Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-29

Dy the secretary OF IHo 1redsuTy ioE
the sinking fund.
The House bill to remove obstruc-
lions from the Mississippi, Missouri,
Arkansas and Red rivers, was taken
up and passed.
At the expiration OF the morning
hour, consideration was resumed of
the unfinished business. being the
House bill to authorize the free coinage
of the standard silver dollar and to re-
store its legal tender character.
Morrill, made a speech in opposition
thereto.
A House bill was presented by At
kins, making disclosures of private
kilograms a misdemeanor in the Dis.
trict of Columbia.
The House Committee ON Elections,
by a party vote of 7 to 4, agreed that
Wigginton, Democrat, was entitled to
a seat from California. and that Pa
checo, Republican, the sitting member,
was not. The majority will submit
their report Wednesday. Following
is the vote for Wigginton: Harris
Springer, Gambler, Turney, Cobb. Will
liams and Ellis. For Paclieco: Waite.
Thornburgh, Price and Hiscock.
The Vice President laid before the
Senate to day the memorial of the Cali
furnia State Senate, relating to the
policy and means of excluding Chinese
from the United States. Referred to
the Committee on Foreign Relations.
The House Committee on Education
and Labor to-day heard further argu-
ments on the Chinese question. Rep
resentatives Luttrell and Davis, of Cali
fornia, and Wren, of Nevada, were the
speakers. All were in favor of the re-
striction of Mongolian immigration.
In the Senate to day Mitchell pre-
senled various resolutions of the Legis-
lative Assembly OF Oregon, praying an
amendment to certain acts granting
lands for railroad purposes in that
State. Grover and Mitchell presented
a petition from citizens of Oregon in
favor of the passage of the bill for the
construction of the Portland and Salt
Lake and South Pass Railroad, and the
completion of the Northern Pacific
Pailroad upon certain conditions. Re-
ferred to the Committee on Railroads.
In the House, at the expiration of
the morning hour, Baker, OF Indiana.
moved to suspend the rules aud adopt
an anti subsidy resolution. A motion
to adjourn was Immediately in~terjected
by Butler, and the vote thereon vas
taken by yeas and nays. The motion
to adjourn being defeated, the question
required on adopting the anti subsidy
resolution, and it was adopted-yeas,
179; nays, SIS.
The prospects are not favorable for
action on the silver bill this week.
The House has passed Matthew'S
silver resolution.
Another Account OF the Colorado
Train Robbery.
PUEBLO, Col, Jan. %.
Last Saturday evening a west. bound
train of the Atchison, Topeka and San
ia Fe Railroad was boarded a few
miles east oil Dodge City by four men,
who attempted to rob the express mes
senger. Two of the robbers jumped
on the engine, compelling the engineer
and fireman to do as directed, while
the other two boarded the ex press ear.
The express messenger, however,
proved toe plucky and repulsed them.
He thinks he shot one of the robbers,
as he was only three feet off and
dropped when the messenger fred.
The robbers escaped, but are holly
pursued by a competent party, and as
the trail is plain there is little doubt of
their capture. The robbers had pre-
viously bound and gagged the agent of
a small station east of Dodge City, and
ransacked his safe.
Gold Buyers-A Fire.
NEW York, Jan. %.
The Post says the bankers here, or
several Of them, have. since gold fell
below 102. been buying large amounts
of gold, thereby putting a part and in
some cases the whole of their capital in
gold. This they have done so as to
be in a position to encourage the use
of gold among their customers, with
the hope of creating such an extended
use for that metal in mercantile trans
actions as shall make transition from
a paper to a gold basis the more easy
when the proper time orne
A fire on the fourth and fifth floors
of Nos. lis and HI Worth street, oc-
cupied by e.. C. Richardson & Co,
carpet dealers, and Floyd & Bailey,
dry goods commission merchants,
caused losses estimated at about 500,
900. The o of insurance is no,
known.