Arizona citizen., 1875-12-18
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
scmuary of Late Dispatches to
 The Citizen.

to San Carlos on cattle business Liuetenants T. B. Nichols and H. P Perrine have been ordered to Prescott on court-martial duty. H. C. Hooker and Thos. Ewing are here on hunt
 The President recommends that S3O0,O 900 of the army appropriation be made available before July 1, 1878, for subsistence department; also enactment Of law for annuities for families of deceased officers by deductions from monthly pay of officers; also repeal of the law eholishing mileage and a re turn to the old system; also permanent organization of the Signal Service which has become 8 necessity oi peace as we'll as war.
 On the 14th, Harrison introduced a resolution in the House to amend the constitution making the President cleo tive but for one term only, and after
 wards a Senator for life; and Randall a resolution to extend Presidential term to six years and ineligible thereafter and on the 11th, Spillger introduced a resolution looking to reduction of the army to ten thousand men and to bring the cost of it to within twenty millions per year.
 On the 18th, the House of Repre- sentatives by vote of 232 to 1S adopt ed resolution against third Pres idential term; same day bill was in troduced to reduce postage on transient pamphlets, newspaper, etc, to one cent for each two ounces, to take effect on and after January 1, 1876.
 The Wheeler S Wilson Sewing ma chine works at Bridgeport, Conn, were destroyed by fire on the 18th instant loss over half million and 200 mechan- icS thrown out of employment.
 Vests railway bill IS in all material points the one Col. Scott will urge. Its friends are very sanguine of sue cess, though unbiased men are report ed as saying they are too confident; {; that the St Louls convention gained them some Western votes but that they are offset by the South indispositiOn to make St Louis the real terminus; that the Central Pacific wants the railway committee constituted so suit itself, failing in which Mir. Huntington says the company will oppose all subsidies on general principles and offer to build the Southern Overland for just the land grant now given the Texas Pa cific; that Wigginton and Page will oppose the Scott bill and Luttrell and Piper will probably support it. Sen ator Sargent leaves the railway com mittee because of being upon more than his share of committees-that is four instead of three. His exact posi- ton on the Texas Pacific was unknown at our latest advices.
 The House on the 18th, passed an anti-subsldily resolution declaring that under the existing financial condition of the country, no subsidy either in money, bonds, land or loan of public credit should be granted to corpora tions, and that all appropriations should be limited 10 the actual necessity of the public service. This resolution is similar in form to that annually h. troduced by Holman of Indiana, and is not regarded as particularly significant of the future.
 On the 18th, the American Board of. Transportation and Commerce, began its session in Chicago. After the com pletion of the organization, g number of elaborate and lengthy reports upon important problems of rail and water transportation, and the best means of systematizing and cheapeniug the same, were read and referred The convention comprises delegates from more than one-half of the States of the Union and representatives from Can ada. Resolutions were presented and referred, recommending the compile tion of the improvement of the four great water routes as unanimously re- by the United States Sen ate Committee on transportation routes to the seabord. Second: The exten. sion of public credit to the Texas and Pacific railway to such an extent and in such manner as will secure its early completion with full guartantees from the owners of that road Third: The building of double track, steel rail way from the Atlantic seaboard at New York to the Mississippi rlver at St. Louis, 10 be used exclusively for freight traffic.
 Senator Morton denies as utterly false the report that he was in any way with the whisky ring in connection with the Indiana campaign of 1872.
 Secretary Bristow is reported as say ing he does not expect the whisky ring ordered on the Pacific Coast, will amount to much.
 A telegram received by the Attorney General from St. Louis on the 18th from United States District Attorney Dyer, announces that no more import ant whisky ring trials will occur be- fore January.
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