Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21
UNITED STATES CONGRESS.
SENATE,

An animated debate took place on haz- ing and the treatment of colored cadets at West Point, in which Messrs. Voor- hees, Bruce and Hoar took the chief part. The Ute agreement was further discussed, and the amendment of Mir. Dawes regarding the education of the Ute youth, and several other amend ments, were adopted.
 | A bill was introduced by MT. Bruce | (Rep. Miss. to reimburse colored depos- itors for losses incurred by the failure of the Freedman's Bank. The Geneva Award bill was informally taken up for the purpose of allowing MT. Mcdonald | !lDem., ind. to speak upon it. He sup | ported his proposed substitute for the bill reported by the Committee on Judiciary. The substitute makes the first class of | claims those resulting from damages by | Confederate cruisers the second class, l claims for 2 per cent additional interest on former awards the third class, claims for reimbursement for Wal risks. It also allows interest at instead of per cent. on judgments hereafter rendered. He contended that the Award Fund is a National indemnity collected by the United States as a nation from Great Britain as a ration. It was not merely an award fer damages, but satisfaction of national claim
 The bill to carry out the Ute agree ment was passed yeas 37, nays Is.
 Messrs. David Davis, Hoar, Blaine, Thurman and Bayard took part in an animated discussion of the Geneva award bill. During the discussion Mir. Blaine said The foreign trade of New York for the quarter ending June 30, 1860, was $92, 100000 of which $62, 100000 was carried in American bottoms and $3O, GOO, ,O00 in foreign bottoms. This state of things rapidly changed as the war continued, for 1t appears that for the quarter ending June 30, 1863, the total amount of the foreign trade of New York was $S8, ,O00, ,000, of which only $30, ,O0O,- 0O0 was carried in American vessels and | $65, ,000, ,000 in foreign vessels. This was | caused by the heavy war premiums American bottoms were obliged to pay. You see, therefore, that a complete revolution must have taken place in the 1 value of American shipping. The whole of that loss fell directly on the American | shipmasters and owners.
 The Senate passed bill providing for the sustenance of certain starving Apa- ches. Mir. Voorhees, made some remarks in favor of pensioning the survivors of the Mexican war; MT. Call argued against the Geneva Award bill of the committee and the Diplomatic Appropri- ations bill was amended and passed
 Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, explained his bill to repeal certain laws regarding permanent appropriations bill to pay George Law a sum of money which was awarded to him by United States court i'll Louisiana in 1858 was discussed and passed, and there was long debate on the Geneva Award bill in the course of which MT. Bayard rebuked Mir. Blaine.
 The resolution of Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania, which was favorably re- ported to the Senate by the Commerce Committee, provides for the appointment of 8 Commission, to consist of three Sen- ators, three representatives and three per sons appointed by the President, to in- quire into matters of railroad transporta- tion between the States, is nearly identi- cal with the bill passed through the I House in the last Congress, but which was smothered in the Senate Committee.
 The House spent nearly it's entire ses- sion Thursday in Committee of the |. Whole in col sideration of whether the EaInoldment to the Army bill forbiddino