Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-14
Forty-Sixth Congress.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 13.

TASd1NGIOA, oau'
 sENArE.-A communication was re- ceived from the Postmaster General recommending various minor deficiency ap- propriations for the year 1S79-80, amounting to $1O1, ,O00.
 Senator Ferry announced that to meet the convenience of many Senators he would not ask the Senate to devote Thursday to the eulogies of ths late Senator Chandler, but would hereafter ask day for that purpose.
 Senator Merrill offered the following reso- lution, which was laid on the table, and he announced his intention to speak upon it Thursday.
 Resolved, That the Committee on Finance be instructed to inquire as to the practicability of refundipg any part of the National debt at less rate than four per cent. interest, and also as to whether or not some effective pro- visions can be made whereby bona fde sub scriptions for sums in moderate amounts may be available and report by bills or otherwise.
 An executive session followed. The doors were reopened at 1:50 p. m.
 At p. n. the Senate again went into exec utive session, and at 2:15 p. m. adjourned.
 HoUsE-Mr. Brewer of Michigan, presented 8 petition of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States for a commission on alcoholic traffic. Ordered printed in the record.
 Mir. Cox, of New York, presented petition of merchants of New York, representing, he said a capital of over $2, 900, ,OOO, in refer ence to trade marks, which was also ordered printed in the record.
 The House in the morning hour resumed the consideration of the resolution reported on Thursday by MT. Wilson, of West Vir- ginia, to print the report submitted by MT. Glover in the 18th Congress from the Com mittee on Expenditures of the Treasury de- pertinent. It appearing, In answer to the question, that Mir. Glover's report was not in the possession of the House, and that the Committee on Printing had never seen it, mittes on Printing, and that committee WAS also directed to inquire how the report got out of the possession of the House and in whose possession it now is.
 MT. Bucknell, of Indiana, from the Com mittee on the Electoral Vote, reported bill to regulate the manner of counting the votes for President and Vice President and decis- ions of questions arising thereon. It was made the special order for Jan. 26. The House at 2:30 p. m. went into Com mittee of the Whole and renewed considera- tion of the rules.
 The new rules were discussed by Messrs Dunnell (Minn.), Lapham CN. Y.) Beebe GIL ), Whitthorne (Tenn. ), Mills (Tex. and Brown (Ind. ), and much more opposition was developed than was originally expected by the Committee on Rules The principal opposi- ton is to that feature which proposes that the Appropriation Committee shall control the river and harbor appropriation bill. The amendment proposed by MT. Hooker the other day to distribute the powers of the Appropri- ation Committee among the different commit tees has met with more general favor than was originally expected, and it looks now as though the report of the committee would be pretty we'll cut up in one form or another. The discussion will be continued tomorrow. The House, at 4:30 p. m., adjourned.