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SRNATE. * ; ooit'anastoSAr. - srzstn' ni's• The rusolation instructing Congreaa.. men against -further grants of lands or bonds to Railway corporations was re ported aVirruati'voly. tttli PCtor.ilaa ACCOUNT. 14.1.1.1.75 - 4'PELT, from Abe Com mittee on Retrenchment and Reform, reported aresolrition that on and alter, tbtf' 13th, and tor the residue of this niontb„ it sandl be the duty of the Senate Postmaster to prepay postage by placing phostage stamps on all documents and `-'letters before delivering to the Harris burg Postmaster and the Speaker of the ' Senate shall draw a warrant on the State 'Treasurer in faVor 'of the Senate Pdst master for tire hinidred - dollars for the purchase of stamps, and at the end of the month the Senate Postmaster shall irert the number., of documents -and ligers sent; 'and that the Senate, shall = not indur any account for postage with the Harrisburg Postmaster 'till the end of the month: After somefartbersliscussion, on mo tion of Mr. DAVIS,Ithe resolution was _postponed for the present. • BXLLS INTRODUCED. : ' - By Mr. LOWRY: - - Authorizing the Buffalo and Erie Railroad to mortgage _property and franchises; supplement for I . the Erie and Allegheny Railroad ,-Com -PanY• By Mr, GRAHAM: , Enabling the School Directors of McClure township, Alligheny county, to borrow money to f•nre9t a school house. PASSED plst.LT < *--s: The supplement for the Pennsylvania "<Z. FORTIETH CONGRESS. [THIRD SEASION.I SENATE: Currency Rill Furl her Considered—River and liar borßill Taken up at Evening Session. HOUSE: Text of the Bill Providing a Provisional Government for !Mississippi-- Butler's Privileged IlesoluT tion Censuring the President of the Repute, and an Accepted Substitute, Laid. on the Table —New York - and Washington • Air Line Railroad'llill Passed —lnternal Revenue Law Fur ther Considered and Whisky Amendments Disposed. Of. (By Telegraph to the Pittsburgh Clasette.l WASHINGTON, February 12, 1869. SENATE. Mr. RAMSEY introduced a bill to en courage telegraphic communication with . Eniope. Referred. Mr. ABBOTT introduced a bill to aid in the construction of the Texas and Pacific Railroad. Referrej. Mr. CRAOIN, from the Comtnittee on Territories, reported, with amendments, and recommending its passage, the bill to provide for the better administration of justioe in the Territories of the United States. • Mr. POMEROY, from the Committee on Public Lande, reported adversely the bill to extend the limits of certain rait road land grants in lowa and Minnesota; also adversely to the bill amendatory of certain acts of Congress granting lands to_the States of lowa and Minnesota, to aid in the construction of railroads. Mr. CRAGIN;from the Committee on Territories, reported, with amendments, the bill toovide for the better adminis tration of - j m ustice in territories of the United States. Mr. HOWARD jntroduced a Joint res olution authorizing the Northern - Paciflo Railroad Company to issue, drat• mort gage bonds to the extent of 130,000 per mile on its main road and branch ,to Portland, Oregon. • - Mr. RAMSEY. moved to take Op the Joint resolution declaratory of the act to establish an Ameilcan line of mail steam ships between this country arid Europe., It gives the company another year to build their. ships. Mr. 'HENDRICKS opposed taking up the bill Mr;Nv.trlTS alsoopposed, and sEdd he would oppose the bill Itself. There were already two lines of American steam ships from .Baltimors. • - • Mr. NYE asked 'him, what flag those ships sailed under f Mr. WHYTE. admitted they sailed un der a foreign flag. THAYER",was in favor of taking PA the bill. He liked at least the object of it;lo'take (Am mail carrying business [-twin foreign vessels. _ , Mr. SUMNER - said his course in may& to the proposed line of Americairsteam, ships would his determined by the degree ( in which it wonldnheapen ocean postage. Tbe motion was still under discussion at the expiration of :the morning hour. Mr. SHERMAN' moved tb resume the consideration of the curreney bill. On motion of Mr. TRUMBULL,' Wed nesday WAS set apart for the considers: Lion of the bill to reorganize the Judicial system of the . United States. . Mr. MORTON then addressed the Sen ate on the bill in relation to the public debt and currency. Mr. WILLIAMS folktured in advocacy of his