The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-13
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Mr.. Schlelcher Heads the Committee
on Texas Frontier Troubles.
Synopsis OF llamIltOn's Bill Relative TO
Texas Pacific Railway.
Hill, OF Ca, Answers BlainG's Speech
on the Amnesty Bill.


WASHINGTON, January l2.-Admiral
j. II. Mullaney having some time since
asked to be relieved of the command
Of the North Atlantic station, it is
probable he will shortly he relieved by
Admiral w. +. Leroy, now command.
ing the South Atlantic station.
A delegation of steam boatmen, COM
prising the National Board of Steam
Navigation, are here and have their
first formal interview tomorrow. Their
object is to perfect steamboat laws by
certain amendments which they pro-
pose to submit to Congress.
The Speaker announced the follow
ing select committees on Texas From
tier Troubles: Messrs. Schleicher, A.
S. Williams of Michigan, Lamar,
Banks and Hurlburt. On Freedmen's
Bank Failures: Messrs. Douglas, Brad
ford, Stenger, Riddle, Hooker, Bliss,
Farwell, Frost and Rainey.
WASHINGTON, January Ex-senator
Hamilton's bill relative to the Texas
and Pacific and Southern Pacific Rail-
road proposes to authorize the South
ern Pacific Railroad of California to
extend its line towaId the Colorado
river to meet the Texas and Pacific
road Oh the latter or il found practic-
able, on or near the thirty-second
parallel, the said Southern Pacific
Company to have and enjoy for the
portion of which it controls, all the
land gratis and other rights hereto
fore provided for the Texas and Pacific
Company. The Southern Pacific Com
pany is also empowered to build "A
road from some point on its line to the
ship canal in Sar Diego, and Tor this
portion it also shall enjoy all the rights
heretofore granted to the Texas and
Pacific line, provided it shall build
twenty miles of this branch within
two years, and twenty miles yearly
hereafter it also is required to COM
medce work on its extension east from
the Colorado within one year after its
road is completed to that river, as now
required by its charter and must build
at least twenty miles of the extension
Yearly until it connects with the Texas
and Pacific; provided that the connec-
ton, if west of the eastern boundary
of New Mexico shall be within six
years from the passage of this bill.
Another section provides that after
the connection is made the whole line
of trans.continental road shall be OPP
Grated as one continuous line, and un-
lust discrimination in rates of freight
or fare shall not be made by either OF
said companies against the other.
In the House a bill was introduced
and referred by Morrison, preparatory
to redemption of United States notes
and the redemption of specie pay
ments. 1t proposes to retain gold in
the Treasury to the amount of thirty
per cent of the outstanding legal ten
ders; it requires National banks to re-
tain the gold paid for interest on bonds
deposited to secure currency until they
have thirty per cent of the outstanding
notes. 1t repeals that portion OF the
resumption act compelling specie re-
sumption in 1879.
Its said the friends ofThurman have
formed quite a coterie in pressing his
Presidential prospects. Some OF them
have recently had a conference with
the New Workers to throw 'rilden and
Bayard out ofthe race. The Thurman
programme includes Governor Curtin,
of Pennsylvania, for Vice-President.
Tie latter is here, and has been con-
suited. Some of the Southern men are
i'm the movement under the lead OF
Senator Gordon. This rumor comes
altogether from Republican cources:
WASHINGTON, January ll.-Ihe
speech of Blaine on the amnesty bill,
while respectful in tone Toward the
people in the South, was extremely
vindictive against Jefferson Davis.
Not, said he, because Jefferson Davis
had been the leader of the rebellion,
or that he had been an efficient enemy
of the government, or that he had Ill
rected the councils of the Confederacy,
but that he had been guilty of the
greatest crime in the annals of history,
and was responsible for the murders OF
Andersonville.
His speech was replied to by Cox, OF
New York, in a most satiracai wen,
being treated as q movement for the
Presidency. Cox contrasted Blaine's
position on the question of amnesty
with that OF President Grant, who al.
ways favored general and unqualified
amnesty, "but that" said Cox, "Grant
was absolutely politician and against
Blaine's amnesty excluding Jefferson
Davis from amnesty, and in favor oil
the original bill" ~,
Geneaal Hills speech tomorrow VIII
outline the history of the exchange OF
prisoners and will show to whom An
Jacksonville and Libby owe their ter
rors.
New YORK, January LA special to
the Evening Post from White Piains
says: Surrogate Coffin to-day decided
in the Singer will case that Mrs. Isabel
la E. Singer, named in the Will probat
ed. a lady whose character is In no way
impugned by or involved In the mat
ter. and which we are bound to consid'
err as above reproach, is the widow O
the deceased, and her children his ie
ultimate offspring. The application o.
Mrs. Ann Singer, Miss Foster, the sec
ond wife. who claimed she was entitled
to widows dover, is denied.