, 1876-06-24
CONGRESSIONAL.

WASHINGTON, June 2l.- The chair
laid before the Senate message from
the President in regard to the case of
Winslow. which was read in the House
yesterday, ordered printed, and referred
to the Committee on Foreign Relations
Morton submitted resolution in
structing the Committee on Privileges
aud Elections to inquire what laws, if
any, are needed to protect the inviola-
bility of private dispatches sent by
magnetic telegraph, aud what legislation
is necessary to prevent the seizure of
such dispatches by unauthorized or
irresponsible persons. and report by bill
or otherwise. Agreed to.
The chair laid before the committee
a communication from the Secretary Of
War inclosing a report from the Adjutant
General United States Army in regard
to the REIMBURSEMENT of the garden
tract at Camp Verdette.
Allison reported back House bill to
teansfer the office of Indian Affairs from
the Interior to the War Department, and
recommended that it be postponed until
the first Thursd day after the first Monday
in December next.
ingalls, asked tha. it te laid on the
table. so ordered
Sherman called up the House resolu-
ton authorizing the Secretary of the
Treasury 20 issue S10,000,000 in silver
coin in exchange Tor legal tender notes.
He submitted an amendment providing
that trade dollars shall not hereafter be
a legal tender. and authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to limit the COIN
age thereof to such an amount as be
may deem sufficient to meet export
demand for the same, which was
agreed to.
Shermvn said he thought at least
800, 900, 900 should be issued. He moved
to amend by asserting that amount
instead of SlO,o00,OOO but objection
was made and he withdr W the amend
ment
The Senate then went into Executive
Session to consider the nomination of
Morrill, as Secretary of the Treasury,
and at once confirmed it without the
formality Of reference.
Sherman called up the joint resolution
to authorize the President to appoint
commissioners TO attend the internation-
al conference upon the subject of the
relative value of gold and silver, which
was passed.
Mitchell gave notice in the Senate that
on Monday. after the expiration of the
morning hour, be would call up the
resolution to pay P. B. Pinchback the
compensation and mileage of Senator
from March 3, 1874. to the termination
of his contest by the Senate.
Boggy, from the Committee ON Private
Land Claims, reported adversely on the
bill for the relief of settlers on certain
lands in Ventura County, California,
and it was indefinitely postponed.
The Senate then resumed the consid-
Grafton of unfinished business, being
the Indian appropriation bill, the pend
ing question being on the amendment
proposed by the Committee on Appro-
priations to strike out the third section
of the House bill proposing to abolish
the Indian Bureau, and transfer the
government of the Indians to the War
Department.
Atthe evening session the third section
striking out the transfer of the Indian
Bureau was agreed to by twenty-four
against twenty-five. The bill then
passed.
The Naval Appropriation bill comes
up tomorrow. Adjourned.
The House went into Committee of
the Whole on sundry civil appropriation
bills.
Steuger addressed the committee in
reference to the Freedmen's Savings
and Trust Company.
Cook, Of Georgia, addressed the House
on the subject of grievances in the
Southern States, and in advocacy of
refunding the cotton tax.
4 message from the Senate announcing
that that body had passed Senate amend
ment to the silver bill, the consideration
of the subsidy civil appropriation bill
was temporarily interrupted, and Cox