Connecticut western news., 1879-06-25
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
SENATE.


 The Senate discussed the Judicial Ex- penses bill. MT. Blaine strongly inti- mated that the President would veto it. MT. Hereford, of West Virginia, from the Committee on Commerce, reported an amendment in the nature of sub. stitute for the Senate bill to amend the act ot 1793, relating to licensing and en. rolling ships and vessels employed in the coasting trade. Placed on the cal endar.
 There was 8 lively all-day partisan debate ever the Army bill, in which Messrs. Conkl1ng, Withers, Voorhees,, Blaine and others participated.
 The all night session and debate on the Army bill was varied by an exchange of gross personalities between Messrs. Conkling and Lamar. The session closed amidst considerable excitement.
 HOUSE.
 MT. Bennett, of Dakota, from the Com mittee on Public Lands, reported bill extending until Oct. 1, 1880, the pro- visions of the act approved March, 3, 1877, in regard to the grasshopper !" sufferers. Passed. The Legislative Ap- propriation bill was received from the Senate, and, with the Senate amend ments, was referred to the Committee on Appropriations. MT. Buckner, of Mis- souri, Chairman of the Committee on Banking and the Currency, reported bill requiring the reserve of national banking associations to be kept in gold and silver coins of the United States in lieu of lawful money. Ordered printed and recummitted.
 The House concurred in some and honoured in others cf the Senate amendments to the Legislative bill. The bill forbjddiug political assessments was the subject of stormy debate. An at- tempt to act on the bill regarding Fed eral juries was defeated by dilatory motions.
 MT. Stephens's bill for the exchange of trade for standard dollars was dls- cussed by MT. Morton and others. Both houses agreed to the conference report on the Legislative bill.
 The House took up the bill to provide for the exchange of trade dollars for legal tender silver dollars. MT. Stephens, of Georgia, Chairman of the Committee on Coinage, closed the discussion in expla- nation and advocacy of the bill. He de-
  Chinese holders of the trade dollar or of speculators, and asserted that 1t was in the interest of the laboring classes, who received the trade dollar in payment of their wages, and in whose hands it should be worth it's face value. The bill could not ipjure, but would benefit, the Government by giving it dollar of APO grains for one of 4123 grains. The FosN ~E l1,1 pledged to the trade dollar, and the law denonetizing it could not relieve the Government of that pledge. It had been stated in debate that China would send back 2S,000,000 of trade dollars, but was it to be supposed that the Chi naman would exchange APO grains of silver for 4124 grains Never, or hardly ever. Laughter. The heathen Chinee was hardly childlike enough for that. The House then preceded to vote upon the amendments, and the following were adopted: That trade dollars that have been chopped or restamped in China shall be excluded from the provisions of this act. That the trade dollars recoined under this act shall not be counted as part of the coinage of silver authorized by the act of Feb. 28, 1878. The bill was then passed without a division, and the House, at $50 o'clock, adjourned. The following is the text of the bill as passed
 Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause to be exchanged at the Treasury, and at all Sub-Treasuries of the United States, legal-tender silver dollars for trade dollars at par, provided the weight of sad trade dollar has not been reduced below the standard weight and limit of tolerance provided by law for the single piece; and shall recoin the said trade dollar into legal-tender dollars as now provided by law; and shall stop the further coinage of trade dollars; provided, that trade dollars recoined under this act shali not be counted as part of the coinage of silver required by act of Feb. 28, 1878; and provided that trade dollars that have been '' chopped" or restamped for circulation in China or other foreign countries shall be ex- cluded from the provisions of this act.