amendment, providing that not more than 12,000,0011 corrency shall be converted n any ono month. The Sena tor frold I ndiana' (Mr. Morton)" had at , tacked with equal vehemence the orig inal bill and its defects. and the amend- , meat - designed to remedy those de facts. That 'Senator seemed determined to oppose every'proposition coming from any member of the Firnmee Committee, withont_regard merith.' It was well known he (Mr. Morton) had;a pet theory upcin -the hubject of finance, and he appeared to think if impossible any one bat himself could ,suggest any thing 'valuable' in relation to it, unless the Atiggestion , harmonized with his theory. The Senator from Indiana had argued, and attempted to show from the history of England, that - the wrist dis astrous results must follow front any considerable contraction; but 'twee easy to demonatrate that his ownled of re-' gumption of specie payments, If adopted, would 'produce a more violent 'eantrac. lion than would be brought aboutpy any other plan yet proposed. The proposi tion of the Senator was, that the Oovern merit should hoard- up in -tile Veasury • all the gold it Abell receive, except what is used for interest on the,publip debt,. `for two andlt half Years, and thearesunpr specie payments,: :Tbto gold being thus withdrawn and .hoarded...ot Somme it j would be most violeptly, contracted. The greenback cttireneYwouldbe contracted and - houttled hkaitoJher way._ 43360 ing ten thousand dellars in greenback's, worth to-day only seven t honsanddollam' in gold, would, upon the adoption °Mho plan of thclentstor tent lildittniai draw it from birefilaticid ti heard , his safe, having the guaranty of the * 0 I that at : the end of two and, a half yo thitt.aainni: thonsatut dollars Yietdd - be worth ten thousand dollars. This Would ' be the inevitable result, because no Ipian , would :take , the, risk,„,of ordinary. but& nets when 47 he could so profitably 'heard • Itkriaoll.*. . Mr. Williams went on to defend' tbo scheme of the FinanottOommittee, which, wittvhis amendment,- would_ be. thebest and safest way yet suggestetit to tiring about Whitten, parties profettaed to desire, '1 resumption of specie payment. Mr. SHERMAN opposed Mr.:Wats' amendment, because he thought t I would arise a dilliaultv.44l determining what parties should ' e entitled to pref erence in the conversion of greenba'cks into bonds, when the Amount to be so converted was limited to $2,000,000 a month. Mr. WILLIAMS said the be, first come first served., Mr. SHERMAN replied, ing to that rule, a wan in . . Treasury Department could get served first every month, ' • Mr. WILSON thought the difficulty suggnsted a very slight one, compared with the great difficulty and injury that would arise from rapid contraction. Mr. MORTON Aid th amendment of the Senator from repo bil (I (Mr. Williams,) wa.s'no better tha • the f provision In the original bill, cans it proposed to limit, the amount of c ntraction to .$2,- 000,WQ a month. But e was opposed to all Contractions as un lled for, unneces sary and utterly useless. Mr. PESSENDEN thought it would be no wiser to authorizethe Secretary of the Treasury to issue boads in .exchange for greenbacks, and leave the time and amount of the issue to hia discretion, than to compel him to make issue in any amount and at a time fixed by Congress. The Senate then voted on the first clause of the amendment offered, by Mr. Williams, limiting the amount of con versions to $2,060,000,1 all the Senators present voting In the negative except Messrs. Bnokalew, Cattail, Davis, Dixon, Hendricks, Howe, Ross, Patterson, (Tenn.) - And Williams. Then, at four o'clock, the Senate took a recess until past seven. Evening Seeeion.—The Senate re-assem bled at seven o'cicick, and resumed the consideration of .the River and Harbor bill. The appropriation for removing ob. slttructions in the East River, at Hell Gate and other places, were reduced to 6,000. - • One, of the amendments reported by the Committee was to strike out the ap propriation of $450,000 toward cornplet lug the Louisville and Portland Canal. Thenppropriation to be made upon the condition that Kentucky relinquish her claim upon the Canal to t.e General, Government. While the amendment was -till pen& ing Senate adjourned. HOUSE OF.. REPRESENT . TINES. After some unimportant bu iness, Mr. PIKE, from Naval Committee, reported a