Lost—yeas 76, nays 154, ‘The vote was then taken on the passage of the bill, and resulted yeas 140, nays 91. There not being two-thirds in its favor, as required by the order under which the business on the Speaker's taile Was taken up, the bill was Dot passed and still remains on the Speaker's table. In the vote on the Civil Rights bul the following republicans voted in the negative :—Messrs, Butler ol Tennessee, Harrison. Hyde, Lowndes, Phelj Ray, Sener, Smith o! Virginia, Stanard, St. John, Thomas of Virginia and Thornburgh. No demo rats Voted for it, | The next billon the Speaker's table was the | Senate biil supplementary to the Texas Pacific | Ratiroad act. | Mr. HOLMAN, of Indiana, called for the yeas and Mays, remarking however that he dia not expect in view of the railroad interest bebind the bill that they would be ordered. Mr. SPEER, (deml.) Of Pa, protested against the mark. | The bull was passed. Mr. GARFIELD, of Ohio, presented the conference report on the deficiency bill. After expianation the report Was agreed to. | _ Mr. Ransrer, (rep.) of S. O., asked leave to offer @ resolutiou.complimentary vi the Cuban patriots in their efforts for the abolition of siavery aud the slave trade, but Mr. Garfield, of Obio, objected. Several motions to adjourn or take a recess were made at this time (eleven P. a), but were re- jected, and the House resumed the business on thé Speaker's table. ‘The next bill was that to extend the time for the coinpletion of a railroad Jrom the St. Croix River or Lake to the west end of Lake Supertor and to Bayfield, Wis. Mir, RANDALL, of Pennsylvania, remarked that this was the celebrated Proctor Knott, Dulath bul, and that instead o, exteuding the time jor five years it should ve extended tor fifty years. The bili was not passed—yeas 93, nays ¥4, and the bill remains on the Speaker's table. At hali-past eleven Mr, SHANKs, 0) Indiana, pre- sented the report of tne second conference com- mittee on the Indian Appropriation bill, The re- port Was agreed to. Mr. Packer, (rep.) of Pa, Chairman of the Committee on Post OMces and Railroads, made a report on the question of straw bids and tempo rary mail service. rinted. Ordered to be r. Cox, of New York, a bill for the On motion of relief of the widow and children of General William Gates, United States Army, was passed. The House then, at twenty mtuutes to twelve o'clock, adjourned until half-past ten o'clock Mon- day morning, with the uuderstanding that the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appro- priation bill might, when engrossed, be reierred informally to the Committee on Appropriations, FOUL PLAY, Beaten by Strikers—Ante-Mortem State: ment of a Victim. On Friday night Coroner Croker was called to | No, 329 East Fifty-ninth street, to take the ante- mortem statement of Michael Bowler, a plasterer, | Who had been seriously beaten by one or more strikers. Bowler said that on Monday last he was | at work in Twenty-sixth street, near Sixth avenue. He was standing with Jobn Hofy, when Cornelius Callohan, the boss, asked why they dia not go to work, Hofly replied, “there was a gang laying , for us Saturday might and took our money from us.” Mr: Callouan said there had been some soci- ety men at his house on Saturday night to knock us off, but he said, “Go to work and I will, make tt ail right) with you.’ We then went to | work, There was a crowd watching |; us to see if we would go up the ladder, — intendin, to ston us. There were Dan Cronin, Sonn or Jum Dunn and George Reed in the crowd; Hofley and myseil went to » bat had not been at it iong when Duna ascended the ladder and entered the room where we were af work With others and ordered us to quit in the name oi the society; Hofly said he would Knock off as soun as be got the gauging done; to which Dunn replied, “You had better knock off, | do not like to see you get hurt; Bows ler satd he would not Knock off till Saturda: night, and then whatever action the soctety tool he would abide by; Cronin afterwards came up the ladder and asked why they didnot Knock of, and towards night Bowler went down anu started for home, and at Filty-ninth street and Lexington ave- nue Cronin assaulted him, when others used cinbs and Cronin sta bed him with a Knife, after which they ali ran away, but Cronin was afterwards ar- | rested and sent to prison. As Bowler is likely to recover from his tojuries Coroner Croker yesterday released Cronin on nis giving $1,000 ball, The others engaged in the assault have not been arrested, but the police are atter them, BOLD ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY. About twelve o'clock yesterday two well dressed | young men entered the coal office of Benjamin Andrews, corner of North Ninth an@ Virst streets, Willlamsburg, under the pretouve of baying coal, One of the men went with Mi. Andrews oat in the yard to select the kind wanted, wile the other rematned in the office. While showing the diferent kinds of coals Mr. Andrews heard @ bell attached to hi8 money drawer ring, and, suspecting something Wrong, hurried back into nis oilce, aud as he was about to enter he encountered the man whom he had left there trying to escape. Mr, Andrews tried to capture the man, who, Unding ese im ossible, stopped, and taking a large chisel from 18 pocket, strack Mr. Aadrews a murderous blow on the head, fortunately henge sey | bute gscaip wound, In the coutusion that follawed Lthe men made thelr eavape