Show Old Ij cd Claims Washington ItTho House com mitteo on private land claim tcday took final action on the Ssntiilan bill in its amended form and by a vote ot t 4 azainst 3 authorized Burrows to report re-port it to the Home with a recommendation recom-mendation for passage Th negative cote which was larger than tile California Cali-fornia delegation expected was catt by Pacheco and Stevemoo of Illinois Illi-nois and Martin of West Virginia Burrows of Michigan Norerote E of Massachusetts Vcorhee of Now Jersey aid Gunter of ArkansaS voted for the bill and it h i underttjod that the four remaining members oi tbe committee viz Mitchell of Penn sylvaira Caldwellof Kentucky Mu1 dron of Mississippi and Myerd oi Indiana would aIm have voted for it had they been present ent The provisions of the bill as finally adopted tcday are substantially the same that wero fully described in last Mondays dispatches the only amendments being verbal changes which more strictly guard against disturbing the rights ol San Francisco property hcHers and cou fine the effect of the measure to its avowed purpose of establishing a claim upon government for an immense im-mense amount of indemnity in the form of land scrip to equal tae value of the greater part of tho area of Ean FranciscO at the time when tbe SAntilmn grant was rejected Pacheco at the com miitco meeting to day emphatically expressed he unqualified opinion that the mtiilan fraud was a fraud in its incipiency and that the so called newly discovered evidence ib i equally manufactured and spurious Ho will prepare r minority report embodying these viewp The California Cali-fornia delegation are all quite confident confi-dent that tile bil will fail to become lawThe The secretary of war tcJay transmitted to Congress a leter from Gen Wright chief of engineers in relation to tho pending bilh to confirm con-firm the survey of Pueblo San Fran cieco and suggesting certain amendments amend-ments thvret which are deemed an poitint for tho protection of the interests in-terests of tbe United States General Wright in this says the genorah in command of the division of the Pacific Pa-cific and the department of Califor ma have at different time denounced de-nounced the survey in question so far as it relates to the Presidio Ref ervatou as fraudulently incnr rec Uencral Halleck in I860 said concerning it It apptar that certain notorious land grabbers of this city had formed R cOtspirac with some of tho cmplojfo of the United Stales surveyor generals office for the purpose of getting poa neeeiou of some 200 or more acres ot the military reserve at Presido Gen Ord in 1S68 wrote This land which would be lost is worth at least 1OCO an acre and I recommend an earnest prctest against a survey that would deprive government of land so necessary and useful which it has always had and which theexisling laws and decisions if adhered to would undoubtedly it General McDowell in strenuously objecting to the same effect in January 189 sad It ia i difficult for me even at this late day to write of this matter and use only the language of official documents The commissioner of the general land office in a letter to the secretary of war dated Marcb 28 1871 said ho found General Orda exceptions to the survey well taken I in regard to the southeastern corner of the Presido reservation In view of these objections and tho further fact that tho survey is question excludes t ex-cludes certain low lands forming form-ing a portion of the military reeerxa lion which are necessary to extend the works for tho defense of Sao Francisco Bay and also excludes lands between high and low nate and submerged lands in Jroit of tbi works now built which if net retained re-tained are liable to bo suld by the state ot California and the city of SolD Francisco to parties who may erect structures masking the Golden Gate and harbor of San Francisco from the fire of these works The chief of engineers en-gineers thinks that tbe amendment suggested in his letter of the 17th ultimo may not be adequate to the purpose for which it was intended and he now suggests a comprehensive amendment L |