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WASHINGTON. Congress Wrestling with the Lasi Hours of the Session. THE FRUITS OF PROCRASTINATION. Precipitate Despatch of Neglected National Business, THE TARIFF BILL PASSED. The Conference Report on the Geneva Award Concurred In. The Currency Act Signed by | the President. NEW NATIONAL BANKS. The Redistribution of the Excess of Local Currency Begun. WASHINGTON, June 22, 1874. Acts of Congress Signed by the Presi- | dent. The President signed the following acts of Con- §ress to-day:— The act to ascertain the possessory rights of the Hudson Bay Company and other British subjects to the territory which is within the limits of the a@ward of His Majesty the Emperor of Germany, under the Treaty of Washington uf May 18, 1871, | and for other purposes. ‘The act fixing the amount of -United States motes, providing for a redistributien of national bank currency and for other purposes, The act providing for the publication of the re- vised statutes and the laws of the United States. Theact ameniing the charter of the Freedmen’s ®avings and Trust Company, and for other pur- poses. The act to relieve Thomas Claiborne, of Tennes- see, of his political disabilities, impogea by the fourteenth amendment to the constitition. The act reheving the disabilities of W. C. Jones, of Alabama, The act fixing the time for the election of Repre- sentatives to the Forty-fourth Congress from the State of Mississippi. ‘The act directing the Secretary of the Treasury to report upon the necessity of a public building at | Brooklyn, N. Y., and the cost of tne same, The act to create the Bozeman land district in Montana. The act for the establishment of life saving sta- tions and houses of refuge upon the coasts and lake coasts of the United States, and to promote the efficiency of the life saving service. The Redistribation of the National Bank Circulation Begun. ‘The Comptrolier of the Currency is prepared to Feceivé applications ior the organization of na- tional banks in all Western and southern States. Applications may be made by letter, giving the mames of not less than five shareholders of the Proposed organization, which should be accom- Panied with tne endorsement gf the Senator or Representative of the district where the bank is to be located, giving satisfactory imformation in reference to the character and means of the ap- Plicants. Applications will be considered imme- diately upon their receipt, and, if approved, the necessary forms for the organization of the new banks will be at once transmitted, Under the new apportionment all the Western and Southern States and Territories, with the ex- Geption of Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, will bé entitled to additional circulation, The State ot Indiana will be entitled to about $2,800,000, Ohio to about $6,000,000, Minnesota $600,000 and Ne- braska $300,000, The other Western and Southern States will be entitled to much larger amounts, The following banks have been authorized to | commence business :— The People’s National Bank of Rock Island, Ill., with a capital of $100,000. The First National Bank of Belleville, 11l., witha capital of $125,000, The Citizens’ National Bank of Winchester, Ky., With a capital of $126,500. The Nationa! Southern Bank, of Bowling Green, Ky., with a capital of $50,000, The Marion National Bank, of Lebanon, Ky., With a capital of $60,000, National bank notes of the denomination of $10 are now being issued to the national banks as heretofore, Action on the Reciprocity Treaty Pos Poned Till Next Session—The Injanc- tion of Secrecy Removed. ‘The Senate was in executive session nearly four hours this afsernoon on the Canadian Reciprocity Treaty. A motion was made to give it publicity, for the information of those more tmmediately in- terested in its provisions, he discussion involved the point whether this should be done by the President or by the action of the Senate, and it ‘Was finally devermined to remove the injunction of secrecy, so the treaty is now officially made public by the Senate. The merits of the treaty Were incidentally debated, but there was no vote, or any indication to show whether or not the Fequisite two-thirds to ratify it could be obtained. ‘The treaty will now go over until the next session of Congress for the fual action. Confirmation of Important Nominations. ‘The Senate this afternoon confirmed the follow- ing important nominations :-— Lyman K. Bass, member of Congress from Buf- falo, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Benjamin Moran, at present Secretary of the Legation in London, to be Third Assistant Secre- | strike from the free list spurs and stilts, used in tary of State from the Ist day of July, when the act creating the office will take effect. B, F. Potts, Governor of Montana Territory. Major William Myers, Quartermaster in the army, with the rank of Major. Samuel W. brown, Receiver of Public Moneys for | Vancouver, Washington Territory. John B. Carpenter and James L, Van Elain to be chief engineers in the Hee Ensign Lewis Lewis ©. Herliner, master in the Mavy. ouarles F. Nagle, Passed Assistant Engineer of e navy. Lewis .G. Ulick, Second Lieutenant of the marine corps. Sydney A. Staunton and forty-six other midship- men to be assigned in the navy. Join P, Van Dousto, United States attorney, Southern Winois, vice Bluford Wilson, resigned, Blutord Wilson, solicitor of Treasury, vice B. 0, Banteld, resigned, Daniel J. Mulorkey, marshal for Oregon, Robert M. Douglass, marshal for the Western dis- trict of North Caroling. Curiosities of the Contingent Fund of the Senate. Mr. Carpenter, from the Committee on Contin- gent Expenses, submitted a report on a resolution Offered by Mr, Hamila, that no order or tequisition for stationery for the use of tne reporters’ gallery of the Senate shouid be tasued by the presiding ofMcer. The report is about four or five columns tm length, and is almost entirely devoted to the history of legislation concerning the contingent expenses of the Senate and an elaborate reply to the criticisms of the newspaper preas on the ex- penditure of the fund. It abounds in quotations from a the accounts, showing how money ap- propriated for that purpose was gerrerally used. For instance, in vhe year 1809, on the occasion of the funeral of Senator Maibone. of Rhode Island, a voucher was presented for seven gallons of the best Madeira, $28; four gallons cognac brandy, $8; twelve pounds of almonds, $4 80, and ten pounds @f raisins $6. On this account the committee Would allow only for jour gallons of wine and three @narts of brapdy $22; but masaed anovher voucher | by the Spanish General, and thereafter no further | | on Post Oftices and Post Roads, called up the Post NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1874.