Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-22
WASHINGTON.
No More Evidence In the YeI.iii- and


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, WAsHTS GToS. Aprii IL ne Senate
Committee on Privileges and Elections
has decided not 10 call any more Eit
nesaea in the BeIvil. and Copiah cases
and TO Law the evidence before the @en ate.
Issue OF silver Dollars.
The issue Of standard silver dollars
for the week ending April 10Th WAS
fZ5'>7 FOR the corFe-Ispnding period
last year, sI09. 40
The House wiz Vet concur In the
senate Amendments to the sppre-
priaiion RtiI.
A, q meeting Of the House Committee
on appropriations Representative Ran
dali WAS instructed to report back the
naval appropriation bill with tho recon-
mendation that the House non-concur
with the SENATE amendment To Increase
the appropriation more than StNOoso.
Representative Tnwnseud WAS nlsn in
s,rncied - report back the post office
Appropriation bill with the recommend
alton that the H0use npu-conrur ia the
s"nst" amendments. The amendments
Increased the Appropriation about 81:
10000.
Continuance Asked For.
/ When the case Of Ok Senator Kellogg
was called for tnAl ia the Criminal
I Court this morning. Attorney General
Brewstsr naked for = contiUuance until
James 4. Walsh now In Muutre,l. could
/ he present To- testify. be having Sigul;iei (
/ u willingness to d. -. .Judg .. y vile :
then set the case for hearing on Iars- /
/ day next.
sree Mails Tar Newspap~rs
The bill introduced bv Representative /
I Henley TO encourage educAtIun IN the /
states and Territories. provides th Il all /
newspapers hereafter published ia the /
ssver1l States and Territories. in any
language whatsoever. shall be carried /
free ~ postage through the mail. with.
ia the limits Of the Unite / States
Anne ndments to thurman. shaking
f"nd Act
The House totamIttee on Pacific
Railways today continued considera-
ton OF the proposed amendments to
lhurman's sinking fund aot. The com
mitfee agreed 10 report amendments
bringing within the provisions of tho
act, In addition To the three roads IN.
cluded, the Kansas Pacific, the Sioux
CITY and Pacific, and the central branch
"f tho Union Pacific. and TO cause the
percentage of the net earnings of all
the reads tn 90 into the sinking fund to
tie from % to "a "A per cent. Tho score |
tar, of the Treasury. IN tho thid
amendment. IL empowered to make an
invesmen of the sinking fluid IN first
mortgage bonds of ANY .ubsidilrd com
panies that are IN Government srcurI
ties.
The soldiers Homes.
The House Committee on Military
Affairs instructed Repr. sentative Rose
Grams To report favorably the JOINT reso
luton providing for the appointment Of
william Is. Franklin Of Connecticut,
John G. Block of Illinois and Thomas
W. Hyde of Maine to fill tue vacancies
III the Board of Managers of the Ma
tIonti Soldiers Home. On motion of
Murray, Chairman Kosecrans WAS in
struggled to say that before the present
Board of Managers complaints had
been made 10y prominent mon of Day
ton, ONO, against Governor Patrick, of
the soldiers Home at DAYTON. If the
Board does not deetn the c>mtiaInt-
against HIM sufficient to justify his re-
NOV A. the committee will AK an in
vestlgatlon into tho Infringement of the ,
Dayton Home by the House.
national BANK Decision. ,
A decision WIS rendered by the court
IN the National Bank stock case of Hv.
J. Anderson, receiver of tho First Ma |
tional Bank of Alleutowa, Pa, against
the Philadelphia Warehouse Company.
The question presented by tins case IL
whether "a corporation which has taken | !
National Bank stock ~ collateral secur- |
lty for loan, has a right to nomiuallv
transfer the certificate of that stock to a
an responsible person IN It's employ, '
and have the certificate registered In :
the name of such irresponsible person, {
III order To escape thu liability which !
would attach TO such corvora'i n rs a
stakeholder III case @t the bank : failure
and insolvency. Tie court holds that
the transfer II On Siiop WAS made III
good 'nIth when the bank wa III good {
credit and paving large divide neis. and
wears before Its failure. and even before I
It's I'm ar0sSmeut | ne tr nhfcr was
not made 10 uScHpe VeT,uInG ctl unity.
bnt Ia vert Incurriup liability whIck 10 4
was unwilling - assume, and which II
vas at perfect Int erty not to ~ 'ume.
The jndg,n,l t thr circuit court l. At ,
ilrmod. ~" OPP Ion /, hy Chef JUS q
toe \ alta. I
Justice Miller rrpd ,ilsa 'ntiuc opin
ion. ~ whIrh he aald iha, II IN any case r
between prINat" a. r4oNs one OF them q
usd placed prop r,v III the hands If =
parsons, for the pGrpuse nt - 'ap,ng the I
responsibility uti.u'py a. the owner y
ship OF RuGn property. while sec lrlnc !
all the advAntd1" of such owner mp, II !
would ho held 10 be u rams tctIOn which
could not h" Imported on any legal or
cqui able principle nstranSf"r In the
present ease, # not actual fraud. WAS y ,
fraud upon tie benking law. and was 50
Intended 10 he nv both the original !
holders of the bank shares and the ofli- .
GERS of the warehous company.
Justice Matthews joined in Justice [.
II Hers dissent.
Important Railroad Decision. :
\ decision was rendered In the Su- :
preme Court today III An important rail +
road case entitled +. l.. Ames ell at. and ;
the Board of Directors of the | lion :
Pacific Railway Company plaintiffs IN :
error, rs,SHs the State of Kansas and ,
+. \. johnson. Attnr" ev General aud =
attorney of the X .nsis Pacific Railway g,
Company. pl ,intlifS IN error rer>HS the {
same in error. from the Circuit Court of !
the United States district of Kansas. {
These were suits brought by toe State .
IF Kansas IN her own courts against :
the Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific
Railway Company 10 defeat the consol
Idatiou of those two corporations.