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Show TELE GRAPHIC CAPITAL CIlATrEK. Sundry .11 lifters "i'eleriipiietl IrOUl W usIiinjTtou ou fuiurUtj , APFHOI'IUATION MATTERS. Washington, 1-1 The house committee com-mittee on appropriations, to-day, agreed to recommend an appropriation appropria-tion of $450,000 for the expenses of the fast mail service. The committee also completed the Indian appropriation bill. It appropriates appro-priates $1,710,000, 157,000 le;s than the existing law. Judge Durham wns authorized to report an amendment to tho souate hill, providing for tho purchase by the United States government of the Froedmen's bank and appropriating tor the purpose $275,000. The amendment amend-ment reduces the sum to $155,000. The committee also decided to recommend re-commend nou concurrence in the senate amendments to the military academy bill. tub hot srnisos omission. Before the committee investigating the omission of the Hot Springs clauao from last session's appropriation appropria-tion bill, the solicitor of the treasury, this morning, testified that Benson came to him and stated tbat be bad suflicient evidence to convict Senator Conover of complicity with the transaction trans-action and desired the law clerk to go with him before the grand jury to have the senator indicted. Stilson Ilutchins, publisher of the post, testified that Benson said bo had traced the matter and could convict con-vict Senator Conover, bis clerk, Rice, and John Y. Foster. Witness did not publish the story because bo found Benson had deceived him. The secretary of the treasury has issued a circular of instructions concerning con-cerning the resumption of specie payments. SDING THE TEXAS PACIFIC. A bill tif complaint against tho Ptxurt Pitciflv! railroad company tins bet-n filed in the District of Columbia riiprr me court by Pierre Fayislle and thirty-nine others, all citizens of Franee1, except Mr. Hyd of Vermont, Ver-mont, in which, in behalf of them selves and of other owners of land grant bonds of the Memphis, El Paso and Pacifio railroad company, they pray that the Texas and Pacific railroad rail-road company be restrained from the transler or sale ol its stock or other property and say they are interested to the amount ol about $300,000, but have not received any dividend or payment thereon. |