Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-01-30
EASTERN DISPATCHES.
BY Overland Telegraph.
ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY SENTINEL.
WASHINGTON.
PACIFIC RAILROAD MATTERS
TO BE SETTLED
THIS WEEK.
Details Of the Different Plans.
THE COMPROMISE BILL.
II RS POSITION.
PESpECTIVE COUNSEL.
RESPECTIVE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.
Pacific Railroad matters will be
brought very prominently to the at
tention of both Houses of Congress to
morrow.
The Senate will discuss the various
Sinking Fund bills with a view to
promptly passing u of them, and a
vigorous contest is anticipated. The
House bill, commonly known as the
Lawrence bill, and the Senate Judi
ciary Committee bill, are about equally
Objectionable to the railroad compa-
MES, who denounce both. of them as
demonstrations. measures OF practical
c~onfiscation, which il enacted will be
fought in tie courts for years with
every means at their command. The
bill originally reported from the SEN
ate Railroad Committee, making grants
to the Government in part payment of
the companies Indebtedness, has no
chance of passage; and they will
therefore concentrate their influence in
favor of the Gordon bill, which gives
a longer term OF full repayment in
money only, and will be accepted by
them as the best attainable compro-
mise provision for final settlement of
all controversies. 1t will probably
pass.
Lamar will move a suspension of the
rules Tor the adoption OF an order by
the House assigning February 9th for
action on the Compromise Texas Pa
citic Railroad bill. When the subject
4. t.Eap IN N anlars nf Indiana will
offer a substitute providing only for a
main line from Fort Worth to San
Diego, by the direct route, the whole
road to be built by SCOTS company,
and the Government to issue Treas
ury notes to an amount not exceeding
100000 per mile, which will be adj
vanced to the com pany on the security
of the company'S lands, and first
mortgage bonds, as fast As successive
sections of ten miles each are COM
pleted. The bonds are to bear only
two per cent. interest and the notes to
be legal tender for all purposes, in
Guiding payment of custom duties.
-tsA WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
Senator Conover, of the Committee
on Enrolled Bills, viii, deliver the
electoral vote bill to the President
early tomorrow morning. The Pres
ident this evening says he will sign the
bill and accompany the notification of
its approval with a special message
giving his reason for doing so.
CHICAGO, Jan. %.
The Inter- Oceans Washington special
says: The DeGocratS are pleased over
the appointment of Hoar as II Of the
Electoral Compromise Commissioners.
They regard him as tbs nearest to a
non partisan me. nber that can be found
on the Republican side. Republicans
are not pleased with bis selection; but
several gentlemen who have talked
with Hoar to-day insist that he under
stands the case at issue perfectly. and
that he is firm as a rock in the convic
ton that Hayes was fairly elected, and
that he cannot be robbed Of the presi.
dency by any legal technically in the
Oregon case.
New YORK. Jan IS.
The Times Washington special says:
The Republicans have secured the ser
vices of Evarts and Stanley Mathews,
and will probably have another as
counsel before the Electoral Commits
sion. The Democrats will have Jerry
Black, Carpenter of Wisconsin. and
Richard Il. Merrick, of Washington.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20.
The Times Washington special says:
The Democrats in the Ho'ise object to
Garfield's selection by the Republicans
az "A member of the Electoral Commits
sion because he went to New CLEANS.
and is therefore biased. The Repub.
licans reply that the purpose ofthe bill
waste make c irtain the appointment of
five Democrats who would never wa
yer on any question affecting the cleo
ton of Tilden, and five Republicans
who have perfect faith in the rightful
and legal choice of Hayes. This would
throwthe responsibility ofdeciding le
gal questions upon the Justices of the
Supreme Court, where it is placed by
the theory of the bill. Democrats in the
House will mako choice of their
own members OF the commission
tomorrow. If they object to Gar
field they should not select Hew-
lit, Field, Payne, Proctor Knott.
or Tucker, or Lamar, or indeed any of
their members that one can think of,
tor they are all committed. Indeed,
among Democrats in the Sena'e, there
are objections to Bayard, and there
will be u contest against him, because
he is not partisan enough. and Thur
man is sure to be one OF those chosen.
| There may be a constrovesy about
Conkling, though it is not supposed
he will be presented as a candidate.
The troubles of forming a commission
are not yet over, and may prove to he
serious, as there is some fear that the
four Justices will not he able to- agree
upon a selection OF the fifth.
The 1ribune's Washington special
saws: The President spent an hour to-
day in conversation with gentlemen
in regard to the financial condition Of
the country. He announced the be.
lief that the time has now arrived
when an immediate resumption OF
| specie payments is possible. He said
he had observed for some months past
a tendency in the financial affairs of
the country toward this point, and has
watched it closely with a view of sug-
costing at the proper time measures
looking to the accomplishment OF the
desired result.