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compelled to eat up in idleness the little ac- 

 cumulations of thrifty industry ; on the mil- 

 lions who have no accumulations, but rely only 

 on daily labor for daily bread, and who are 

 now unemployed, or half employed, or living 

 on pauper wages. The president of the Spring- 

 field and Pomeroy Kailway Company, Mr. 

 Emmett, who is struggling to construct a rail- 

 way across southern Ohio, told me recently 

 that he had plenty of laborers offering to build 

 his road without other compensation than 

 enough bread and meat to keep the poor ma- 

 chines of their bodies in working order ask- 

 ing nothing for clothes, nothing for wives or 

 children, nothing to lay up in store for winter 

 and this too in the midst of bounteous har- 

 vests, in a region one of the fairest ever fash- 

 ioned by the Almighty for the abode of man. 



O God ! that bread should be so dear, 

 And flesh and blood so cheap 1 " 



The vote first taken was on the amendment 

 of Mr. Fort, which was agreed to. All the 

 other amendments were disagreed to, and the 

 bill as amended was as follows : 



A bill to repeal all that part of the act approved January 14, 

 1875, known as the resumption act, which authorized the 

 Secretary of the Treasury to dispose of United States 

 bonds and redeem and cancel the greenback currency. 



e it enacted, etc., That all that portion of the act 

 approved January 14, 1875, entitled " An act to pro- 

 vide for the resumption of specie payments," which 

 reads as follows, to wit: "And whenever, and so 

 often as, circulating notes shall be issued to any such 

 banking association, so increasing its capital or cir- 

 culating notes or so newly organized as aforesaid, 

 it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury 

 to redeem the legal-tender United States notes in 

 excess only of $300,000,000, to the amount of 80 per 

 cent, of the sum of national-bank notes so issued to 

 any such banking association as aforesaid, and to 

 continue such redemption as such circulating notes 

 are issued until there shall be outstanding the sum 

 of $300,000,000 of such legal-tender United States 

 notes, and no more. And on and after the 1st day 

 of January, A. D. 1879, the Secretary of the Treasu- 

 ry shall redeem in coin the United States legal-ten- 

 der notes then outstanding, on their presentation for 

 redemption at the office of the Assistant Treasurer 

 of the United States in the city of New York, in 

 sums of not less than $50. And to enable the Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury to prepare and provide for the 

 redemption in this act authorized or requiredj he is 

 authorized to use any surplus revenues irom time to 

 time in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, 

 and to issue, sell, and dispose of, at not less than 

 par, in coin, either of the descriptions of bonds of 

 the United States described in the act of Congress 

 approved July 14, 1870, entitled ' An act to authorize 

 the refunding of the national debt,' with like quali- 

 ties, privileges, and exemptions, to the extent neces- 

 sary to carry this act into full effect, and to use the 

 proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid," be, and 

 the same is hereby, repealed. 



On the passage of the bill the question was 

 taken, as follows : 



YEAS Messrs. Atkins, John H. Baker, Banning, 

 Bayne, Bell, Blackburn, Bland, Boone, Bragg, Brog- 

 den, Browne, Buckner, Cabell, John W. Caldwell, 

 W. P. Caldwell, Calkins, Cannon, Carlisle, Chal- 

 mers, John B. Clarke of Kentucky, John B. Clark, 

 Jr., of Missouri, Clymer, Cobb,Collins, Crook, Cra- 

 vens, Crittenden, Culberson, I)avidson, Joseph J. 

