Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-03-22
The Pacific Hallway Committee =
Caiiiorniansi ia VI ashingtOn.

MdEcu ~.
The Se,a'e Pacific Railway Com
mitt.e had a full meeting this morn-
ing and took into consideration the
proposition to construct the Pacific
railway ON the thirty-second parallel
of latitude. Very warm interest was
manifested by the committee in the
Texas Pacific railway project "a pre-
scented by Col. Scott: also in the alter
nate proposition of Senator Hamilton
to build such n road without any fur
ther subsidy than a land grant. Some
progress WAS made and a general in
terchange of opinion too place. with
the conclusion I defer further action
until the next regular meeting OF The
colnmittee on Monday next, when II
is expected n decision will lie reached.
Charles Hare. of San Francisco, is
here. waiting to get the amount of
awards out If the Alabama claims
Fund, a%egregating about Sl0o,00.
Senator Cole is still here closing his
business before the Alabama Claims
Commission.
uHkt EptfI ~ VI - Eth
presne Gourt Reversed ia d
Ghimess C~axe-Siiver Cola from
San Francisco.
WASHINGTON. March 20.
The United States supreme court
this afternoon delivered, through JUS
tice Miller, a unanimous opinion re-
versing the decision of the California
Supreme Court in the so.called Chi
ne>e case, and ordering the woman
CIV Lung to he released from Gus ody,
i'm which she is held under The Foreign
Passenger act of that State. This de.
cision sustains the ruling made bv
Justice Field in similar cases brought
before him in the U. S. Circuit Court.
The Supreme Court accompanies lis
decision with a sewers criticism of the
law of California on the subject.
The Treasury Department vii, re
ceive daring the present week, from
| San Francisco. fourteen tons OF silver
| coin in anticipation Of the period for
commencing the circulation Of sill, er.
| The case Of Duncan. sherman e. Go.
New YORK, March 81.
Judge Barrett. in the suit OF Wash
ington A. Roebling. agent of Duncan,
| Sherman Il Co., in the Supreme Court,
has refused to vaca'e the order OF ar
rest against the defendants. He SAYS
tt e members of the firm had made an
exanina ION OF their condition which
| ought to have disclosed that their liza
bliti.s exceeded their assets by three
millions, and the con>equent futility oi
u Negotiations 10 place their business
on a sound basis, and it was their duty
tn have StOpped al once.
schenrk 10 Appear Before she Com
mitiee Om Foreign AfTalrS.
CHICAGO, March 81.
A Times Washington special says
that to-day Gen. Schenek will appear
before the Foreign Affairs Committee
To ba cro~s-examined about his con
nection with the Emma mine scandal.
He has been diligently interI iswed
e7er since the Abyssinia arrived in
New York by all the representatives
of the press. He says that it would
not be proper for him to tell in ad
vance what defense he proposes to
make. Permission was asked of the
committee q day for WIN. Nj. Evarts
10 appear as counsel for Schenck. This
will be granted. Mr.. Swami, chair
man Of the committee, will not be-
present TO morrow, as he has teen
called away by the sudden and dan
gerous illness of his brother in Phils-
delphia. Mr.. Faulkner, of West Vir,
ginis, will act in Swann's place.