Proceedings In Congress

tuebdat, juay 21.- öenate.- Mr. Conklirig, from tho Comniitteo on Commercfl, rcported adveraely on tho Sonate bill to authorizO the construction of a bridge acroes tno Mlssissippi rivcr at MemphiH, and it waa indennitely poatponed Tho Senate resumed connideration o( the bill to piaoe the name of Gen. Shields on the retirrd list of the army. The queBtion was on concurriug in the ainendment of the ronimittee of tho wholo placing tho name of Gen. Grant on the retired list, and it was defeatcd -32 fo 28- a Btrict party vote, the Republicana rotisg in the affirmatie and the Demócrata in thi negativo. After debate, Mr. Thurnjan moved to Btrike out all af tor the enacting clalise of the bill as an ameudment, and insert in Hen tbereof a provisión autliorizing tbc öeerctary of the Interior to placo tho name of Gen. Shields on tbs peneion list, at tho rate of $100 a month. A lengthy debate ensued, which was partiefpated in by Motara. Thurman, Blaine aud Hill. The amendment ol Mr. Thurcnan was rejected- yeas, 31; nays, 33. The question being on the passage of the bill, a vote wan taken without further discusión, and it was rfjectod- yeap, 30; nays, 34. Mr. Teller entered a mot ion to reconsidertke voto by wbich tho bill waa rejoctod. Housk. - The Hoiibo devoted tho entire day, in committeo of the whole, to the consideration of the Army Appropriation bill. WBbNESDAT, May 22.- Seïïate.- The Senate diPcugsed tbc rfBolntion of Mr. Davis authorizing an investigation of the books and accounts of the Treapury Department. . . . Mr. Paddock's bill for tho relief of pottlers on the public JandB was paesod. It allows pre-emption Hettlors who have changed their title to homestoad eutry the benefit of the time tho land wo occupied under the pre-emption entry The remainder of tho day was occupied by a BMMfa by Mr. Latuar on tho Texas Pacific Kailroad bill Tho Sf-uate, iuexpciitivpflespion.confirmedthenomination of 8. B. Packard as Consul at Liverpool, by a ftrict party vot Lucius Fairchitd was also confirmed as Consul General at Paris. Houkk.- Mr. Harriflon, of Illinoie, offered a resolution oxtending the Potter investigation to Orfgon and South Carolina. On a vote aa to whethcr it waa a quetion of pzitylege no quorum responded, and Mr. Uarrison withdrew his rcsohition. Mr. Wilson theu offered a resolution extending tho power of the inventigatiog committee to auy Stato whcre tbere may be any well-groundod alleRation of fraud, which waa adopted .... Articles of impcachment wcre roportcd against O. B. Bradford. late Vice Consul General at Shanghai, China, and rrfcrrrd to the Jndiciary Committee Mr. Butler bill for the publication of tho Official Advertiser of t ' t f 'n ited Staten was passed after a trood deal of diecussion.. .The House indulgid in another iively debate over tho Army Appropriation bill. Thursday, May 23.- Seïïatk.- Bills wero paBed to próvido for service of procesa in cases of intfir-pleader in conrts of the United States, and autborlzlng the erection of headstones over the graves of Union soldiers interred in privato cemeteries The resolution of Mr. Davis anthorlzing th pelect committfft to invfstigate the booka of the Treanury Department to conünuo tho investigation during the recess w?b adoptad. . .. Tlie bill pro vid Í u g for a permanent form of govornnicnt for the District of Columbia occupied alargo share of tho dayV rcsbíou The Scnate, in executivo Bession, conflrmed a largo number of appolntmentB. The nomination of John B. Frothinghain to be Assistant Appraiacr of Merchandiee at New York was rejected. Hourk.- Mr. Robertsen, rising !to a qneetion of personal privilege, stated that charges had been mode against citizns of the parishes of Kast and West Feliciana, which, if irue, would compel him to retire in shame from his seat. He sent to the Clerk's desk and had rcad that portion of Secretary Sherman's letter to CUrkeon K. Potter, iu which ho rr-forfl to tho clcction in thoso parishea. Mr. Robertaon then prooeeded to mako a general statement aBto tho election in Eastand West Felicljinn, but was interruptcd by Ibe Speaker pro tem-., who reminded him that all that was remóte from a (jMfMlion of peisonal privilege. Mr. Burchard - Uniese the gentleman connects hiinsWf with the frauds he speek of . . . .Mr. Kobertaon- Ido oonect nivftolf with tboue frauda by denounring them and by branding the charge in that letter as a vüe calumny. Tberc wm a concpiracy in thone pariahep, and I believp that John Sherman was connected with it The House dovoted tho balance of the day and theentfreevening seesion to tbO confiideration of tho Army Appropriation bill. Fbjday, May 24.8enate.