Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-02-13
WASHINGTON NEWS.

Washington, February lit is believed
here by many that the Southern managers #
plans for substituting Pacific railroad ON the
thirty second parallel have injured their pros
poets by an alliance with the Pennsylvania
Railway magnates. They say if the Texas
Pacific was a genuine Southern enterprise,
designed to distribute traffic to Sou hern
Cities it might in the present temper of Con
gress and country towards the Union and
Central Companies be favorably considered.
But there is no guarantee that this will be
done while the controlling interest remains
with the Pennsylvania railroads.&c..
The Republican Senators in caucus to-day
failed to decide a proposition to secure an
assignment of an early date for action upon
the Corbn- Butler contest. There was in
formal discussion of the course to pursue in
case amendments providing for repeal of the
Federal Supervisors and Test Oath laws are
attached by the House to appropriation bills.
The general tenor of expression was to the
effect that an effort to enact such legislation
upon an appropriation bill should be strenu-
ouslv resisted even to the extent of causing
the bill to fail.
General Ord was before the House Com
mittee to-day advocating the bill providing
for more suitable military posts for the pro
lection of the Rio Grande frontier.
The Senate Appropriation Committee to-
day put section in the Postofice ApprOprla-
ton bill appropriating $500, 900 to maintain
the postal service on the Brazilian steamship
line for one year, being at the rate of $50 per
mile.
A national conference of colored citizens
will be held in Nashville May s. The object
Of the conference is to consider the situation
of the colored people in the South relative to
the enjoyment of life, liberty and property :;
also their educational, moral social and po-
litical condition, and the question of einigra-
ton.
The debate in the House to-day concerning
the sections of the Appropriation bill which
provide for consolidation of all public land
surveys and abolition of Surveyor Generals
offices was very spirited, and it now seems
doubtful whether the Appropriations Commit
tee will be sustained III their recommends
tions.
The bill reported by Senstor Patterson,
from the Committee on Territories to establish
4 United States Court i'll Indian Territory and
for other purposes, provides for regulating
the administration Of justice III the Territory,
and for making citizens Of white, colOred and
Indian residents. The unanimous report OF
the committee accompanying the bill includes
an elaborate review OF the condition OF the
Territory
As soon as he can obtain the floor to-mor-
row, after the expiration Of the morning
hour, Sargent will move that the House bill
restricting Chinese immigration be taken up
for debate and action by the Senate. The
bill to provide for accommodation for the
National Library comes up as unfinished bust
ness immediately after the morning hour,
but it is not likely to consume much time,
and although Dorsey, in charge of the Post
office Appropriation bill, now intends to ask
FOR the consideration of that measure to-
morrow Blaine and several other friends of
the Brazilian mail service proposition con
tanned i'll ;hat measure, on which an extended
debate is expected to occur, will assist in ar
ranging that it be kept back until a fair chance
is given to the Pacific Coast Senators to OBJ
tain action on the Chinese bill.