Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-22
CONGRESSIONAL.

|. Seaate.-On Tuesday of last week. resolution for an investigation into naval
 affairs was referred.-The question of hl-
 nance was then discussed Mr. Ferry, or
 Mich, favored elasticity" Mr. Free
 linghuysen offered a bill to secure specie
 resumption Mir. Gordon offered reso- lution looking to a reduction of pay of high army officers.
 On Wednesday Senator ScLurz discuss ed the financial question. He argued against further imitation and in favor of resumption
 On Thursday bill was reported fixing the salaries of letter carriers at S10J0.- Mir. Morrill, introduced a bill designed to discontinue postal rules where the receipts do not reach one fourth of the expense. l MT. Ramsey thought this bill would cut down mail routes very materially III MT. 1 MorTills own State. The financial ques- tion then came up. Mr. Morton opposed contraction. He referred to the different views of the two Missouri Senators. Mir. | Schurz wanted contraction; MT. Bogy, expansion. He thought Mir. Bogy best represented the views of the people of his l State MT. Howe favored the withdrawal of greenbacks and substitution of bank
 notes. Mr. Buckingham opposed expan-
 sion but favored free banking. He ex- pressed the opinion that temporary loans 1 might be effected to relieve strngency, l such loans to be destroyed upon redemp- | tion and not reissued.
 On Friday bill passed appropriating 1 g, 800 for busts of Chief Justices Fancy
 and Chase for the Supreme Court room. MT. Sargent opposed the postal trans portation of merchandiSe.-The discus. l sion on the currency was resumed. Mir.
 Sherman favored retiring greenbacks. He regretted the imitation of $82, ,O00, 900 ! during the past four years and the reissue of the reserve. He urged strongly the duty of the government to fulfil their
 promise and pay the legal tender notes in l specie, or its value. 1 On Monday Mir. Thurman presented l petition from the Winnebago Indians seek
 ing redress of grievances.-The financial I question was resumed. Mir. Wright of Iowa favored the retirement of bank notes
 and the substitution of greenbadks in I their place. MT. Logan considered any
 immediate return to specie payments i'm practicable and unnecessary. He thought the present amount of currency too small
 instead of too large
 House.-On Tuesday of last week Mir.
 Daws spoke against the Education bill 1 On motion of Mir. Hoar it's consideration was postponed till March-The Naval ap- l propriation bill, was discussed and tie 1 extravaganza of appropriations for new l buildings censured by MT. Beck of Ky ] The Senate bill repeating the Salary law
 was passed 226 to 25.
 On Wednesday revision of the stat
 utes was reported by Judge Poland which it was agreed to consider at evening ses- 1 sions.-Mr. Beck claimed that there was
 great extravaganza in the navy yards. MT. Hale replied that work was much
 more expensive than formerly. Mir. Cox claimed that New York was at the mercy of foreign iron clads while MT. Crooke re- | piled that they conld not possibly get
 over the bar. Cox again stated that the
 harbor had been filling up and this, too,
 was denied by MT. Crooke
 l On Thursday the committee reported
 that Messrs. Wilson and Martin, contes- tants, were entitled to seats from Virginia.
 A minority report favors the sitting mem- bers.-The naval appropriation bill was l discussed. An amendment was offered censuring the outlay of more money than
 was appropriated by department officers. MT. Hawley, of Conn.,, opposed attaching I such things to general appropriation bills. | It was finally rejected on 0 close vote and 1 the bill passed. .
 On Friday the House was occupied
 mainly with private bills.
 On Saturday, civil rights, finance and
 the currency, were discussed in Commit
 tee of the Whole.
 On Monday resolution inquiring into
 the forfeiture of certain lands granted to
 the Atlantic & Pacific R. R. Go. was 1 adopted. d.-The Wilson resolution favoring
 imitation failed to receive the two-thirdS
 vote necessary to suspend the rules md
 bring them before the House.-A resolu-
 tion was adopted instructing the prepara-
 tion of bill to prevent and illegal use of
 our flag by vessels