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Show Latest News BY TELEGRAPH LAST NIGHT. The San Domingo Ring:. More Railroad Grants. Violent Earthquake in Japan. Infallibility Voted On. &c., &.C., &.C. GENERAL. WniTTEMORE AGAIN. Chicago, 15. A Washington special says Whittemore will present his credentials cre-dentials to the House to-morrow, and Logan expects to contest his admission. No exact cause for the case exists, and Logan will try to make one. RAILROAD LAND GRANTS. The House committee on Pacific railroads to-day agreed unanimously to strike from the Senate grant to the central branch of the Atchison railroad the provision giving even sections. If the bill pass with this change there will then be two parallel roads about three hundred miles long, one with a land grand of ten sections to the mile and the other with twenty sections, besides a subsidy of bonds of sixteen thousand dollars to the mile, granted originally on the first hundred mileB of the latter line. a nice timb. The Times special fays there was quite a scene of excitement in the reconstruction re-construction committee this morning, Farnsworth denouncing Butier as a scoundrel for his action in taking advantage ad-vantage of the absence of some of the friends of Bingham's amendment to the Georgia bill to have the amendment amend-ment struck out Other members also denounced the proceedings, and a full meeting will be held on Thursday, when the action will be revised. congressional representation. Washington. lo. When the amended amend-ed Houie bill, increasing the representation represen-tation to 300 members in the 42d congress, con-gress, is returned to the Honse, Marshall Mar-shall of Illinois will submit au'amend-ment au'amend-ment providing for merely representation representa-tion in the election of members lrom the states at large. The amendment will embody the principle contained in the new Constitution of Illinois, allowing al-lowing each voter to have as many votes as there are members at large to elect, with the light to give all the votes to one candidate or to divide them among the candidates as the voter may desire. It is understood the democrats will make the adoption of this amendment a condition of their support to ti.e bill. j THE DOMINICAN RING. Chicago, 15. The Tribune's special gives some specifications of che charges of corruption in connection with the San Dominao treaty. It is asserted the San Domingo ring, numbering some twenty or thirty persons, Americans Ameri-cans ana Dominicans have got hold of various buildings at low figures that it is intended our government shall buy at high figures after annexation takes place; that the ring has got a secret title to various salt mines, logwood groves and tra' ts of mineral land, the sale of which belongs to the Dominican government gov-ernment and which are covered and conveyed to the United States by the treaty, but will be claimed by private parties as grants from Baez, as soon as that document is ratified. It is also eharged that large tracts of public land of valuable .quality have been conditionally granted to the rinar, in connection with a railroad charter, since the treaty was negotiated, and that the charter and land grant will will come to light iu a valid form if we get tne island, and will be thrown up if the treaty fails or is rejected. A further charge is that purchases of property likely to be needed by our government were made with t:.e stipulation stipu-lation that they were to be paid for in a certain kind of Dominican paper money, but this money has since been immensely depreciated by order of Baez, and that tho ring has bought it at a cheap rate on gold and holds it to use in payment for its property if annexation an-nexation succeeds. There are other charges somewhat similar in general character to this, but how much truth there is in any of them will hardly be known till the investigation in-vestigation committee makes its report, re-port, and perhaps not even then as there is no way of leaching the Dominicans Do-minicans who are said to be in the ring, of which it is thought by some Baez himself is a silent and unseen member. The investigation, so far, mainly consists of tbe examination and reexamination re-examination of consul agent Percy and general Babcock, whose statements regarding re-garding the facts in connection with Hatch are directly contrary, Percy de-i de-i daring Babcock gave him to under- derstand that the President wanted Hatch kept out of the way. J'HOM SAN" FRANC'IK. San Francisco, 14. Arrived, the Montana, from Panama ; the Grer.t Republic left Hung Kong May 1 2th. Yokohama '2i, pleasant voyage. The most violen earthquake since 1S55 occurred at Yokohama on the 13th, doing slight damage but causing considerable alarm. It is reported that several villages in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of Uries were engulphed. The great volcano Assayama. in the province of Sinchia, quiet fir four centuries, has begun a violent eruption erup-tion ; the people are terrified. A village vil-lage in the vicinity has been destroyed. des-troyed. The captain of the ba:k Benefactress Benefac-tress reports an active crater at sea, some two hundred miles from Yokohama. Yoko-hama. Some portions of the sea in the vicinity are kept boiling, and clouds issue from it. The. officers of the United States Asiatic squadron have decided to erect a monument to the dead of the Oneida. San Francisco, 15. The injunction on the mercantile library concern is denied. The directors of the Central Pacific have resolved to hurry the completion of the California & Oregon railroad to the Oregon state line, and also to push the work in the San Joaquin valley. miners for snake river. Cheyenne, 15 A party has left here for Snake river gold mines, a hundred miles west of here, where it is reported plow diggings pay five to ten dollars per day to the man. Five cars of Chinamen passed east last night en route for Alabama. infallibility. New York. 15 A cable dispatch from Rome dated 2 p.m. to-day, says the majority in the Ecumenical Council Coun-cil have voted the dogma, with the penalty attached of anathema against those who object to its declaration. |