The Charleston Daily News

SENATE.

In the Senate, Edmunds, from the Committee on Pensions, reported Senate bill to grant a pension to Mrs. Lincoln, with the recommendation that it be indefinitely postponed. The bill was accompanied by the report, which was ordered to be printed.

Wilson, from the Committee on Military Affairs, reported, with amendments, the bill relative to buildings used for military purposes in New York City.

Drake, from the Naval Committee, reported a substitute for bill to promote seamen for the navy.

Vickers, from the Committee on Commerce, reported adversely on bill to regulate the importation of emigrants under labor contracts.

The report of the Committee on Pensions was adverse to the House bill, granting Mrs. Lincoln a pension of three thousand dollars per annum, for the reason that she is not in a destitute condition. She represents herself to be, that in 1867 she received from Congress and Mr. Lincoln's estate $59,000. The committee report that they have good reason to believe that she received a large amount of clothing, plate and other household goods, after the death of Mr. Lincoln, which should be added. The committee think that a fortune of $60,000 should be sufficient to take her out of the category of those whose necessities, in consequence of the casualties of the public service, give them a claim on the public treasury. The report is signed by six members of the committee.

Senator Sherman introduced a bill proposing to reduce the taxes forty-three and a half millions on incomes, sales, gross receipts, articles in Schedule A, salaries of United States officers, passports, legacies and successions, miscellaneous, special taxes except spirits and tobacco, which includes license taxes and all taxes on employment. This will leave the taxes on the following articles in force: Distilled spirits, fermented liquors, tobacco, gas, incomes, at the rate of three per cent., all the stamp taxes or taxes collectable by stamps.

A bill has been reported from the Finance Committee, granting a subsidy of fifteen thousand dollars for ten years, for a semi-monthly steamship line between New Orleans, Campeachy, Sisal, Tampico and Havana.