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Show IVANll'XCTOX. Some 1 liovrumpiii's Crn-zirM-Tlio Itntli I'or Shiner- i lie Kuluiiil l.miu diruul. W.ishinton, 27. The charaelei ol thu u-alunouy uovv given before the committee on expenditures in interior department, p-li'.iv- !o Ihe gov., rnniciit ins-me ahj lum. is et.t Teh. ddl. r. ut !r..m that hep; oil re Liken. Dr. Morrell, first a-L-i.-t.ua niirgeoti ol the asylum, testified to-day mat he never lilted his hand against a patient and never knew an attendant who did so that was not discharged, except ex-cept it was clearlv a case ol sell-deleus-,. Dr. F. M. Hamlin testified that lie never struck an insane womau or ulher uersoii under his charge. There are 750 palients iu the asylum, and as a general rule iheru is one attend - i ant lor every ten patients. It ia a leading feature of the malady to complain of real and imaginary ; grievances. Ho had encouraged patients lo complain of anything they did not like, ami in the v.ist majority ol'cassot conip'amts he found tint the grievances were entirely imaginary. imagin-ary. Sick patients were visited ac-coiding ac-coiding to tiieir nicessities and according to the gravity of their cases. Ihe demand upon th : treasury ol the United States lor silver coin is daily increasing, evincing a very thoroughly wide spread anxiety among t.;e people throughout the country tor this class of currency. Thus far the treasury ha; disbursed about $l,OO0,00J, and it there was a legal tenders and ce-.tiiicatea of deposit de-posit iu national banks aud other , government depositories, the dis- bursements from the tre.tsury alo.,e 5 would bo al least Slo,0d0,0dU. Tcie l grams aic received by the treasurer 1 every day asking il he will allow silver to be paid out lor legal tenders, very many persons, includitr bank ullieers in various parts of the coun- j try, nut seeming lo understand lhat tiie law i mandatory iu tins respect, and that siivcr can only be. paid out , in exchange for fractional eunency. Tne bill mlroJucid by Representative Representa-tive Wigginton to day lor the rebel !ofsetllera on railroad land, within the limit of the Uoland grant, Slanilaus county, provides that when ihe Central Cen-tral Pacific railroad company shall fil wilh Ihe secretary of tue interior a release ot all claims to ad lands within tiie exlerioi limits of Ihe Koland raut he .hi ill iusue to s.iid company scrip lor 21,000 acres locateab o upou any vacant public land, excepting mineral and timber iands, aud upou such relinquishment ol all right, tide and interest, shall pass to thesettlers and parlies to whom government h.n given the title. A preamble recites that utidr the ruling rul-ing ot the interior department, many persons have settled on these lands, made valuable improvements and in many instances p government for pate.ils to I hem, wine:;, under the decisions of the California -.upreme courl and United Slates circuit court, are now declared to he held only iu trust for tiie raiiroid company, on the grulKid lhat tiie L.ikIs u.wscd U tne. railroad Company upon toe njeeliou I of said Roland grant. J. K. Scrivener lof Stamlaus h:;s arrived here as the I representative u! C:iarles McLaughlin, j who holdn the r.u. road mle to these lands, lie says tuey are Worlii, on an average, ut leasl $lo per acre, hut tu.it McLaughlin has given the selllers a contract to deed them all his title upon receiving in lieu Ihe land sc: ip prop ed by lins bin. 'liie lands m Iji7i rmore vahey and tho ' Moquele ma. grant, I .ougli in the tame predicament predi-cament as the lauds aUm named, are not inadt; part of this arrange ment. |