Connecticut western news., 1873-12-26
XLIIId. CONGRESS.
SENATE,

The bill for the redemption of the loan of 1858 was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mir. Sheldon of Louisiana made 8 personal explanation, denying that MT. Smiths certificate was made out prior to the canvass of tho votes.
 Senator Conking presented petition of the Chamber of Commerce of New York in favor of the resumption of specie payments.
 MT. Sherman introduced bill to authorize the organization of national banks without cir | culation. Referred.
 Mr. Logan introduced bill to provide for cheap and permanent transportation for per sons and freight between New York and Chi cago.
 MT. Davis gave notice that at an early day he would introduce bill restoring to news papers the privileges abolished ill the bill re- pealing franking privileges.
 Mir. Gordon, of Georgia. introduced a bill to repeal the section of the bill of March 3, 1873, forbidding the free transmission of periodicals, magazines. and newspapers through the United States mails, and restoring that privilege. Re- ferred.
 Mir. Gordon also submitted a preamble and resolution reciting that, whereas the abolition the expenditures of the Government, pre- vents the general distribution to the people of improved field and garden seeds, and also dis courages the distribution of public documents which afford important information to the peo- | pie; therefore,
 Resoloed, That the Postmaster-G General be requested to report for the information of the Senate First-What amount of expense, if any, has been saved to the Government by the abolition of the franking privilege; Second. | How many employees in the mail service. If | any. have been discharged, and how much less, | if anything, is charged by railroads and other carriers for the mails since the abolition of the | franking privilege; Third-How much less ap- propriation will be required for the postal ser vice by reason of the abolition of the said privi- lege.
 | Bills introduced by MT. Cox-For the re- sumption of specie payment. | By MT. Biery-For the free transmission by l mail of newspapers and periodicals, and bills and receipts for the same. By Mr. McKee-For the admission of Col orado as State; also, concerning tho execu- tion of the laws in Utah. By MT. Monroe-To provide $25, GOO, 900 addi- | tional bank note circulation for States having less than their due proportion. By MT. Whitthorne-To repeal the taxes on whisky and tobacco, and to provide for the deficiency in the revenue to be thereby occa- sioned.
 By MT. Hubbell-For Niagara Falls ship | canal.
 By MT. Field-For the issue of fractional currency and 3. .65 Government bonds, to be in | terchangeable.
 By MT. Butler-To restore to the pension rolls pensioners dropped during the war. MT. Maynard from the Com, mittee on Rules, reported bill removing all disabilities imposed and remaining on any per son by the 3d section of the 14th article ot the amendments to the Constitution, and substltu- | ting for the iron-clad oath the modified oath now administered to persons from whom dis | abilities have been removed. MT. Cox asked leave to report a preamble and resolution recognizing Cuban belligrency. Messrs Hale, Killinger, and others objected. Mir. Cox withdrew the preamble, and moved to suspend the rules and pass the resolution. | The motion was rejected, the vote being A to | 153 and the Speaker ruled that the resolution was not before the House. MT. Cox asked leave to introduce the resolution for reference | to the Committee on Foreign Affairs Objec- | ton was made by the members. The House passed the Naval bill reported from the Naval Committee. It increases the number of enlisted men in the navy fifteen hundred for period of two years: The limit | is to be fixed at ten thousand. MT. Garfield, I from the Appropriation Committee, reported bill appropriating four million dollars to the | Navy Department.
 The refusal of the House to Second the previous question on the Salary bill, by vote of 145 nays to 100 yeas, practically rejects the bill for the salary repeal reported by the special committee known as the "Hale bill." The vote was by tellers, upon motion for the preVi- | ous question.
 The Speaker laid before the House 8 com- munication from the Secretary of War calling attention to dedication in the account of Gen. eral o. O. Howard, of the Freedmens Bureau. At the request of MT. Wood the letter was read. It fixes the total amount of defalcations at $278, ,573 66, and states that the Secretary of War would have General Howard tried by military court of inquiry were it not that most of the matters are barred by the statute of | limitations.
 The House in Committee of the Whole, with MT. Tyner in the chair, took up the bill appro- priating $4, ,O00, 900 for extraordinary expenses | of the naval service and passed 1t,
 After lengthy debate the salary bill was re- committed to the special Committee, with in- structions to report bill repeating the whole salary act of the last Congress- 50 far as can be done under the Constitution.