, 1874-01-15

is much difference OF op1nlcn among the
leading coal operators as to probable
duration of strike, many believing thai
lit will last until the middle of April.
MADRID, Jan. 12.--On Sunday even
ing Committee of Red Cross Society
and three Cartagenian officers arrived at
Gen. Dominguez head quarters. They
brought letter fiom President of In
surgent Junta asking suspension of hos
| tilities. and appointment of joint COM
missicners of Government and Carriage
nian officers to consider conditions of
surrender. Gen. Domingusz rejected
these proposal and gave Insurgents un-
til noon to make an unconditional sur
render. He. however, promises pardon
to all who before the expiration of that
time give themselves up with their arms.
except members of the Junta and ordin-
ary criminals, who are to be dealt with
by a tribunal. All liberated convicts
will be compelled to serve out terms of
their sentences and deserters from army
will be disposed of by Minister of War.
With this reply Committee returned to
the City. Government is confident that
surrender will be effected to-day
CASTELAR, remains here.
WASHINGTON Jan 12.-Dr. Linderman,
Director of the Mint, was before the
House Committee on Currency, Weights,
and Measures to-day, and the result of
the conference was the appointment of
a subcommittee, to consider the bill
heretofore referred to that Committee,
providing that the Secretary of the
Treasury may issue, in payment of net
coinage, the value of the gold bullion
deposited at any mint or assay Office,
certificates in Gums of $40 or even inul-
tiples thereof, ledeemable at the Treas
ury, Oh, if specified, at the Assistant
Treasury. in gold coin or fine gold
mint bars, at its option and convenience.
The Secretary may also from time to
time transfer to the Treasury, or a spe-
cited Assistant Treasury, from the bull
lion fund OF any mints or assay office,
refined gold bars, bearing the U. S.
stamp of tineness, weight and intrinsic
value. and apply the same in redemption
of the certificates authorized by this bill
to be issued, or in exchange for gold
coin at par.
Sub Committees were also appointed
on the bill authorizing coupons to be
executed at the U. S. mints for foreign
countries; the amendment of the law in
relation to the abrasion of coin; Cork
ling's bill for the appointment of an
Appraiser General at San Francisco, a
proposed revival of an Office created in
1856 and abolished in 1862. It's revival
is recommended by Col. Werner, Sub
Treasury Agent and SurveGor of the
Port of San Francisco, who thinks it is
calculated to prevent fraud in appraise-
ment, especially appraisement of dam
ages. The Appraiser General would
have the same powers as the similar Of.
ficer in New York to overrule the decis-
sions of his subs.
Houghton's bill on tie Chinese ques-
ton provides for the appointment by
the President and confirmation by the
Senate of three commissioners, whose
duty it shall be to collect and report to
Congress I'll available information rela-
tive to the condition of the Chinese in
the q. S. and the effect of their presence
on the white labor of the country. The
authoritative data thus obtained will,
Houghton believes, facilitate the pro-
curing of such federal action as may be
found necessary.
Senator Mitchell's bill appropriated
5000 for the purchase of material and
apparatus of private Assay Office in
Portland Oregon, and the appointment
of the necessary officers for the estab-
lishment of government Assay Office,
the Office to be at that point. Mitchell,
in letter to the Treasury Department
urges the proposition as the means of
accommodating the large production Of
gold on the Northern Pacific Coast,
saving unnecessary charges on miners
and preventing the large annual exports
of gold to China. Linderman, the Di-
rector of the Mint, writes letter in re-
ply, giving Mitchell's bill his official en-
doIsement.
{ Luttrell, just before the house adjourn
ed to-day, introduced preamble. set
ting forth specifically that the G. P.
R. r. has received from the U. S. and
from Californian, and from Nevada and
Utah, altogether aggregated $156, ,O0O.-
600 IN gold; that the Directors made
contracts with certain of their number
to construct road, known as the con-
tract and finance committee, who re-
ceived the profits of the contracts and
have acted SO as to defraud the U.
S. Government, etc. A resolution ap-
pended provides for the appointment of
q Committee of z, to be appointed by
the Speaker, with full power to send for
persons and papers, to recommend to
Congress such measures as win secure
the Government and people against
combinations to defraud the former and
oppress the latter, and that the Commit
tee examine into all the transactions Of
seid railroad; also into all transactions
had with the Western Pacific Railroad
and the Oregon Railroad, and all other
parties connected Herewith; into all
transactions had by and between s:id
Directors and Chas. Crocker & Co., and
all transactions with the so-called Con-
tract and Finance Co., Wells, Fargo &
Co., and all other corporations and in.-
diyiduals for material furnished and