Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-03-22
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GEES. SUtier-rhe BzaiI Lettings.

Gen. sUtier-rhe MaiI Lettings.
WASHINGTON, March 2l.-Rep-
resentatives Page, Wigginton and
Davis, of California, and Wiltshire,
of Arkansas, accompanied General
John A. Sutter before the House
Committee on Private Land Claims
and advocated favorable action
on the bill which proposes to in
demnify him for the loss of his
Mexican grant by n money pay
ment of $4,000. The California
Representatives plea for him was
of wholly sympathetic nature.
They spoke of the fact that gold was
first discovered I'M California through
his instrumentality and in view of
all his services, sacrifices and hard
ships, which had reduced him to a
state of poverty, they thought the
government owes him a debt of
gratitude that should incline the
committee to give his present claim
the most favorable consideration
possible. The committee subse-
quently took vote upon the bill
aud almost unanimously decided
to report it adversely, on the
ground that their powers extended
only to the consideration of whether
or not his private land claim was
valid and that they could take no
action in the direction of granting
a pension or gratuity.
The contracts awarded for the
next four, years. term of mail SER
vice in the Pacific Coast States and
Territories and Texas, Arkansas
and Colorado, show that u saving
of nearly one million dollars per
annum has been effected in the re-
cent letting as compared with the
present cost of the service.
Postal savings DepOsiiOries-The
| Coinage of che New Dollar.
WASHINGTON, March 2lst.- The
bill of A. M. Waddell, Chairman Of
the Committee on Postoffices and
Post Roads, to establish postal
savings repositories and to aid in
refunding the national debt, was
discussed in committee this morn
ing, and the chairman was author
Ized to offer it as substitute for
the bill of Robbins, from the Com
mittee on Ways and Means, whic h
was made the special order for to-
day in the House. Waddell's bill
contains the entire plan of Rob.
binss bill for refunding the ma
tional debt and provides for postal
savings repositories, to be managed
by the Postoffice Department., sub
stantially upon the English and
Canadian plans, viz: Deposits of
any amount from % cents to $500
may be received at designated
money order offices, for which de-
positors are entitled to pass-book
credits and also TO certificates of
deposit from the Postmaster Gen.
eral. These deposits bear three
per cent. interest and may be
withdrawn at any time on the ap-
plication of the depositor or his
legal representative. Absolute Sc
curity is guaranteed to depositors,
and no charge is made for deposit
or withdrawal, while every
possible facility is afforded
for the convenience of depositors.
Depositors who desire may have
their deposits when they reach fifty
dollars converted into 1865 certifi-
Gates or four per cent. bonds. The
bill also provides for all details of
managementand covers all grounds
of other bills having in view pop
ular four per cent. loan.
The Secretary Of the Treasury
has authorized the mints at Phila-
delphia, San Francisco and Carson
and the assay office at New York to
purchase silver bullion in lots not
exceeding ten thousand ounces at
the equivalent of London rates, for
coinage into standard silver dollars,
payment to be made in silver dol