The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-15
LyTHCoNGREss..ExTRY SESSION

leave to offer q resolution providingfor the
reconciliation of silver. Objected to.
Consideration was resumed of the bill for
the repeal of the Resumption Act. After
discussion as to the proposed terms for the
management and consideration of the bill
Mr.. Kelly proposed to offer a resolution
making it a special order for Tuesday next,
and until Thursday, 18th, when the previous
question was to be ordered, but Mr.. Willis
objected absolutely to the resolution being
received, inasmuch as he regarded the bill
as an assault upon the National credit.
The remainder of the morning hour was
used up in voting on motions to adjourn,
and the bill went over till the next morning
hour. Bills were introduced: For the
monetization of silver and the %recoinage of
the standard silver dollar. Referred; for
amending the Constitution so as to elect a
President and Vice-President by the direct
vote of the people; authorizing the coinage
of the silver dollar. A bill for the free
coinage of a standard silver dollar was
introduced by Mr.. Beckner, and was, on
motion of Mr.. Stephens. after discussion,
referred to the Committee on Coinage,
rather than to the Banking COMMITTEE
Adjourned till Monday.
NOVEMBER 5.-House-The Bland bill for
the reconciliation of silver was passed by a
vote of 1913 to "a. The votes In its favor
McfC bOlluly lIOm tuc hCoL anu DOutu, anu
the opposition was from New England and
the Middle States. Mr.. Ewing's bill, for the
repeal of the resumption act, 1t was agreed,
bya vote of 14s yeas to AZ nnys, should be
brought up for discussion every day at three
o'clock Until Tuesday, November Ii, when
the previous question will be moved and the
measure put to q final vote. Governor
Bishop was on the floor of the House.
NOVEMBER 6.-House-The first discus
sion of the Resumption bill was held on
Tuesday last, until the 18th isgiyen fer de-
late, when the question will be pressed to a
final vote. BANDS silver bill will be pressed
ON the Senate by Senator Booth of Califor-
MIA, butt is thought that IL 1t passes that
body the President will veto it. A rear
rangement of all the Senate Committees of
which Mr.. Morton was a member will be
made next week. Mr.. Voorhees, will take
his seat Monday, the 18th inst. Senator
Blaine still remains at home i'll, and will not
resume his duties for two weeks.
NOVEMBER Representative Baker. of
Indiana, introduced a bill providing for the
issue of $500, 10000 of legal tender-notes,
which shall be redeemable on demand in
coin by the treasury, and which shall be
taken at par in payment of all debts, public
or private, unless in case where, by express
contract, p~aymentin goldhas been provided
for. The bill was referred to the Banking
and Currency Committee. 1t is reported
that Col. Bob. IngersolPs name has been
sent to the Senate as Minister tc
Germany. Senator Voorhees, has
t~elegraphed that he will take
his seat oil Saturday. 1t is probable thai
the appropriations for the support of the
army viii be made speedily, now that the
elections are over. Much distress is re
ported among officers and men for lack Of
money. The House Committee on Rail
roads has Under consideration d scheme fol
building a double track, steel fail freight
road from Council Bluffs, Iowa, to New
York, In order to enable the West to com
pete with Russia and other grain producing
countries in the markets of Europe.
NOVEMBER 8.-Sendte-Mr. Edmunds sub
mitted a resolution ~instructing the Com
mittee on the Judiciary to inquire and re
port whether any legislation is necessary in
order to authorize the payment, out of any
moneys received or to be received from tht
Republic of Mexico or otherwise, to Ameri
can claimants, under awards made by thu
commission created under a treaty between
the United States and that republic, ratifi
cations whereof were exchanged on tn,
LIST of February, 1869. Agreed to
A resolution submitted by Mr.. Maxey
calling upon the President for informa
ton in regard to the rescue of prisoner
from the Star County (Texas) jail, by out
laws from Mexico, in August last, wa
taken up and passed.. -. Housc-The House
at II 10 o'clock, went into Committee o
the Whole on the Army Appropriation Bill
a long debate enstied, in which some mem
bers favored an increase and others a de
crease of the army; but the Committee ros
without action.
NOVEMBER 9.-Senate-Among bills intro
duced were the following: In relation t.
the jurisdiction of the District Court in tn
Territory of Utah in matters of diyorc
Preferred to the Committee on the judi
ciary); giving the District Court of Utah e1
elusive original jurisdiction in all divorc
proceedings, and transferring all processe
and proceedings now pending in the Pre-
bate Courts to the District Court 1.-THE bill
provides for an appeal from the final decii
ion of the District Court to the Suprem
Court of the Territory, and repeats all law
; of the Territory inconsistent with the act
customs in legal tender note
{ .........H ouse-The army bill was taken u
in Committee of the Whole, and Nj
Schleicher, Democrat from Texas, succeede
in defeating the Appropriation COMMITTEE,
: by getting an amendment adopted provit
ing that the army shall be recruited up t
twenty-five thousand men. The Republica
and Democratic delegation for Texas vote
! solid in favor of the amendment, and it wa
adopted by a vote of 122 to ia. The opp,
: nents entertain hopes that the amendmer
can be defeated in the House when reporte
e from the Committee of the Whole.
Later in the afternoon, the Democrat
rallied in the House, and persuaded men
bers of the Texas delegation to support a
amendment providing that the army sha
not be increased above what it was on th
first of November, except cavalry regimen
. for service in Texas, which shall be r
sruited up to their full quota. This W,
J adopted by a vote of 125 to 115. NJ
Schleicher said he was satisfied this amen,
e ment would afford ample protection to IL
Mexican border, but at the expense of IL
infantry regiments in other parts of tt
country.
NOVEMBER 10.-House-Went into cor
mittee of the whole, Mr.. Cox, of New Yorl
in the chair, on the Army Appropriate
Bill, the pending amendment being one Q
fered by MIR. Crittenden, limiting the r
c~ruiting in the cavalry and infantry to IL
d number in service on the LIST inst. Mr.. Cri
tenden's amendment was rejected by 104
e III. Mr., Culbertson offered an amendmel
e that four cavalry regiments be recruited
q one hundred men to each company, whiC
force shall be employed in the defense
the Mexican and Indian frontier of Texa
a Adopted, ia to liz, after being amende
on motion of Mr.. Clymer, thus, that recrui
t. ing of enlisted men shall be limited
II twenty thousand, of which four full reg
" ments of cavalry shall be kept upon ii
L Mexican frontier. An amendment offer,
by Mr.. Hooker, prohibiting the use
troops to suppress instruction or preser'
order in any State, except on the demaI
lf the IaUIslatnrA nr Executive pq-