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munds, went into executive session and
then adjourned.


House.
On motion Of Mr.. Stone, Of Missouri
leave was given the Committee on Ex
penditures to sit during the session.
The Speaker laid before the Hous
sundry executive communications
among them communication from tn
Secretary OF War, submitting an esti
mate OF appropriations to pay for tn
Black Hills commission, and Jenney'
geological survey.
In the morning hour which com
menced at IL AS, there were under tn,
usual Monday u. m. call, q large numbe
Of bills and joint resolutions introduced
and referred, among them the follow
ing:
by Mr.. Meade, Of New York, to pro
vide for the construction Of an act re
pealing moieties also, to provide for th'
issue Of United States notes, and tt
strengthen the Government credit.
BY Mr.. Jenkins, to repeal the thirC
section OF the act OF June 20, 1874, es
tablishing National Bank redemption
agency.
BY Mr.. Levy, OF Louisiana, to author
ize and direct the delivery of certain
bonds, now In the custody OF the Sec
retary OF the Treasury for safe Keeping,
to the Governor Of Louisiana, or his
agents.
BY Mr.. Saylor, Of Ohio, to provide
for taking testimony by interrogatories
in criminal cases.
BY Mr.. Banning, OF Ohio, to authorize
the Secretary Of War to detail an officer
in connection with the Centennial exhi-
bition.
BY Mr.. Whitley, to allow producers
Of tobacco to sell twenty-five pounds on
the place whore grown, without paying
license tax.
BY Mr.. Caldwell, Of Tennessee, for a
modification OF the law in relation to
dealers, and retail dealers, in leaf
tobacco.
BY Mr.. Dibrell, Of Tennessee, direct
ing the transmission through the mails
Of printed matter, on which postage
paid Is insufficient.
By Mr.. Baker, OF Indiana, to make
b anking free, and to repeal the specie
resumption act.
BY Mr.. Harrison, OF Pennsylvania,
an act. repeating parts OF an act
for resumption specie payments and to
prepare the way for specie payments.
The bill provides for the substitution Of
greenbacks for national bank notes
surrendered, and to require national
banks to retain their gold until the
amount so retained is equal to one-third
OF their circulation. 1t also provides
that the Secretary OF the Treasury shall
annually retain SIG, 900, 600 in coin for the
redemption OF legal tenders and such
amount to be taken from the sinking
fund. When the amount Of gold In the
Sub Treasury of the United States
amounts to one-third OF the legal tenders
in circulation it is made his duty to re-
deem the legal tenders to the amount Of
Of twelve millions annually, using the
gold received from customs for that
purpose. II
By Mr. Regan, of Texas-For the erec-
ton OF Notifications on Galveston
island.
BY Mr.. O'Brien, of Maryland-A joint
resolution OF the Legislature OF Mary
land for the erection OF a fishery at the
Great Falls Of the Potomac.
On motion OF Mr.. Scales, of North
Carolina, the Secretary Of the Interior
was directed to report to the House
what disposition had been made of the
$500, 900 heretofore appropriated for the
captive Indians. Whether the whole
is expended, and il not, whether the De-
partment requires the unexpended bal
ance.
Mr. Robbins, Of Pennsylvania, offered
a resolution, which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means, direct
ing that committee to inquire into the
expediency Of preparing an act directing
the Secretary Of the Treasury to defer
for a limited period the purchase Of gov
ernment bonds before they became due.
Also, to inquire what legislation is ne
cessary to prevent interference with the
funded debt Of the United States
whether it is expedient to recommend
that the Secretary shall not sell gold
after paying the interest on the public
debt, but let it accumulate so as to au-
thorize the exchange Of the excess for
legal tender notes.
On motion OF Mr.. Riddle, of Tennes-
see, the Secretary Of War was directed
to transmit to the House the reports of
the Quartermaster and Commissary
in relation to payments under |
act Of July6, 1864 of certain claims in the
States Of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylva-
mia, the amounts Of such claims as were |
rejected, and also the account OF such |
payment OF such claims in such of the
Southern States as said act applied to.
Mr.. Hale, Of Maine, moved to suspend
the rules and pass a resolution reciting
that the currency now in use among
the people OF the United States
consisted of the national bank
notes and greenbacks; that the latter
was debt of the Government, distribut-
ed among the people, and that the
former was redeemable in greenbacks,
but the United States Treasury has, up
In this time failed to meet it's Ohlipa-