- Mr. Edmundo, from Ihe select committee to take into consideratton the state of the law respecting the aecertaininfi and declaration of tho result of the electionof Presidenta and Vice PrcsideuU of the United States, eaid that he was directed by tho committee to make a report in part in the form of a bill fo amend sundry irovlRions of chaptor L title 3 of the Reviaed Statutes of tho United States, relatiug to Preeidential eloctions. Tho bill rrported by Mr. Kdmunds providpi that. wIipu tbore is only one return of thé voto of a Ktato, it hhall not be rejected except by the oncurrent action of both houpes. If moro than one return is recoivcd, the vote of tho 8: ato ís not to bo onuntod uniese both houscg agroe as to whích íb the legal return. It aso nonii-M th Grut Tuesday in October for Presidential elections, and the flrst Monday In January for the aetin of the eleotors, Tha bill wns placed on the calendar. .. .Mr. Uurnslde, from the Committee on Kducation and Labor, reportad adversely on the House joint resolution to próvido for the enforcomcnt of the Eight-Hour law, and alBO adversely on the Senate bilí to regúlate tho honra of labor. Placed on tho calendar Tho Senate tnon dlscusEcd tl-e bill to for ft permanont government for the District of Cohunbia. House.- Tho House spent miother day pon the Army Approiriatlonbill. Satusday, May 25.- Senate- Mr. Oglesby, from the Conimitteo on Public Lande, reportcel, and the Senata passod, tho House bül which provides that the nohco of content nowprovided for by law umler the llomcstead l're-emption and TreeCulture jaws of tho United States shnll be publlshod in some newspapor printod in the county whero the land in contest lieg, and, ií no paper is printed in the same county, then in a newspaper printed in the county nearest to such lands. The object of thls bill is to protect the interests of all parties to confRiH The bill to provide a permanent government for tho District of Columbia was discussed. Housk.- Mr. Goode, the Ohairman of tho Commlttee on Educatiou and Labor, reported a bill to apply the procceds of the sale of public lands to the education of the peoplo Tho Houso spent the day in cominittee of tho wholo upon the Army Appropriation bill. Thcro was an anlmatod debato over the provisión to reduce the salaries of the General of tho Army and Licutenant General, but the reductionR as fixod by the committca were bustaincd. Mr. Scales offered au amendment traneferring tho Indian Bureau to the War Department, but action upon it was postponed. Monda y, May 27.- Mr. Beek introduced a bill to repeal tho nisting taxea on capital and deposits of bank and bankers, and to inipose taxes on a dividend in excess of 8 per cent A rfaolntion waa adoptad calliug upon the Pretidont for all the memoranda, minute and correspondence in posacssion of tho Government relating to the appointnient of M. Delfosec as oue of the Halifax Commissioners.... Tho bill providing a permanent form of government for tho District of Colnmbia was passed....The Senate decided, by tho cIobc vote of 28 to 26, to taie np tho bill to forbid the fnrther retirementof legal-tender notes. House.- Bills wero introduced as follows: By Jlr. Willis, to regúlate the salo of United States secnritiea ; by Mr. Wood, to establish a permanent Binking fuud ; by Mr. ChalmerB, to encourage the higher education of the colored race ; by Mr. Neal to Ktablish a National Uuiversity at Washington . . . .' M r. 8uutbard, from tho select committeo on counting the votts for President and Vicc President reportod a bill on that subject.... The Houso then took up tho Army Approprlation bill, and adopted the amendments flxing the strength of the army at 20,000, prohibiting tjie nse of any part of it for any purposo not eipressly authorized by Congrees and transferring the Judian Bureau from the Interior to tho War Department.