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to provide for the temporary In
crease of the army In emergency; !;
by Conkling, by request. to amend
the1aws relating to pensions. This
bill concerns fees for attorneys. 1t
is claimed that the present regula-
tions prevent those entitled to psu-
sious from securing the services of
respectable attorneys.
| Morrill,, from the Committee on
| Finance, reported favorably the
Senate bill to authorize the Issue of
duplicates of the registered bond,
stolen from the Manhattan Savings
Institution, New York city.
| Passed.
Beck called up the House bill to
repeal so much of the sundry civil
appropriation bill for The present
fiscal year as appropiiates to Chas
z. Byrkett, 49, 500. late Indian
agent at the Ponca agency and
moved that it be referred to the
Committee on Approp' i.tions.
Gordon introduced bill to securA
the more efficient collection of the
revenue on cigars. Referred.
At the expiration of the morning
hour consideration was resumed III,
The bill in regard tn the count of
the electoral vote, aud Bayard
spoke in Its favor.
Blaine's election resolutions pass
ed. Ayes 35; nays 26. Blaine
moved to tuke up the resolution
submitted by him the first day o!
the session, in regard to citizen.
being deprived of their constitu
tional rights, so that it would bt
unfi nished business Monday.
Wadleigh OF jected, and said that
Senate Bill to revise, consolidate
and amend the statutes relating tt
patents had precedence.
Blaine said if his resolution was
to pass, il was important that il be
passed before the holidays.
Wadleigh sail the resolution
would lead to discussion, while the
Patent Bill would not.
, Blaine said that Senator Wad.
leigh did not Know that the resolu.
lion would provoke discussion.
WadIeigh novel 10 adjourn.
Blaine, Edmund5 and Others on the
Republican side raised objections
aud called for the yeas aud nays.
The motion to adj lurn was agreed
to. Yeas 81, nays &C. Bpoth,
Davis, Of Illinois, Ingalls, and Wad
leigh voting with the Dem norats
in the affirmative. Adjourned till
Monday.
HousE-A resolution looking to
az investigation of the official con-
duct of J. j. Davenport, United
States Supervisor Of Elections at
New York, was adopted without
objection after being amended so
as to make the Investigation eX-
tend to his conduct on day of regis
tration.
Shelley, from the G ,mmittee on
Railways aud Canals, reported II
bill To authorize the Washington,
Cincinnati and st. Louis Railroufi
Company to construct q narrow
gauge railroad from ii le.water to
st. Louis aud CHICAGO. Recon-
mitted.
K-nna, rising to a personal ex-
plananatiOu, referred To the sweep
ing charges made in the public
press against members of the Com
mittee on Enrolled Bills for drunk
enuess at The clnse of last session.
He denounced such charges AS un,
qualifieily false and filed slate.
ments of the Speaker and other of
fi.ers Of the House in support Gi
his remaik ks.
The bulls on the Speakers table
since last session We're taken III
aud referred to committe IS, except
where objections were made, as
was the bil: 10 repeal the resump.
ZION act and the hiil tn extend the
time for constructing the Northern
Pacific II ,ilroad. These bulls sti
remain on the Speakers table. The
Speaker then proceeded to call the
Committee OH Claims.
The reported biil. originally in.
troduced by Phillips, OF Kansa>,
amending the act making an ap-
preparation for the service OF the
government for the fiscal year end
ing June 81, 1877, was passed. 1t
inc u,ies in the settlemen! provided
for in that bill all accounts for the
| oSi NANSS W. WV Sib phy CN'
by the government between the
l9lh of May, 1859, aud the date
when luli payment was com N snce,i
for eight hours work by act ap-
proved May 6lh, when 1t shall he
made to appear that the reduction
In the hours of labor was the caus G
Of the reduction in wages.
The House then went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Private
Calendar. The first bill on the
calendar was the bill for eiinhuls
ing the college of William and
Mary for property destroyed dur
lug The late war.
keifer opposed the passage of the
bill, saying that lie did so withoui
any desire or intent of keeping
alive the ill-will engendered b.
the late war, though the fact shou Id
not be lost sight of that the collest +
was desl royed by a war brought on
: in part by it's own teachings, auc
that no record showed that a single
student of that institution had en-.
tered the Union army. He opposed
it because there was no lega
| 6tpu'u iOt VIC Buy tueUJ vi tuC
claim and denied that there wa.
any precedent for such payment.
Eden would not vote for the bill
because it might establish n prece
dent. The committee then ros,
without action.
Wilson, Of West Virginia. intro
duced bill making the trade dol
lar legal tender. Referred,
Gibson introduced joint resolu
ton giving notice to terminate tn,
convention OF June, 1916, with th,
King OF the Hawaiian Isles. Re
ferred.
Adjourned.
Farther Parricu,Nrs of the Ne
braska B,rbsrity.
| OMAHA, Neb., Dec. l3th.-Latel
developments show that the burn.
ing OF Mitchell aud Ketchum, in
| Custer cOuntV "a tplpura N IA al va-