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f. Anderson relating to Senator Matthews, TIA
ken before the House Committee. Agreed to.
Mr.. Morgan made speech favoring the bill
| relating to Presidential elections. lin the
House, the Yellow Fever Epidemic Committee
| and appointments to I'LL vacancies in other
The Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation
bill, after consideration in Committee of
the Whole, passed; The salaries of the
| Ministers to England, France, Germany and
Russia, reported in the bill at $4,000, was, by
| a vote of 9s TO 81 put back to the present fig
ure, 500. The amendment to increase the
| salaries of Ministers to Spain, Austria Italy,
Brazil, Mexico, Japan and China from $4,000
| to sle0 o, and the amendment providing for
Ministers to Belgium and the Netherlands,
| were defeated. The Naval Appropriation
| bill, substantially the same as last year. after
being discussed in Committee OF the WHOLE,
| request of the senate for a copy of Ander
sons testimony was complied with. Ad-
journfdks
InE0D Senate, on the 18th, resolution
ca11l{5g On the Secretary of War for a state
I1ent as TO the arms and equipments issued
| for use by officers of the Treasury and Inte-
rior Department of Justice, where such arms
are now, aud whether any OF them have
been sold. was agreed to; The resolution
submitted DY Mr. Blaine IN regard to the
| inquiry as to whether at the recent elections
the constitutional rights of American citizens
were violated, etc, led to an animated de-
bate, participated in at great length by
Messrs. Blaine, Thurman, Lamar and Ed
munds, the resolution being finally laid
| aside and consideration resumed of the
bill to amend the Patent laws. In
| the House. the only business of Importance
transacted was the passage OF the bill re-
/ ported last year from the Committee on
| Commerce to regulate interstate COM
merce, and prevent discrimination by
iss to iio. The bin makes it unlawful Tor any
person or persons engaged in the transpor-
tation of property by a railroad from one
| State to another. or to or from any foreign
| country, to receive any greater or less
| amount of compensation from one person
| than another for like and cotemporaaeous
| services. 1t also makes it unlawful for any
person so engaged to allow any rebae or
drawback on shipments made by then, or
| enter n combination with another carrier to
prevent the carriage of property from Icing
| continuous, and prohibits the pooling of
| freights.
In the Senate, on the 18th, the HOus, bill
to correct the enrolment I'm the SuHdry Civil
Appropriation bill relating to Hot Springs
passed. and also the Fertilization Approrria:
tion bill and the amendments of the commit
tee increasing the appropriation for the arm
| ament of sea. coast fortihcations, from $685.
coo to S25O, 900. and for the preservation and
repair of tortifications from 10000 to
81 0,000. IL was agreed that a vote on the Ed
| munds bill, in re ard to counting the Eec-
| bill making appropriations for the support
of the West Point Military Academy, alter
being amended in some unimportant par
| ticulars, passed. In the House, a TesOlu-
tion providing for recess from Deeem.
ber 20 to January was adopted
The bill repeating so much of the Civil sun
dry bill as appropriates $50 coo for the claims
of Charles =. Berkert, late Indian Agent ut
the Ponca Agency, passed. A substitute for
the Pension Appropriation bill, after being
discussed in Committee of the Whole, pass
ed. The bill removing the political disabili-
ties of eX-S Senator James Chestnut, of Soath
Carolina, also passed.
In the Senate, on the 18th, petitions, ILLS
and resolutions were filed by numerous SEN.
ators, and at the expiration of the morning
hour consideration was resumed of the bill
in regard to the count of the Electoral vote
by a vote of s5 to 26, as follows: Yeas-sIessrs.
hllison. Anthony, Bayard. Blaine, Booth,
Mis a%e5Gn odnttnp DaSs
m, Dawes, ,Edmunds, Ferry. Ham
KirkwooS. McMilisn. Mathew, s Merfi%SSss., MfiHSSs,
Patterson, Plumb, Rollins, Saunders, Teller,
Wadleigh, Windom-35. Ndps-Messrs. Ann
strong, Bailey, Beck, Butler, Coke, Davis,
Grover, Harris. Hereford, Hill. Jones, Fla,
Herman, Lamar, McCreery, Mcdonald, Max.
ey, Randolph, Ransom. Thurman, soor.
House, the resolution looking to the
investigation of the Official conduct of ]. j.
! Davenport, United States Supervisor OF
Elections at New York, ON the days of regls.
tration, was adopted without objection AM
bills on the Speakers table since last session
with two exceptions, were taken up aud re
, amending the act making approp-lationsfoT
the service OF the Government for the tscal
: year ending june 80. lsI3. passed. Il inciades
accounts for service of laborers, ETC., EN-
: ployed by the Government between the 18th