Arizona silver belt., 1890-12-06
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A Washington, D. C., dispatch sa ys. Silver men announce their intention of occurring legislation this winter, if pos sible, for free coinage. If that fails, then they will try to get free coinage for home production until an intorna- tional agreement is made Finally, the extra coinage of S20, 600, ,000, to take the place of national bank notes retired during the past year, will be asked for | in lieu of more liberal measures. The views of the President on this subject are against free coinage absolutely un- til an international agreement shall have been reached, and his veto oi free coinage measure can therefore be counted on. Believing that Congress during the coming short session will have it's hands full to pass the appro- priation bills and attend to even q part of the Legislation awaiting its action, the President has discouraged the re- commendation from Secretary Windom for financial measures, such as the iu tereonyertible bond plan and incIeas of circulation. The President will han dle the subject in his own way, which will, it is executed, be non committal.
 Among the most important measures awaiting the action of the present Con gress there ere in the Senate the bill b transfer the revenue marine service from the Treasury to the Navy ue pertinent. and the pure food bill on Che calender waiting to be substituted io4 the Conger lard bill, which passed tae House. The bankruptcy bill will also demand attention, and the bill t0 re- lieye the Supreme Court is yet to be passed On the calendar, reported is
 yorably, are bills for an international copyright; to establish limited postal telegraph; to increase the naval estab
 lishment; to place telegraph com mpanies under the operation of the interstate commerce law; to provide Notifications; to establish q gun factory on the haei tic Coast; to amend the interstate com
 merce act; to protect American forests, and 10 reduce the amount of bonds re- quired to secure the circulation of na tioral hanks All of these bills are uf particular interest, and all of them a4e likely to be productive. of discussion should they reach that stage, and the Federal elections bill and the apg0g tionment bill will have warm advocates The Yavapai county grand jury in their report recommend 'that the dis trict attorney be directed to in,titate civil suits against the Board of sulef
 visors for certain sums of money that this grand jury believes they have drawn in return for their services ! ex
 cess of the amount authori ed by laF; also that suit be instituted against tue Board of Supervisors and the official printer of the county for certain saiAs paid to said printer in excess of the contract, which ssid contract in our opinion fully covers the items for which these said extra sums are allowed; also that suit be instituted against the TO- bate Judge for the recovery of fees col lected by the said Probate Judge, and as we believe, illegally. ]"
 In the great scramble among the European Powers for territory in .fri- ca, France comes ont ahead of all the other countries, with 2,300,0o1 square miles to her credit, or Il tract about ten times as large us France herself None of the big nations, however, have thus far made anything out of their posses sions in the dark continent.