The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1882-05-27

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House M TIe hs Ship Rail-
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tsrom our far Correspondent
i, Wa>hiuo1o,,D. D. G. May lG, 1882
TIN. he; .fi,e third Monday oi
:he mony The session OF the
: House devoted to action up
ON not; to suspend the rules
for m , ,tbekssage of bills.
: T..Ei, tXitnu the char.er
IT II, 1,Ea1ionai, haukS will be ia
Ike, t"-'noirew, and al, effort
w,ITs made to reach "A final vote.
T. Jno' probable, h.wever. that
, W bill vii! be passed before
'rsday, ewing to the large
V'mher o! amendments that will
br presented.
The Republican caucus has lie.
r'ded 10 call up a number of con
tested election eases during tue
week. and the Hriui.llcan contest
an's will probably be sea,ed.
The approximations committee
vii Sool. be !eadv to ask ronside
ration for the Pension bill. and
the Legislative, Executive, and
judicial appropriation bill, beth
O! which nave been perfected by
{ committee aud will probably
BE- reported to the House Oh
" edneSday:
TEE SENATE.
The five per cent, bill was TAX
en- np in The Senate to day. II
provides tor the payment to the
various public land states OF five
per centum of the value of the
lands rec%oaed at the Government
minimum price which have been
located by soldiers scrip or boun
ty land warrants within their re
spective boundaries. When this
bill a:,l the Hoart! of Health bill
shall have been disposed of, an
animated contest for precedence
may be looked for among the re-
>pective champions Of the Bank
rnptcy hi!i. the Geneva Aware.
bill, and the Eahs Ship Railway
bin. he claims of all which La,e
already. on several occasions.
been urged for immediate conside
ration. The prospect for the pas
Sage If Dir. Eads' Ship Railway
bIll is not bright. 1t is difficult
without actual demonstration, to
prove the Feasibility Of transpor,
ing loaded ships across the 18th
mus. Demonstration in this case
will DC very expensive expert
meat. aiI.. Ea.Is is opposed by
the gigantic monopolirS that have
railroads made or planned across
the continent, and also by the
fTierds Of the Lesseps Canal.
S me very eminent Engineers be-
Iieve in the Feasibility Of the un
dertakiGg. While Others insist
that the Earring and shaking to
Which a ship would he subjected
through transportation by rail
would make her unseaworthv.
The oppostrs OF t'is argument
urge that the shaking on rail
road prepared especially for ship
TRANSFORMATION would not be as
trying TO the strength OF vessel
a> Is he rnGe machinery with
which every hip i first launched.
and they III -. with much plausi
bilily, hat :. ship i,uii 10 endure.
the iOngh treatment o: wind and
wave vii! resi- en- these ears as in
u hafbor. Surely his is a won
erfnlfy progressive age, and it is
10, Impossible that before Les
>rrs COMPLETES his Darieu Canal,
Or turns central Africa into anoth
er Med'te ! a;ean. We may see
Shlf'S NOV ing across the MSXlcaD
i tmu,, over a track OF immense
width, sup or'rd Oh gigantic
.uck>. an'! drawn by engines Of
.iupendtous strength.
There are r"morS, which. how
e>tr. can te traced to no auIhtn
liz source, tha: Mr.. Conkling will
ne offered the portfolio Of the Sec
,e'ary Of State, and that the pres
eat Secretary. Mr.. Freliughuysen,
VIII iV. made Minister to England
Instead of Mr.. Lowell.
Guiteau's appeal was lengthi!y
argued before he Court IN bare
last week. No decision will bp
rendered until the 22d. ot May.
but the dec siou of the Court be
low viii be affirmed. and Guittean
will be hanged on Friday the 3Oth
OF June. just one year, lacking
two days, from the date of his
crime.
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