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Show :Tlie Committee on Western I Ainucs. Washington, 20. The house com-: mittee on military affairs have authorized au-thorized a bill to be reported appro-1 appro-1 printing $72,037 to pay the state of i Oregon and $ 1,021 tor citizens of Cal- ifornia for Modoc war expenditures. The secretary of war has sent to the .senate a recommendation of General ! Howard, that a small armed steam j vessel bo stationed in tho waters of ! Alitnka to prevent illicit liquor traffic. I The senate claims committee report : adversely on Captain Samuel Adams' i claim tor compensation for services i:i ; exploring the Colorado river. They say they were rendered without the authority of government and strongly j intimate that they were of no particular partic-ular vaiue. Stewart h:is introduced a bill to establish es-tablish a post route between Pana- mint and Independence, Cal. I The ienato committeo on private land claims report against passing a special law for the relief ot A. P. j Jackson and others, dispossessed of i lands in Solon county, Cal., which j they purchased from the United States, by reasou of sulsequent confirmation con-firmation of another title based on tho Mexican grant. The committee invite the attention ot the public lands committee to tho matter in order to consider whether any general law should bo enacted to cover all such cases. |