—TRIPLE for fourteen pounds of pound cake, amounting to $%. The report closes as follows:—The practice of supplying the reporters’ gallery of the Senate with foolscap paper, pens and ink, has existed for many years, but the cost of what bas been furnished has been small. tM seoms proper that the Senaie, in extending to the representatives of the public press | the courtesy of accommodation for bearing and re- porting its proceedings, should supply the station- | ery necessary for taking notes, The expenses for — foolseap paper, pens and ink thus supplied nave not averaged $50 a year for the past five years, and there appears to be no good reason why the supply should not be continued, A very general disclaimer, however, has recently been made by those entitled to admission into the reporters’ gallery of the use of any other articles of station- ery, and the prospect of supplying them at the | public expense might well be questioneg by those | correspondents who have so arraigned Senators for their extravagance in this respect. The com- mittee, therefore, recommend the adoption of an order authorizing the select Committee on Revis- | jon of tne Rules to direct the supply of such arti- | cles of stationery as they may deem expedient to | those entitied to admission to the reporters’ gal- lery. The Thanks of Congress Refused to Sir Lambton Lorraine. Mr, Orth, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Teported the House resolution rendering the thanks of Congress to Sir Lambton Lorraine of the British navy, adversely, and it was laid upon | the table. The committee, in examining the his- tory of the transaction, find that the steamer Vir- giias was captured on the 3lst of Uctober, 1873, Lorraine, Commanding the Niobe, on the 7th of No- vember, 1878, applied to General Burriel to save the lives of the British subjects on board the Vir- ginius. Burriel replied that if any of the prisoners of the Virginius, of whatever nationalities, recetved the death sentence, they should be executed without fail. Some twenty British subjects were executed, sixteen of them after Lorratne’s inter- vention on the 15th of November. Captain Cush. ing, of the Wyoming, arrived at Santiago De Cuba, and immediately protested in the name of his country against farther proceedings against the Virginius prisoners, The protest was respected executions were had, The committee add tnat Captain Cushing did his duty completely and gal- lantiy In asserting the rights of the American | government and ifs citizens, and upholding the | honor of the American flag. They, thereiore, re- | ported against the adoption of the Lorraine reso- | lution, and the House sustained the report. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. SENATE, WASHINGTON, June 22, 1874, The Senate met at eleven o'clock. The chaplain in his opening prayer returned thanks to Divine Providence for all the mercies shown to Congress during the session now draw- ing to a close, and invoked the divine blessing upon all Senators during their separation. THE TARIVF BILL PASSED. Mr. SHERMAN, (rep.) of Ohio, moved to dispense with tie reading of the journal in order that the Tariff bill mtgnt be considered. He said it would not take more than half an hour. The commitiee did not propose to report any further amend- ments and would not discuss the bill, the object being to act upon such parts as met with no ob- Jection. ‘The motion was adopted and the Tariff bill was taken up. 4 The first amendment proposed by the Finance Committee, providing that the act shall take effect | from and after the 30th of June, 1874, instead of afier the date of the passage of the act, as pro- vided in the House bili, was agreed to, When the amendment Oxing the duty on alt still | wines imported in casks at jorty cents per gallon, | instead of fifty cents was reached, Mr. SARGENT, (rep.) of Cal, said thatthe wine interest was an important one of lus ‘State, and he hoped the amendment of the committee reducing the duty to forty cents would not be agreed to. Mr. SHERMAN said that the committee had thor- oughly considered the subject and fixed upon the figure named. He hoped no motion would be mae {0 amend the bill so as to involve aay dis- cussion, Mr. SARGENT withdrew his objection, and the anendment was agreed to. Mr. Ferry. (rep.) of Mich., boped the Senate would non-concur in the amendment of the com- mittee to strike out the provision fixing the duty on hops at ten cents per pound, Aiter some discussion the amendment was agreed to—yeas 24, Days 14—leaving the duty on hops as at present ‘The other amendments of the committee were agreed to as follows:—Fixing the duty on still wines imported in bottles at $1 60 per case of one dozen bottles; striking out the provision allowing two per cent for leakage of wine in casks and five per cent for leakage on all wines, liquors, cordials and distilled spirits in bottles; flxing the duty on macuroni, vermicelli and on all similar prepara- tions at two cents per pound; fixing the cuty on tin, in plates or sheets, and on terne and taggers’ tin, at one and one-tenth cents per pound; providing that cans or packages made of tin or other material containing tish of any kind admitted free of duty under any existing law or treaty, not exceeding one quart in contents, shall be subject to a duty of one cent and a halt on each can or package, and when exceeding one quart, shall ve subject to an additional duty of one cent and a ball for each additional quart or tractional part thereof; striking out of the sree list peas, ex- Clusiveiy for seed purposes, The committee also recommended to strike out the twenty-fourth section, allowil the farmer or planter to sell at the place of production tobacco of his own growth at retail, directly to consumers 10. an amount not exceeding $100 annually. Mr. M#nnuion, (dem.) of N. C., opposed the mo- tion to strike out and demanded the yeas and nays. The motion of the committee was agreed to—yeas 33, mae 10. The twenty-iith section, allowing a drawback ‘upon all manufactured tobacco exported, equal to the amount of duties paid upon the imported, be- cause used In the manufacture thereol, was also stricken out, as recommended by the committee. ‘The recommendation of the committee to strike | out the twenty-niuth section levying a tax of one- twentieth of One per cent on the sale of stocks, bonus, gold and iver, bullion, coin and other se- curities, Was agreed to without discussion. The commitiee picosen to amend by striking out the proviso that bags, otherthan those of | American manufacture, in which grain shall have been actually exported from the United States, may be returned to the United States free of duty under regulations to be presented by the Secretary of the Treasury, but the Senate reiused to strike | out that provision. The amendment of the committee to put quick- Silver on the {ree list wag also non-concurred in. Messrs. SCOTT, (rep.) Of Pa., apd FENTON, (rep.) of N. Y., Said they had amendments which they desired to offer, but not being disposed to embar- rags the bill would not submit them, Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (fep.) of N. J., moved to | the manufacture of earthen, stone or crockery ware. Rejected, ‘The bill was then reported to the Senate and the amendments made in committee of the whole ect to. The bili was then read a third time and pussed, Mr. RaMSAY, (rep.) of Minn., from the Committee Route bill. Mr. EDMUNDS, (rep.) of Vt., moved the Senate to | [pes Pag the consideration of executive business. jected, Mr. EDMUNDS sent tothe Clerk’s desk and had read the eighteenth rule, as follows:— Gn a motion made and seconded to shat the doors of the Senate, on the discussion of any business which may | in the opinion of a Senator require secrecy, the presid- ing officer shall direct the gallery to be cleared, a ing the discussion of such motion the doors shall shut. EXECUTIVE SESSION. aye iaen discussion of this point Mr. HAMLIN, (rep.) 21 Me., moved the Senate to proceed to the consideration of executive business, Agreed to, and the Senate, at @ quarter-past one, went into executive session. The doors were reopened at five minutes past four o'clock, and the CHaim called up the unfin- ished business, being THE POST ROUTE BILL. Mr, FRELINGHUYSEN moved to postpone that bill And proceed with the consideration of the report of the conference committee on the Geneva Award bu), Rejected—yeas 14, nays 37, ‘The CHAIR appointed Messrs. Morrill, of Maine, and Hamilton, of Indiana, members of the joint committee on the part of the Senate to frame ‘a bill for @ permanent government for the District o1 Columbia, under section 5 of the bill to provide be parecy government for the District, passed on Friday. Mr. KELLY, (dem.) of Oregon, from the Commit- tee on Millitaty Affairs, reported, with amend- ments, @ bill to provide for the sale ot the buildings and grounds known as the Detroit Arsenal, in Michigan. