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W 4sHINGToN, Jan. 9.-Senate.-The bill
! revising the Mint laws was taken up.. ~ y
numerous petitions were presented for
! the removal of political disabilities.
| "A memorial from the New York Chamber
OF Commerce upon the importance ofacable
| from the west coast to Asia was presented.
1 Ihe judiciary Committee reported q bill
1 that residential electors and members OF
4 Congress be elected by ballot.
:Ihe Motley-F1sh correspo was con.
House bill appropriating $4,000 for ! an /
/ amanuensis for Schenck was introduced. :
me Mint bill. was considered in Execr1-
tive session. 49,. - 80,
Adjourned. .. 3D.. ~. q. wi
! Honse.-Bills were int oduced and refer
red for: Additional Federal judges in Ain.
bama granting the, right of wey through
public lands to the New Orleans and East
| ern railway; giving money arising from
sales of public lands for five wears to com.
! mon schools Of the South reimbursine
Texas for frontier defence expenses re.
linquishing Government title to certain
| lands in east Baton Rouge defining swamp
!. laws; and relief for grape brandy distillers.
Resolution, constituting joint commit
! tee of Senators and eight members on the
| ocean telegraph, with the power to send for
books and papers, was introduced.
"A motion to take up the San Domingo
| matter failed, receiving two-thirds' vote of
all the Democrats, and Amber. Beatty,
Boyd, FinkGngburg, Har, Peters, and
| Willard, voting nay. ct requires only the
/! detection of seven Republicans now to de-
, feat, the measure requiring two-thirds'
| vote.) When the bill came up again Amb-
| Ter moved an amendment that nothing in
the resolution be construed as committing
Congress to the policy Of annexation
! to, Dominica. Several Republicans cried:
Sc That is right" The Democrats fllibus-
tered, and finally agreed to vote at2 O'Clock
| tomorrow. E.... r's. ,sse.,...
Adjourned. ...."'
| The Gam Domingo Resolutions.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The House Com.
! mlttce on Foreign Relations has agreed to
! report, us Il substitute for Mr.. Banks's San
Domingo resolutions, the Senate joint reso-
1 luton appointing commission.
| 1t is understood that Ambler's amend
ment will be defeated, as it would cause a
| delay, and the resolution will pass as it came
| from the senate.
The MotIey-Ftsh Correspondence.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-The corresponds
| ence between ex-Slinister Motley and Sec
rotary Fish about the recall of the former
| is $4,000 words long, consisting mostly of
| personal details. Motley declined to resign,
and attributes his removal to Senator Sum-
| ner's course on the Dominican question.
The following illustrates the animus Of the
correspondence: 49,. ...- ... :..,r. .
| SECRETARY FISH TO MR.. MORAN, DEC. 30.
eft may possibly occur to some sensitive
person that delicacy, not to say propriety,
would suggest to a retired official of the
Government, wishing to place his views on
| its official archives, to make request to
| that effect, which certainly would have
been most cheerfully accorded to gentle
man of Mr.. Motley's eminent distinction
| and great ability but Mr.. Motley, having
closed his mission, asks no permission, but
assumes as right to place his statement on
record. Questioning the taste and denying
the right of this assumption, nevertheless
allow place in the diplomatic records of
the country to Mr.. Motley's history of the
end Of his mission. 1t is not for me TO
question the measure of Mr.. Motley's ap-
probation of his position in the confidence
of his Government, but cannot accept his
statement that no shadow OF difference of
opinion existed between the President and
his Government and himself as to our rela-
lions with Great Britain"
The Secretary then reviews at length, and
with considerable severity, Mr.. Motley's
course, and states that the Instructions
given to Mr.. Motley at the time Of his ap-
pointment were not fully carried out by
him as Minister, and censures him for SUBJ
hitting to Lord Clarendon dispatch for
yerifcation before submitting it to his own
Government. The Secretary says, in COM
mentfng on Mr.. Motley's statement as TO the
unanimity of the Senate on the occasion of
bis confirmation, and as to the cause Of his
removal: cit remains only to notice Mr..
Motley's adoption Of a. rumor which had
its origin in this city in source bitterly,
personally, and yindictively hostile to the
President. MI. Motley says it has been
rumorcd that he was removed from the
post of Minister to England on account of
the opposition made by an eminent Senator,
who nonors him with bis friendship, to the
San Domingo treaty. There can be no
question as to the identity of the eminent
Senator at whose door Mr.. Motleyis willing
to deposit his removal, and it is unworthy
of Mr.. Motley's ability, and an injustice to
The honorable Senator alluded to, to whose
influence and urgency he was originally in
debted for his nomination, to attribute to
him the cause of his removal"
Mr.. Fish says that Mr.. Motley must know
that many Senators opposed the San Do
mingo treaty as openly and with as much
efficiency as did Midsummer, and that they
continued to enjoy the confidence Of the
President. MIR. Fish proceeds at conSide-
rable length to point out the uDtenable ma
ture of the ground taken by Mr.. Motley,
and shows that the time chosen fer Mr.. M.'s
removal was the proper one on diplomatic
considerations. -.-
Virginia Affairs ira Congress Porter
z".." After the Revenue Officers.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-In the House to-
day Mr.. Porter offered resolution calling
for information as to persons arrested in
Virginia since january l., 1858, for viola
tons of the internal revenue laws, and as
to moneys received by internal revenue off,
GERS in Virginia as moiety since April l.,
1860. - az7t.
Mr.. Platt, of Virginia, offered q resolu-;
ton regulating the compensation of the
Collector of Customs at Petersburg, Va.
General News.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Abbott contests
Vance's seat in the Senate on the ground
that the votes cast for Vance were null as
being cast for an ineligible person, and that,
he (AbboLD received the majority Of legal
votes. t '.-f'.z
Robert w. Fitzhugh has been appointed
collector of customs ut NatcheZ, and Wm.i
Hunter appraiser Of merchandise ut Mobile!
The Court of Claims decided to-day that!