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XLIst O0NGRESS---Gecond Session,

SENATE.
WASHINGTON, July 15.-The Senate again
met at nine O'Clock and at half past nine went
into an executive session.
The doors were opened at 24O and the Presi-
DIT nts message was received and read after
which the bill to encourage the building of
ships for foreign trade and for other purposes
was taken up. P
Vermont, Morrill, of Maine, Wilson and Cam
eron; the general opinion of the Senators be-
ing that we had already unused ships sufficient
for all the demands of the mail aud carrying
trade in event of foreign war; and having
amended by limiting it to four months in which
American registers may be issued to foreign
vessels it was informally laid over.
The credentials of Richard Fl. Whitley and
Henry z. FarrOn, Senators from Georgia were
presented and laid on the table.
Messrs. Wilson and Casserly, in conjunction
with the committee of the House, informed the
President that the Senate was ready to adj
iourp. and subsequently reported that the
President had no further communications to
make. Mr.. Chandler made an effectual effort
to get up the bill which h.I lust been discuss
ed, but Mr.. Bayard, who had the floor declined
to yield. The hour of o'clock arriving the
Senate adjourned sine die.
-..-. HOUSE.
The House met at nine O. clock.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts, made a supple
mentary report of the miscellaneous apr opria-
ton bill, striking out the paragraph relating to
the municipal appointments of Washington
He stated that he was entirely ignorant, as
were his colleagues on the committee, how the
paragraph got into the report, He knew moth
ing of it until he heard it read from the clerk
desk. The report was agreed to.
Mr.. Paine CT Wisconsin, from the Committee
on Elections, reported resolutions in the Texas
contested election case of Grafton against Con-
nor, that Grafton was entitled to the seat and
that the consideration OF the right of Conner,
the sitting member, be postponed until the
next session. Agreed to.
A message was read announcing the passage
by the Senate of the bill app OpratiEg five
million dollars for the Indian service, with the
substitute, being the Senate appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Sargent of California moved non-con-
curreDce in the Senate substitute for the In
dian bill and the appointment OF a Committee
of Conference.
The House then refused to concur in the
Senate amendment and Messrs. Dawes of Mas
sachusetts, Allison of Iowa and Holman of In.
diana were appointed as Committee of Con-
ference.
Mr.. Tillman of Tennessee moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill removing the politi-
cal disabilities from all persons in the 18th Com
gressional District of Tennessee. Negatived.
The majority and minority reports in the
Missouri contested election case of Childs
against Van Horn were made and postponed
until the next sesrion.
In the Indiana contested election case of
Reid against ulan, the majority resolutions,
that Mr.. Julian the sitting member is entitled
to the seat, and that Mr.. Reid should be paid
$4,000 for his expenses, the amendments allow
ing $1,000 to Joseph Segar of Virginia and $500
to Mr.. Grafton of Tex IS for prosecuting their
respective claims to their seats, and the Senate
resolution postponing the hour of adjournment
until O'Clock Z. M. were cOncurred in.
Mr.. Bingham of Oh moved to SUSPEND the
rules and pass the Senate bill appropriating
$lOO, 600 for the erection of post-office and
courthouse building at Trenton, N. j. Re-
jected.
Various propositions looking to the payment
of clerks during the recess, &c., were m de
and voted town amid much confusion and
then at ~ 30 o'clock, on motion of Mr.. Dawes,
who wanted to stop that sort of business and to
gain time to attend the conference on the In
dian appropriation BILL the House took re-.
cess LIS.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts offered con-
current resolution postponing the hour of ad-
journment until O'clock. Rejected.
MT. Dawes, from the Conference Committee
on the Indian appropriation, made a report re-
commencing concurrence in the Senate
amendment, with the condition that it be not
construed into the afirmance or dis-affrm-
auce OF any of the powers of the Senate over
the subject. The report was agreed to.
After the vote Mr.. Sargent remarked that
the House had by its sanction Welded the
whole principle it had sought for during the
iast three sessions. 1t was surrender Ofevery-
thing in principle and in fact [Shouts of mot
at al" Mr.. Dawes renewed the resolution ex-
tendlng the session until five O'Clock so as to
allow time for the engrossment OF the bill.
MT Eidridge sought the floor and was noti-
ned oy the Speaker that If he persisted in oc-
c9pylnr the floor then there could not be an
adjournment to-day; to which he replied in an
excited manner that the action of the Speaker
was outrageous. Loud calls to order
Ane speaker put the question on postponing
the House adjournment and declared it car
ried.
Mr. E!dridge moved that the House adjourn
he did SO because his rights had been over.rid-
den by the chair.
The Speaker evinced much earnestness and
remarked that one motion to adjourn was in
order and had to be put but that there was
Just time to save preciptous adjournment as
against this factious action.
Mr.. McNeely of Illinois said that the Speaker
| had no right to make an argument in that
way.
The Speaker said he had right to protect
the majority against the minority, and the
| yeas and nays were not ordered, and the House
| refused to adjourn, but adopted a resolution
postponing the adjournment till O'Clock.
Mr.. Dawes of Massachusetts then moved a
| recess till quarter past four, which was mega
| lived.
Mr.. Wilkinson of Minnesota moved to sus-
pend the rules ana adopt resolution reciting
| the imminence OF war in Europe, state OF
| instruction in Cuba and a probability OF Spain
| losing all control over the Island and its be-
ing seized and held by France, and authoriz-
| ing the President, if it should become necessa-
| ~ during the recess, to protest against and
prevent such seizure and recognize the revOlu-
tlonary government of Cuba as the de facto gov