Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-11
Congressional Proceedings.

WASHINGTON, December 10.
In the Senate, to-day, Wallace introduced
a bill to authoi ize q change Of Subsidiary
coin for trade dollars. The bill provides
that subsidiary coins shall be exehangable
for trade dollars at the rate of 100 cents for
each of said dollars, and that they shall,
forthwith, be re-coined into subsidiary coin,
and the gain, il any be made, may be used
by the Secretary Of the Treasury to a
the expenses of sending subsidiary coin to
such persons, or banks, as may desire the
same in exchange for bonds. The coin
9e of the trade dollar is to cease
from and after the passage of this Act.
Allison, from the select Committee to
inquire into the charges against Stanley
Matthews, submitted d resolution. request
ing the House to transmit to the Senate a
copy of the testimony Of James Z. Ander-
son, relating to Matthews, which was taken
before the House Committee. Agreed to.
When this testimony is furnished, the
Committee will enter upon the investiga-
ton. At the expiration Of the morning
hour, consideration was resumed of the
bill relating to Presidential elections, and
Mr.. Morgan made o speech favoring the
measure.
In the House, to-day, the Speaker an
nounced as the Committee to inquire into
the causes Of the yellow fever epidemic,
Messrs. Young, Gibson, Goode, Hartridge,
Morse, Garfield, Har1mer and Chittenden.
The House then a into Committee of
the Whole, Mr.. Springer in the chair, on
the Consular and Diplomatic Appropria-
ton bill.
On motion Of Mr.. Hale, the salary Of
the Ministers to England, France, Germany
and Russia, rs reported in the bill at $751;
mn mas hy n xoto of 90 IN OF rnf IaaE 10
the present fgure--l7, 800. An amend
ment to increase the salary of the Minister
to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico,
Japan and China. from SIS 900 to S12,0 900,
was defeated likewise. The bill then
passed.
Contract Between the Central Pa
cilc and Pacific Mail Com
pany.
NEW York, December 10.
The Tribune says the proposed new con-
tract between the Union and Central Pa
ciic railroads and the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, is in the hands Of Sidney
Dillon, President of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, C. P. Huntington, Vice
President Of the Central Pacific, and d. s.
Babcock, Of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company. The present contract is under
stood to cover the freight and passenger
traffic of the steamer advertised to-sail on
Thursday. The Pacific Mail Company, 1t
is stated, claims q monthly allowance OF
$50, 900 for passengers, and SIS 900 for
freight, which will leave $4,000 to be real
lied from its net earnings to meet the $780,
900 a month to be paid to the Panama
Railroad. The Union and Central Pacific
roads claim that the amount allowed under
its present contract is sufficient, being
$4,000 on passengers and $4,000 on
freight. The compromised amount, it is
believed, will be agreed upon, by which
the Pacific Mail Company will be paid
$50. 900 q month in consideration of IFS ex-
listing freight and passenger rates, and per-
hitting the railroads to carry all the light
freight. The officers of all the companies
have expressed q belief that undoubtedly
q new contract, to last till the LIST VI Jam
uary, 1880, would be completed. &.
Impeachment Proceedings.
WASHINGTON, December 10.
A strong effort Is being made to institute
impeachment proceedings against Henry
W. Blodgett, Of the United States Circuit
Court for Chicago. The effort il beaded
by John s. Cooper, John II. Kinkerbocker
and henry J. Sheldon, of the Chicago Bar
Association, who have strong backing and
will work on tie House members to get a
resolution through or the purpose OF au-
thorizing the Judiciary Com nit.cc Of the
House to inquire and report whether he
shall be impeachcd for high crimes and
misdemeanors. The chief charge is Of ar
bitrary and illegal proceedings in the case
Of the Register in Bankruptcy, Hubbard,
lately indicted by the Grand Jury for NAL
feasance, and protected by Judge Blodgett
from Indictment for greater offences.