Connecticut western news., 1880-06-16
UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
SENATE.

UNITED STATES CONGRESS-.
 SENATE.
 The Senate adopted resolution con- tinuing the Wallace committee on Elec- tion Frauds and authorizing it to sit dur ing the vacation. The House bill au- thorizing the appointment of an officer of the navy or marine corps as Solicitor and Judge Advocate General with the rank and pay of captain in the navy, or colonel in the Marine corps was passed.
 The Senate passed the bill making the compensation of night inspectors of cus- toms 8 per night instead of g.. The bill appropriating $251, ,O0O to reimburse the Creek Orphan Fund was also passed. The bill granting $50 pension monthly to the widow of General Heintzelman was reported favorably.
 The Senate bill ratifying the Ute agreement with the amendments of the House was passed under suspension of the rules, 174 to 15. The Senate passed bill to reduce the price of public lands within railroad limits from $2. 50 to $1. 25 per acre. The Kellogg -Spofford resolu- tions were discussed. Mr. Beck, from the Committee on Appropriations, re- ported, with amendments, the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The section of the House bill prohibiting Government suits against timber trespassers on pub- lie lands prior to March l, 1869, which reduces from $2.50 to $1.25 per acre lands the price of which has been raised Def re the passage of this act, was tricken out and the bill was passed.
 The Senate discussed the amendments to the Sundry Civil Service bill and ment devoting $1O, ,O0O of the census ap- propriation to the expenses of obtaining statistics as to the number of citizens denied suffrage by State laws was still under debate when the Senate adjourned.
 The Senate devoted the day to the con- sideration of the River and Harbor bill and adopted most of the Appropriations Committees amendments, but did not finally act on the bill.
 The Senate amended the House con- current resolution providing for the final adjournment of Congress on June 10, substituting June Is. The House sub sequently concurred in the amendment. The Senate also concurred in the confer ence report of the Post-Office Appropri- ation bill. The amendment reported by the Committee on the District of Colum- bia repeating the statute requiring police appointees to be ex-soldiers of the civil war was adopted by party vote, except MT. Davis Qll.), who voted "No." On motion of MT. Morgan, of Alabama, the appropriation for the completion of the chronological commission was increased from $15, 5,000 to $25, ,000.
 The Senate passed bills to erect 8 monument at the battlefield of Benning- ton and to place classic antiquities on the free list, an amendment being adopted admitting free also salt to be used in corning meat for exportation. The House bill in regard to cut hoops was likewise passed, and the Sundry Civil bill, after it had been amended by the addition of large number of items A proposition to provide in 1t for clerk to the Revolutionary Claims Committee was rejected.
 The House voted to lay on the table the motion to reconsider the vote con- curing in the Senate's amendment striking out the proviso relative to re- letting the star routes. MT. Wood, of New York, gave notice that he would not call up the Funding bill before the first Wednesday of December. A bill repeating the act extending the Voelter patent for the wood pulp process was laid on the table having beed adversely reported.
 A large number of small bills were passed, and the Speakers table was cleared of everything except the Deputy Marshals bill, the Electoral Count reso- lution and the Election. General Single ton, of Illinois, made an attempt to get the House to consider the Interoceanic Canal resolutions, but was obliged to defer action till next week.
 In the House joint resolution author. izing levy of 35 per cent. ad valoren on cut-hoops and barrel-hoops entered prior to March 12, 188O, and imported in the States prior to January 1, 1880 and refunding the amount of any dutie. in excess of that amount paid since March 12, was passed. The bill fixing duty of 25 cents per bushel on barley malt was passed
 The House went into committee ol the Deficiency bill, and MT. Reagan
 spoke on interstate commerce, MT. Hoa
 made a speech and the silver question
 was discussed by Messrs. Chittenden
 Kelly and others. An amendment wa
 adopted providing that the salaries o
 Representatives should be paid in silver
 MT. Cox, from the Committee on For eign Affairs, reported bill to the Hous referring the claim of the Benj Veil an, La Abra Mining Company to the Cour of Claims tor investigation into tn charges offraud by Mexico. The Hous
 passed resolution yielding to the wishe of the Senate on the question of tn salaries of the Senate employees, an, the bill was sent back to the conferenc committee. The conference report ol the River and Harbor Appropriatio bill, which appropriates about $4OO, % more than was originally granted by tn House, was agreed to by that body. MI Tucker, of Virginia, made a motion t
 go into Committee of the Whole wit the intention of considering the Tari
 bills, but Mr. Kelley's motion to talk from the Speakers table the adjourn ment resolution was carried and tn House soon afterwards adjourned. The conference report on the Rive and Harbor bill was agreed to. M Tucker Oem., Va moved that tn House go into committee on the tari bills. The Republicans refused to vot' leaving the House without quorum , and MT. Tucker, to avoid obstructin business, withdrew his motion.
 A TRUE SToRY.-This was an actui : occurrence in Pittsburg restaurant tl other day. One of those fellows who al eccentric because they imagine they al wits, sat down, looked over the bill (