The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-28
The Senate Wrestles with Mr.. Sher-
mans Bill...A number OF Amend
ments Proposed and Discussed.
The Fate of the Same.
The Lower House Occupied for the
Most Part with Bills of n Private
and Personal Nature.
What the New York Evening Post
Says as to "Futures"... Liverpool
Cotton Circular.
The Gibbons Family Murdercrs on
Trial-.-The Stock Market.
The Hangman's Moose and Cap..Crimes
and Casualties.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Other Foreign and Domestic News.
Forty-Seventh Congress.

10 o'clock resumed consideration of the
Sherman Three Per Cent. Bond Bill.
After discussion, the amendment of Mr..
Davis, of West Virginia, striking out the
time feature of new bonds, and making
them payable at any time ut the option of
the government, was carried; 80 ayes, 26
nays.
Mr.. Sherman moved to amend so as TO
make the bonds redeemable at the pleasure
Of the government at any time after 1886.
Mr.. Harris offered an amendment pro-
viding that the new issue shall be three
year bonds, which was adopted-ayes, 80; /;
nays, 26.
An amendment was offered by Mr. Sher-
man, allowing subscriptions to be made at
postal money y-order offices, upon the post
master giving additional bond, which was
agreed to.
Mr.. Sherman's amendment, as mod
flied, to provide for three year bonds,
was lost-yeas, 25; nays, SO.
The Senate then took up Mr.. Vests
amendment, which makes the proposed
issue of SO, 900 900 Of oper cent. bonds, the
sole basis for an increase of circulation by
any National bank now in existence,
or for circulation of any National
bank hereafter established.
Mr.. Pugb submitted amendments modi-
flying the provisions of Mr.. Vests amend
ment as follows
sion that it shall apply only to banks here
after organizing or increasing their capital.
Second: Striking out the provision
which forfeits the charter ofa National bank
if it keeps bonds or deposits after they have
ceased to bear interest
Third Making sections $3.50 and 516O of
the Revised Statues, which Vests amend
ment re-enacts, apply only to the new 3 per
cents.
The discussion following was participated
in by Mr.. Hill of Georgia, Messrs. Pugh
Beck and Hawley, when it was agreed to
defer the vote until the amendments as pro-
posed 10 be amended, together with the
sections repealed and re-enacted thereby
could be printed.
Upon this agreement the bill was in
formally laid aside.
! Pending motion for an executive session
Mr.. Butler introduced bill for public
building at Greenyille, South Carolina.
Mr.. Ferry introduced bill granting a
pension to certain Union soldiers and sailors
ofthe war of the rebellion, who were con-
fined in so-called Confederate prisons.
Messages from the President were re-
tclNtu, tidilSiulilluS u luTlueT report from
the Secretary of State embodying the pur-
port of recent telegram of the Special En-
voy of the United States setting forth the
conditions of peace presented by Chill,
Also, further response to Senate resou-
ton calling for correspondence touching
notifications of the Cayton-Bulwer
Treaty. Referred to the Committee on
Foreign Relations.
At 400 p. IN, after an executive session OF
thirty minutes, the Senate adjourned until
Monday.
The following is the full text ofMr. Da-
Wis amendment The bonds herein author.
lied shall not be called in and paid so long
as any bonds of the United States hereto.
fore issued bearing q higher rate of interest
than per centum, and which are redeema.
bic NJ the pleasure of the United States
shall be outstanding; the last of said bonds
issued under this act shalt be called in first
and this order of payment shall be followed
until all shall be paid.
HOUSE.
| Townsend offered resolution calling
on the Secretary of the Interior for iniOr.
nation on file in his department relative "a
charges that the Mormons are melting the
Piutes and Navojoes Indians in Arizona Ia
outbreaks and lawlessness. Adopted.
The Speaker then proceeded to call upon
committees for reports.
Under this call few private bills were
reported and placed on the calendar and
the House then, at 2:i0 y. M, went into
Committee of the Whole, Townsend OF
Ohio, in the chair, on the private calendar
At o'clock the comnittee rose and the
House passed number OF private bills.
Caswell, of Wisconsin, from the Commit.
tee on Appropriations, reported the Post
office Appropriation Bill and II was referred
to Committee of the Whole.
Randall inquired when the bill would be
called up for action. There was great dc.
sire among many members to investigate
the bill pretty thoroughly.
Caswell stated that he would call II up on
Wednesday, next.
Prescott, of North Carolina, from the
Committee on the Census reported the Ap
portionment Bill, Referred to the Hous,
calendar.
Colerick, of Indiana, presented minor
ity report-same reference last named
The Speaker laid before the House
message from the President transmitting
IN further response to House resolution oil
the 9th inst, the report of the Secretary
of State in relation to the purport of recen
kilograms from the Special Envoy of IN,
United States, setting forth the condition,
of peace presented by Chilli Also com
nsunication from the Secretary of the Nu
Wy, In answer to resolution of the House
calling for information relative to certain
lands and harbors known as the Chiriqu,
grant
The House, then, at i.25 p. M, adjourned
till Monday.
CONFIRMATION.
The Senate In executive session to.dn,
confirmed the nomination of Il. X. John
as Coiner at the New Orleans Mint.
Hanged
NEW ORLEANS, January 2I.--Just before 9
o'clock to-day August Davis, colored, wa
hanged at the parish prison, for an indecen
assault on white woman In the suburbs o
this city OH the 10th OF october last. Davi
asserted to the last that he was innocent o
the crime for which he was tried, but h
was not sorry togo. A drop Of nine fee
failed to break the culprit's neck aud b,
died Of strangulation, though almost with
out = struggle.
RALEiuu, N. c., January 2I.-John Aler
lander Morris, colored, was hanged here to