The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-13
Zeke PangbOrn gets his
head Punched Again.
The Joliet Penitentiary to
be Investigated again.
Erail Women in Peoria
want a jury to give them
a Character.
More Embezz1ement, and
other Grimes.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-The bill intro
duced by Mr.. Hurlbut in the House, TO-
day. for double track freight railroad |
from the Missouri river to New York, is a
voluminous document, of which the follow
ing are the main points: 1t provides that
the route shall be as nearly an air line as
possible from Council Bluffs or the vicini-
ty to some CONVENIENT point on the Hud
son river or Bay of New York the work
to be commenced within one year from the
passage the capital stock to be limited to
one million in hundred dollar shares the
road to be built in the best manner, with
steel rails: branches to be built to Chicago
and st. Louis and such other places as the
directors may think necessary, but not over
two branches on the same side of the main
line in any one State.
The directors are given power to purch-
ase or lease any other lines that the rail
way has already built or that is in course
of construction, if they think advisable.
The road is to be declared and constituted
public highway and post road, and in ev
cry way and every part of it, subject to the
use of the United States for all purposes,
postal, military and telegraphic.
The company is authorized to construct
telegraph lines to be subject to the control
| of Congress so far as restricting and fixing
tariffs thereon, The bill designates as
bulk freight, all articles which may be load
ed without packages by the shipper and
without handling by the company, such as
coal, grain, bulk meats, lumber, ores, and
live stock, and fixes the maximum rate oi
freight on such at five mills per ton pc,
mile, for all distances exceeding sever
hundred and fifty miles; six mills for dis
tances less than seven hundred and fifty anC
not over six hundred seven mills for les
than six hundred and not over four hun
dred eight mills for less than four hun
dred and not over three hundred; Mn,
mills for less than three hundred and no
: over one hundred and fifty; and one cen
| for distances less than fifteen, and in win
ter one mill per ton to be added to thes
rates.
The maximum rates on other classes O
freight are to be fixed by commission
The bill creates fair extra allowance t
s be fixed by said commission to be a
/, lowed ON live stock freight for extra hand
ling, care &C., and for delays made neces
sary for proper transportation as provide
h by law, The bill provides for commit:
sion of five persons, three to be appolnte
bv the President and confirmed by tn
0 Senate, and two by the company, who al
5 to classify the freight and fix the maximum
g rates on all not specified in the bill, maxim
k reduction proportlonate to that made 3
this bill on bulk freiehts as compared wit
Il the present charges on leading east an
west roads The United States guarantee
five per cent interest on certain amour
per mile, not specified in the bill, of col
struction bonds The bonds are not to
Il sold except for cash, and at not less tia
u 95 per cent. A sinking fund to reimbur
the United States is provided for in Il
charter, and all the privileges containC
therein are declared subject to the contr
> of Congress in every respect.
u WASHINGTON, Jan. II. SENATE.
dry petitions were presented, including o
I'd from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan (. A
thony, and others, asking that women
allowed to vote, or that the same right
extended to them as to colored men.
The morning hour expiring the considC
TX, alton of the salary bill was resumed, t
pending question being on the amendme
tn of Mr.. Gordon, reducing ten per cent
salaries of all the government officers,
civil, naval and military, whose salary
Al Al over $4,000 year.
me me MIR. Gordon withdrew the amendm'
and offered another in its place applying
and 10 per cent reduction to $500 salaries
1Df 1Gf the army and navy, and making red
cts ton of all the staff officer and the Gene
of the army, and reducing the Preslder
salary after March, 1877, to $4,000,
,ort the appropriations for the executive M
- sion for the next four years by $3.50
The amendment was rejected.
-, Mr.. Conklin then offered a substitute
Il! the House bill, which repeals the act
March Sd, 1873, except SO far as 1t rela
to the salaries of the President and Jud
: of the Supreme Court, and places the 81
| n ries where they were before the passage
~ that act. 1t provides further that no N
age shall be allowed for the first session
the Forty third Congress, and that all
lbus drawn or returned back pay shall be {
cred into the treasury. After some dist
sion and the rejection of number
| in amendments, the substitute was adoI
and the bill passed-yeas, so, nays,S
Brownlow, Conover, Flanagan, Gort
s in Lewis, Norwood, Sprague, and Upton.
Mr.. Cooper opposed and paired with
Cragin in favor of the bill. Not vo
in were Messrs. Alcorn, Ames, Dennis, Fe
of Connecticut, Gilbert, Hamilton, OF lie
Johnston, Jones, Kelly, Ransom, Ste'
and Thurman.
HoUsE.-Mr. Holman moved to susI
the rules and adopt resolution decla
it the Judgment of the House that the
no necessity for an increase OF taxation
and an increase of the public debt by fur
loan. if there shall be economy in pl
no,n. expenditures, and that, in view OF the
and dition of the national finances, the ii
will reduce its appropriations and p
e expenditures to the lowest point consi
with the proper administration OF p
affairs.
The rules were suspended and the
os,srs luton adopted Yeas 221, nays 8.
JERSEY CRY, Jan. l2-Z. K. PangI
soa'h editor of the Jersey City Evening Jou
P, was knocked down and badly Injured
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