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Davis, (dem.) of W. Va., moved to lay aside the Post Route bill informally and proceed with the consideration of the conference report on Aevser, POST OFFICE APPROPRIATION BILL. eed to. ir. rare, (rep) of La., presented the conference was received from the House an- meas: Donnciog nity non-congurrence of that body jn the | bill authorizing the President to appoint George poral | tucky, Members of sucl | competent judges, as are vines. for in the bill, P the comerence committee. left ‘the Vourt free to ; them. Mr, Garflela stated that they were 12410 | ndments of the Senate on the bill, and asking @ committee of conference. Mr. SHBBMAN moved to insist upon the amend- ments and grant the conference. Agreed t, and the Chair appointed Messrs. Sherman, of Obio, Morrill, of Vermont, and Bay- ard, of Delaware. The repor' ca rire) Gecuetion, wae . ted— 19, nays © new committee order: Jr. PRELINGHUYBEN presented the f “the conference committge thé Geneva Award bill, which was read, and pending the question as to whether the Senate could proceed to the consider- ation of the same, the Chair appointed as the new conference committee on the Post Office Appropri- ation bill Messrs. Windom, of Minnesota, Allison, of lowa, and Davis, of West Virginia, The Senate then, at quarter to seven P, M., took & recess until halpast seven o’ciock P. M. Evening Session. The Senate reassembled at half-past seven o'clock. Mr. SCHURZ, (lib.) of Mo., called the House bill granting the right of way to the Arkansas Val- ley Railway Company. Passed. Mr. HAMLIN, (rep.) of Me., called up the House Henry Preble, now a Captain on the active list of the navy, a Commodore. Passed, | A message was received irom the House an- | nouncing the non-concurrence of that body in the | various amendments of the Senate to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill and asking a committee | of conference, Mr. MORRILL, (rep.) of Me., moved that the Sen- ate insist upon its amendments and grant the con- ference. Agreed to, The Chair apppiniad Messrs. Morrill, of Maine; Sargent, of Cali! and Stevenson, of Ken- conference, MULES ON BOTH SIDES, Mr. Davis, (Gem.) of W. Va., called up the House bill referring the case of Joseph Wilson to the Court of Claims, which caused some discussion. The claimant was @ contractor to furnish mules to the poxernsnans during the late war, and agreed tode- liver them in Washington, but was kept out o! the city with the mules for forty-eight hours by an or- der from the War Department, during the raid of General Early in 1864, and oh account of being 80 | detained on the outskirts of the city had his mules Saphire’ by the enemy. ir. STEVENSON urged the claim in a speech of some length, declaring that the claimant was loyal and suffered the loss on account of the action of the | government. Mr. Scort, (rep.) of Pa., opposed the claim upon | the ground that the cap-ure was an act of war for yiten ate pong tae not lable, - ‘ NI rep.) oO! algo opposed the claim, and said that Bue bill did not apene, of & vio- Jation of contract, but was based upon the ground ofcapture. He moved that tie further considera- tion of the bill be postponed till the first Monday in December. Rejected, and the bill was then passed— yeas 30, nays i6. * Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN, (rep.) of N.J., called up | the conference report on THE GENEVA AWARD BILL, Mr. CARPENTER, (rep.) of Wis., from the Commit- teeon Contingent Expenses, reported adversely on the resolution directing the committee to in- quire into the expediency of excluding from the stationery room of the Senate all articles Re i paper, envelopes, ink and pens; and the commit- tee was discharged from its further consideration. He also reported, from the Judiciary Committee, adversely on the resolution directing the commit- tee to inquire ir the Police Court at Washington is a constitutional Court, and was discharged from | its further consideration. ‘The conference report on the Geneva Award bill Was explained by Mr. Frelinghuysen. Mr. THURMAN, (dem.) of Ohio, opposed the re- Port and charged that its language was ambig- uous. Another objection he had vo it was that the clause submitted by his fe eee Mr. Sher- man, providing that all claims should be adjusted and py on the basis of United States the time of the loss was stricken out by the Con- ference Committee. The government of the United States had received the amount in gold and shouid pay it to the losers in the same medium. The failure to do that would be not only an act of injustice, but an act of dishonesty, Mr. FRELINGHUYSBN said that a court of five old coin at Would be just as likely to make the award ona fair and just basis as the Senate. Mr. EDMUNDS said that the bill, a8 perfected by make the award, and that Court could determine whether the claimant should be paid a sum in greenbacks equa! to hts loss, or whether he should be patd in coin. jurisdiction of the vourt should be left free and not loaded down with pro- visions as to Juriadtotion, Mr. ANTHONY, (rep.) of R. L, moved that the Senate concur in the resolution of the House, to peer 7,000 copies of the reports of the United Estos Commoners to the Vienna Exposition. eed ta, ir, WRIGHT, (rep.) of lowa, said it would be a disgrace to the American nation for Congress to adjourn now, without providing for the payment of the claimants for the Geneva Award, who had already been kept waiting too long. Mr, MORTON, (rep.) ot Ind., said the bill settled nothing, and the claims of the insurance compa- nies would all be back here next winter. e DAY- ment of the’ claims authorized in the bill would take Dot more than one-half of the award received from Great Britain, and he predicted that the in- surange compapies would get the balance of the money, The report of the committee was agreed to— yeas 38, nays 18, Mr. SHERMAN, from the conference committee on the Tariff bill, made a report, which was agreed to. EXTENSION OF THE SESSION, The resolution of the House extending the ses- sion of the present Congress until four o’clock on Tuesday, the 23d inst., was agreed to, HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, June 22, 1874. The House met at