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 SECOND SESSION.

IN SENATE.
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Monday, Jan. ,.

 Mir. Foot presented a memorial of warrant officers in the Navy, praying for an increase of compensation; which was referred to Com mitiee On Naval Affairs.

 The following Resolution, submitted by Mir. Benton, was raken up as the special order of the day:

 Resolved, That thc 5th section of the sink ing Fund act, Of 1877. ought tO be so amend rd as tO authorize the Commissioners of that Fund to make purchases of the Public Debt, at its current market price, whene, CT, in their opinion, such purchases can be made bcne- fciaIIy for the interest the U. States, and consistently with the existing engagements. ! 2. That The 4th section of the same act, which al th"rizes a retention of two millions of surplus revenue in the Treasury, ought to he repealed, and that the first section of the 1 Sinking Fund of 179O, which directs the who'e of the surplus money in the Treasury to be applied to the payment of the Public { Debt, ought to be revived and continued in 1 force.

 B. That the Bank ofthe U. States ought to be required to make a compensation to the people of the United States, fpr the use of 1 the balances of public money on its hands. 1 4. That public debt is public burthen and that the present debt of the U. States is burthen upon the people of the U. States to the amount of more than fifteen millions of dollars per annum, from which they ought to be relieved in four years by 'time- 1 ly" and "jjudicious' application of the means within the power of Congress. ,. That an abolition of duties, to the amount of ten millions of dollars, now annual Iy levied on account of the Public Debt ought to be made as soon as that debt is paid and may be made according to the present 1 indications of the revenne without diminish ing the protection due to any branch of do- mestic manufactures and with manifest ad- ] vantage to the agriculture and commerce of the country.

 6. That the Committee on Finance he di- rected to prepare and bring in bill to car ry into effect the objects of the first and sec ond of these resolution. Mr. Benton, iu support of the resolution spoke for about two hours. Mr. Smith, of Md. Chairman of the Com mttee on Finance made few observations in reply.

 Monday, Jan. l2. MT. Foot presented a petition from Joshua , King. of RidgefeId, Conn. praying remune- ration for losses sustained by reason of French 1 spoliatOns-reterred to the Committee on French spoliations.

 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, Jan. ,.

 MT. Cambrelcng presented presented d pe- titIon signed by about 1000 citizens of the city OfNew Yer! ,, raylngsth theA Amail may not be transported on the Sabbath. MT. Gurham, of Mass. also presented a petition similar in its import, and as far as could be judged from it's bulkiness, signed by not less than 2OOO cit izens of Boston. Similar petitions were pre- scented by number of other members.-Nat Journal.

 Friday. Jan. g. OCCUPATION OF THE OREGON.

 The House then proceeded to consider the Oregon Bill, with the Amendments thereto, as reported by the Committee of the Whole and the question heinz on concurring with those amendments it passed in the airrna- tive.

 The question then being on ordering the bill, as amended, to be engrossed for a third reading

 MT. Taylor demanded tha; it be taken by yeas and nays, and they were ordered by the House.

 Mr. Weems now offered again the amend ment he had proposed in commttee-and de- handed the yeas and nays; but the House refused to order them.

 Mir. Sawyer now demanded the previous question, but the House refused to sustain the motion.

 MT. Weems' amendment was then negativ- ed unanimously. with the exception of tie honorable mover, who desired, he said, to be recorded as having stood alone in the ninor- ity.

 The yeas and nays were then taken on or derng the b'll to its third reading, and stood Yeas, 75.-Nays, 99.

 So the House refused to order the bill to third reading, and it is REJECTED.

 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10th, 1899.

 For want of any more interesting matter wherewith to entertain you, a thought has just come into my head to endeavor to insti- tute comparison between the tout-ensemble of our House of Representatives. Gin which am now writng.) the French Chamher des Deputies and the English House of Commons. | In the execution of this project, intend to go out of my own proper person and assume so far as national prejudice will permit, the probable feelings, opinions and habitudes of thinking ofa Frenchman and an EnsGshman. 1t is but an experiment. and if fail (as most probably | Shall) hone to be visited \merCi-