Connecticut western news., 1874-06-26
x1111d UNITED STATES CONGRESS-
IN THE SENATE.

XLII1d UNITED STATES CONGRESS
 IN THE SENATE.
 BELGIAN TREATY.
 MT. Cameron, of Pa., from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported favorably on the joint resolution providing for the termination of the treaty between the United States and Belgium of July 17, 1858. Passed.
 BILLS INTRODUCED.
 Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, introduced bill to abolish the Board of Indian Commissioners. Referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
 THE Mo1ETY BILL.
 The consideration of the Moiety bill was re- stunned, and another long debate took place, in the course of which 8 letter from A. T. Stewart, of New York, was read, giving his opinions as to what the provisions of the law should be !; several amendments were agreed to, and finally the bill was passed-38 to g. repeating the Moiety system as now carried on in the United States Custom Houses.
 THE FINANCE BILL.
 The report of the Conference Committee on the Finance bill was agreed to by vote of 32 to 23.
 THE CURRENCY BILL.
 The resolution of the House, disagreeing to the Conference report on the Currency bill,
  appointment of a new Conference Committee, and MT. Sherman favored such action after 8 discussion, new Conference Committee was ordered, 38 to IF.
 REMOVAL OF CAUSES FROM THE STATE COURTS. MT. Carpenter reported substitute for the House bill regulating the removal of causes from the State courts to circuit courts of the United States.
 Mr. Bayard moved to amend so as to provide hat kI,ou Nnk ,1xy kA o4 libel or slander In support of the amendment, he said Washington City was the great head quarters for newspaper correspondents, and the section as proposed by the Judiciary Com mittee would permit the service upon them of processes as agents for the publishers of the papers which they represented. A paper might be sued in the District of Columbia simply by serving process on it's agent here Rejected, 33 to 20.
 MT. Carpenter moved to amend the section so as to provide that copy of the process served on an agent shall actually be delivered to the principal of such agent anywhere in the United States. Agreed to.
 The bill was then read third time and passed-yeas 33, nays 22.
 THE BANKRUPTCY BILL.
 Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, from the Com mittee on Conference on the Bankrupt bill, made 8 report which was agreed to. He ex- plained that as the bill passed the Senate it provided that 8 voluntary bankrupt should pay thirty-three per cent. of his indebtedness; as modified by the Conference Committee volun- tary bankrupt could be discharged upon the payment of thirty per centum of his indebted ness, with the consent of one-fourth of the number of creditors representing one-third of the value of indebtedness.
 The Senate instructed the Committee on Appropriations to report an amendment to the River and harbor bill, for the survey of four routes from the Mississippi to the Atlantic
 IN THE HOUSE.
 LOUISIANA ENTERTAINMENTS.
 The House adopted resolution declaring that there is not sufficient testimony to show the election of either MT. Sheridan or MT. Pinchback from Louisiana.
 BILLS PASSED.
 The bill abolishing the Western Judicial Dis trict of Arkansas was passed.
 REPORTED BACK.
 MT. Dawes, of Mass, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back adversely various bills, including the following:
 To abolish the tax on cigars, tobacco and snuff to remit the duties on certain goods destroyed by fire in the Boston confagration to repeal the tax on deposits in savings banks to repeal the act of March 18th, 1869, to strengthen the public credit;" to repeal taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco; for the issue of convertible bonds to impose an income tax to remove all internal taxes from apple brandy; to repeal the duty on salt. THE GENEVA AWARD BILL.
 The Butler substitute for the Geneva Award bill against allowing the insurance companies to take part in the award was, after an excited and personal debate, passed by vote of 132 to 1O1. By this vote the claims of the insurance companies for losses sustained are omitted from the bilL BILLS PASSED.
 The bill appropriating $500, 900 for the relief of persons suffering from the overflow of the lower Mississippi river, of the Tombigbee, Warrior, and Alabama rivers, and of the Ten nessee river, the authority of the Secretary to expire on the first of September next was passed.
 CIVIL SERVICE.
 The House refused to vote any more money for civil service reform, by vote of 48 yeas tc 108 nays.
 THE CURRENCY BILL. In the House, after considerable discussion I the report of the Conference Committee on the Moety bill was made the Senate amendments were voted on without discussion, and new | Conference Committee was ordered the Con- | ference report on the Currency bill was then made, and after short debate it was rejected 108 to 146, and new Committee ordered, 19s l to AS.
 CIVIL APPROPRIATIONS. The Sundry Civil appropriation bill, which appropriates $23 ,000, ,000, (some GOO, 900 less than last session) was passed by the House after being before the Committee of Whole fol four days.
 THE CHOCTAw CLAIM. The proposition to pay the Choctaw Indians $2, 300, GOO, for 10 000 900 acres of land, whicf was awarded by the Senate in 1858, was sharply discussed in the House and finally laid over til next session.
 | ANOTHER POTOMAC BRIDGE.
 The Senate bill appropriating $145 900 for { bridge across the Potomac near the Navy Yard was passed.