Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-21
OVERLAND DISPATCHES
BY CALIFORNIA STATE TELEGRAPH.
DATES TO LAST EVENING".
National Aid for the Construction Of
the Pacific Railroad via Placer
Wills t-M0ra Aaintancal

tho Pacific Railroad via Placer
yillo !-Moro As~sistnnceH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. The Senate
Committee has favorably reported upon a
bill granting lands to construct q railroad
and telegraph from Placerville, California,
to a point on the Pacific Railroad, in Ne
vada f; also, granting lands for a railroad
and telegraph from San Francisco to Hum
boldt Bay also, a bill granting the right
of way to the Humboldt Canal Company
through the public lands of Humboldt
and Nevad counties, and to the Cascade
Railroad Company, through certain mill.
tary reservations in Washington Terri
tory.
Mr.. Ashley, of Ohio, yesterday, intro
duced a bill granting lands to the "Ameri-
can Overland Dromedary Express Com
pany," along the line Of the Central Pa
cifc Railroad Company. The whole
amount not to exceed forty quarter Sec
tons, and the Express line shall be rum
ming within a year.
Contested Seats in ConRress-Impor-
liant Measuros-The Mineral Lands
10 be sold!
The House yesterday gave Coffroth, the
Democratic claimant from the Sixteenth
Congressional District, Of Pennsylvania,
the contested seat.
The Committee on elections reported in
favor Of Henry D. Washburne claiming
the seat occupied by D. W. Voorhees,, of
Indiana.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - The House
Committee on Public Lands has agreed to
report an important bill, providing for the
sale Of the mineral lands after six months
advertisement in the nearest paper. The
lands thereafter remaining unsold, to be
open to private entry.
Section 4 provides for the appointment
of q Geologist for each land district.
Section s provides that the discoverer
and worker Of any mine or lead shall have
tho right to purchase at the minimum
price.
Section 6 provides for the classification
and appraisement of lands. No person
shall be allowed to purchase more than
twenty acres, nor enter a second tract,
without selling the first purchase by pub
lie auction.
Section 7 provides that the President Of
the United States may lay off the mineral
regions into assaying and coming districts,
having reference to the mines now estab-
lished, and requires the minerals to be
assayed and coined in said districts, under
strict penalties.
An additional section provides for the
recognition of existing surveys or sub.
divisions, when the convenience Of settlers
shall be best consulted thereby.
Julien, Of Indiana, will report the bill
to the House.
Interesting Debate on the Question Of
southern Congrcssmen.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-In the House
this morning, Stevens. of Pennsylvania,
from the joint committee. reported a reso-
luton, declaring that in order to close
agitation on a question which seems likely
to disturb the action Of the Government,
as well as to quiet an uncertainty which
exists in the minds Of the people Of the
eleven States declared to be in insurrec-
ton, no Senators or Representatives shall
be admitted into Congress from either OF
said States until Congress shall have de-
clared such States entitled to such repre-
sentation. Upon this Stevens demanded
the previous question. and much excite
ment followed, with dilatory motions and
guerrilla tactics, to stave of a vote.
Mr.. Eldridge, Of Wisconsin, said if the
other side would allow debate, his side
would stop.
Mr.. Stevens, of Pennsylvania, replied
that he had sat here forty-eight hours
when the rebels went out, and he could
now stand it thirty-six hours longer.
Dilatory motions continued until 7 p. NJ,
when the resolution passed-lO9 against
40. Adjourned.
As soon as the Senate met, Mr.. Wade,
Of Ohio, offered a resolution to amend the
Constitution, providing that the President
shall be ineligible for q second term.
IT,. D~n.Jl..s ,nL The rohinst-A
Rupturc-Andy 10 Tylcrizing-Dis-
affection by reason thereof-A Big
Middle.
Rumors say that both Stanton and Harlan
will resign in consequence Of the veto Of the
Freedmen'B Bureau Bill.
The Presidents veto message is all the
talk. The first remark Of everybody is that
the President did not write It. The next re-
mark 10, thatts Presidert has separated from
the majority in Congre,,, and gone over to
the other side!
All agree that the message is most ably
written, admirable in argument, and with in
controvertible points. The common belief is
that Seward wrote or revised it. Hence
comes the suspicion as to how the Cabinet
stood, and report says that Seward, Welles,
McCulloch, and Dennison, favored the veto
the others opposing. The effect Immediately
apparent here il marked both joy and anger,
and perhaps dismay, are exhibited.
It 10 only too apparent that the breach 10
widening between the President and the
Union party. Whether It 10 too wide for
either to jump across, or whether either is
disposed to jump, remaius to be seen.
The veto having been addressed to the
Senate the question came up, at one o'clock,
whether the bill should pass over the veto :
Lost-ayes, 80; noes, lS-not two-thirds.
The question can not therefore reach the
House. The veto having been put on general
grounds, no attempt will be made to pass an
other Freedmen's Bill. Tho whole question
Of reconstruction becomes muddled.
Things moro Mixod-FlapdoodIc for
b Prosidont-Gen. Grant aud Dis
loyal Nowspnpors-The Richmond
Examiner Revived by Order OF tho
President.
It Is doubtful II the President will sign the
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