Tombstone weekly epitaph., 1882-08-05
WASHINGTON NEWS

w VASHlNGIoN, august S'-I 10 House, by 123 to 60, passed the river and harbor bills over the veto.
 The House Committee on Judici- ary has adopted, by. vote of 10 to l, Knott's resolution declaring the forfeiture of land granted the Texas and Pacific Railway. The grant was transferred to the Southern Pacific Railway of California. Some objec- tion was made to the phraseology of the resolution and the committee will meet again tomorrow for the purpose of revising It.
 WASHINGTON, August 1.-The House Committee on Commerce met tonight. The Presidents veto on the river and harbor bill was the topic of discussion by them, and the committee practically agreed to re. port q resolution tomorrow, recon. mending the passage of the bill over the veto. Another meeting of the committee is called for tomorrow morning, when members say the sub- ject will be further considered, and a definite plan of action decided on. In the Star Route cases General Sherman was examined to-day. Speaking of Arizona routes, Sherman said in that Territory there were 4,500 Apache Indians kept corraled by the military to prevent them from making depredations on settlers. Frequent mails gave warning of such outbreaks and gave settlers an op- portunity to make defense. On cross examination Sherman said he would prefer slow daily mail to less one through faster service.
 WAsHINGToN, August 2.-In the vote passing the river and harbor appropriation bill over the Presidents veto, Representatives Resecrans and Page voted with the ayes, as did also Senators Miller, Farley, Representa- tive George and Senator Jones. Fair was absent, but would have cast his vote similarly. The above are all the votes cast by Pacific Coasters.
 Sunset Cox says of the Presidents veto of the river and harbor bill. The message is gamy document and will do great deal toward helping Arthur to secure the nomination, but gentlemen who have spent months in the struggle to secure large appro. priation for their districts, in private have no words too severe for their condemnation of the President. WASHINGTON, August 3.-An an alysis of the vote in the House on the veto of the river and harbor bill, shows that Fl Republicans, AZ Demo- crats and 5 Greenbackers voted in the affirmative, and 29 Republicans, 29 Democrats and 1 Greenbacker voted in the negative. Page, in the House, spoke Tn behalf of the bill and was warmly seconded by Jones, of Nevada, in the Senate. Senator Jones earnestly advised the President not to veto the bill, and is said to have told him that tHe veto of the river and harbor bill would certainly lose the Republican partyin thePacific Coast States. That section had large interests Tn the bill, and it could not endorse two vstoes-one of them the veto of the Chinese blll-in a single session of Congress, without placing the Democratic party in power.
 At the close of the roll call in the House, ON the vetoed bill, a large number of pairs were announced. The clerks complained there was no statement as to Low the paired mem- bers would vote, but stated on the floor that McCook, Marcy, Prescott and Cassidy would vote in the nega- tive, and Pacheco, Thomas, Russell, Forrest, Morton, Covington, Muld- row, Hooker and Mooney in the af. ii native.
 Dunnell, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported bill to the House, providing that claims for the redemption of two.cent docu. mentary stamps may be allowed by the Commissioner of Internal Reve- mo PnSya1