Connecticut western news., 1879-01-29

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 the Halifax Commission. He advocated
 the right of Americans to fish every
 where with or without treaties, ant
 moved that the matter be referred to tn,
 Committee on Foreign Relations for con
 sideration. This motion was carriei without opposition. It is proposed that
 the Secretary of State shall now for mally present to the British Government statement showing that we are losing $ | good deal of money by the treaty and the arbitration, and that it would be only fair to let us out of what has proved to be Q bad bargain, without waiting until 1885.
 General Sherman writes to General | Sheridan that the latter's answer to Sec | retary Schurz's former communication on the Indian question was all-suficient and perfectly satisfactory to the Secre- tary of War, that MT. Schu1z's rejoinder was addressed to the public, and in no manner calculated to improve the con- dition of the Indians, and that contro- versy should end.
 SENATE.
 MT. Salisbury offered a comprehen- slve resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for information regard ing all his dealings with bankers and syndlcates in regard to bonds. The bill to revise the pension laws was discussed and action was taken on some of the amendments.
 In the Senate resolutions which had been agreed on in caucus of the Dem- ocratic Senators were offered as sub- stitute for those introduced by MT. Ed munds regarding the validity of the three last amendments to the Constitu- tion. The bill to revise the Patent laws was taken up, amended and reported as from the Committee of the Whole. In executive session MT. Edmunds offered 8 resolution, which Mir. Dawes seeond- ed, looking to the abrogation of those clauses of the Washington treaty which relate to the fisheries. MT. Grover Oem., Oregon) reported a bill to ascer- tain and report the losses of citizens of Oregon and the Territories of Idaho and Montana on account of the destruction of property by hostile Indians during the year 1878. Referred to the Commit tee on Military Affairs. A bill was in- troduced to provide uniform National currency to retire the notes of the Ma tional banks, and provide for the ex- change of the new Treasury notes in coin.
 The Senate discussed bill authoriz- ing the Secretary of the Interior to de- posit moneys held by him for various Indian tribes in the Treasury, the Gov ernment to pay thereon per cent. in- terest. The Naval Appropriation bill was reported to the Senate and the con- mittee's amendments agreed to. MT. Blaine gave notice of important amend ments looking to reorganization of the navy.
 The Senate passed the House bill au- thorizing the Secretary of the Treasury, in refunding the public debt, to ex- change directly at par the bonds of the United States bearing interest at four per cent, authorized by law, for the bonds of the United States commonly known as fve-twenties, outstanding and uncalled and whenever all such five twenty bonds shall have been redeemed, the provisions of this section, and all existing provisions of law authorizing the refunding of the national debt, shall apply to any bonds of the United States bearing interest at five per cent, or a higher rate, which may be redeemable. In any exchange made under the pro- visions of this section, interest may be allowed on the bonds redeemed for @ period of three months. The Senate also passed the Naval appropriation bill. During it's discussion Mir. Blaine Rep.) of Maine, made 8 speech which attracted much attention. He said Congress has limited the number of men of the navy to 7,500, and for that 7,500 men we have a total of 2,020 of- fcers, or one officer to 8 little over three men. We had 91 vessels and 38 in com mission. The British navy, which has 320 steam vessels and total of 494 ves- sels, had ,990 officers with something over 60, ,000 men. That Government had in commission about 243 vessels, and available for service quite five times as many as we have. It had nine or ten times as many sailors, and five times as many ships, but only about two and ane- half times as many officers as we have. The French navy had 1,529 line officers, and in point of number of vessels that navy was almost as large as the British navy. Of course, all knew it was not so effective. For the great navy of Great Britain, the largest and most effective in the world, there were two great navy yards and two subordinate ones. France had three great yards and two subor- dinate ones while we, on six degrees of coast latitude, had seven navy yards. The pay of the officers of our navy on the active list amounted to over $3, 822, ,000, annually for those on the retired list $645, ,000, while the pay of petty officers and seamen amounted to but $2, 300, ,000 per annum. We stood to-day furnishing almost as much ocean freight as any two countries in the world, and gaining nothing from it, or so little that it only served to point the moral. for freight, and he (Mr. Blaine) said to the Chairman of the Committee on Finance (Mr. MorilD that it would not be possible thing for this country to maintain specie resumption with that draft upon its resources. He spoke of the resumption of specie payments in 1857, and said we resumed upon freight money which laid to the credit of American commerce in Europe. In the last ten years we had sent and brought between $11, 1000, 100000 and $12, 1000, 900, 900 worth of products, and the freight, with the passengers attached thereto, paid over $1,- 100, 100000. Out of that the European nations got $9O0, ,OO0, ,OOO, yet we continued appropriating for our navy to protect commerce which did not exist. He asked that Congress would give to the revival of commerce some part of the sum now being wasted on navy. He believed &, ,O0O, GOO or s5, ,OOO,- 900 could be taken from the navy with out impairing its efficiency, and this $4, 900, 900 or $5, ,000, 900 would turn $5O,- 900, 900 into our cofers. What advan- tage was given to man by issuing to him an American register for foreign built ship? MT. Vanderbilt was now establishing line of steamships to run to Europe in connection with his rood