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XLvTH CONGRESS-First Session
SENATE
WAsHrsGroY, January 81, Il

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XLvTH CCNGRESS+First Session.
SENATE.
1 WASHINGTON, January 81, 1878.
A large number OF petitions were pre-
sented 10 favor of aid to the Texas and Pa.
cific railroad and referred to the Committee
on Railroads.
MIR. Merrimon introduced bill for the
relief of Sidney l. McLaiu. Referred to
Committee on Military Affairs.
i The discussion Of interest on District
bonds was resumed, and without coming to
any conclusion the Senate adjourned. The
interest which the bill provides to pay fs due
| TO- Eorrow.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
A resolution was adopted directing the
Committee on the District Of Columbia TO
| inquire into the frauds and irregularities
charged against the government of the Dis
| trict.
Mr.. Holman offered resolution instruct
| Ing the Committee on Banking and Currency
| to inquire whether the commercial and in
| dustriaI interests of the country do not re-
! guire that the retirement and cancellation OF
| Iegal.tender notes shall cease, and whether
common and equal justice to the whole peo-
| pie do not require that United States notes
shall be substituted for national bank paper,
instead of national bank.paper for United
States notes. Adopted.
The military academy bill was passed.
Among the bills introduced to-day were :
BY Mr. Stowell of Virginia: For the re-
adjustment of the debt due Virginia by the
United States for advances made during the
war of 1912.
BY DIR. Faulkner of West Virginia: To
apply the proceeds Of the sale Of the public
| H. 70 Of nd for
the encouragement and support of agricul-
tural colleges also, bill to carry into exc
cuion the provisions of the fourteenth
amendment to the Constitution concerning
citizenship, and 10 define certain rights OF
United States citizens in foreign countries,
and certain diplomatic and consular officers.
BY 1r. Hereford of West Virginia For
the erection Of n monument to commemorate
the battle of Point Pleasant, fought October
10, 1774.
BY Mr.. Levy: To enlarge the jurisdiction
of the Court Of Claims.
BY Mr.. Riddle: Toabolish the restrictions
on the sale Of leaf tobacco.
By MIR Morrison: To revise and simplify
existing laws imposing duties on imports,
and to reduce taxation; also, to simplify the
appraisement of goods, wares, and merchan-
disc imported and subject to dd rolorem
duties.
By Mr.. Wilson of West Virginia: Reso-
buttons of the West Virginia Legislature in
favor of the removal of the restriction on
sales of leaf tobacco by producers.
Adjourned.
Morrison's Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON, January 31.-The bill intro
duced by Mr.. Morrison in the House to-day,
among other changes in the tariff. provides
foltn nd nhn-
roots, $3.50 per pound; leaf tobacco mot
stamped), forty cents; tea, fifteen cents; cof-
fee, three cents other articles reduced from
thirty-fivo to forty per cent, and salt free.
It is tariff for revenue, and is more In the
interest of consumers than producers.
Weather Probabilities.
WASHINGTON, January 31.-For New Eng.
land and the Middle States, rising tempera-
ture and falling barometer, easterly to south
crly winds. partly cloudy weather followed
by light rains during Tuesday afternoon or
evening.
For the South Atlantic and Eastern Gulf
States, partly cloudy and slightly warmer
weather, with easterly to southerly winds
and falling barometer, followed during Tues
day by colder norhery to westerly winds,
rising barometer, and light rains in the Lower
f Mississippi Valley.
Various Items.
WASHINGTON, January 31.-The Appro.
priatiops Committee to-day heard arguments
of Daren. involving an appropriation of
100000.
A reduction of ten per cent. on salaries
+ and twenty per cent on the force in the
Treasury Department is being applied.
f Secretary Fish, after a Cabinet consulta-
ton, has decided not TO interfere with Wins
low, the Boston defaulter. by application to
Holland. Suits will be brgun in Holland for
the attachment of Sl25,000 in bonds and
$50 900 in gold which it is believed he had
with him.
Mr.. Morrison's tariff bill is the result of 4
conference. 1t is the general opinion. how.
ever. that the Committee of Ways and Means
are indisposed to interfere with the tariff.
The enforcement-act opinion Is not ex-
pected to-day. The bench have had dis
, cussion over the details, attended, 1t is SAID,
with some warmth.
The Secretary Of War has written to Rev.
J. William Jones, secretary of the Southern
Historical Society, that he learns with graft
fication the disposition of certain parties
holding Confederate archives to place them
either temporarily or permanently at
the disposal OF the department loi
use in the publication Of records OF
the war now in hand. The Department
: is not only willing but anxious to secure
every official report, letter, telegram, or
!; order emanating from either side during
the late war, and has 30 thought whatever
of discriminating in favor of one section as
against another in their publications, the only
object being to place on record in an official
form for the use of historians and others In
terested, all the data in its possession on this
subject. Persons having knowledge OF sucb
records will confer favor by communicating
to this Department. ...
Death Of an Old Merchant-lneendiar
/ Fires.