The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1878-02-02


cabinet have decided to resume coiu
age Of the trade dollar at the Phils
deIphia mint
The fall committee on ways ant
means viii hear their subcommittee
on Thursday.
Senator b. II. Han to-day procured
10 stand OF arms for the state a
Georgia from the secretary OF war.
General Young, of Georgia, was ap
pointed commissioner TO represent tie
southern states at the Paris exposition
John j. Knox, controller of the eur.
rencys argued before the comu.il:ee ia
favor Of the remission OF the tax on
iGsolyeGt banks.
The naanee com -aittees Of the sen
ate authorize Mr.. Allison TO Utier 81
amendment TO the silver bill To Tx the
reia i've value Of gold aud silver.
Misunderstanding entirely unin.
terestiug.
IN the house. after a great deal of
discussion la the committee OF tie
whole on the hill extending, until July
3Jth, ISIS the time for the Withdrawal
of distilled spirits from bond, "A .utsti.
tute Was offered by Mr. Foster, Of
Ohio, which was adopted, declaring
that IL is inexpedient 10 reduce the tax
on whisky. The house adopted II by a
vote of yeas li5 10 nays Il2
Mr.. Wallace addressed the senate At
length in favor of the silver bill.
toniirnstions-Baideye, receiver OF
public moneys. New Orleans Ray.
receiver of pGblie moneys, Monroe.
La Miss RJddy, postmistress, For
sythe, Ga; Btndu, postmaster, Thibe
deau, La, Demar, postmaster, New
IBERIA, La
Mr.. Morgan, of Alabama, offered an
amendment to the silver bill, 10 allow
the free coinage of silver By permit
ting any holder of bullion TO deposit IL
ia all assay ofiiee, or mint, Ia sumo
not less than one haudrri dollars la u
single deposit, nor To exceed one bund.
red thousand dollars during a calendar
month by The same deposition, the bull
lion 10 be valued At its market price
for legal tenders A. the date OF the De
post, certificates 10 tie given 10 the
owners TO be paid by ths secretary Of
the treasury, In not less than thirty
nor more than ninety days, in legal
lander ed anll
option of the government; after one
year the coinage of silver TO be on the
same footing In al respects with the
coinage of gold. Ordered printed
Mr.. Booth, OF California, submitted
an amendment to allow the owner of
silver dollars to deposit them with the
treasurer or any assi-tant-tTea-uIer, of
the United States, aud receive eertifi-
Gates Of not less than ten dollars eEch,
the certificates to be engraved as
money and circulate ia place OF silver.
The desig Is to obviate the inconve-
nience OF handling large amounts Of
silver in commercial transactions.
The house committee on Pacific
railroads TO day continued its hearing
of arguments on the Texas and South
err Pacific bills.
Mr. &. T. Huntington then addressed
the committee In reply TO Colonel
SCOTS argument, made iAst week. He
denied the assertion that the Southern
and Central Pacific were the same
thing, aud said they were quite die.
tinet in their organizations aud aims,
aud That when completed through 10
the ea.t the Southern would Compel.
for the business now enjoyed by the
Union aud Central lines.
He explained that years ago, bsiore
one of these questions had arisen OF
were thought OF. In the settlement OF
some local difference be aud some Of
his friends Of the Central had teen
persuaded TO 20 - the help Of III.
Southern Pacific, which had thea out
fhy miles OF road In operation, and
that finding they were COMPELLED To
build under the law, tifiy mile. year,
at the Colorado end of the line, and
twenty miles q year u. the western
end, iie hsd repeatedly offered TO dis
pose Of his entire interest ia u, aud in
1873, did sell n controlling portion IN
the whole line between the Colorado
and san Francisco to Colonel Scott
himself, but he never fulfilled his con-
tract.
Since then n good deal more Of The
road had been t1ilt, but he was now
willing 10 dispose of II to the United
States, OF Colonel Scott, 10 he could be
satisfied that IL would he used Ne part
Of direct line to the gnf aud lower
Mississippi citie.- He claimed that
instead of building from Marshall,
Texas, westward on che msin line no,
less than one hundred mics a year. rs
the law required, Colonel Scott had
got devil-fish Of road Ia the north.
eastern corner OF that state, struggling
about on three sides Of q sQuare, to
PICK up some good lsod-, and that II
the same energy, time and means en-
ployed to get up conventions, petitions
and resolutions, and In b siegi1g con-
gress for 8 subsidy, had been devoted
TO the building Of the railroad, b.
might have bad his track across T-x4s
and would have comma de-; ilse ecu
idence of capitalists, and have gon.
on to connection with the Southern
Pacific, rs his company had pledge.
itself TO do.
Ar. Huntington then said his friend
could build the line between the Colo
redo and the Rio Grsnde, six hundred
miles, - chesply - Colonel Scott, ant
would guarantee to obtain more none,
value upon the road upon their ow,
mortgage tonds than Colonel Scott,
party would out of their bonds en-
dorsed by the government, aud 3
build the road within five or six year.
He would not make this offer n he Ia.
not nrst sat,sfied himselfthat he woul
be met at OF near the RIO 0rands b
Texas roads, which are now deterre
from action by fear that congres
might after all grant The natioDs
credit to iujure their property. II
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