MARCH 26.-Senate.-A petition of Fitz
hugh Lee for the removal of his poltical disabili
ties was presented and referred.... The House
bill to appropriate $30 000 to continue dredging
at the mouth of the Mississippi was passed....
Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill to e Able the people
of New Mexico to form a ConstitUtion and State
Government, and providing for the admission of
the State into the Union. Referred.... Mr.
Wright from the Judiciary Committee reported
unfavorably on the bill to remove the political
disabilities of John C. Caball, of Texas.
(Mr. Caball recently accepted the nomi
nation for a State ofice.) .... Consideration of 2
the bill to provide for the redemption and reissue
of United States notes and for free banking was
then resumed, the question being on the amend
ment of Schurz to strike out eighty-two and insert
fifty-six, so that the maximum limit of United
States notes should be $556,oo0,000 instead of
$8-,3.,000e as reported by the committee. RIe
jected-ayes, 18; noes, 40 An amendment by Mr.
Wright, that the" maximum amount of United
States notes is hereby fixed at $400,000,000,"
was adopted--ayes, 31; noes, 26. Various other
amendments and substitutes were ofered, pend
ing discussion on which the Senate adjourned.
