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Show EASTERN. Washington, 1. Tbo llou.se Com-i niiltee on Appropriatioils will report theKivornml llarWr bill exactly as it came from the Committee on Com- j mcrce. , , 1 Itrooks, oiie ot the governors id. Arkansas, tclei;ni.phed to the Presi-I dont to-day, that King White, whoso command was yesterday reported as having a fight near Pino Blull, is engaged en-gaged in pillaging tho countiy in that vicinity; that otherwise tho ShiLe is peaceable, and that ho (Brooks) has refrained from sending out troops in order to avoid a conlliet. The 1 louse. Pacific Kaihoad Committee, Com-mittee, to-day, reconsidered their ' former action in regard to the Omaha bridge, and decided to report a bill providing merely that tho bridge shall be operated as a continuous part of the Union Pacific, and that detailed reports of all receipts Irom transport-1 Lion over tbo bridgo shall ho submitted sub-mitted to Congress semi-annually, with a view to futiuc action on the subject of tolls. Tho clleet of tho en-, actment on this bill would bo to stop j the double transfer of freight and passengers at Council Blulls and; Omaha, but unless restrained by suits at Jaw the Bridge Company may! continue to collect toll. Tho House Judiciary Committee to-day, agreed to an important amendment amend-ment to the Geneva Award Bill, to tho effect tliat mutual insurance companies com-panies will bo paid all losses sustained by tho depredations of tbo rebel cruisers cruis-ers namcy in tho award, but cuts them oil from collecting war pre-! miuniB. It further provides that they shall distribute the money paid them among their members who contributed con-tributed to pay the losses. Tho testimony for the defense in the Howard caso closed to-day. The judge advocate olfered rebutting testimony tes-timony which the couit declined to receive. General Howard submitted a written statement and the court then adjourned until Tuesday wheu the counsel for the defense will mak'j a final argument. On tho following Thursday the jndge advocate will close the c.-se in behalf of the government, govern-ment, after which the court will make its decision of the whole m ilter il-ter to be referred to the President. I The Senate, to-day, continued the nomination of Phillip Clayton, of I Georgia, ai consul at Valparaiso. I Clayton was assistant secretary of the treasury to Howell Cobb, lmt resigned, re-signed, and was afterwards asitaut-secretary asitaut-secretary of the confederacy lor one year. The Somite spent two hours-to-day, over McCook's nomination as Governor Gover-nor of Colorado without result. |
