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Show . DOMESTIC BRIEFS. John 0. Stewart says it ia evident a Bilver bill of some kind will pass con-greas con-greas this winter. The senate commmittee again considered con-sidered the silver bill on Friday, but came to no conclusion. Sherman says Chief Joseph's Indians In-dians should not be permitted to return re-turn to Oregon or LapwM. Boutwell is confident government can resume specie payment in 1879, without additional legislation. There is no truth in the statement that a basis of settlement in the Vanderbiit will caae is under consideration. con-sideration. . ( Senator Gordon says that the point has been passed at which any doubt can be reasonably entertained of his reflection to the United'Stntea senate. The banker and broker committee from New York who visited. Washing-ton Washing-ton say they were led to believe the Bland bill would not paas the senate, without important changes. General- Sherman" "agrees with General Sheridan's recommendation to raise the army to nearly 50,000 men. He believes it would be wrong to increase in-crease the cavalry at the expense ol the infantry. Senator Jones claims that' he has forty lour votea ln (he senate in favor ol tht house silver bill, to twen'y Bix agin?t ir, hut senators, generally assert that this is mere guess work. Coukling, Kernan and Bagaid were decidedly opposed to the remonetiza- tion of silver. General Sherman in his report says of Colonel Miles and his men: They are entitled to ail honor anci Draiee for their prompt skillful and successful t work while others (Howard) by their long toilsome pursuit are entitled to corresponding credit because they made that success possible. Tbe fiIorton monument, association suggest an extension ot the anginal idea, that the Memoral hall be built on the best site in Indianapolis, and contain .thlopa. of historical interest. I fhey suggest bronze ornameDla, and I statues of Indiana's war brnpfl, all to ; he done by subscription, and the elate j is to ba canvassed fr $200,000. Ex Secretnry-Boiitwoll thinks the senate will not pass the Bland bill without important changes. How ever, congress will pass some kind of a silver1 bill, but not uch a one as would make the funded debt payable pay-able in silver. The president would not sign a bill making silver legal tender for all purposes. Bland told the Wall .street committee com-mittee that his constituents knew perfectly well that they preferred to pay thair debts in silvor, rather than in gold. Moreover he advised theoom-miitte theoom-miitte aa a friend to nccept the proposed pro-posed measure warning them if they did not, by and by men would be sent1 lo coneress who would wipe out the whole debt as with a sponge. Boutwoll saya: The immediate re suit of reinonetizatioa ol silver, would apparently be good.. The greenback is a debt; if silver is to pay all debts, the silver dollar will At first ride to the value of greenbacks. The apparent good effect might last for several years until some check came, then resumption would again be a problem, and it would be much harder to go from silver to gold than from paper to gold. There would be such an abundance of silver that apparently we could never make substitution., |