bill to pay Commander John A. Wins low and officers and crew of Lthe United States steamer Kearsage *190.000 to be distributed as prize money, being the estimated value of the re 1 piratical vessel Alabama, destroyed b the Rear sage on the 19th of June, 1864 Ater some discussion, nd the inser tion of a proviso that no o ey should be, paid to the assignee any mariner einUtled to a share, but only to the mar iner himself, his wife or children, the bill was passed-85 yeas. 25 nays. Mr. BOUTWELL, from Committee on ' Reconstructian, reported a bill to pro ' vide for the organization of a Provisional Government for the State of Mississippi. Ordered printed and re-committed. The bill is as follows: .A. bill to provide for the organization ors provisional government for the state of Mississippi. Be it enacted, dc., That for the better security orpersons and property In. Mis sitsslppi, the ConsittutionaliConvention of said State, heretofore elected under and• to pursuance of an act of Congress passed March 2d, 1867, entitled an act for the more efficient government of rebel States. and several acts of Congress sup plementary thereel and arnendapary thereto, Is . hereby authorized to assemble forthwith, upon the call of tbe President thereof, and in cam of his 'failure for thirty days to summon'said Convention, then the Commanding General of the Fourth Military District is hereby au thorize/4'4nd required by proclamation to summon said Convention to assemble aLthe etspltal of said State, and said Con vended ageft - bavti fusd ts bomb author ized to exercise the following " • - addition to, the powers now authorized by law, to wit : To appoint a Provisional Governor; to make removals and ap pointmenta of all State,• minty, town- ' ship and other officers of the provisional government of said Aitattg to authorize the Provisional Governor of salii State to remove and aPpoint registers and judges; of elections undet said acts of Congress; to submit to the people of said State the Constitution 'heretofore framed by said Convention, either with, or without amendments; to provide ordinances for holding all elections authorized by said arts of Congress, foraiscertalping and de ,claring the result of 'grid elections, and &specially of any election which may be held for the ratification or rejec tion of any Constitution which said Con vention may submit to the people. of said State; to exempt from attachment or sale on exemption for debt household proper ty, agricultural and mechanical imple menus and tools, not exceeding luvalue the sum of five hundred dollars in any one case, and to pass snob lordinancea, not inconsistent with the Csanstitution 'and; laws of the United States, as it may deem necessary to protect all persons in their lives,-liberty and property; provi ded, that said Convention shall not, Isola tinurs in session more than, thirty days, ' nor allow the members thereof morethan five dollars each per day as comnensa than, nor more' than ten cents Permile for traveling, to and from the plade of meet- I n g. _ • ! , :leo2. Tho several ordinances' which may be passed 'by the' Constitutional Convention of said State, as herein pro- Ithiedi shall be in fbrce s in said State an til, disapproved by Cohgress, or 'until 'Mississippi shall have adopted a Consti tmtlon of State govensruerif; and the tome shall have been approved by Con gress; provided' that nothing in this act contained 'shall deprive:my persons or trial by jury in the courts of said States, for offences` against , the laws of!. said • State. ' ' • • , ELISo. S. The military • commanders in the cities of said Slate 'shall give aid to the officers of the Drovimonal govern ment of said State in presierving peace and AnfOrcing the' laws, and' especially) In `UnPpressing unlawful - obstructions and'forelble resistaneeto the ozeoutiod ' of the laws. ', ~, Sim. 4.. The said ProvisionaL Gov ernor may, after the ,ftdiour p 4iont - of said Convention, remove from oitioe o .lll.l said State any, person ,holding office therein add appoint a succesaor, in his stead, and may also fill all vacancies that may oceur by death, resignation, or otherwise, subject, however, to:the:order and direction of the' President of the United States, and the President of the United States may at any, limp remaye said Peovlsional Gorernor and appoint a successor in his stead, . Sao. 