half-past ten A. M. Mr. GARFIELD, (rep.) of Ohio, reported back the Senate amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropri- ation bill, and the House proceeded to consider number and increased the bill as passed by the House $4,500,000. Tne’ committee had spent five hours over it yesterday, he was sorry to say, ‘The most important of the amendments areas follows:—A provision that the number of copies of the reports of the departments annually printed shall be limited to the needs of Congress and shall contain no expensive maps or illustrations with- out th¢ Special order of Congress; concurred in. To increase the salaries of the Assistant Secreta- ries of the Treasury, the Solicitor of the Treasury and Commissioners of Customs to $4,500; non- concurred in. Appropriating $342, 304 for new life- saving stations on the sea and lake coasts; con- ocurred in. Appropriating $10,000 for an engine and machinery to-destroy by maceration cancelled bank notes, instead of by burning (the present system) ; concurred in. The proceedings up to this point being in the | legislative day of Saturday, the House adjourned | within a minute of eleven o'clock A. M., and at Sievert OTE, wo-day the legislauve session com- menced. THE GENEVA AWARD, Mr. BUTLER, (tep.) of Mags., presented the con- ference report on the Geneva Award bill. The House agrees to the Senate bill, with certain mod- ifications. There are two new sections as to docu- mentary evidence, and as to the allowance of counsel and attorneys’ fees of claimants, which allowance is to be made part of the judgment, and there is a substitute ior the fifth section. The sub- stitute provides for the appotutment of a counsel- lor at law to represent the United States in the suits provided for in the bill. Mr. BUTLER briefly expiained the report. The | committee agreed, he said, to the payment of the uninsured josses by the vessels for which the Geneva sward held Great Britain lable. It agreed to the Senate bill so tar as the lavter did not allow to insurers or underwriters payment ex- cept where, on stating an account of proiit and loss, it appears that the underwriters have made aloss in their whole business. The committee had struck from the Senate bill the provision that the losses and judgments shall be calculated in gold. It had struck out what was known as the five per cent clause—a clause by which the government should retain five per cent for doing the business (a sort Ol claims agent fee), and ouly pay ninety-ilve per cent of the judgments, It had inserted a clause that, instead of the balance being covered into tne ‘Treasury, it t# allowed to remain as a fund from which Congress may pay other losses. It had, then, agreed to a court of commission instead of a cir- cuit court, and, in order to prevent the great evils OL @ court Of commission, the conference committee had made, as the House bill had done, ail the assigaments tor service, ail the contingent fees, and had inserted @ provision that the Court of Commission shall determine the claims for ser- vices in each case. Aiter @ good deal of discussion the report was agreed to without @ division. ir, SMITH, (rep.) Of N. Y., from the Election Com- anitvee, reported a joint resolution tor the amend- ment Of the constitution in regard to the election of President and Vice President, mexing it by di- rect vote of the people and by Congressional dis- tricts, Ordered to be printed and recommitted, with leave to report at any time next sossion. Mr. KELLOGG, (rep.) of Pa, asked, but failed to obtain, consent to have an order made fixing the 8th of December next ior the consideration of the bill tor the issue of convertible bonds and for the reduction o/ interest on the funded debt. THE SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS. The House then resumed tne consideration of the Senate amendments to the Sundry Utvil Appro- priation bill, the action om the most important of them being as follows :—. sing $40,000 for an equestrian statue of Nathaniel Greene; non- | concurred in, Appropriating $15,000 for works of art for the ornamentation ot tol n- concurred in. Appro- priating $25,000 for the expenses. of observing the transit of Venus in December next; concurred in. Appropriating $10,000 for collecting information respecting the fur trade in Alaska; concurred in. Appropriating $1,300,000 for the District of Colum- bia, for the payment of the interest on its funded debt, \d the oficers, employs and laborers of the District government or of the Board of Public Works, and for the current expenses of the Dis- trict, the amount to be adjusted hereafter as @ part of the prover proportional sum to be paid by | to reimburse General 0. 0. Howard for the ex- | tion tendering the thanks of Congress to Sir | the United States towards the e: of the District government. “ciegaig The last amenament was by Messrs. CAMERON, (rep.) of Pa., and Fort, (rep.) of Ll, and advocat by Mr, Witson, rep.) of Ind. Mr. RANDALL, (dem.) of Pa., Offered an additional roviso that $75,000 of the amount shall be a or the payment of the working men under the contractors wilose accounts are not yet settled, ina ve ve deducted from the amount due tosuch ones. ‘oi ir. RANDALL'S amendment was agreed to, and then the Senate amendment as amended was con- curred in, Appropriating $25,000 tor a building for the Wo- men! A ristian Association of the District of Co- lump Concurrea in, A like appropriation for the Little Sisters of the Poor. The Committee on Appropriations recom- mended non-concurrence. The amendment, after a long discussion on the | sectarian aspect of this appropriation, was con- curred in by 104 to 43. The amendment appropriating $9,000 for a light- house at lolian Island, Rockport Harbor, Me., was concurred in, The amendment Sppropriating $15,000 for a lighthouse at Solomon's Lup, on Kedge’s Strait, | between Tangier Sound and Chesapeake Bay, was non-concurred in, Mr. G. F. HoaR moved to suspend the rules and make in order an amendment appropriating $7,000 enses of Lis deience before the late court of in- uiry. Lost—yeas 121, nays 95—not two-thirds voting in the affirmative, When the eighteenth amendment of the Senate | was reached Mr, GARFIELD moved to non-coneur in | the remaining forty amendments of the Senate, in order to have the bill sent to @ conference com- mittee. The motion was agreed to and Messrs, Garfleld and Hale, (rep.) of Me., and Niblack, (dem.) of Ind., were appointed the committee of conference. SENATE AMENDMENTS TO THE TARIFF BILL. Mr. Dawss, (rep.) of Mass., moved to suspend the rules and non-concur in ail the amendments of the Senate to the bil, to amend the tariff ana revenue laws and to refer them to @ committee of conference. He avowed himself in favor of the | Senate amendments, but at the suggestion of the members around him he moved to non-concur. After a discussion Mr. Dawes’ motion was agreed to, and Messrs. Dawes, Kelley, of Penn- sylvania, and Beck, of Kentucky, were appointed & cominittee of conference. Mr. RANDALL, irom the Committee on Rules, re- ported @ rule changing the present rulé which authorizes motions to suspend the rules for the | last ten days of the session, and limiting the time to six days. Agreed to, | The House then, at five o’clock, took a recess | till half-past eight P. M. Evening Session. The night