Connecticut western news., 1876-07-07
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS-.

FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS. The Business of General Interest Trans- |
 acteds SENATE. l
 Mr. Sherman, from the committee on finance, | reported back the House joint resolution au- | thorizing the secretary of the treasury to issue SIG, 0,0O0 of silver coin in exchange for | legal tender notes, and said as it was to expe- dite and facilitate the execution of existing 1 laws, he would ask to have it considered now. The committee reported but one amendment, which was to strike out the word "now, " so that the resolution should read "the secretary of the treasury may issue silver coin in the treasury" instead of "silver coin now in the treasury.
 Mir. Sherman submitted an amendment pro viding that the trade dollar shall not hereafter be legal tender, and authorizing the secre- tary of the treasury to limit the coinage there of to such amount as he may deem sufficient to meet the export demand for the same. The amendment was agreed to, and the resolution then passed.
 The Senate proceeded to vote on motion of MT. Ingalls, to lay aside the Indian Appropria- ton bill and take up the House bill reported by the committee on Indian affairs to transfer the Indian bureau to the War department, and it was agreed to-yeas, 20 ; nays, IT.
 On motion of Mir. Windom the vote by which the Indian Appropriation bill was laid aside was reconsidered. After various motions the section proposing the transfer of the Indian bureau was stricken out of the bill by "A to 22.
 MT. Edmunds of Vermont, asked that the bill to amend the Enforcement act be taken up. Oppositi on was made to it, and it was taken up only upon strict party vote of "A to 14 The bill having been amended verbally, and con- sidered in committee of the whole, was report ed to the Senate The amen 3ments were agreed to and the bill passed-yeas, 25; nays,
 The Senate insisted on it's amendments to the Indian and Naval Appropriation bills, and agreed to the conferences on those bills asked for by the House of Representatives Messrs. Windom, Logan, and Ransom were appointed members of the committee on the former, and Messrs. Sergeant, Cragin, and Withers on the latter.
 Mir. Allison (Rep.), of Iowa, explained the provisions of the Army Appropriation bill and said that the first eight sections of the bill as it came from the House proposed to reorganize the army. The committee on appropriations had not felt authorized to examine into that subject, and therefore reported in favor of striking out those eight sections. The bill as | it came from the House appropriated SPA, 283,- 269. 40. To this amount the Senate committee on appropriations had added $3, PTS, ,092, making the total amount called for by the bill as now before the Senate $27, ,561, ,361.40, or $1, ,237,- 50 legs than the amount appropriated for | the present iscal year. The House proposed to reduce the army in numbers as well as the compensation of officers. This bill proposed | to reduce the army five regiments, while the | bill which recently passed the House proposed 8 reduction of ten regiments. The amendment proposed by the committee to strike out the | eight sections recognizing the army, reducing | the pay, etc., was agreed to-yeas, "A nays, | IS. Other amendments proposed by the com mittee were agreed to as follows:
 Increasing the appropriation for expenses of | the commanding generals office from $2, 900 | to $5, 900, and that for expenses of recruiting l and transportation of recruits from $75, 900 to | $105, 900. Increasing the appropriation for the pay of the army from $9, 154, ,788 to $9 968, ,574 providing that from and after the first day of | January next there shall be no more than | forty paymasters in the army, the reduction to l be made by dropping from the rolls the junior commissions until the maximum of forty is reached.
 | The bill, having been considered in committee of the whole, was reported to the Senate, and | the amendments made in committee agreed to yeas, 25 nays 12. The bill was then read 8 third time and passed.
 HOUSE.
 The House proceeded to the consideration of the bill equalizing the bounties of soldiers, and was addressed by MT. Thornburgh, of | all enlisted mep, soldiers, sailors and marines | (including slaves and India .s), $8.33 for their period of the service between the twelfth of l April, 1861, and the ninth of May, 1865, de- l ducting all bounties already paid under the United States and State laws. The bill is not to apply to substitutes, men who were prison | CTS of war at the time of enlistment, or men | who were discharged on their own application for other csuse than disability incurred in the 1 service prior to the nineteenth of April, 1865 l (unless such discharge was obtained with a | view to re-enIistment, or to accept promo | tion), or to persons discharged on the ground
 of minority. All applications for bounties | under the bill are to be filed within five years.
 Passed-yeas, 140; nays, 46.
 | The Speaker pro tene laid before the House & | message from the President in relation to the
 extradltion treaty with England.
 The House took up the Sundry Civil Appro- priation bill in committee of the whole and
 was addressed by MT. Stenger lDem.), of Pennsylvania, in regard to the Freedman's
 bank. Mir. Cook Oem. ), of Georgia, spoke in regard to refunding the cotton tax. The
 House then laid aside the bill to take up the
 Senate amendments to the Silver bill.
 Mr. Cox Dem.), of New York, moved con-
 currence in the amendments. MT. Landers
 (Dem.) of Indiana, offered the amendment
 making the trade dollar no longer legal ten
 der. The amendments were finally referred
 to the committee on banking and currency.
 MT. Stenger resumed his remarks on the
 Freedman's bank. Among the facts he quoted
 the colored men in the bank in nine years were
 $56, ,0OO,O O0O; the South had been drained ot
 money by the branches of the bank, which
 sent it's funds to the main concern at Wash
 ington the final loss of depositors will be
 about $1, ,500, ,000.
 The committee having proceeded to consider
 the bill by sections, Mir. Warren (Dem,), ot | Massachusetts, offered an amendment to pay
 the executor of the estate of the late Henry
 Wilson $10, ,222 being the salary for the unex
 pired term of his office Vlce-President.
 After speeches by Mir. Hoar (kep.) of Mass achusetts and Mir. Wood (Dem,), of New
 York, in favor of the amendment and of Olr Holman Oem. ), of Indiana, in favor of limit.
 ing the amount to one years pay, the amend
 ment was adopted.
 ) The Senate amendments to the Navy Appro priation hill were non-concurred in, and com mittee of conference was ordered. Messrs
 Blount (Dem. ), of Georgia, Whitthorn (Dem. )
 of Tennessee, and Hale (Rep.) of Maine, were appointed on the part of the House. The House went into committee of the
 whole on the Sundry Civil bill. Among the items passed were the following Coast survey on the Atlantic and gulf coasts, $325 900 Pacific coast survey, $2OO, GOO; geodetlc surve! 7 GOO; repairs of coast survey vessels, $3O, 900 publishing survey observations, $6,OOO; pro
 pagations of food fishes, $30, ,000 signal ger
 vice, $300,000; completing the military tele graph between the army posts on the Texai y frontiers, $45, ,O0U; for publication Of oficia @ records of the civil war, both of the Fedora II and of the Confederate armies, $40, 900; geol 1 ogical survey, $65, ,000: PowelPs survey of th l. Colorado $30000.
 f After minor amendments the bill was passed c Mir. Sampson (Rep.), of Iowa, moved to sus pend the rules and pass the joint resolution l. suggested by the President to continue the ap D proDriations for the next fiscal year on tn same basls as the appropriations for the fisca
 year about to expire, ln case or the failure o - any of the regular appropriation bills befor f the first of July. The motion was rejected z yeas, 57 nays, 112.
 With a. view of aiding Secretary MOr