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Show 5 AS 1 1 1 Xii IO.. Washington, G. Sargent has ob- i taintd & promise from each of the nine members of ttie senate committee commit-tee on foreign relations to attend the special meeting to-morrow, called for tbe purpose of taking acti q on tho Onincd-J immigration bill. Tiiero ie, therefore, every reason to believe that it will be reported back to the senate and placed on calendar to-morrow afternoon. Toe joict resolution inlrtdurtd by Senator linoth to d iy concerning tne Sou tii I-.-u Pacitic railroad of California1 s a c-rny of tbe measure iulroduc.'d in the boms'! of rprtiscuuu vs by Vig'-;i:ilOn on li.e L'lUi ultimo, aud then lully descritied in thtirte dia-palchci dia-palchci Tbe Klamath rcsei vation bill wus repotted from tho senate public lands committee, to da;', by Grover, together with a written report, setting forth tbe argument lor its passage tuat waa outlined in last night's dispatrh announcing an-nouncing the commiesiouer's action. The postmaster-general informed Senator Sarufni, to-dny. tbat the department de-partment has dtcidtd tbat there shall be a ehiuige inado in tbo location of the Los Angeles poslc flice, and that Poet m ister Uunkelbcrgir ehall bo re-taiued re-taiued in office, a fu'l invuatigation h:viugvindirjutid I im from all the Hss:iults of bis rneiuie. Tue bouse, in commit ee of the whole on tbo aimy appropriation bili, to-day, hdopud Harry U byte's amendment lo incorporiite in it most of l be reduction aud reorganization features of the l!umnido commillfc bill. This unexpected action is tho rciult ol ihe pr.flsuro brought to bear upon tne democratic members of the appropriation committee by Speaker Randall aud several other leadera of tbe pnrly, who do not expect ex-pect that ;hese provisions will become law, but think it will be ol advantage lo the democratic majority of the house to go upon record an having atttmp'-ed to ellect the reductions, although they w ill doublledd be abandoned aban-doned alter the senate refuses to agree to them. There boems to b& no dnubt tbat the aeunte will strike out all tho leorgnnizution 6ectipnB, though it ia quite possible that tile scheme of prospective reduction framed by the house committee on appropriations, or something similar may be substituted substi-tuted for them by the senate, and finally enacted through the instrumentality instru-mentality ol a committee of con- lereuca. Luttrell voted fur Wbyte a amendment, to-day, and Page against it, Wigginton was paired wilb Horace , Davis who ia still confined to hia jhouBO by indisposition. Tne senate committee on railroads, to-dav. authorized Davis to roDort for pa:aage, without material amendment, amend-ment, Plumb's joint resolution providing pro-viding that 50 per cent, of the charges on tbe land grants of railroads tor government transportation be paid them. The joint resolution propoBeB to establish 50 per cent, as a reasonable reason-able reduction provided by the Supreme courl decibioo, on account of the stipulation in favor cf the government, gov-ernment, until the matter ia otherwise other-wise settled by judicial determination. Bolore the Potter commilleo, Mad-dox Mad-dox testified in relation to tbe St. Martin affidavit. Every charge embraced em-braced tbereiu upon which the wit-neps wit-neps was questioned, was denied, especially es-pecially that referring to Muddox aa having oOered St. Maitin money to return home. The senate has confirmed S. Newton New-ton Pettis of Pennsylvania, minister resident at Bolivia, and John M. Price postmaster at Alchiion, Ks. The secretary of war, in a com-muuic:;!.ion com-muuic:;!.ion to the house to-day, aska for a deliciancy appropriation of f0S0,00O for tbo pay ol men in tho army, the uppropmiion haviiig been made on the bayis of 20,000, inBtead of 2o 0U0 men. Tbo bill introduced iu the house, to day, by Patterson, to amend the mineral land laws, possesses great interest in-terest for miners and owners of mines in Colorado, including some of : the largest which are controlled by eastern capitalists. Sectiou 2,322 of ' the Revieed Statutes provides that the locator of a mineral vien may follow the vein wherever it leads, even though iu following it downward it should pasa outside of the limils of hia location boundary lines into and across the mining claim of another. When this section was adopted all known veiua extended downward in nn almost vertical line, ' or at Icnst a very slight dip from the vertical. Hence but very little injury could bs done by tho law. Late ! discoveries in Colorado in tbe neighborbcod of Leadwille, which arej creating so much excilement, are; unlike any previously discovered lodes in position and stratification. Instead of extending downward in an almost vertical line, these new lodeB are almost horizontal and extend for miles a Blight distance under the surface. sur-face. The first locators now claim that they have a right to follow their lodea even for miles. PatterBon eayB if this claim ia sustained the entire vast mineral deposit referred to will pasa out of the bands ot several thousand miners who have made locations, loca-tions, and iuto the hand of a few wealthy corporations and other combinations com-binations of individuals, to tbo great injury of tho community. He has therefore introduced and will urge for passage today's bill, which proviJea in regard to all mineral lodea located in Colorado Biuce January 1st, 1S7G, or hereafter, or haa an avernge dip not exceeding 40 degrees, that locators Bhall not bo permitted to follow the lode outside of vertical limits of ihe surface boundary lines, evon if the apex of the lode lies outside of such vertical lines. The bill waa referred to the committee on mines and mining. |