New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-03-02
WASHINGTON.

Committee On RiROlets Bridge-Deeperate
Efforts by Friends to Branches of
Texas Pacific Trunk-R enOnlinasiOn Of
Boston POstmasler-Earsh hquake and
Tidal Wave on Minatitlan-Dcbt Sta.e.
ment-Seven and n Quarter Millions
Debt Decrease-New Orleans, Mobile
and CHATTANOOGA Railroad Bridges
Post K0ads-SOuthern Outrage Com.
tslittee Continued.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The committee
on bridge over the riSOlets meet at noon
tomorrow.
The friends of the branches to the Texas
Pacific trunk are making a desperate effort.
William Burt has been nominated for
Postmaster at Boston.
The officers of the Tehuantepec Ship
Canal Surveying Expedition report that on
February 6, two distinct shocks Of an earth
quake were felt producing Il tidal wave off
Minititlan.
The debt statement shows u decrease of
seven and a quarter millions; coin in the
treasury, one hundred and three millions:
currency, twenty-One millions.
Ames. OF Mississippi. Hamilton, of
Texas, and Osborn, Of Florida, were the
only Southern Senators voting against an
amendment paying Southern lOyalists tor
army stores.
The conference committee on the part of
the part OF the House, on the Southern
Pacific railroad bill. consists of Messrs
Logan, Wheeler and Sherrod.
House.-John T. Rogers, who claimed a
seat for Tennessee at large, was allowed
$500 for expenses.
The bill exempring undistributed shares
OF insurance companies from taxation,
passed the House and went to the Speakers
table.
The bill amending an act of 1865 declar-
ing the bridges Of the New Orleans. Chat
tanooga anu Mobile railroad post-roads,
passed, and goes to the President.
The bill granting lands for railroad
from Decatur, Alabama, to Aberdeen, Mis-
sissippi, failed.
on Indian appropriations was adopted. and
the House adjourned.
.Sendte.-The sixteenth and seventeenth
joint rules nave been suspended for the
balance Of the session.
A resolution was adopted continuing the
Southern outrage committee until next ses-
sion.
Army appropriations resumed, and the
amendment alluded TO in Eoon report was
adopted. 1t provides fer the examination
and payment OF the claims OF Southern
lOyalists for Iuartermaster and commissary
stores furnished the Union army in the same
manner as similar claims are now examined
and paid which originated in the Northern
States and in West Virginia and Tennessee
1t was stated in debate that the amount
that will be paid under this provision, if it
becomes q law, will not probably exceed
one million of dollars, the aggregate being
much less than is generally supposed. The
bill then passed.
The naval appropriation bill is pending.
The Senate is i'll session tonight.
The conference committee OF the
Southern Pacific railroad meets tomorrow
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WEATHER REPORTs.-The low barometer
yesterday evening over Lake Michigan is
now over Maine. The pressure has been
highest on the South Atlantic coast all day.
but is slowly diminishing. 4 low barome-
ter has made It's appearance III Nebraska.
The weather is threatening west of Lake
Michigan. Fair weather and fresh winds
have prevailed on the Atlantic coast. with
high winds on the East Atlantic and lower
lakes.
PROBABILITIES. 1t is probable that dis
turbance is advancing from the western and
plains. Threatening weather
and fresh winds are expected before Thurs
lay night on the Gulf and upper lakes. and
air weather on the lower lakes and Atlantic
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