Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-04-06
Latest Eastern News.


A Variety Of Washington News.
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-The
House Private Land Claims Com
mittee will meet next Monday to
hear argument from the attorney
of the San Francisco Association
of Philadelphia in advocacy of the
bill for the revival of the Santillan
claim. Horace Davis will be pres
ent and take notes for an early
reply.
The item for the improvement OF
the Sacramento and Feather rivers
in the river and harbor appropri.
alton bill has been increased by the
House Commerce Committee from
$4,000 to $500. The committe have
also inserted provision for surveys
of Crescent City harbor and Hum
boldt river, California, and Cape
Foul Weather Roadstead, Oregon,
with view to ascertaining their
adaptability as harbors of refuge.
An item of $4,000 for the improve.
ment of Oakland harbor Is inserted
with the following proviso: Blu!
this sum shall not be available I'M
til the right of the United States to
the bed of the estuary and training
walls of this work IS secured, free of
expense to the government and in a
manner satisfactory to the Secre-
tary of War. All other Pacific
Coast items heretofore mentioned
in these dispatches are retained
without alteration. The bill will
probably be passed by the House
under suspension of the rules and
without amendment.
| The Postof1ice Department has
decided to re.advertise the route
between Redding, California, and
Roseburg, Oregon, the bond of the
lowest bidder under the last adver-
tisement being found technically
defective. The present cost of the
service is SIS, 200 per annum. The
route from San Diego to Campo
will be extended to Yuma and re-
advertised, and proposals will also
be invited for mail service on the
long route between Prescott and
Santa F6, the last advertisement
having stated the distance errone-
ously. The issuance of advertise.
ments for these routes and fol
about seventy others in the Pacific
States and Territories, established
since the date of the last regular
advertisement, is delayed on &C.
count of the exhaustion of the de.
partment's appropriation for print
ing, and also awaiting the passage
by Congress of the pending bill
authorizing the Executive Depart.
ments to pay commercial rates fol
government advertisements.
g. w. Reed, of Yolo county, has
started homeward, after selling in
New York city large amount OF
stock of the company recently or
ganized to work the Plumas gold
quartz mine.
Pending action by Congress on
the bill providing for the abolition
of the office of Surveyor General
in the different States and Terrific
ries, the President declines to make
re-appointments or any new APP
pOintments for those positions.
This accounts for the delay of ac-
ton concerning the Oregon Sur
veyor Generalship and other cases
where commissions have expired.
The Treasury Department has
encountered singular embarrass-
ment in the case of the newly APP
pointed Collector of Customs for
Alaska. The law requires
the oath of Office to be taken
before some magistrate au-
thorized to administer the
oath within the district to which
each Collector Of Customs belongs.
The Department has information
that there is not any magistrate in
Alaska thus authorized, unless the
Treasury Agent at the fur seal
islands may be SO considered and
Sitka is 80 distant from these
islands that it would be extremely
inconvenient, If not practically inn
possible, for the Collector to take
the oath of Office before him. A
bill was therefore introduced in the
Senate to-day providing that, until
the formal organization of the Ter
ritory of Alaska, the oath of office
required from Customs officers may
be taken before any United States
Circuit or District Judge.
To-day subcommittee was APP
pointed, consisting of Yeates, Har-
denburgh and Eames, to examine
the revised statutes and report
whether, in their opinion, further
legislation is necessary for the pro-
lection of United States notes or
securities.
Rinchback Approves of Nichols
WASHINGTON, April 5th.-Pinch.
back says that Louisiana has now
the best Governor within his rec.
objection. The people are better
satisfied than heretofore with pub
lie affairs, although, as elsewhere,
there are complaints of the hard
times. The only thing of which
Pinchback complains is that few
children, nearly white, in the pub
lie schools in New Orleans, have
been required to leave. His own
children were included in the num-
Der removed by the school authori-
ties.
Will Kefased Probate.
NEW YORK, April 5.-Surrogats
DALEY. of BROOKLYN. TO-DAY. re-