 Davis, Dibrell, Dickey, Douglas, Durham, Eden, 



Elam, Errett, John H. Eyins. Ewing, Felton, Fin- 

 ley, Forney, Fort, Franklin, Fuller, Gardner, Garth, 

 Giddings, Glover, Goode, Gunter ? Hamilton, Hanna, 

 Henry R. Harris. John T. Harris, Harrison. Hart- 

 ridge, Hartzell, Haskell, Hatcher, Hayes, Henkle, 

 Henry, Herbert, Goldsmith W. Hewitt, Hooker, 

 House, Hunter, Hunton, Humphrey, James Taylor 

 Jones, John S. Jones, Kelley, Kenna, Killinger, 

 Knapp, Mott, Ligon, Mackey, Maish, Manning, 

 Marsh, Martin, McKenzie, MoMahon, Mills, Mor- 

 gan, Muldrow, Oliver, Phelps, Phillips, Pridemore, 

 Rea, Reagan, Reilly, Americus V. Rice, Riddle, Rob- 

 bins, Roberts, Robertson, Milton S. Robinson, Ryan, 

 Sapp, Sayler, Scales, Shelley, Singleton, Siemens, 

 "William E. Smith, Sparks, Springer, Steele, Thomp- 

 son, Throckmorton, Tipton, Richard W. Townshend, 

 Tucker, Turner, Vance, Van Vorhes.Waddell, Walk- 

 er, Walsh, Harry White, Michael D. White, Whit- 

 thorne, Jere. N. Williams, Albert S. Willis, Wilson, 

 Wright, Yeates, and Young 133. 



NAYS Messrs. Aldrich, Bacon, Bagley, William 

 H. Baker, Ballou, Banks, Beebe, Benedict, Bisbee, 

 Blair, Boyd, Brentano, Brewer, Briggs, Burchard, 

 Burdick, Cain, Camp, Campbell, Chittenden, Clafliu, 

 Alvah A. Clark, Rush Clark, Cole, Conger, Covert, 

 Jacob D. Cox, Crapo, Cummings, Cutler, Danford, 

 Horace Davis, Deering, Denison, Dunnell, Dwight, 

 Eames, Eickhoff, Ellsworth, 1. Newton Evans, Fos- 

 ter, Freeman, Frye, Garfield, Gibson, Hale, Harden- 

 bergh, Harmer, Benjamin W. Harris, Hart, Hendee, 

 Henderson, Abram S. Hewitt, Hubbell, Hungerford, 

 Ittner, James, Frank Jones, Jorgensen, Joyce, 

 Keightley, Kimmel, Landers, Lapham, Lathrop, 

 Leonard, Lindsey, Lockwood, Loring, Luttrell, 

 Mayham, McCook, McGowan, McKiuley, Metcalfe, 

 Mitchell, Monroe, Morrison, Morse, Muller, Nor- 

 cross, O'Neill, Overton, Pacheco, Page, Patterson, 

 Peddie, Potter, Pound, Powers, Price, Pugh, Quinn, 

 Rainey, Randolph, Reed, William W. Rice, George 

 D. Robinson, Ross, Sampson, Schleicher, Shallen- 

 berger, Sinnickson, Stenger, Stewart, John W. Stone, 

 Thornburgh, Amos Townsend, Wait, Warner, Wat- 

 son, Welch, Alpheus S. Williams, Andrew Williams, 

 Charles G. Williams, Richard Williams, Benjamin 

 A. Willis, Willits. Wood, and Wren 120. 



NOT VOTING Messrs. Aiken, Bicknell, BlisSj 

 Blount, Bouck, Bridges, Bright, Bundy, Butler, 

 Candler, Caswell, Samuel S. Cox, Darrall, Ellis, 

 James L. Evans, Field, Gause, Hazelton, Hiscock, 

 Keifer, Ketcham, Lynde, Money. Neal, Pollard, 

 Sexton, Smalls, A. Herr Smith, Southard, Starin, 

 Stephens, Joseph C. Stone, Strait, Swann, Martin I. 

 Townsend, Veeder, Ward, and James Williams 38. 



In the Senate, on November 26th, the above 

 bill of the House was received and read twice, 

 and referred to the Committee on Finance. 



The extra session of Congress closed on De- 

 cember 3, 1877, and on the next day the regu- 

 lar annual session commenced. For the Presi- 

 dent's message see ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA, 1877, 

 PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 



In the Senate, on June 13th, the Finance 

 Committee reported the above bill, with an 

 amendment to strike out all after the enacting 

 clause, and in lieu thereof to insert the fol- 

 lowing : 



That from and after the passage of this act United 

 States notes shall be receivable in payment for the 

 4 per cent, bonds now authorized by jaw to be issued ; 

 and on and after October 1, 1878, said notes shall be 

 receivable for duties on imports ; and said notes in 

 the volume in existence on October 1, 1878, shall not 

 be canceled nor permanently hoarded, but shall be 

 reissued, and they may be used for funding and all 

 other lawful purposes whatsoever, to an amount not 

 exceeding in the whole the aggregate amount there- 



