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Show CONGRESSIONAL BILLS. Pago's bill now before tho house provides that any person who has acquired a title under the homestead law to eighty acres of land within railroad limits may when the rail- rnfift lftnda nrft rphirnprl in tha mi hi in domain, enter additional eighty acres anywhere else without the necessity of personal residence on the additional addi-tional tract. There is little doubt that the majority ma-jority of the full house committee on Pacific railroads will be found ready to report the Scott-Huntington compromise compro-mise bill, though Felaenheld says the San Diego interests will uncompromisingly uncompro-misingly ficht the bill unless it is amended bo as lo provide for a direct line from San Diego west from Yuma, Mitchell's bill for the preservation of Balmon in the Columbia provides for the erection of an artificial hatching hatch-ing establishment on the river. Tho bill appropriates $27,000. Buckner's bill to utilize the products of gold and silver and authorize paper circulation at all times convertible into gold and silver is in all important particulars except ona an exact copy of the original Bland bill, modelled on the measure first introduced by Congressman Banka of Massachusetts last summer. The present bill provides pro-vides that the coin notes to be issued in exchange for bullion ehall be receivable re-ceivable for all dues to the United States and for all debts, public and private, except where by law or contract con-tract gold coin has been required or contracted to be paid. The committee commit-tee will doubtless report the bill, but it has no chance of enactment this session, if for no other reason than for want of lime. |