Litchfield enquirer., 1878-02-21
CONGRESSIONAL.

The Senate Finance Committee have voted to report the House bill repeating the Resump- tion act favorably.
 Senate. On Tuesday of last week resolu- tions of the Ohio legislature were presented favoring the Bland bill and the payment of the debt interest in silver, and most of the time of the Senate was taken up with discus sion of the Silver bill.
 On Wednesday the resolution declaring any reduction of the tobacco and liquor taxes in- advisable, was discussed.-Discussion of the Bland bill followed.
 On Thursday the resolution against the re- duetion of liquor and tobacco taxes was adopt ed, 30 to 9.-Discussion on the Bland bill pro ceeded.
 On Friday the Silver bill was again up. McLamar gave his reasons for disregarding the instructions of his state legislature. The Senate continued it's session all night, the final vote being taken at 5 a. m. Saturday morning. The roll call on the passage of the bill was as follows
 Yeas.-Messrs Allison, Armstrong, Bailey, Beck, Booth, Bruce, Cameron of Pennsylva- mia, Cameron of Wisconsin, Chaffee, Cockrell, Coke, Conover, Davis Of Illinois, Davis ot West Virginia, Dennis, Dorsey, Eustis, Ferry, Garland Gordon, Glover, Hereford, Howe, h. gals, Johnston, Jones of Florida, Jones of Ne vada, Kellogg, Kirkwood, McCreery. McDon' aid, McMillan, Matthews, Maxey, Merrimon, Morgan, Oglesby, Paddock, Plumb, Saulsbu ry, Saunders, Spencer, Teller, Thurman, Voorhees,, Wallace, Windom, Withers.-48 Nays-Messrs. Anthony, Barnum, Bayard, Blaine, Burnside, Christiancy, Conkling, Dawes, Edmunds, Hamlin, Hoar, Kernan, Lamar, McPherson, Mitchell, Morrill,, Ran dolph, Rollins, Sargent, Wadleigh, Whyte.- 21.
 On Monday Senator Whyte made speech against Indian citizenship.-A large number of bills and petitions were presented House.-On Tuesday of last week the West Point appropriation bill was under discussion but no action was taken.-The remainder ot the session was devoted to speeches of recep ton of Carpenters picture of the Signing o1 the Emancipation proclamation, made by Gen Garfield and Hon. H. H. Stephens. On Wednesday the pension bill was report ed. It restores to the roll names stricken of for dislovalty.-The West Point bill then came up The discussion thereupon wandered of into personalities between Mir. Hewitt of New York, and Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, ane into an excited row over the alleged bargain at the ime of the electoral count. On Thursday, after more personal discussion about the electoral count and the Louisiana prosecutions, the speaker read communica tion from the Secretary of the Treasury snow ing decrease of five millions in the internal revenue receipts of the past year. After some discussion of the finances and more of the right of the Secretary of the Treasury to present his | views to the House, consideration of the Wes Point bill was resumed and the bill passed with an amendment providing that the mum Der of graduates needed in the army should be taken in the order of their standing and the rest discharged. pension bill was ther discussed and opposed by Republicans as like ly to lead to unnecessary expense. On Friday there was "a spirited discussion over bill requiring payment of certain South ern mail contractors for claims accruing just before the war.-Adjourned till Monday.
 On Monday bill passed providing for { l new assessment in the District of Columbia. a.- The Silver league have decided to have thu Bland bill referred to the Bank committee fo l amendment --