sesston opened with a very full attend- ance Of members and with great crowds in the galleries, Mr. ORTH, (rop.) of Ind., from the Commitee on Foreigu Affairs, made a report on Mr. Cox's resolu. | Lambton Lorraine for his interposition in pro- tecting the lives of the survivors of the Vir- nius = expedition. The report shows that his oMcer expressly coniined his Interpo- sition in favor of British subjects and one French subject, and not at all in behalf of any American citizen, except to beg of “fijs Excellency,” Burrtel, the exercise of clemency to all The com- mittee give great credit to Captain Cushing, of the United States Navy, and ask to be discharged from further consideration of the subject, The report was ordered to be printed. Mr. NEGLBY, (rep,) of Pa., from the Committee on Commerce, made a report on the resolution of the Pennsylvania Legislature in favor of building American ships by American mechanics and of American materiais, Ordered to be printed and recomunitted, The House then went to THE BUSINESS ON THE SPEAKER'S TABLE, and dlaposed of the Senate bills as follows :— To prevent hazing at the Naval Academy. Passed. To set apart a portion of Mackinac Island, Mich., as a National Park. Laid ou the table. To confirm the purchase of three acres of land near Nashville, fenn.. Known as the site of Fort Houston, and to convey the same to Fisk Univer- sity. Passed. ranting to the American Fork Railway Com- pany right of way through the pubtic lands for a railroad and telegraph line. Reterred to the Com- mittee on Public Lands, Granting to the Siertfa Iron Company the same ‘hts, Same reference. To exempt military bounty land warrants ana the lands obtained thereby Irom sale or execution, Same relerence. THE SESSION EXTENDED. On motion of Mr. Kasson, (rep.) of Iowa, after half an hour's recess @ concurrent resolution was props extending the session until four P. M. on | Tuesday. The House then took another recess until half- past eleven P, M, THE WORK OF CONGRESS, Review of the Labors of the Forty- third Congress, First Session. WASHINGTON, June 22, 1974. With the assembling of the Forty-third Congress, | first session, on the first Monday in December last (which was the first day of the month), the eyes | and the hopes of the whole country were directed | to Washington, and great expectations were en-* tertained in all sections of the early adoption of much needed measures of relief to the people from | their general financial embarrassments and their | heavy and unequal burdens of taxation, Under the leadersnip,of General Grant, as their Preaiden- tial standard-bearer in 1872, the republicans had succeeded in maintaining an overwhelming majority in both branches in the electiqns for this | Congress; and, from the general harmony which | ‘was supposed to exist among the republicans of | the two houses, and between them and the ad- ministration, no insuperable obstacles were appre- hended in the settlement of our financial troubles, and no serious difficulty in the modification of our | national tax bills—internal and external—jor the “general welfare.’’ How far these expectations have been fulfilled and how far they have ended in disappointments, & brief review of the work of this late long session of great promises and small results will serve to show. THE CONDITIONS WHICH MARKED THE MERTING OF THIS CONGRESS were in an extraordinary degree calculated to en- courage the dominant party to earnest work in wholesome measures of legislation. With their | heavy majority in each House, and with the Presi- dent ready to support them in the general domes- tic and foreign policy as proclaimed by their party in all its convention manifestoes, the republicans beld the power to meet their pledges, and they knew that for their failures, if any, they would be held before the country to a rigid account- ability. A financial panic had thrown all the monetary and business affairs of the country into @ state of confusion and stagna- tion, which called for the speediest practicable re- hef; our relations with Cuba and Spain, from the Virginius affair, had assumed a threatening aspect, calling for active preparations for the possible con- | tingency of war; the general agitation of the in- creased salary bill and so-called ‘back pay grab’’ of the last day oi the last session of the Forty- second Congress had thoroughly alarmed ail parties concerned in that “bill of abominations ;” the State elections of October and November, upon this question and upon the financial derangements of the country, had generally in their . results marked a ificant reaction against the peel in power, while in the Northwest the inde- pendent action of the grangers had made serious in- roads upon the republican camp. Above all, the general corruptions, including the Crédit Mobilier, an increased salary and back pay bill of the last Congress, had strengthened the opposition ap- peais for retrenchment and reform into a general popular hue and cry. Last, though not least, as upon the record of the first and oe session of the Forty-third Congress would largely depend the issue of this year’s elections for the Forty-foarth Congress, the responsible party in Congress had irom the beginning every motive and every in- centive, in an extraordinary degree, to labor to secure On ail the issues belore them a good ac- count of their stewardship to their masters, the sovereign people. WHAT, THEN, IS THE REPORT of the work done and the work left undone by this long session, commencing on the ist of December, 1873, aud ending with the 22d of June, 1874, @ se3- sion of seven full calendar months, lacking only eight days? It may be briefly summed up as a ses- sion in which a vast amount of labor has been per- formed by both houses, by the committees, regular and special, and by the individual members u We have had ai a Work as thie from the mempers in their commit- tee rooms, an amount of drudgery which can hardly be ap even from the general cata- Jogue of the many voluminous reports made on various subjects, and the numerous bills digested, drawn up and subinitted in the two houses. THE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS introduced in the two houses since the 1st of De- cember are appalting to contemplate. The bills introduced in the House down 20th inst. numbered 3,769, and 960 in the Senate; the House | joint resolutions reported number, 114, and mose of the Senate, 10. The bills passed by both hous and approved ao far number over leaving ti brought to a temporary conclusion in the Senate great of the measures reported among the | in tue passage of the Merrimon Dill (29 to 24) Unfinished business of the session, Most impor: | $400,000,000 of greenbacks and §$400,000,000 of tant amor jagures passed after the new | tional bank notes. Ste’ ’a General Territor currency com} on ‘ge of their extraor. | Railroad bill of land grants, rights of way, &0. 