0. Any person who shall by threats, intimidation, fraud or force at tempt to prevent any citizens of Missi& sippi froth voting, who may bo entitled to vote, shall be deemed guilty city a was deernor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a flee of not lose than one hundred nor more than ono thousand dollars, or by imprisonmout for not less rule should that accord or near.Uao 13 - 11. WARY 13, lbb9 thin thirty days nor more than two years, in the discretion of the Court. ScE. 6. The Courts of the United States and of said State shall have con current jurisdictiou -of cases arising under the sth section of this act. SEC. 8. The poll tax levied hi anyone sear upon any citizen of Mississippi shall not exceed one dollar and fifty cents, and all laws In said State for the collection of taxes and debts shall be uniform, and every citizen shall be entitled to all ex emptions and immunities in this respect of the most favored citizens or class of citizens. . The House then resumed the consider ation of Mr. Butler's privileged res olution, protesting against the manner of the procedure and orders of the Presi dent of the Senate pro tern. Mr. Dawes, of Massachusetts, occupied the Chair as Speaker pro tent Mr. BUTLER concluded his remarks, commenced yesterday, in advocacy of the resolution. Mr. WOODBBIDGE argued that in counting the Electoral votes, the House was was not a mere cypher, but had rights to sustain and duties to perform, and that the decision of the presiding of ficer was correct in ordering the tellers to proceed with the count. Mr. LOGAN said he should not at tempt to go over the questions discussed by the various gentlemen who had pre ceded him. He was in favor of having the rule governing the count of Electoral votes made clear and distinct. 'He was opposed to the adoption of the resolution, because he held there was no intentional violation of the rule on the part of the presiding officer. ,He agreed with Mr. Woodbridge, that the error committed by the presiding offieer was in receiving the objections of the gentleman from ,Massachusetts, in the first place. He viduld not vote for any resolution that would contain the slightest sting or re flection on the brave and patriotic Sena. tor from Ohio, and he purposed submit ting a resolution to lay it on the table. So far as the conduct, which had been char arterized as disgraceful, was concerned, he had naught to say. He was sorry to witness the scene. It was an exciting moment. There might be some excuse for the conduct that- was witnessed. He did not participate in it, nor did he"riym pathize with either side then or tnow. Who is it that the House was asked to icensure? A man sixty-nine years Of age, 'presiding officer of the Senate, the pre siding officer of the Joint Convention—a man who has been tvrenty years in har ness—a man who stood in the vangtiard, the old Captain of the Legion of -Lib erty, on whose head Heaven has show ered its boqoets of sunshine, who stands as the great living monument - of this great age. The House was asked to inflict's stingpri him, because he had ac cidentally done wron.r. Were members ready to do , that? Were they ready to assign to ignominy a man who had been born a patriot, lived a.patriot, and would die a patriot? Nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to have that re solution withdrawn. He did not believe there was a man in the House who could put his hand on Ms heart and say' that he was ready to censure Ben. Wade,. in the idea that he had acted from any im proper motive. Mr.BUTLER—I never did say that I never shall. Mr. LOGAN—Hence I say, I should prefer to see the tesolution withdrawn. Mr. BUTLER--I never have believed, and Ido not now, that Ben Wade ever meant to do, or ever had done, an inten tional wrong; but - do believe the privil eges of the House have lieen invaded; That question has been discussed. It is 1 , necessary 'to have legislation, so this will'never happen again. Walyin_g all Isskl6 , -4timiulop t s and with a distinct enunciation that . Illaterirr.9eneur,ed 'Ben Wade, Or meant to,for ,anyintan.. tional wrong of h his,ut that his act, act; ing,ander the Senate's, or whatever luau.: ence be was, was au invasion 'of the prit• ileges,of the House. lam ready to with 'draw the roSolution, and accept a substi tute 'suggested, by the gentleman from New York. (Mr. Kelsey.) ' Mr. Kelsey's amendment read as fol lows : ' • • Resolved, That the. subject of the anacndment of the joint rules governing the Convention of the two Houses for counting the Electoral votes for President and Vice President, be referred to a se. iect committeo of five, with power to re.