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Show The bonds authorized by congrcsB to be issued aud sold to provide means to pay the judgments already rendered by the Alabama claims commissioner, wiil be ready and payments be commenced in about two weeks. The San Francisco marine hospital bill was reached ou the private calendar of tiie house yest-iday, but a single objection carried it over its passage. Lacking reconi inundations by tho secretary of the treasury it is doubtful. The Central Pacific railroad proposition propo-sition of compromise is not generally regarded with favor in congress. Tho Pacific coast members especially criticize the feature which provides that government shall buy back nil the worthless land in Nevada and Utah at $2. oO an acre. The oiler does not pxtend to lands in California. |