'y Tetrenchments, in army and navy al was passed in the Senate to 1 and are the regular Appropriation and | Sumner’s Civil Rights bill was taken uD aud, SHEET. Deficiency bills; next are the new Ban! law, the act creating & new government for Dw- trict of Columbia (a government of three commis- sioners or consuls), in lieu of the Territorial failare; the repeal of the motety system in the contracts in the collection of internal revenue de- ficiencies, We have given elsewhere in our col- umns the list of the important billie THE BULING IDBAg OF THE SESSION—THR FIRST DAY'S DEVELOPM! On the frat a ape ¥ Senate, this body | be ) Mr. Sumner | introduced @ bill (Senate bill No, 1) to protec: = citizens of the United States in their civil rights, and to farnigh the means for their vindication (the @ bill to secure equal | Civil hte bill). Al ‘ashington and George- Tights in the echools o! town. Also, @ bill to authorize componnd interest Haig iq a eee for legal sender a ened ae. a rotect persons inst inveigiing from | Anrdad, Bahapping, Morelble constraint or in- | voluntary servitude (the Italian Children’s bill). Also, @ bill to satisfy claims arising from French | spollations prior to July 31, 1801 (a bill that has been running in Congress for over fifty years, and | frequently passed by one house but never by both in the same session. Orginal claimunts are dead). Also, by Mr. Sumner, a stitutional amendment providing for the election directly by the of President and Vice Presiden! peor, and another limit the President to one erm of six years. ir. Conkling introduced a bill relating to certain moneys appropriatea by mem- bers ef Congress (meaning the pack outrage). Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill propiat for the distribution of the Geneva award. Mr. or in. troduced @ bill for the repeal of the tse ry act. A Dill was also submitted by Mr, Morton to reveal certain sections of the pt law; by Mr. Fenton, to regulate the service of the Collection of tbe customs; by Mr. Pratt, to establish the compengation of Senators, members of the House and delegates in Congress (repeal of In- creased Salary act), and several bills were intro- duced on free banking, the currency, &c. From these bills of the first day of the sesston in the Senate it will be observed that Mr. Sumner’s legacy of bis Civil Rights Dill, as bill No. 1. takes precedence oyer everything else; that the Senate, | nevertheless, was most impressed with the neces- sity of the immediate repeal of the increased sal- ary and back pay bills, and that nextin order of importance, in the esttmation of Senators, was a bill for the better regulation of the financial affairs of the country. The House, having occupied the first day of the | session in the work of organization, was not ready for legislative business till the second, ana from this point we proceed toa brief report of the general progress of the work in each House for each month of the session. Before entering upon this report, however, we may properly mention the intervening diMculty in the appointment of TRE CUIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES to fill tne vacancy on the Supreme Bench fearing | from the death of Chief Justice Chase. On the 2 of December the President sent in the name of George H. Williams, Attorney General, for this im- portant position, and that of Judge Bristow (since made Secretary of the Treasury) for Attorney | General, in place of Williams. The Senate hesi- tated to give its consent to the appointment of Williams; bot after waiting a month it was re- lieved by the withdrawal of Williams, though only | to be again bewildered with the nomination of Caleb Cushing, afew days before confirmed as Minister to Spain, Mr. Cushing’s name was sent up on the 9th of January; but owing to certain discoveries of war record his name was next withdrawn, and on the 14th of January that of Judge Waite was sent up for Chief Justice, and he was promptly confirmed. This affair was considered at the time as foreshadow- ing an “irrepressible conflict” between the Presi- dent and the Senate, and as indicating a purpose ou the part of General Grant to act upon his own judgment, regardiess of the suggestions, wishes or warnings of the republican magnates of the Senate. Nor has this impression been entirely obliterated by subsequent events. Returning to the legislative proceedings of Oon- es8, a brief outline thereof, month by month, rom the beginning, will serve to indicate tne humerous and wultifartous subjects coming before the two Houses and she extent of their con- stantly increasing labors and responsibilitigs with the growth of the country. In boiling these pro- ceedings down to the limits of a brtef paragraph much is necessarily omitted and left to the mem- ory or perception of the intelligent reader. D Re ECEM BE. the opening month, is largely occupied in ‘This the Dringing in, cutting ont and distribution among the committees of the two houses of the ular work of the session. From the first day of month in the Senate, and on the second in House, to the 19th. numerous bills and joint rego- lutions were introduced and referred, inclu great variety of bills on the currency question, banks, bills on retrenchment and rm, Louist: ana, Utah, for the repeal of the increased salary and back pay bill, a special naval appropriation Dill Of $5,000,000, which was passed, in anticipation of a possible ripture with Spain; bills for the re- peal of the bankrupt act, and many others. The most notable events of this month were, first, the introduction in the Senate by Charles Sumner of hie Civil ents bill (eager a No. 1), @ bill which hi roved e leg: of -a0 | untamed biack elephant to the republican party ; second, the speech tn the House of that living skeleton of a man, Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, on his crutches, in defence of the in- creagea salary and back pay act; third, the resolu- tion from the House Committee of Ways and Means asking ‘or revised and reduced estimates trom all the Executive departments of thelr wants for the fiscal year, Mr. Dawes orging the necessity of a general use of the pruning knife to save the Treas- ury from bankruptcy and the people as far as pos- sible from increased taxation. ym this point, in the reaction from “the back pay grab,’’ we have the controlling idea of the session—retrenchment, and it has been followéd out, at least, in reference to the army and navy, to the extremity of ‘‘say- ing gt the spigot though wasting at the bung ole.’ ‘The two Houses adjournea over from the 19th to | January 4,@ recess lor the Christmas and New | Year holidays. the the JANUARY. | The two honres reassembled pursuant to ad. journment and proceeded to business, hammer and tongs. In the Senate the currency question was Tesumed and discussed from day to day, the most important speeches of the month being that of Mr. | Schurz, on the disasters of inflation; that of Mr. | Morton in repiy, on the necessities of the West for | more currency; that.of Mr. Gordon, for more cur- | Trency to the South; that of Mr. Sherman, on the | financial condition of the Treasury and the coun- | try and the solemn pledges of the government, | and thatof Mr. Merrimon, for more greenbacks | and bank notes. Various currency schemes were | submitted from both sides of the Chamber. Among the other subjects discussed or brought before the Senate were the Utah courts, civil | Tights, cheap transportation, the salary and back | pay question, Pinchback’s case as Senator, ulti- mately dismissed as no case. In the House the | finances, the naval appropriations, the Centennial Exhibition, civil rights, the Army bill and the West Virginia contested election were the leading ques- | tions of the