Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-01-31
Eastern Dispatches.


WASHINGTON. Jan. 29.-In the Senate,
Terry, Of Michigan, presented petition
of the citizens of Illinois, asking the sub
stitution of legal tenders for National
Bank notes. Referred.
Morrill,, of Vermont, offered a resolu-
ton instructing the Committee on Public
Buildings to investigate the amount and
cost of gas used in the Government
buildings at Washington, and stated in
some years it had been nearly 500, 600.
The Government and the Pacific
Railroads.
CHICAGO, Jan. 80. - A Washington
special to the Times says an important
bill is to be reported TO the House, the
object of which is TO regulate the rela-
tious between the Government and the
Pacific Railroads. II is well known that
these companies are in default Of pay
ment of interest TO the Government to
the amount OF several millions of dollars.
Luttrell, of California, has already in
troduced bill authorizing and requiring
the Attorney General to bring suits
against these companies to obtain this
money.
Craunza, o! Nebraska, has introduced
bill to declare all lands granted to the
railroad companies liable to State taxa
ton.
Wilson, of Indiana, introduced, last
Monday, bill amending of the Pacific
Railroad Act OF 1864, so as to compel the
Union Pacific Company and its branches
to charge uniform rates for freights and
passengers per mile, whether local or
through traffic. The bill makes it IN
lawful for any of the officers or any
agents Of the company to grant special
rates, privileges, or to draw back or dis.
criminate in any way in the transaction
OF business. Al these provisions are to
be combined in one bill, which the Judi
ciary Committee will report next week,
and will undoubtedly become law.
WAsHINGToN, Jan. 30.-In the Senate,
Chandler presented a petition for the ex.
tension Of the money order system &c
every postoffice in the United States, and
reduction OF charges in such Offices
Referred.
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Rioters.
New York, Jan. 30.-The police ar
engagements for the mass meeting in the
Cooper Institute are very elaborate. The
Superintendent is to command in person
Detectives and 80 putrolmen will be il
attendance in civil undress, and reserves
in all the stations will be held in readi
ness.
Thirty-one OF the Tomkin's Square ri
oters $50 called) have entered, through
counsel, a plea of not guilty in the Cour
OF General Sessions.
Fire ia Cincinnati--Ocean Steamel
Burned.
CIScISNATI, Jan. 30.-About a quartz
past / o'clock this morning fire brok
out in a building owned and occupied b.
l.. A. Strabel & Brothers, manufacturer
of mouldings, frames and looking glasses
on the sonth side Of Canal street. east c
the Elm building, and the contents wer
entirely consumed. Loss on building
stock and machinery about $40, 900; il
sured for $50, 900.
Boston, Jan. 30-The steamer Glar
Gus, of the Boston and New York line
burned in her dock this morning,
Reported Regulation for the Arres
of Ex-Governor Yarmouth.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.--A special frol
New Orleans, dated yesterday, gives r,
port that Gov Kellogg has issued
requisition upon the Governor of th
District of Columbia for the person {
Ex-Governor Yarmouth. 1t is said th
case grows out of some transactions col
nected with the Treasury when Wa
mouth was Governor of Louisiana. Wa
mouth $ friends here have heard nothin
of such requisition, nor did Warmout
yesterday know it prior to his departure
Kansas Senatorial Fight.
TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 30.-The bale
for U. S. Senator, in joint convention t.
day, was essentially the same as that ye'
terday.
Groundless CharGe--Jay Cookies Al
fairs--No Kansas Senator.
MEMPHIS, Jan. .29.-Captain Renaut
Secretary of the Howard Association,
charged by his jealous wife with en-
bezzlement of the association funds
There is not Il particle of evidence t
sustain the charge.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. % Edwin n
Lewis is elected trustee, and Shoemakel
Clayton, Morris and Brown q committe
of the creditors of Jay Cooke & Co
bankrupts, and the election is conirme
by the Court.
TOPEKA, Jan. 29.-The ballot for Sci
ator to-day is no more satisfactory tina
yesterday, the vote being divided anon
dozen candidates. Hudson, supporte
by the Changers, leads off with 30; Phi
! lips, 81; Harry and Slower, each Il
} Plum, 20. The rest scattering. Niece
, sary to a choice, so.