The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-02-13
The Tariff Bill in the House.
WASHINGTON.

Washington, Feb. IA caucus of
Republican Senators, yesterday,
agreed, by a large majority, to the
House bill passed last session, for the
admission of Colorado as a state. 1t
is believed that the House bill for
the admission of New Mexico was
also agreed to.
The Com mmissioner of the Land
Office having been requested 10 con-
strue the act of June %, 1874, for the
relief of settlers on railroad lands, so
as to permit the Union Pacific Rail-
road Company to select lands contain
ing coal and iron. in lieu of agricuI-
tural lands proposed to be released in
favor of actual settlers. The Commits
sioner replies that the act of June last
provides that nothing herein con-
tanned shall in any manner be so con-
strued as to enlarge or extend any
grant to any such railroads. Your
company receives all its coal and iron
lands without diminution on account
OF the claim of any settlers, and to
allow you in addition to surrender
lands purely agricultural and take the
reserved coal land, of greatly increased
value, would, in my judgment, mate
rally enlarge your grant, and would,
therefore, be in express violation of
the act under which the claim is
presented.
The President has nominated Geo.
w. French, Secretary Of Wyoming
Territory.
After reading the journal, on the
motion of Dawes, the House went into
Committee of the Whole on the re-
venue bill. E. II. Roberts obtained
the floor and made an elaborate
speech.
The ways and means committee,
to-day, agreed to amend the new
revenue bill so that milado will pay
sugar duty.
Representative Beck, of Kentucky,
fell on the ice last night and broke his
wrist, and is confined to his room.
The question of compromise with
the Union Pacific Railroad Company,
as suggested in the recent letter of
President Dillon to the Secretary of
the Treasury, was one of the subjects
before the Cabinet to-day, and the
members present expressed their in
| dividual views on the matter, though
of course it remains for the Secretary
of Treasury to decide what recon-
mendation he will make to Congress
on the subject. 1t seems not unlikely
that some arrangement will be agreed
| upon between the Government and
the railroad company, provided some
changes are made in their offer which
will be more acceptable than the pro-
position now at hand. This, it is
thought, would be preferable to COM
mencing a series of suits.
The Senate by a vote of two yeas
refused to order to third reading the
Portland, Dalles & Salt Lake Railroad
bill, Cameron and Flanagan being the
only Senators who voted in the affir-
native.
In the House objection was made to
the consideration of the pension bill
and the private calender was taken up
and large number of private bills
acted upon.
Kelly followed Roberts. He began
by saying-that the imposition of war
taxes in time of peace was as illjmdged
as we'll as it was inopportune. He
differed from the majority of his COL
leagues on the ways and means COM
mittee, and attributed the present
financial distress to this vicious system
of legislation.
At the close of Kelly's speech, the
further consideration of the revenue
bill was postponed, and the House
took up the pension appropriation bill.
During the debate in the Senate to-
day on the Portland, Dallas & Salt