- port by bill or otherwise. Messrs. Pruyn and Mallen had other substitutes which they desired to'offer ' but Mr. Logan declined to yield for that P urpose. Mr. FARNSWORTH raised theqztes. tion of order, that the substitute ,did net., present privileged. 'queskion, and was not germe3n to the ,nriginal 'resolution. Speaker DANES Ciiv.rrulect the point of order. ' • - Mr: FARNSWORTFI appealed from the decision of the - Chair. Mr. KELLY 'moved to lay the appeal on the table. Agreed to—yeas ~151, nava 30. . • Mr. Isi:94.N E resuming ,his reniirks, ital 4 a longe r s Oiseussion of 'the subject, 'listuld . keep up a disturbing element In the House. He hid concluded that the 'discussion and' the- excitement should cease. • He believed .that the proper way to arrive at that result was to have the' resolution and amendment laid on , the table. A resolution , might then be offered and referred to a committee, dial connected entirely.with the idea ,of,cen suro, but looking merely :to an amend ,ment of the rule governing the counting of the . Electoral votes. He therefore moved • to lay the whole subject on the table. ' • • `The motion was agreedlo—yeas 130, nays 65, as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Allison, Ames, Ashley. [Obi%] Baker Barnes,. _Barnum, Beal manißeatty, Beck, Benjainin, 13ingharn, Blaine , Betien Boyden, Boyer, : Broom allt Auckland: Buckley, Burr, Butler, [Tennessee,] Cake, Cattle, Cary, Chan ler, ,Chttrohill, Clark, [[Ohio;]; Cobb, CO- Oriritell; Dawes, Hewes, 'Dickson, • Drikery, 'Dodge, .likkleyi - AlNgletiton,: lot,l (Arkausas,) Farnsworth, Perry. Perris, Garfield, Geta, Glassbtertner,' Griswold, Halsey,. Haughey, Hawkins, Heaton i 'Holman, HoopercAtinkins, Hotchkiss, Hubbard, [formec i Jinibuid, Jonokes, Johnson, Jonce, eith 'Oath - lima Judd, Kelly, . Se legs, Hari, Ketchum, Kitchen, Knott,•Hoonts, Laf lin, Lash, Lawrence. • [Pennsylvania,] Lawrence, [Ohio,] LtricOln, - Logan; Loughrldge, Mallory, alarvin; thy, McCormick, Miller,' Moorhead, Newshali, Niblaak, Nicholson, Norris, Nuun, Orth, Paine, Per-i ham, Peter% Pettis, Phelps:Pile, Plants, Poland, Paleley, Pomeroy, Prince,Pruyn, Rindati, Baum, Robertson, Sawyer, See -- field, Shiglabarger, Suilth, Spalding, Starkweather, Stewart, Stokes, Stone, Taylor. • Thomas, Twitchell, ;Upson, Van Aern , m, Van Anken, Van Horn, (N.-Y., Van Trump, Washburne, (Wis.,) Wash. burn: , , (Mass..) Wilson, (lowa,) Wilson (mio,) Woodbridge, Woodward, Wood and. Speaker. - Says—Me.srs. Archer, Ashley, (Nev.,) Axteil, Baldwin, Banks, Benton, Bout well, Bromwell, Butler, (Mass.,) Clark, (Ks.,) Clift,Corley,Cullom, Dickey, Don- Deily, Driggs, Eta, Eldridge, -Eliot, (Mass.,) Fields, Goliaday, Goss, Gove, tirover, Haight, Hamilton, Higbv, In gersoll, Jones, (Kv.,) Julian, Kelsey, Lynch, Marshall, Maynard, M'Kee, Mul lins, Marion, Pierce, Pike, Prince, ROSS, Roots, Schenck, Shanks, Stevens, Mover, Sypher, Taffe, Trimble, (Tenn.,) Trow br,dge,- Van Horn, (M 0.,) Van a Wyck, Ward, Washburne, nd.,) and Whitte more. A motion was made to reconsider and laid on the table, which closes the matter, The next business taken up was the bill to authorize the 'building of a mail and postal railroad from Washington to New York, the question being on its passage, The bill passed—yeas, DO: nays, 64. Yeas.-3fessrs. Ashley, (Neti.,) 'Ash ley, (0..) Banks, Barnes, Beatty., Ben man, Benton, Bingham, Blaine, Blair, Boutwell, Bromwell, Bncklaud, Buck ley, Cake, Collis, Clark, (Kansita,) I Cobb, Coburn, Corley, Cm i nell, CoToft, Cullom, Dawes, Dockery, Donnelly, Driggs, Dickey, Edwards, Ela, Elio), (Mass.,) Eliot, (Ark. ( ) Farnsworth, Ferry. Fields, French, Garfield,:Goal, Hamilton, Haughey, Heaton. Rigby, Hawkins, Hotchkiss, Ingersoll, Jencks, Jones, (N. 0.,) Judd, Julian e lKelsey, Lash, Lawrence, (Pa.,) Lawrence, (04) Logan,Lynch, Mallory, McCarthy, Mc- Kee, iller, Moorhead, Morrill, Mullins, Newcomb, Norris, Nunn, Orth, Paine, Plants, Perham, Pettis, Prince, Pike Pile, Polaley,Reum, Sawyer, Schofield: ' S hanks Shellabarger , Eiterkwecither. Stokes,Stoner, Sypher, Trimble; Uwe- Van Horn, (M 0.,) Vidal; Ward, Wash borne, (Wis..) Washburne,"(Thd.,) Wel ker. Williams, (Pa.,) (Ind:;) (1).,) Wilson,.