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aa WASHINGTON, DC, March "A.
Senate bill No. 172, fixing the salary of
the President of the United States, was
taken up, when Mr.. Sargent objected to its
consideration, saying that he objected toit,
and wonld do 90 every time It came up, for
he believed the Presidents salary was now
low enongh, considering. the responsibility
and exactions of the office and the proper
maintenance of the position: The Dill was
laid over. "a aEaE}s s,'.."
A bill to further the administration of
Justice Of the State OF Colorado, was pass
ed. -.
The consideration of the Senate bill, to
| regulate the counting of the vote OF the
President and Vice President, was resume d.
Several minor amendments were offered
and orderd to be printed, and further con-
sideration was postponed until Friday, at
one O'Clock.
Mr.. Wright then called up the bill fixing
the salary of the President at tSSs5, 900 after
March 4, 1877.
Mr.. Sargent thought it would be very in
expedient to reduce the salary Of the Pres1
dent to a figure below that received by the
English Minister in this city. He called
the ayes and noes on the bill. The bill was
then passed-ayes 20, noes ~.
Mr.. Christiancy entered motion to re-
consider the vote by which the bill was
passed. gL.n.
After some further discussion Mr.. Chris
tiancy withdrew his motion to reconsider,
and the Senate went into Executive Session
and then adjourned. a~t$ .sf-
Mr.. Atkins (Tenn.) reported back the
Senate amendments to the Pension Appro-
priation bill, which was concurred in.
Mr.. Kasson (Iowa) said that in view of
the increasing illness among members Of
the House, and of the extraordinarily bad
ventilation which every one felt in the hall
this morning, he asked leave to offer reso-
luton instructing the Committee on Public
Buildings to examine into the causes of the
bad ventilation, and to direct such improve
ments therein as may be found expedient to
increase the purity of the atmosphere.
Agreed to. y..-
Mr.. Sparks (Ill.) from the Committee
on Indian Affairs, reported a substitute for
the bill to transfer the Indian Bureau from
the Interior Department to the War De.
partment, and asked that it be made the
special order for Saturday next
/ A long and somewhat heated discussion
took place between the members Of the In
dian Committee and Of the Military Com.
mittee as to which of these committee had
the most legitimate jurisdiction Of the
1 matter.
The bills of both committees were made
the special order for next Thursday two
weeks.
Mr.. Glover, Missouri, Chairman Of the
Committee on Real Estate, Pool and Jay
Cooke SEQ. Indebtedness, submitted a re-
port concerning the refusal of Kilbourne to
answer certain questions put to him. The
Committee reported that for the effectual
prosecution of the inquiry, the said Kill
bourne should be required to respond to
subpoena datees teruna, and answer the 4ues-
tions which he had declined to answer
That by his refusal to tsetify he is in con-
tempt to the House. Mr.. Glover offered the
following, on which he demanded the pre-
vious question: "Ordered that the Speaker
issue his warrant directing the sergeant-at-
Arms to take into custody, forthwith,
wherever found, the body of Hallett, Kill
bourne and bring him before the bar of the
House to show cause why he should not
be punished for contempt. and in the mean
time to keep said Hallett Kilbourne in his
custody, to await the order ofthe House,
The order was made without dissent.
On motion of Mr.. Holman the House then
went into Committee of the whole on the
Legislative Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation Bill, Mr.. Cox, of n. Y, in the
Chair A
Mr.. Kelly, Pa, asked that the Commit
tee rise in order to allow him to have read
paper which had just been put into his
hands, in which he was charged with infa-
nous crimes, and the Committee rose. He
then sent up a copy of the New York
World in which was Washington despatch
to obtain contracts tor Dobson from the In
dian Bureau to furnish blankets; that Dob
son, who twenty years ago was porter is
now worth ten million dollars, and that
Kelly had received twenty per cent of the
profits Of all contracts by which he had
netted about 81 100000. The writer of the
letter asks that Dobson be put upon the
| stand.
Mr.. Kelly said that an explanation was
due more to the Messrs. Dobson than him
self. II there was man who attached any
importance to charge of this kind, then
he had lived in vain. He then spoke of
the Messrs. Dobson as enterprising woolen
manufacturers, at the Falls of the Schuyl-
kill, who during the fifteen years he had
represented them had never asked him to
lift his voice for them with any branch of
the Government for any contracts. He
said he had in the House, some years ago,
when Mr.. Burleigh, of Michigan was speak
ing of Indian blankets, informed that gen
tleman that Dobsons had been able
to beat the world in the manufacture of
Macine blankets and meeting one of them
socially, sometime after they had said that
debate was worth a hundred thousand to
them, for it had brought to them heavy
Indian trade. Mutchler, to whom the let
: ter had been sent, had shown it to him,
o and looked in the directory in vain to find
' the name Of the scOunilrel who had sinned