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Day
2
Month
April
Year
1880
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Public Domain
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- Aculen wiU be eensured, but not expelled. -In the debate Monday upon the Germán award bilí senator thurman was seized with a failltingspell and was obliged to retire from the senate. - Members of the house committee on appropriations say that, so far as the appropriation bilis are concerned, there wil] be no occasion to prolong the session of eongress beyond the middle of June. -.Mr. White, a Pennsylvania congressionul blatherskite, introduced a bilí, Monday, appropriating $39,000,006 far the parchase of arms and entrenching tools for anationalmilitiaorganization. - Several southern democrats wfl] vote with the republicans of the senate agaiüst taking up the Spoitora-Kellogg case. and the prospecta are that Ben Hill wül be defeated if he persista in bis attempt to unseat the Lousianian. - A biii was presented to the house f representativea, Mooday, by Mr. '. provMing that hreafter all ■'M and silver coins of the United 3tate8 sliali b'e intercbangeable at their lavvful value on the demand of holders iliereof. - A Kansas dernocrat informed MrVoorliee's aegro exodus committee, Monday, that white men had traveled through Texas and diaplayed to negroos ihromos representing a colored family located on a fine plantation in Kansa's with a two-story white house eleganty furnished and with a piano, beautiful carpets, white servants and substantial barns. About four hundred tegroes, deluded by these gaudy jirints, lad left their southern homes md moved to Kanos, u Sere they are now thrown on the charity of the people.

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