(Pa:,).andWin dom. • - 17aysL-Pdessre. Archer - A.xtell,..Baker, Baldwin,Barnum, Beck, Ben m jaMln, B oyer, Broomall, Burr, Butler (Mass.,) Cary, Chanler, Dawes, Eldridge, Gets, Galladay, Grover, Haight, rfalsey,,Haiv labs, Holman, Hubbard, (W.Va.,) iftgl ter, Jones,(Ky.,) Kelley, - Kitchen, ' Knott. - Lain Marshall, Marvin, May nard, McCormick, Moore, Niblack, Nich olson,. O'Neil, Phelps, Poland, 'Price., 'Pruyn, Randall, Robertson. Ross, Stone, Taylor, Thoreas, Tsvitchell, Van Anken, Van Trump, Washburne, (Mass.,) Wood bridge and Woodward. • ; ' Messrs. Cook, Pomeroy, Dickey and Pettis, who were in favor of 'the bill, ,were paired olf with Messrs. Kerr,Sit greaves, Myers and Hill, who were 'ap posed to it. Mr. WOOD moved to amend the. title by making it read Bill to deprive the States of their constitutionaljurisdic tion over State territorv, and to take control of the Railroad interes • tits country." Mr. PRUYN asked leave to offer the folloWing : • • . Besolved, That in view of the question which arose on tile late counting off, she votes for President and Vice President of the United States, it be referred to the Committee on Revision of LAWS, to In quire into the expediency of such legle; lation as may be necessary in such eases, and also to provide that the Attorney General prepare and forward to the Gov- - enors of the several States proper,- forms which may be used by Electore of President and Vice President in the,..dlit charge of the duties which devolye,upon thehi by law. •Objected to. by Mr. BENJAMIN; Of. The Horse then haltriasifdtir, 'took a recess until•half past seven',larifia*, - • lug session to be exclusively for the. non- , sideration of the tax hill. , Evening Seasion—:The House met at.7:30, in Committee of the Whole, Mr: Seim field in the.chair, and resumed the eon sideration of the amendments reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, to the Internal Revenue bill.. The proposition giving the appoint ment of alit subordinates to the clop3wis stoner of internal Revenue, instead of the Secretary of the Treasury, was agreed to, with the Understanding that if the HouSe refuse to erect the Internal Reve nue Bureau into a separate department, the amendmentwould be struck ont. Varlotiti formal amendments were pro- posed tiy Mr. SCHENCK and agreed to. Section 5i was amended by makingl n thesp.rial tax on distillers tvto bun doliars• alyear, where they produce ; fifty barrels or less, instead of four hundred dollars on distillers producing one hun dred .barrels, with four dollars forAutch additional barre4,also, by modifying' it so that a' distiller who re-distills so as to refine shall not have to pay tax as arrec- Oiler, and that all compounders, of uors shall be treated as rectifiers.', Theaerrioneluded the amendments of the Committee of Ways and , Means to the whisky sections. Mr:MAYNARD moved to make the special tax on distilleries, referred to in the: nrecedingvaragrapb, one, hundred dollars a year• on distillers produding tivetity-five birrels or less. SCHENCK opposed the amend; ment. - - • After about an hour's } discussion as to the policy or irnpolley of crushing out small dietillerlds, and particularly such as distil from apples, peaches and grepes; the amendment was adopted. ~ 'Section 58, - referring to distilled spirits in bonded warehouses, was;' on motion of Mr . SCHENCK, amended by requir ing withdrawal on or before the 20th or April,- 1889. • ' • taro KEI4I4Y moved to amend by ex tending- the time; to the 20th of April, 1870, and spoke in ekplanation'and'adtro caev of this. amendment: ' Messrs, BECK and COVOD,E *Aso spike lts support. ___ MIN-sts.'SCIIENCKend ALLISON op. tommti l i) ; Vote being tiiken there was no quorum and the amendment was temporarily withdrawn. The Ckmunittee rose and the House 14- ;Im:trued., Steamboat Burned—SU - V.41114W Livia Lost. I NEW 9,ELEAris, February 112.—:Sidis: patch from Jefferson, Texas, reports the' steamer Nellie Stevens destroyed by r fire in Caddo Lake, Red river. , Thuiro ll. night, and sixty-three lives lost; among them W. A. Broadwell, T. L. Lyon And his son Frank, of New Orleans. -Forty three'survived and were taken to Jeffer son in the steamer Dixie. The stearaboat and cargowere a total loss.