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Show CAP1TAL CHATTER. Tbe Hallway Hull Mervlve. Trying to Suppress the Coolie TrulUc. Other Mluor iVolou. HAIL WAY MAIL SERVICE. Wfluhiogtorj, 9. The report ol the special commisaioo od ruilway mail traneportation waa preeentud to botu houHfd of congrew to day. It id yiyned by Daniel M. Fox and Ueorge A. Ban-Belt, Ban-Belt, puntal comrniEsion, who rccotn mend apace and speed iuatead of weight as the basis of companpalioo reeerviogthe privilege contended for by tbe poaloQica department and giv ing to the public better mail facilitirs tban ever before. Tbe expenditures under the rat fa recommended will Dot be materially increased over those of tbe present year. The tabulated returns show a variation varia-tion of from 283 to 104 mills io tbe operating expenses per linear foot of train, while the receipts range Irom 3G4 to l,09i mills, showing that tbe profit on Borne roads where rates are low, is larger than on other roads where rates are high, and therefore the adoption of an average rate applicable to all lines that would give to each route uniform percentage of profit waa impracticable. im-practicable. t SPECIE RESUMPTION. The senate finance committee, this morniDg, discussed the house bill to repeal the specie resumption act and will again consider the measure at a special meeting ou Friday next. MI LIT A It Y TiXEflKATH. The senile committee on military affairs have agreed to recommend tbe passage of Spencer's bill appropri atmg JJO.ulXJ for a military telegraph from Deadwood to Fort Ellia, Mont., embracing tbe line of military posts on the Yellowstone and Big Horn rivers, - THE O0OL1B TRADE. Secretary Thompsoo, to-day, itaued hie order to commanders of all United States men-of-war in South Pacific waters, concerning the Coolie trade. The order, after citing the lawa upon which it was based, euys: Whereas t information has been communicated to tbe navy department depart-ment by officers in command of tbe North Pacific station that American ships and American masters ot ships are now engaged in the Coolie trade in violation ot the laws quoted, that tbe wrecked American vessel, SI. N. Carlton, has been recently discovered on tbe island of Molokoi, in the Pacifio ocean, with about fifty Chin eaa on board over and above tbe number testified to by the United States consul at tho port of ber departure, depart-ure, and that two American ships are expected to reach Honolulu with cargoes of Chinese under such oir-cumstancee oir-cumstancee as are calculated to create a reasonable belief that they are engaged en-gaged in the Coolie trade; Therefore, by direction of the president, you are hereby instructed to employ any and all ships, officers, marines and seamen under your command to keep watch upon all vessels navigated or owned in whole or in part by citizens of tbe Uuited States, or by foreigners residing in the United States, as you may have reasonable cause to believe to havr on board any subjects of China, Japan or other oriental country, known as Coolies; and if, therefore, you shall Sod sufficient proof that such veeee) r vessels are so employed, you will cause her to be carried with her officers and orew to tbe moat con veuient port or district in lbs United States and delivered to the United States marshal of said dietriut, to be dealt with according to taw. |