San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-03-15
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SENATE.

WASHINGTON, February 2i.-ln the senate
Mr. Voorhees, introduced bill authorizing
and requiring the secretary OF the treasury W
reissue United States legal tender notes now
held for redemption of fractional currency
and part of such heretofore retired from sn'
circulation under the &c; of January IL, 1919,
to aggregate the amount OF s2os'o--' wv anu
to extend the same in payment OF suoh claims
for arrears of pensions us may be allowed nhue'
the act Of January Is, 1919. Referred TO inc
committee on finance
CONSIDERING THE CATTLE Plaque
The senate committee ON agriculture CUM
menced to-day and examined witnesses IN IT,
gard to the pleuro- pneumonia cat'ie "i"eas.'
Messrs. Samuel Brown, of Pittsburgh, ana d.
SadlCr, of New York, buyers OF cattle ior OK,
portation, and veterinary surgeon Godsen, Oh
Philadelphia, all Goncurred in statement 'hA'
the country was free from disease among tine
cattle, and letters from the producers were
read on the poor cattle regions Of Kentucky
Ohio, Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, showing
the fact that the freedom from any such dis
ease has existed during the last twelve months.
There is, however, they say, an exceptional
case on Long Island, where, by isolation the
disease is being stamped out,
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-The sT9,OOO OF the
Georgia claim, to be included in the civil ap-
preparation bill, is for the balance due the
state for the removal of the Seminole Indians,
and not for advances made during the war OF
1872, as previously stated. 1t has been ap-
proved by the treasury department,
The vice president laid before the senate a
communication from the secretary OF the trea-
sury, in regard to the expectation Of live AMI
mails and suggesting such legislation, as will
enable the secretary to prohibit or restrict the
expectation of live animals of the United
States to foreign countries when disease exist
ed among them, and that he have authority to
appoint skilled persons to examine the CATTLE
etc. He submits draft of the bill to carry
ont these views. Referred to the committee
on agriculture.
The following appropriations were embodied
in the sundry civil appropriation bill reported
to the house to-day: Court house and post
Office at Altoona, Georgia, slOO,OOo; custom
house, court house and post Office at Memphis,
Tennessee, $4,000; custom house at New Or
leans, $40, 900; custom house, court house and
post Office at Nashville, 5000, and for con-
tinuing construction of light house at or near
Anderson Shoals, Florida, $4,000; for re-
building the tower OF South Pass entrance to
the Mississippi river, $50, 900; for barracks at
Fort Monroe, $4,000; to pay the state OF
Georgia in full for advances made to the Uni
ted States in suppressing the Greek, Seminole
and Cherokee Indians, $72, 2G.
HOUSE.
WASHINGTON, February 2l.-The following
is the full text of the Brazilian mail steamship
subsidy amendment: FOR steamship ser
vice between the United States and Brazil,
s2OO, 900, and the postmaster general is au-
tSorized and directed, after due public adver-
tisement to contract for time not exceeding
ten years, for carrying the mails once month,
commencing not later than July, 1879, from
New York via Norfolk, Virginia, to Rio de
Janeiro; and once each month, commencing
not later than March, 1880, from New Orleans
via Galveston, to Rio de Janeiro and return,
including all intermediate ports, with the low
est bidders, being responsible owners and CIV
ing ample security, of first-class American
built and owned iron screw steamships, of not
less than 5000 tons, after the modern models,
capable of making IL nautical miles an hour,
such mail carriage to be paid for at not ex-
ceeding $50 per nautical mile per annum one
way for the distance actually traversed be-
tween the termini of said routes; provided,
however, that the annual compensation for
such service shall not exceed the sum of Sl5o,
600 for each of said lines the two lines to be
contracted for simultaneously, and neither
contract to 60 into effect unless both services
be contracted for and established according to
the provisions of this act, and neither contract
is to be considered in force if the service In
either line be abandoned or discontinued; and
the contracts therefor to contain all provls-
ions for securing efficient service which may
be customary or required by law in such cases.
The amount appropriated by the amendment,
it will be noticed, is 500, 600. Though each
line is to receive SloOOOO per annum, as Ne"
Orleans is not to be established until March
1850, no greater appropriation was required al
this session.
liverpool Cotton Circular.
LIVERPOOL, February 2l.-This weeks cir
cular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Asso
ciation says that cotton has been dull this