, 1874-04-04
COMMITTEE WORK.
tptctal Uispatek to Ihs Chicago Tribune.

TIE uEFUAM-HJho0L FUND.
= WASHINGTON, D, c., April 3.-Tho HousoAppro-
prlations Committee have been haltfng and hosi.
tating for about week ovor the domaud that
918,0o0 belonging to the Reforms School Fund,
deposited with Jay Cooke / Co., and lost when
that firm failed, be put in the bill. Is Is urged
against making tho allowance that tue money
States Treasury until 1t was needed for tho pur-
poses for which it was appropriated, and tlat
there was no necessity for mourning the risk by
depositing it In bank. -:
>. THE p1srn1cr souoo1-rEAoHEns.
Tho Senate District Committee agreed today
to recommend tho passage Of the House bill ap-
:propriating $4,000 to pay the sohool-teachers of
tho District. Robertson, Of South Carolina, Of
fored an amendment In committee striking out
that part Of tho bill which provides Tor THO 1eyy-
ing and collection OF q tax On personal property,
including bank-stooks, etc., IN tho District, for
th9 Of paying tue money hsok to the
voting for bis proposition, however; andho gavo
notice Of bis intention to move it IN tho Senate
whom the bill comes up.
WAR CLAIMS.
The HonBo Committee on War QlaimB to-day
reported : bill paying tho claims allowed by tho
Commissioners Of Claims In their laat annual re-
port. The bill embraces / LOG casos, aud appro-
prtates $o30, 900, or an average of s510 each.
These claims aro entirely for stores and supplies
taken by, or furnished for the use Of, tho army
during tic late war.
ITO the Assodtastd Press.l
WARRINGTON, D. G., April s.-The aenute Com
mittee on Public Lands today hoard delegation
OF three Mennonites from Ponusyiyania, and
two from Russia, asking. Legislation to enable
preparations to be made Tor the aettlement In
this country Of some 10000 Meunonites now liy-
ing In Russia, who are obliged to emigrato from
tint country prior to the yoar 1881, or else. per
tptfef& tina fanctH THAR
religion forbid. Tho Committee authorized
senator Window to prepare and report to tho
Senate bit authorizing the Secretary OF the
Interior to Withdraw from public salo such large
tracts OF land as they desire to occupy within the
next two years, either by homestead or pre-
emptlon entry.
ruE st. ono1x 1ANp-onAar. ..,
Tho Committee also heard u delegation from
Oroix Railroad land-grant, which has hpsed in
consequence OF Noncompliance with tho condi-
tionB relating to the time Of construction.
THE GENEVA AWARD.
The House Judiciary Committee this morning
propositions for tile distribution Of tho Geneva
their intention to take final action in tho matter
THE nEFIOIENCY hill.
The House Committee on Appropriations we're
again occupied in tho preparation Of the Do
ilciency bill. It considered, without action, tho
roqueBt Of the Commissioner OF 1nternal Iey-
enuo 10 DO authorized to tranBfor certain bal
anoes Of appropriationa in ortlor to ho ablo to
CURSED tho propriety Of recommending de-.
nctonoy appropriation Of s18, 900 to mako good
tho loss aantained BY tho Trustoes Of tue Reform
School Of tho District Of Columbia by the failure
provision. as last years appropriation for this
Institution should have boon drawn from the
United States Treasury only aa actually needod,
and should not have beon drawn out for deposit