Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-06-26
Thirty-Sixth Congress-First Session,

Breckenridge, of KY, and Senator Joseph Lane,
Of Oregon, were nominated BY aeolamation.
Thirty-Sixth Congress First Session.
MONDAY, June 18, 186O.-Senate The Ma.
val appropriation bill was considered during the
greater part of the day.
| House.-Mr. Winslow made report from the
minority of the COvode Committee. He also
made an explanation entirely exculpating Mr..
Scranton, OF Pa, from certain charges recently
| made against him. 1Hse .5a. -E.r
The Kentucky contested election case was re-
suined, and resolution adopted declaring Mr..
Anderson entitled to his seat.
| TUESDAY enGte--The report of the Com
mittee OF Conference on the Army Appropriation
bill was agreed to. Among other amendments,
the Senate receded from thsir amendment APP
propriatlng nearly eight hundred thousand dol
lars for Regiment OF Texan volunteers.
On motion Ut Mr.. Latham the Overland Mail
bill was taken up and discussed until recess
without arriving at vote.
| House-The House concurred in the Confer
ence report on the Army bill. Seyan hundred
and thirty five thousand dollars was appropriated
for Notifications. eat IS.
| The Senate's amendments to the Navy bill
were considered and disposed of.
| WEDNESDAY, nGte.-After q lengthy de-
bate, the Senate rerconsidered the vote postpon=
ing the consideration of the Tariff bill until the
| next session, by vote OF ayes 33, naysl7. The
! oil was then taken up and considered until the
hour OF adjournment. aaa
| House.-Mr Davis, OF Maryland, reported
| from tie COMMITTEES Of Ways and Means bill
| authorizing loan of twenty millions for the re-
delDpiion OF outstanding Treasury notes. The
concession OF the House on this point removes
| the last important point of disagreement between
a. Sc
of Conference on the Civil Appropriation bill,
| $500. 900 to the Washington aqueduct, $25, 600
for flung up the old Senate Chamber for the
Supreme Court, abolishing the art commission,
Sc, was CONQUERED in by the House.
| THURSDAY enate.-The bill to establish q
daily overland mail was passed. The Senate a
greed to print 10000 copies of Mr.. Mason's
| Harpers Ferry report. The conference com.
mitee on the ma val bill reported, and the report
was agreed to. Executive session-adjourned
| Hoese-The House transacted miscellaneous
business, and agreed to the report of the com
nittee of conference on the naval bill. TWEEN
ty million loan bill was reported from the Com
mittee of Ways and Means. The death of Mr.
Swartz, of Pennsylvania, was announced. Eu
logies were delivered. Adjourned.
! FRIDAY.-Senate.- joint resolution for the
establishment of public printing office was
adopted. The Post route bill was considered
and the bill authorizing loan and providing fol
the redemption of outstanding Treasury notes
was passed; the report of the Committee o.
Conference on the Legislative, Executive and
Judicial Appropriation bill vas adopted, and the
bill is therefore disposed OF.
| H0use.-The House of Representatives passed
the bill authorizing loan OF $2l ,000,0 900. The
report of the Committee of Conference on the
| Legislative Executive and judicial Appropria
| tion bill was concnrred in.
| SATURDAY. enate-The President returned
the Homestead bill to the Senate, with his OBJ
iections, and it failed to receive the vote neces
sary to pass it over the veto.
| House-No business of interest was transacted
The session ended yesterday, the 25th.
The Commissioner OF the City of London Pc
| lice has caused an account to be taken by the
police of the number of persons entering the city
within given period. The result shows thai
the amazing number of 706.62l individual
passed into the city by its various entrances
during the "a hours tested; and as the day Sc
| lected for the enumeration was free from any
extraordinary attractions IN the city, there Car
| be no doubt that the return furnishes fair Is.
innate OF the average daily influx. Of the 7C6,.
| 62l tine aggregate of this census of day, IS,
242 only, or less than one-tourteenth, entered
during the night, viz: between the hours OF |
P NJ aud A Nj. Il is hardly necessary to add
ttiat these hunters altogether irrespective o
! the resident population
The ssporfe5 proposition 0. Brigham Young,
thu. the Noruon5 sbQald avacQate Otah Terri
tofV eell 1astiieir property aGd re;4ove 10 Some
port 0u TIE Pacific either 10 tIs gaifed States,
III the British possessions. IS Induced, it is said,
By Lhe recent 1s4yy esnigr@tiQn ~ FlNes Teak,
snd Iho rapid e2ientlpn 81 the Po"ef OF the gen.
tiiss towards tie immediate nei9hbosnood OF the
sr0DAe3's dO,niai0ue..
SsaaG3r Davis, vi Mississippi, IN bis late
saeseh il reply 10 Seaator Duugias, thus e4
pressed his opinion about patiorms:
.slhe fsct Is. sast nave q declining respect
for platforms. | you'd scooter have an honest
islsi, tsu any soFt of rickety platform you
oouta Construct, nan To have u man whom
c I'd il1t Spgst. DC the best platform that could
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