Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-22
AT THE NATIONS CAITAL
THE MEXICAN TREATY TO BE
CONSIDERED Secretly.

Its Fate Still in Doubt-An Apropria-
tion Bill for GreeIy's ReliefD be Re-
pOrted-Ironclad Oaths to e AbOl-
ished-A Public Building sked for
Columbus.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Tf House
Committee on Public Lands, at meeting
held tonight, at which all thmembers
but two were present, unanimosly agreed
to report to the House a billto declare
forfeited the lands granted tthe Texas
Pacific Railroad Company The bill
agreed upon by the commite contains,
besides the provision declang the for
feiture of the lands granted aid in the
construction of the railroadn question,
provisions validating all II acts of the
Department Of the Interio its officers
and local officers, in permittg homestead
entries, selections and pureases of lands
granted the company, al in issuing
patent certificates and list thereon, and
conforming the rights al titles of the
parties or persons holdinethe patents or
claiming the right or tie under such
certificate or list of lans. Judge Pay
son, of Illinois, has prepred the report of
the committee on this bI, and will pre-
sent it to the House to-TDrrow. The re-
port rec1tes the provisids of the act in
cooperating the Texas acitic Company,
and briefly summaries the history
Of that company ad the legisla-
tiOn in its interest dom to Nov. 1881,
when the fight betweeIthe Texas Pacific
Company and the SOuhern Pacific Com
pany was ended by contract between
them. 1t invites specal attention to the
hostility between the two companies
down to this date, ad quotes largely
from the recently pubished Huntington
correspondence to estblish the fact of
such hostility and its Character.
THE NfEXICANTREATY
The action of the Seate to-day, upon
Senator Van Wyck's nsolution to con-
slider the Mexican treay in open session,
does not reach the subjct matter of the
resolution, but simply removes it from
public to secret sessio, where its adop-
tlon or rejection will etermine whether
the treaty itself shll be consider
ed with open or clsed doors. The
treaty was not taken up to-day, and
probably will not be unii its friends feel
confident of success. hey are said to
have made no progress % far. Two alb
sent Senators, it is reported, have been
heard from upon the slbiect One who
was not paired declares himself in favor
of the treaty. The othr, who was de-
clared by his friends as icing in favor of
the treaty, declares himielf in opposition
to it.
RELIEF FOR GsEELY.
AT meeting of the House Committee
on Appropriations this morning it was
decided to report a bill for the appropria-
ton of the sum necessary to fit out
Greedy relief expedition. The measure
covers the recommendations of Secretaries
Lincoln and Chandler providing for three
vessels. The President is authorized to
ut out the expedition as soon as possible.
BREwsTER's EXPENSES.
j.. w. Nightingale, Special Examiner
in the Department of Justice, to-day tes-
titled before the House Committee on Ex-
penditures in the Department of Justice,
IN relation to examinations made in Geor-
gia and Alabama. The testimony was
similar to that given by Examiner Ballen
last week.
NOMINATED BY THE PRESIDENT.
The President to-day nominated to be
Postmasters, J. G. Bel, at Culpepper,
Va; Thaddeus G. Sturges, at Columbus,
Ca; Duncan Jordan, at Cuthbert, Ca,
and Augustus 5. WOrthingtOn, of the Dis
trict OF Columbia, to be United States At
torney for the District Of Columbia.
SENATE COMBINATIONS.
The Senate in executive session to-day
confirmed the nomination of John II.
Trent as Postmaster at Morristown,
Tenn, and Joseph A. FEBRUARY as Post
master at Jonosboro, Tenu.
EDMUNDs' CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
Senator Hoar reported back from the
Judiciary Committee this morning Sena-
tor Edmunds' civil rights bill with one
merely verbal amendment. The reDort is
not 0onoUrrnd in by any of the Democratic
of the commfJtec