month. The most important events in Congress in January were, first, the repeal of ; the increased salary and back pay Dill, only ex- cepting the Increased salary of $50,000, from $25,000 for the President of the Uni°ed States, and the increased salary Of $10,000 from $6,000 of the | Judges of the Supreme Court. Second, the me- | forisis presented char; great irregularities, | extravagances and corruptions in the expendi- | turea o1 the local government of the District of | Columbia, Third, the famous speech on civil | rights in the House of the colored member Elliott, in | defence of the claims of bis race, as provided for in | Sumoer’s bill, Fourth, the resolution for the ap- | intment of the Howard Investigating Committee. | nd Fifth, Senator Carpenter's phillipic against , the Kellogg usurpation of Louisiana. | FEBRUARY. | The opening of February marked encouraging | bie ae in the House ee committees in charge ol the reguiar appropriations. Savings upon the | original estimates to the extent of $20,000,000 made by the pruning knife. Several of these bills were discussed, and also the Bankrupt law, cheap | transportation, the currency question, the In- dians, civil rights, the Sanbora contracts and Jayne | moteties, the franking of documents and a great | budget of private bills. In the Senate, Louisiap: the Bankrupt bill, the Currency bill, the District of ; Columbia and the Centennial bili were the leading subjects, the most of four or five days of every week of the month being devoted to the gtk 4 } bill. Among the important events of this month | were the appointment of the Howard investigating committee, the joint committee for the investigas tion of the local affairs of the District of Columbia, | General Batler’s raid upon the New York eity | newspapers, the rejection by the Senate. of Cam- eron’s proposition for unlimited free banking, 26 | to $2; the adoption of Merrimon’s proposition to | fix the greenback circulation at £400,000,000, 28 to | 25, and the memorable Marco Polo speech of Schurz against an irredeemable paper currency. MA ROB. This month was opened in the Senate with a debate on the Centennial International Exhibition scheme, Sumner leading the opposition to the project and | to any appropriation towards it from the national | ‘treasury. The Currency bill, the Louisiana usurpa- | tion, the proposed statistical inquiry tnto the | Uquor traffic and the Lonisville canal were also debated in the Senate, while in the House the Homestead law, the Indian bill, cheap transporta- tion, the distribution of ‘Public Documents,” the General Civil Appropriation bili, taxation, regula- tion of railways, the currency, the Mining bill, the Louisville canal and numerous other su! ie Were discussed. In this month the i appropriating $3,000,000 to the Philadelphia | Centennial scheme was rejected in the Sen- | ate--32 to 17; the resolution was passed—26 | to 21—in the Senate authorizing a commission of five Maane a to inquire into the details and effects of iq the liquor trafic, while in the House the bili under | @ commission of ‘nine persons on the regulation of | rallway freights and fares was passed-—121 to 116, The impressive events of this month were the death of ex-President Fillmore and of Senator Chariea Sumner. The death of Mr. Sumner caused Mt of Jegisiation In Congress for several fi |, from his dying injunction, Spears to briny the foreground his legacy oi the Civil Rights bill. APRIL. Senator Jones, of Nevada, on the Ist delivered his maiden speech on the currency question—a sensible, practical, convincing, common sense view of the subject, The currency debate was | ing Car | ing lite stations along the seaboard. | the opi ‘day, t migbt have done m w the Committee. The weet ot was debated. Windom’s special report supmiti on perieticn routes from the Wear to 27th was idevoted, in Senate and Hou eulogtes on Sumner; and the 29th and referred Geneve pale to hts Qivil it Dill as reported from the Ju Gommit in the House currency was the prominent topic of employed during the month on a) PaCBraon bi sansportecion, Utah, District ta, the tro nel and other ques ont great event of this month was President’s veto of Merrtmon’s Currency bill, sent Senate on the 22d. Next, on the 28th, ver a desultory discussion, the vote in the Senate was taken on the question, “Shall the bil! pasa notwithstanding the nt’s objections ” and it resulted in ~~ 34, nays 30, not two-thirds fou the bull, and go it was lost, and the President's ob- jections were sustained. On the 16th Mr. < ter introduced in the Senate a resolution providing | for the recognition of the independence of the island of Cuba, whiob was referred to the Com. mittee on Foreign Relations, where it is sleeping. May. May in both houseg presents a hea’ budget of business. In the Senate the Jayne Moleties, the Mississippi Fioous, the Districts of Columbia, Civik Rights, the Geneva Award, the Currency, Cheap Transportation, Appropriation bills varioud and numerous other measures were considered. Tne House was snengee upon the same gener: subjects, Bnd upon the Indian, the Tarif, Intern: Revenue and Territorial and’ other bill, Many bills were passed, including the Defictency bill, im, the Senate; bill establishing civil rights of black among the Choctaws tn Indian bi by we louse; the conference report on Currency bil, No. 2, was adopted in the Senate. and the Geneva Awa! bill, rejecting imsur- ance companies, was . and several also Civil Rights supropsietion bills. bill a6 half-past seven o’clock in the morning, an all-night session, passed by a party vote, except- miter, republican, in the hogative. Inthe House the bill for the admission of New Mexico as @ State was passed—160 to 50—and the bill estab. Usbing the rights of colored citizens in Indiam Territory. In the Senate the Pembina Territorias bill was rejected. The melancholy death of Mr. Meilish, a member of wpe House from New York, Occurred on the 2ith. On the 20th the joint reso- lution fixing the 22d of June as the day for the final adjournment of the session was adopted. 29th, new joint conference committee on currency agreed to. JUNE. As usual from the organization of the govern. ment, the mass of the business of the long session Was in this case crowded into the last month and the last week of the session—that is to say, the settlement between the two houses of their disa~ greements apon the various important bills still undisposed of. As usual, too, in the final agree- ments between the two houses, through their con- ference committees, many of the retrenchments originally resolved upon were knocked in the head, and the general sum of the appropriations has been largely increased. In the Senate during this month the unfinished regular appropriation bilis were the heavy work, though in looking over the record of the proceedings of the two houses for the last three weeks it would appear that nearly all the important bills and @ large budget of secondary measures were delayed till June among the unfinished business. On the 9th, im both houses, the report of the District of Cotumbia investigation committee was submitted, with a bill for a new government of a commission of three persons, and with a tax on property, inciud- ing church property, of three per cent. In the Senate the moiety repeal was —39 to 8—and the