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the necessary assistance required from Congress
to insure the SUCCESS of the proposed lnterna~
tional Exhibition.
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.
THE SAILORS MONUMENT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. IA bill passed to admit
free Of duty the statue to commemorate the
sailors who fell in the late WIT.
TIE RECESS.
The concurrent resolution in regard to holl~
day reces8 was presented. Alr. COLE objected
to it's consideration 1t went over.
REMOVAL OF INDIANS.
Mr. HITCHCOCK introduced q bill for the re-.
moval to the Indian Territory Of certain Indiana
in Nebraska.
BILLS PASSED.
Bills passed as follows:
Placing co1ored persons who enlisted in the
army On the same footing as other soldiers as to
bounty lands.
estate Of the late Admiral Dahlgren.
Establishing an Assay Office at Helena, Moc-
tana.
When hIr. SUMMERS Supplementary Cic1
Rights bill was reached On the calendar, M:-
CARPENTER CWisconsin) in the chair looking
at Mr. Bayard, asked Docs the Senator from
Delaware object p
Mr. BAYARD-"I will if the Senate desires
it, but did not aay So" L1aughter]
AVAA3t0A
Mr.. BAYARD-" did not"
Alr. SUMNER-"I think there is no objec~
Mr. MORRILL, Q1e.) objected, and the bill
Was laid over.
Bills we're introduced providing for the re-
computation OF the accounts between the United
States md States, growing ont OF moneys e1-
pended by the States in the War Of 1912.
INTERNAL REVENUE BILL.
1lr. SHERMAN, from the Finance Committee
reported the House bill for the reduction Of off,
Gers and expenses Of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau, with amendments. providing that the Of
fees Of Assessor and Assistant Assessor shall
cease to exist at such times in the districts re-
spectiye1y, as the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue may find practicable, prior to July I,
i1s2 msni Of fna Is addtonss @ agents until
July 1st, 1874, in addition to those provided for
by existing laws, and amending the present law go
US to provide that all Of the additional commits
sion Of * per cent shall be paid to Collectors re-
ceiving the tax on all spirits produced after the
Office Of Assessor shall cease, according to this
bill.
TIE CASE OF IAa1AR.
Mr. VICKERs, from the Committee on Po1iti-
cal Disabilities, reported the House bill remoT~
ing those Of L. @. c. Lamar, which passed.
THE PORTER STATUE.
kr. MERRILL Vt.) gave notice Of motion
to reconsider the vote authorizing the free 3D.
mission Of the Porter statue, which will be re-
garded as precedent for the free importation Of
other articles Of q like character
TIE RECESS.
After the executive session, the House 1eso1u-
ton for the holiday fecess came up.
Mr. WINDSOR made an effort to shorten it,
BY amendments, but it passed in the original
shape
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
TIE WHISKY TAx-
11r. BECK, from the Ways and Means Com
mittee, reported adversely to the bill for the !;
abatement Of taxes Oh spirits destroyed while in
bond Tabled.
OPPRESSIVE RAILWAY CHARGES.
On motion Of Mr. sHELLABARGER, the Ju-
dietary WIS instructed to report what powers
Congress possesses to regulate commerce among11'
roads.
TIE CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.
Mr. HAWLEY presented memorial Of the
Centennial Commission, asking the aid Of Con-
Committee.
Mr.. KELLEY Pa-) asked to be, and WIS, ex-
cused from further service IS Chairman Of the
Coinage, Weights, and Measures, stating his
duties as member Of the Committee On Ways
and Means and Chairman Of the Centennial
Committee engrossed his time.
VACANCIES OK COMMITTEES.
The SPEAKER announced the following ap-
pointments to fill vacancies on committees:
Committee on EZectt0n8-Eoster, Of Ohio.
On Claims -Haw1ey, Of Connecticut.
On Judiciary -shoemake ,of Pennsylyanio.
ci1a sariss Rstarm'-orookar, Of Massachusetts,,
On Pafsats-Esty Of Massachusetts,.
On Coinage, Rstghts and Measures Conner, Cd
On Private Land Claims -Geddings, Of Texas.
On agriculture -Hundon, Of Texas.
BOUNTY LAND BILL.
Soldiers Bounty Land bill taken up yesterday.t
Er. DUNNELL O1innesota) opposed the bill,
being unable, he said, to conceive OF bill mora
mischieTous in its tendencies and effects. Did;
Congress propose to satisfy the claims OF
soldiers for an equalization Of bounties by giving
them bounty land warrants, which would not
sell in the market for twenty do1la1s2 The. bill
would benefit only those who never smelt gun
powder in defence Of the country.
said soe1S R eaa op
posed to it, and the Grand Army OF the Republic.
at it's session in Easton in February, 1879, had
expressed in resolutions its disapprobation OF
ths The provisions and principles embraced in the
Mr.. HAWLEY opposed the bin, and showed
how unfairly and injurious. the New York bounty
iand system had worked, as applied m to the SOL
lated that those soldiers got thirty-six milliona
from the sale Of their land warrants and that ac-
tual settlers had paid one hundred and fifty
millions for it, the difference going into the
pockets of land Spectators. The pending
measure would work infinitely more unfairly
than that one, because now any one could set
tie On lands under the Homestead and Pre-emp-
ton laws. Under this bill two million per
Sons would be entitled to land scrip.
If only one-tenth Of them applied in
q year, that would throw Oh the market
thirty-two millions Of acres, and the scrip would
only hold good for one year. Ihe.eTect would be
that the soldier who spent at least ten dollars
getting his warrant, could not sell it in the mar
ket for five dollars. The measure would, there
fore, prove to be practically fraud on the SOL
der: He held most rigidly to the policy Of pre-
serving the public lands for actual settlers.
The bill vas defended by Meszrs. D0NN4a
and sPEER, when Pennsylvania politics we're
brought into discussion, Mr. Speer asserting,
relative to the resolutions Of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, presented b NJ ToTnseHd nnt nd and
ganization did the honest soldiers Of
the country, but the political soldiers and officers
who were controlled by railroad companies and
monopolies. He Cspeer) had been repeatedly
called 1iar by the Republican press for stating
that Hartranft signed these resolutions which
do not represent the soldiers Of Pennsylvania
Ha asked bis coI1eaCue to furnish the IeaQlu-