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Show W 'A&iHI.N'U I OS. S iu tile EN-cllotiN rouiuiiilt'u Umhi i Kind Out wliat CubbJc Meaul. M'oezcnrrol'i'H Plau o Iflnke Hie Deat-rt lilo.ssou un lliu hose. Washington, 15. Cabhier Jouidan, of the Ihird National bank, New York city, will b before the senate election to-morrow. This committee will continue translating the cipher telegraphic dispatches to-morrow. Tiie exposition just made by the senate committee of the true inwardness inward-ness of the Oregon cipher dispatches is the subject of much comment today, to-day, and democrats generally concede that it they wait lo secure a favorable decision concerning Louisiaua, they can no longer hope to make much of a stand upon the Grover-Orouin electoral college business. Washington, 15. Tho houao public pub-lic lauds committee, today, had under consideration Pi'pei's bill to grant the lands known as the Colorado Col-orado River desert, to O. M. Wozen-croft, Wozen-croft, on condition of his reclaiming them by irrigation and furnishing a sufficient supply of water for the purposes pur-poses of travel, etc. The sub-committee, consisting of Gouge of Arkansas, Ark-ansas, Lane of Oregon, and Hathurn Df New York, recommended favorable report on the bill, but the full committee com-mittee deferred action. VVoezencroft has arrived here to urge tho passage of this measure, and haB brought to tho attention of the committee a favorable favor-able report mado upon his project by the house publio lauds committee in the thirty-eighth congress; also some extracts from the reports ol the Pacific railroad surveys, which assert its practicability, jt is ancertained. on the other hand, that the report of Lieutenant Wheeler, now being printed, wiff show that the proposed diversion of tho Colorado river cannot be successfully made at any point within the territory of the United States. The reasons for this conclusion con-clusion of army engineers are that the total amount of water which could be brought from the river at high water stages, into the depressed desert region, would be inadequate to lorm a permanent lake of sufficient magnitude magni-tude to noticeably change the climate by evaporation from its surface, and the small results attainable would not justify the necessary expenditure of money. Wpezencroft replies to this that if he does not succeed in reclaiming reclaim-ing the lands the bill will not give him a title to them. |