The Van Buren press., 1874-01-27
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
Especial Dispatch to the Republican,
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.

WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
GRANGERs aKr HEARING.
The Grangers have at last obtained a
hearing in Congress. The House com
mittee on agriculture this morning ap-
pointed sub committee on the griev-
ances Of the Grangers, and il the gentle
men comprising it attend to their bust
ness, they will end they have taken pe-
stion that 10 no sinecure They will
commence work on a pile of memorials,
etc, etc, already embracing about 1920
sets Of papers, and which is growing
every day.
The complaints. etc, touch the subject
Of transportation, warehouse frauds upon
grain shippers, commissions, tariff, the
national banks, the labor question, cx-
travagance in National, State and Mu-
nicipal expenditures, and vast collec-
ton of minor matters, showing that the
people are aroused as never before They
claim that flour is sold fo- sl0 per barrel
with wheat at 81 so to 81 Is per bushel,
and requi. ing only about three bushels
for barrel. They also complain of the
high rate Of commission which are
charged by commission merchants, de-.
claring that the product is all eaten up
by such commissions The Southern
Grangers complain of the emigration
from the borders of their States by col
ored laborers, and while they do not ask
for legislation upon this subject, they de
sire that some suggestions as remedy
may be thrown out by Congress.
The committee will oppose any reduc-
tion in the appropriation for the agricul
tural department.
ELECTION BILL FOR LOUISIANA.
Senator Carpenter and Ben Butler have
prepared a bill providing for new elec
ton in Louisiana, which will be intro
duced next Monday in both Houses.
Carpet baggers Sheldon, Sypher Pitkin
and ex Senator Harris were at the White
House to-day laboring with the President
to prevent new election, and trying to
induce him to carry the burden of car.
pet baggcrs and usurpation a little
longer.
ASHINGTON, Jan. Il.
TON SCOTS RAILROAD PROGRAMME
Col. Tom Scott having got rid Of the
threatened incubus Of the Northern Pa
cifc, will come here with somewhat ex
tensive programme, which includes the
Oklahoma measures, as a part Of the de
velopment of the country traversed by
his Southern Trans Continental railway.
The Southern Pacific interest, which now
includes both the great Southern lines,
is, of course, anxious to secure the opc-
ming of the Indian country to settlement,
and there is some foundation for the
statement that a part Of the consideration
offered to the government for guaran
tee Of the interest on the new mortgage
bonds will be the REIMBURSEMENT of the
conditional land grant Of the Atlantic
and Pacific through such portions of the
Indian territory as are held in fee by the
civilized Indians This, however, will
depend in a great measure on the action
OF the Missouri. Kansas and Texas peo-
pie, who will not be likely to surrender
their conditioned land grant without
some cDHslueraJiOn, anu ~ is uOt NcJ oet-
tied whether or not they will regard the
increased traffic that would follow the
opening Of the territory as a sufficient
consideration but it may be held certain
that Congress will not pass any bill incor-
pora.ine the territory which does not re-
peal the conditional land grant of the two
roads as far rs the same affects or would
affect the lands held in fee by the five or.
ganized nations. the Cherekscs, Creeks,
Choctaws, Chickasaws and Seminoles
PINCHBACK sNUBBED.
1t seems that the President is some
what bitterly in earnest in his deiermina-
ton to unload his Southern burdens,
from the fact that be to-day fatty refused
to grant an audience to Pinchback, alleg
ing that, until the charges now pending
against the latter were cleared up, there
could not be any official reason why he
should be received, and there certainly
was no personal consideration involved
Pinch is somewhat down in tho mouth in
consequence.