The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1882-12-26

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The bsssts Committee On Railways h.. =.
ferred sIithe bIsls IN regard 10 the conso,Idauo.
Of raqlhc Railways to . subcommittee copsL,.
Ing or Senators SAWYER. Saunders, Wrlisms
Browniaad SewelI. with instructions 10 prep.r.
. bill Althorizipg such consolidation.
rEr rAR- ROUTE ra1AIs
are agtH besore the courta The moe. smlu.o,
counses sre employed. Robert q. Iugersoll con.
ducts fhs defence. Mr. Chandler and R r
Merrigt manage the prosecution. These trial.
have dragged their weary course before ,he
courtslEf two entire seasons While al ara
convirf bed that millions were stolen, many oue,.
ton III propriety of spending another million 10
prove tue steal. The fees for prosecuting and
defendRng the ssar-routc case seem to fade into
insignGcance compared with the fees for report
ing IT, The lawyers for the defence say there IA
no pos1iMlity Of their realizing fair compensation
for iht.great amount OF time and labor they must
expen. and that, besides, they are losing all their
other business The counsel for the government
are moi represented as receiving over hundred
dollan5a day ia any individual instance As for
the sta Re6raphers, however, Messrs. E. d. Eastou
and b. z. Alexander whom the public will re.
membkr ss tho reporters of the Guiteau case. il
appeals the other day during the discussion
and arrangement of their present contract, tina.
they lYcaved about two hundred dollars day.
or souk sixteen or eighteen thousand dollars for
reporting the star-route trial.
EX-SENATOR coNKLNe
has Zen here Tor week. He and Senator Ed.
munds heing associate counsel for the California
rairoedsin their tax salt now before the Supreme
Courtiof The United States, the Supreme Court
room was on Thursday the centre of Interest,
The California railway tax case, the argument Of
which cnpmeneed on Tuesday, was again heard.
Ex7Jtftics Rhodes completed his argument on
behal Sof he county which sued for the tax, and
ex-Seksior Corkling followed in an argument for
the railway company. He addressed the court
for tvso hours and half, and was listened 10
with brpsound attention by bench and bar, and
by The crowd Of spectators which occupied every
seat itnd all the standing room.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE
A yillh4s been introduced iu Congress to reeu.
late tae transmission of dispatches by telegraph
and fahio companies. 1t requires that every
such ecotnpany shall receive messages from anv
other company and shall transmit them in good
faith without any undue or improper inspection.
whet per abe contents of the messages shall relate
to thu business OF the transmitting company or
not.
WHO WILL BE SPEAKER?
Tie 1ght fer the speakership commences
earN Unless there shall be special session
of The Fptty-eighth Congress the Speaker can.
not lie chosen for nearly year yet. STILL can
diGatss have announced themselves. and are
WORKING a. diligently as if the election was
nearht hand The situation is somewhat COM
plicaved, and doubtless the candidates think II
will require considerable time and hard work
to sHaisdten it out. Mr.. Randall finds opposl
ton Sfron sources where he has formerly re-
ceivs} Assistance and support. Ex-senator
EaioA Is. now, j, appears, declared candidate,
basing his candidacy on the ground that neither
Ranqal nor Carlisle represent the correct senti-
menf of:the Democracy. Mr.. Eaton holds that
Randbll is for protected iron, while Carlisle is
for Tree whisky aud tobacco; that both are
wrong, and that there is a happy medium be-
tweet tie. two which can be found in electing
himst h fEatonl as Speaker. Mr.. Cox, of New
York, il also candidate, and will probably
have, the suDpOrs of his delegation, thus holding
men who would perhaps otherwise 90 for Ran
dali. Mr.. Carlisle is confronted with the candi-
dacy of another member of the Kentucky dele
CATION, Mr. Blackburn, aud friends of each
adm5 that unless one the other re.ires there is
no csa1ce for either. Meantime some of that
unplSassntness which Republicans have pre-
dicteA aad aie 10 ardenty hoping for begins to
show itself in Democratic circles disparaging
lema3ks: las to lac candidacy of some who are
running are being whispered and comments un-
favorl6lS to- the motives of candidates are being
uttered. Possibly the early openiog OF the fight
may prove of SCI vice 10 the Democrats; it may
give }xasperated tempers time to cool before the
maiat contest takes place. N. L.