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1 Revenue Taxes-Am Effort to Repeal Bank Cheek Taxation Defeated-Judge | Woods Promotion - Transportation of Mails in American VesseIs-A Cold Day l for Payne's Invaders-Other Matters. l WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.-The vote in the Price from the Committee on Banking and | Currency to repeal the tax on bank checks shows that the high tariff members favor the abolition of certain ainternal taxes which do not yield a large revenue. There were 13O votes in favor of the bill to 68 against it, l and if there had not arisen dispute as to which of the two committees (Ways and Means or Banking and Currency) properly has jurisdiction of the subject the necessary two-thirds vote to pass the bill might have been obtained. Many high tariff men will vote not only to remove the tax from bank checks, but to also abolish the tax on match es, proprietary medicines, cosmetics, &c. The revenue derived from the sale of stamps by the internal revenue bureau is about $15, ,OOO,- GOO. The argument of the high tariff men who will vote to abolish this taxation is that after such concession no attempt to lower the duties on imports will be tolerated.
 The Judiciary committee considered to-day the nomination of w. B. Woods to the asso- ciate justiceship, of the Supreme Court in place of Strong, resigned. No action was taken on the nomination. There is little doubt but what Mir. Woods will be confirmed. There is some objection to him on the ground that he is native of Ohio instead of the State from which he was appointed. The Judiciary committee has received a number of petitions from lawyers and prominentmen in the South asking that Judge Woods be confirmed The President is anxious that the Senate take action on the case at once Jus tice Swayne cannot resign until MT. Strong's successor is confirmed, as to do so would leave the court without working quorum.
 The House Committee on Postofices and Post Roads will consider MT. Shelly's bill to extend American commerce by paying extra compensation for the transportation of mails in American built steamers immediately after the holidays. The bill will probably be re- ported favorably from the committee. The original bill provides that mail shall be car ried in American built iron screw steamers of certain tonnage. MT. Shelly has prepared an amendment to the bill removing the re- striction to iron and as to the propul- sion of vessels by screw propellers, making side wheel steamers equally competent to per
 
 A determined effort was made this morning to secure Congressional action for the bene- fit of the army of men and women and chll- dren encamped on the borders of the Indian Territory waiting to cross over into i the forbidden lands. Resolutions were ln- troduced in the Senate and House declaring that the lands in the Indian Territory to which the Indian title had been extingulshed and which are unoccupied by Indians are public lands of the United States subject to pre-emption and settlement, In the Senate the resolution was immediately laid on the table, a similar bill being on the calendar There is not the slightest chance for the h pill to pass the Senate. In the House the hopes of the friends of the reso- lution were dashed at once: It IS well understood that the Committee on h. dian Affairs is hostile to the proposed lnva- sion of the Territory. The friends of the resolution therefore demanded it's reference to the Committee on Public Lands. The House refused to so refer it by a vote of IA to 68 It is evident that Colonel Payne's army can obtain neither relief nor sympathy from Congress, and it's members should re- turn peaceably to their homes