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Show i w a 'j .ti.strox. Washington, 23. The Teller committee com-mittee met luis afternoon in atHicipa tiun ot the favorable decision of Acting Attorney G-jueral I'uilitps, regarding; the senate appropriation, bin the deeiiuu not being received the committee com-mittee udjourued to Monday next. Tne chairman informed tbe com niitlee th:it he has nut yet received from Senator Thurman an answer ti the call for speciuVationB, and presented pre-sented the reply of Suatur Elaine lo the same call. Acting Attorney General Phillip.-hs Phillip.-hs sent his opinion to the secretary of tbe treasury. He holds that tbt committee baa a rigiit lo use tne $20,-000 $20,-000 appropriated for investigations by the tcnaie. The hearing in the Kansas Pacific railway caes was cuntiuued lo day The first question considered was the truthc contract or running arrange ment between tho Kansas Pacific railway ami Colorado Central on one aide, and the Kansas Pacific and itn receivers, on the other. Tuis ia tht-pooling tht-pooling contract entered into last summer and which nlactd tho KaLta-t-icilio road 'under the mauageuieni of the Union Pacific company. Tbe court ordered tho parties to take-further take-further testimony before February 1st, and that tho matter be fully bet forth and disposed of at the March term of the United States circuit court court in Kansas. Counsel for B, W. Lewis, trustee in 'ho income mortgage, moved to ia-solve ia-solve tho injunction restraining the prosecution of tho suit instituted by Lewis against tbe Kansas Pacific railway company in the state court o! Kansas, to foreclose that mortgage. At the conclusion of hts argument, tho court deolined to hear counsel on tho other side and re fust d to dissolve the injunction. Tbe court reserved its decision od the petition of Henry G. Holmes tc be admitted as defendant in the suit ol Lewis and Burnham against tbe Kansis Pacific railway to foreclose the lunding mortgage. About 110 railway poatoffice clerks, route agents and local agents are to be discharged, and the pay of thOBe remaining will be reduced to bring expenditures within appropriations. |
