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w. E. Sims, whose speech, it is alleged,
aided in exciting the riot Of November
3rd, testified yesterday before the Dan
vile subcommittee His testimony was
to the effect that the negroes disarmed
themselves by his advice before the day
of the riot, and that the statements
made in the Danville Circular were false.
In the senate yesterday, Senator Bay
ard offered resolution instructing the
committee on Judiciary to report the eX-
pediency of so amending the cOnstitu-
ton as to secure the objects Of the IXth
amendment and to that end provide
that congress shall not have power to
make anything but gold and silver coin
a legal tender for the payment of debts
nor pass any law impairing the obliga-
ton of contracts.
This resolution was printed and laid
upon the table to be taken up hereafter.
Senator Garland offered a resolution
proposing an amendment to the con
stitution providing that portion Of
the public debt represented by notes
issued as legal tender should never exceed
$3.50, ,00G,0 900 unless the bill providing for
such increase have the concurrence of
two-thirds of each house of congress.
and they bc recorded by yeas and nays
on the journals of each house.
This resolution took the same direction
as Senator Bayard's. The remainder Of
the day was spent in executive session.
In the house, Mr.. Potter and Mr. Hew-
lit both proposed constitutional amend
ments prohibiting congress from making
anything but gold and silver as legal
tender for debts. MIR. Hewitt's proposed
amendment prohibits absolutely, while
Mr.. Potter's gives the power after a dec
laration Of war, when the public safety
requires it.
The speaker laid before the house
message from the president transmitting
a communication from the state depart
ment relative to the Lasker resolution.
Mr.. HiscOck, of New York, offered
resolution which was referred TO the
foreign affairs committee, expressing
the surprise and regret of the house that
it should be even temporarily within the
power of a single too powerful subject
Of Germany, to interfere with such a
simple expression of kindly feeling as
was embraced in the Lasker resolution,
and reiterating the expression of sincere
regret on the part of this house at the
death of Edward Lasker and sympathy
with the parliament of the German en-
pire of which, for so many years, be was
a distinguished member.
Mr.. Tucker introduced bill granting
copyright to newspapers, and limiting
the time of the copyright to eight hours.
The rivers of Virginia, Mississippi and
California are flooding the districts
through which they flow, and causing
great destruction of property,
The treasury department is informed
that foreign brokers are buying trade
dollars at a discount of ten per cent. and
selling them to Immigrants at par
A great alarm exists in the West over
the prevalence of foot and mouth disease
among cattle.
The German minister has formally re-
returned the Lasker resolutions to Secre
tary Frelinghuysen.
General Gordon strongly denOunces
the proposed British expedition to re-
conquer Soudan, and expresses deep
anxiety for the situation at Khartoum.
1t is improbable that the rebels will at
tack Khartoum. They will try to starve
the city into submission.
El Progresso, a newspaper of Madison,
has been confscated on account of its at
tack on King Alfonso.
Survivors of the Sinkat butchery have
arrived at Suakim. They report,,that the
rebels tore the body of Tewfik Bay in
pieces, and devomed his liver.
The foreign office at London, has sent
dispatches to the British minister at
Washington in regard to the dynamite
outrages, The contents of these des-
patches are notyet known.
Over eleven hundred cigar makers are
ON a strike in Cincinnati