The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-08
WASHINGTON NOTES.
News and Chit.Chat-The Texas Pacific.
Centennlal--Reducing Expenses.
A Patriotic Resolution.

WASHINGTON, January 1.-The Tex.
~ and Pacific bill was presented under
call and referred to the Pacific Rail
road Committee, the members OF
which have been called together for
Monday. The measure submitted il
the same IA that pending In the Sen
ate and rs the one pending last Con-
gress In the House. The provisions,
cleared OF all ambiguity, shows CON
clusively that there Is no intention of
building said road In the interest of
| Northern lines, but that IL Is intended
TO he, in fact, an open highway to the
Pacific, with which every road In the
country may connect on equal terms.
Mr., Mar, of Indiana, offered reso-
luton IN the House to the effect that
the fraternal feeling and good will
now existing in all sections of the
country, aud the manifest disposition
and purpose of the men who battled
against each other in the late civil
war, to join hands rs one people In the
future, Is u most auspiclous ushering in
of the Centennial year, and that while
the people are thus making an honest
effort to live together in peace aud to
uphold the same flag Of an undivided
country, their Representatives in Con-
gress should do no act which would
necessarily disturb the patriotic con.
cord now existing and increasing, nor
wantonly revive the bitter memories
OF the past. He insisted on having
the vote taken by yeas and nays, and
IL was accordingly 30 taken and re.
suited In the resolution being unani-
mously adopted. Yeas, one hundred
and eighty-nine; nays, none.
The officers Of the Centennial exhi-
bition are here, urging the appropria-
ton OF 81 100000 by Congress to COM
plete the exhibition buildings and
leave the enterprise free from debt
when ii opens In May. Members differ
very widely as to the right OF Congress
to spend the public money for private
enterprise. There was u meeting of
the Select Committee on the Centenni-
al yesterday, and a bill was framed
covering the manner in which the APP
preparation, II made, shall be con-
trolled and disbursed. Members of
the commission are anxious for imme-
diate action in order to test the mat.
ter. An effort will be made on Mon
day next to put through bill under u
suspension of the rules appropriating
81, 800, 900.
Mr.. Holman, who Is second In the
committee ON Appropriations In the
House, states that, after n careful ex.
animation of all the estimates now be.
fore the committee, 1t is manifest that
the expenses of the Government for
the next fiscal year can be reduced at
least S43, 100000. He proposed in the
items of river and harbor and public
buildings alone to cut down the est.
mates SS,000,000. In the estimates for
the Postollice Department, a heavy re-
duction is also to be made, chiefly in
the items of Poetmasters' salaries and
the free delivery of letters. The law
now provides that In all cities of thirty
thousand Inhabitants there shall be
free delivery. 1t is proposed to limit
the free-delivery system to cities of
not less than eighty thousand inhab-
itants. The next heavy reduction is
to be made i'm the estimates for the
army. 1t is probable that the COM
mittee will recommend o reduction of
the army to fifteen thousand men,
with corresponding reduction In the
staff and general officers. The esti-
mates for the Indian Bureau will also
be largely reduced.