conierence report on the Currency bill was sarees to, and an adverse report on the proposed; iestsstppi St. Philip Canal; and a bill was for the removal of certaix causes from State to United States courts (fitly styled the Press Gang bill); and a bill was passed appropriating $200,000 for the survey of four great pro- freight water routes; and a _ Dill for & commission of engineers for farver of Missis- sippi obstructions, the House tler’s bill afirming the right of women to practice law in United States urts Was Judiciary bill and the bill for Latay 2 ot Colorado as & State—170 to 65; and the Civil Service Reform was rejected—155 to 67, and the New Conference Currenoy bili—108 to 146; and a new committee asked of the Senate and appotnted by the House; and the Ohickasaw and Choctaw claims, $2, or $2,000,000, were thrown over for another inves= gation; and the Bankrupt bill was arranged be- tween the two houses, and the bill for new goverament of the District of Columbia was passea yy both houses, and the new Currency bill trom the conference committee, $382,000,000 greenbacks, no reserves, and for a transfer of $55,000,000 banking circulation from the East to the West and South, was adopted by more than a two-thirds vote in ogn uses. ere recapitulation by name of the bills and amendments considered in both houses, acted upon Javorably or adversely, since Satur morning last would fill several columns of the HEBALD. Day and night the Senate and House, for the last three or tour days Of the session, worked as if thelr own salvation, a8 well as that of the country, depended upon their final adjourn- ment for the session and their dispersion on tha appointment, when by a simple agreement be- tween thé two branches they could have length- ened the session a few days, in view of the great object of disposing of the important unfinished matters before them decently, and with the ex- amination necessary to prevent trauds and spolia- tions upon the Treasury. GENERAL SUMMING UP. ‘In summing up the practical results of the ses sion it may be said that, under the circumstances, they have done as weil as could have been reason- abiy expected. If they have not given the country the reliet demanded and hoped for on the currency uestion they have, from the President’a veto of the Merrimon measure, beem so far checked as to save the country irom a bold adventure into the limitless sea of inflation. If liza? have not given the country the relief generally looked for 1n the matter of our heavy taxations tne people have, through the irreconcilable party and sectional visions of the two houses, escaped the cao on of the additional burdens contemplated 0) the high rotectionists. If nothing de! nite bas een accomplished in behalf of cheap transportation the people of the Great West may console themseives upon the fact taat Congress iias at least broken ground in tavor of a system Oo! trans-Alleghany and seaboard water- Ways, which will ultimately absorb some $200,000,000 from the national Treasury. If, under their tit of retrenchment, the two houses have cut down the bills for the army, the navy and the In- dians to the point of starvation, far more liveral appropriations than were promised in the outset bave been made for unfinished public buildings in Washington, New York and other cities of the Union, and for commercial purposes, tnclud- ir nothing has been done to advance the cause of a postal telegraph system by laud and sea westill know that the Postmaster General and Mr. Ramsay, of the Senate Postal Committee, have not abandopea this grand idea. Lf many important and desirable measures bave jailed, Many corrupt jobs ana vicious Schemes Of legislation have also failed; 80, upon the whole, the merits of tois session of bon: gress will rest as much upon the pernicious meas. ures of legislation escaped as upon the good and neediul measures which have been passed, THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS embraces firet the Civil Rights bill, an untimely and pernicious measure of sentimental equality, which has been wisely kept on the table in the House; next, the bill for the refunding of the cotton tax collected during several years from the Southern States, and amounting in the aggregate to some $70,000,000. Also, various cen sub- sidy and ocean telegraph cable schemes ; new pension bills and a variety of Southern claims, jounting to many millions of dollars; aad th general Territorial railway bill, cut down tn the Senate to a comparatively harmless affair; but Stull leit over tn the House as a stupendous job. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBI. | te one of the most widely approved measures 0! the session, The labors upon this subject of sev- eral tedious months, from day to day and night to night, are perhaps without a parallel of patient and fatthful industry in any other investigating com- mittee ever ordered by Congress, The resuits are & bew government Jor the District, the dest, under the circumstances, that could for the present be devised, to relieve the District from its eae embarrassments, and to place it upon the road economy, @ rigid responsibility and solid pros perity. POLITICAL ESTIMATES OF THE SESSION. The republicans say they will go confidently be» fore the people in the coming elections itor the next Congress, upon the record of the late long session—that they can pomt With satisiaction to the retrenchments they have made in the annual expenditures, to the general resuscitation of the business affairs of the country under a republican administration; that harmony still prevails and Will be maintained bet ‘ation and the republican Grant is or is not in the a tial term is at this time a question of no p importance; that the opposition elements are hopelessly divided, while the republican party 1s railying and reorganizing its forces, to recover the ground tt has lost, and that it will secare a work- Ing though perhaps a reduced majority in the elections of the eoming fall for the next House of Representattves, Per contra, the democrats are hopeful of ageneral popular reaction against the party in power. They: oid that it has fai off to meet the expec! the country from this session of Congress, a South and West particularly, it bas Deco! Moralized and will suffer serious en that really there ts no longer any confidence between the party and the administration, and that General Grant will not Itt a finger to help the party tn t! approaching elections; that the retrenchments 18 late session signify no! while the bonis tendencies of the republicans to # wae despotte, and costiy centratized government wi tell heavily against the party, and thas with all i soft appliances to the Gi re shey will the balance of ‘est, while the Otvil Rights hanging tke the sword Damocies over the heads Of the white race—wi operase to drive the prance, white balance power were bs in the Southern States to sition side. t all events, we congratulate american people thay the long session of ne Po rd Congress ts ended, and that, alae ky bg have done 1uuch better on the great of he'yepuiat revolt against the, taifond, Gor from the T revolt againe' . ropttons Pine last Congress we have irom (Dis Congress the evidence tn many things of a whole- some fear ofan adverse public opinivn and some things in the way of repentance and reform.