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Show TCasliiuKton -items. Chicago, 21. Tribune's Washington: Washing-ton: Governor Brown, chief manager man-ager of the Texas Pacific legislation, who is now here, predicts that the doubling of freight charges on the Union Pacific from New York to San Francisco, which now amount to J 2, 400 lor freight cars, will result in the passage of a law at the next session ses-sion of congress regulating rates of freight over the Pacific road. Gov. Brown says. ho..ever, that the only real remedy ia competition, which of course means the lVxas Pacific. There is an authenticated rumor that Wilson ot Cinciuuali is to succeed suc-ceed Hill as tjiipei vising architect. Secretary Gorhsm, wuo returned to his duties to day at lhe republican headquarters, pays that an ofiice-holder ofiice-holder in New York has contributed halt his salary lor campaigu purposes. pur-poses. Iu answer to a question, Gorham also eaid if the president had contributed a dollar in aid of the party he (Gorham) was not aware of it. It is the opinion of treasury officials that if the question is tested before a court, government will be compelled to redeem all those trade dollars coined before the passage of the law of July 22, 1S70, when the trade dollar dol-lar waa divested of that legal tender quality which it had pos-ee.-sed in sum? not exceeding five dollars from lhe time it was first coined in 1S73, but as it will be impossible to ascertain what trade dollars were coined before and what were coined after tho law of 1676 was Dossed, it is thought at the treasury that the best way out of the dilemma will be to redeem these coins at par and retire them from circula'ion. It is probable Secretary Sherman will make a reccinmendation to that eflect iu bis ar.uual report to congress. A strong pre-Miro will doubtless be brought ;o bear on congress to induce that b.idy euiu r to rideom these dollars dol-lars or tu j: iace th in on an equality with tbe 1; v;.r liouar, aa the vast interest iiiiVcU .1 by what direction congress limy Uko in the premises wiii be folly appreciated when it ia stated ihat tho total amount of do'lars coined aud now in circulation here and abroad is $o5,L'09,o60. |