The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1878-02-01
CONGRESSIONAL.
SENATE.

A resolution thanking Stanley, the Afrl-
can explorer passed.
Mr., Maxey called up Senate bill appro-
priating 100000 for the erection of suitable
posts for the protection OF the Rio Grande
frontier, and it was passed.
Senator Morgan of Alabama, offered an
amendment to the silver bill to allow free
coinage of silver by permitting any holder
of bullion to deposit it in an assay office or
mint i'll sums not less than one hundred
dollars in a single deposit nor to exceed
one thousand dollars during a calendar
month by the same depostOr the bullion
to be valued at its market price for legal
tenders at the date of the deposit. Certiti
Gates to be given to the owner to be paid
by the Secretary of the Treasury in not
less than thirty nor more than ninety days,
in legal tender notes, or silver dollars, at
the option of the Government. After one
year, the coinage OF silver to be on the same
footing in all respects with the coinage of
gold. Ordered that it be printed.
Mr.. Booth Of California, submitted an
amendment to allowthe owners of silver
dollars to deposit them with the Treasurer
or any Assistant Treasurer Of the United
States and receive certificates of not less
than ten dollars each-the certificates to
be engraved as mohey and to circulate in
place of silver. the design is to obviate the
Inconvenience ofsilver as commercial trans
actions, Ordered printed.
Senate adjourned to MOnuaY.
HOUSE.
Bills were reported from the Post Office
Committee to increase the pay OF letter car
rers, and to regulate the pay of pO;tmasters,
were referred to Committee of the Whole.
The West Point Academy appropriation bill
was debated without action.
| The House Committee on the Pacific Kali
road to-day continued its hearing of argu-
ments on the Texas and Southern Pacific
bills. James I'll. StOrrS, on behalf of the
Southern Pacific, replied to the argument
of Gov. Brown as to the power of Congress
to authorize the Texas Company to con
struct a railroad in California and to bridge
the Colorado river, citing decisions of the
Supreme Court wherein the right of do
main is vested in the State and not in the
Federal Governments; and also from d1cl-
sions in the Omaha bridge case, where the
court expressly waived the question OF the
| power of Congress over the subject as not
being then before it. He also refuted the
allegation of Saturday, as to the cost and
profits of building the Centr5l Pacific Rail
road, that having been made the subject
ofan exhaustive investigation by the 43I
| Congress when the committee by a vote ol
| 10 to 3 decided that no further investiga-
| ton was necessary. Mr.. e. L. Huntingdon
| then addressed the committee in reply tt
Col SCOTS argument made last week. lie
denied the assertion that the S)uth9rn Pa
cific and the Central Pacific were the same
| thing and said that they were quite dls
| tinat in their organizations and aims, anG
| that when completed through to the East
the Southern Pacific would compete for the
husiness now enjOyed by the Unio1 and
| Central lines. He explained that yea :, ago
| before any of these questions had arisen o
| were thought of, in tie settlement OF some
local difference, he and some OF his trlend
of the Central had been persuaded t.
90 to the help of the Southern Pa
cific which had then but fifty mile
of road in operation, and thar, fin ling the!
were compelled to build under the law fit.
miles a wear at the Colorado end of the lin
and twenty miles year at the western
end. he had repeatedly offered to dispos
of his interest in it, and in 1873, die sell
controlling portion of the whole line be
tween the Colorado and San Francisco t
Colonel Scott himself, but he never fultille
his contract. Since then a good Geal NOR
road had been built but he was now wlllln
10 dispose of it to the United States or I
Colonel Scott, if he could be satlSfe
that it would be used as part c
, direct line to the Gulf or the 10Y,
Mississippi cities. He claimed thi
instead of building from Marshall, ley
| as westward on main line, not less Una
one hundred miles a year, as the Law requil
! ed, Scott had got ''devil fish OF roac
i'm the north eastern corner or lhat ota.
stru gglipg about on three sides OF 4 81 uaI
; to pick up some good lands, and that II u
same energy, time and means employed
oet IN conventions, petitions and resol,
= fions. and in beseiging Congress for su
sidy had been devoted to building u
railroad, he might have bad his tra'
laid across Texas, aud would ma
Commanded the confidence of capitals
!, 70 have gone on To connectl'
< With the Southern Pacific, as his compal
|. e had pledged itself to do. Mr.. Huntingt
:, then said that his friends could build t
= line between the Colorado and the
! Grande, six hundred miles, as cheapiy
:; Col. Scott, and would guarantee to obts