Show BY TELEGRAPH AMERICAN AM washington 15 A new orleans congressman has received a dispatch baying saying that full fall returns of the recent state election show a democratic mojo majority rity of over tha the democrats have elected 31 members of the senate and 76 na members b e of t the la house ouse while the republicans ha have v only I 1 nive five v a senat senate or on and 17 members of the house houm official returns are certain to give the democrats over 80 majority in fuld the legislature on joint ballot senator kellogg in commenting on this news say says a if any evidence was needed to convince impartial j judges that frauds of a gross character were perpetrated ratel and intimidation resorted to in the county parishes to prevent negroes from voting the returns furnish it he thinks the result tells its Us own story the bill introduced by senator booth today to day for or the relief of bet act tiers on certain lands etc pro vides for the repayment of fees and commissions to be paid in good falth faith for void entries of public lands landa it Js Is a copy ot of the bill which ho he introduced in the last congress and which then passed pasted both houses but failed to receive the signature of the president the bill introduced by booth for the conver conversion glon ilon of national gold ba banks aks is a duplicate of a measure recently introduced by page in the house of representatives page today to day introduced a bill proposing an appropriation of loo loop for the erect orect erection lon ion of a at sacramento page called on the rost Post department to day to inquire whether any report leport had bad been received from si a special agent who it appears has been sent to california to investigate whether whet ber bei or not it la against government in teresta to allow wells s fargo fc co t to deliver letters upon which post age has been paid he tv wab was as in 35 formed that no report had yet come ta to hand and will be notified when one arrives page pago announced his intention to take issue iesue very ear neatly with any recommendation that may be made for interference with public accommodations of this sort if the department seriously entertains such an au idea the colorado delegation in after a full fall consultation have decided not to risk long postponement jentof of final action OB OR the me ute question by opposing the adoption by y the house of the indian commit mittiea tees teea amendments amend menta to the senate joint resolution but will let it go through that body speedily with a view to obtaining good terms through the instrumentality of a commit committee tee tev of conference in this way they hopu hope to secure the enactment of some satisfactory measure before the christmas holiday adjournment journ ment secretary schurz denies denie a that the interior department favored the amendments adopted by the house committee he Ho says bays on the con arary desires the removal of all hostile Utes to the re in utah except such of the noia nola as will agree to relinquish tribal relations and cultivate small patches in colorado the same game as other oiher people there are indications today to day a compromise will be effected among hmong the democratic senators in regard to the bayard resolution on by adopting some buch euch amend amendment as that submitted this afternoon by butler of south carolina which proposes that the repeal of the legal tender power of greenbacks green backs shall date from january iet let 1855 instead of going into effect immediately the apprehended danger of unsettling business by the value of greenbacks green backs would it As is argued be averted by thus biting giving time to prepare for the change BOSTON Bos tobi 15 dispatches from augusta maine assert that a count has been baen made by the governor and bounell of election returns which will result in the delivering of certificates tomorrow to morrow to a sufficient number of democrats to give that party a majority of both branches of the legislature the dispatches assert a great feeling among the republicans owing to this condition of affairs 15 the promoters of the proposed railroad across the isthmus of or are taking active measures to put the scheme into practical operation A company any has been organized and wm J mcalpine Mo Alpine been appointed consulting engineer and mr van brocklin J of the metropolitan taif tati elevated ro road d to supervise the location and manago manage m the construction the ilia isthmus A party of engineers of whom van brockling Broc klina brother la Is chief sailed on saturday for mexico and the bargue ephraim m ml wil la is on ihen her hen way with tona tons of supplies consisting of tools cars locomotives rails and ties persons persona interested in the road say any it will save more than 1200 miles as compared with the panama route to california and they predict that it will make a ship canal unnecessary A specia to the evening post from washington bays sye says aye that senator saunders Baun dera has received a letter from an ax ex governor of oregon saying they want colored people in oregon and would offer every inducements for immigrants of that class as they prefer them to the chinese blunders saunders is urged to ube uee his bis influence to encourage the exodus of southern negroes to that state ST PAUL PAUI 15 where whore th there has been a severe storm in the red jred river biver country for two days the tha thermometer falling failing very low reports indicate 25 to 40 degrees below zero A special to the pioneer baya bays two were frozen to death and two men el G stoddard Blod elod dard and james nolan are missing they are supposed sup eup posed to have been lost in the storm and frozen ban SAN francieco 15 sarah win of chief winnemucca of the bag baa been lecturing in this city on the wrongs of her race has made a lengthy affidavit to be forwarded to secretary schurz asking in behalf of her bar people first that mr reinhardt the indian agent at malheur malteur reservation ba be removed second that samuel parrish Parr the former agent be reinstated or if that is impossible that some other honest hon bon estand and humane man or some honest military officer be given charge of the agen cy cyp third the plute pluto indians be a allowed to return from the yakima agency where they were sent cent in the winter of ito to agency the affidavit then recites at length and specifies bad faith and cruelty cruelly on the part of reinhardt in wo conduct conduce towards the clutes and asserts that during the recent bannock war all the with the exception of about 20 remained friendly to the whites sarah winnemucca hns baa acted for a number of years lears 5 ears as interpreter the scout and guide frank 3 parker employed as scout by gen howard and now conducting the walla wanis walla statesman telegraphs s statements made in her lecture here whick which are formulated in her affidavit are true and entitled to respectful consideration A victoria dispatch of the insl bays saye much anxiety is felt here over the condition of of affairs near kamloops eam Kam loops where the government agent was killed by half breed outlaws a few days ngo ago as previously reported since the last report the outlaws have murdered a herder named john kelley at stump stamp lake they are now surrounded ina lna in a log house at the foot of douglas lake in nicola valley they have repeating rifles and the settlers are poorly armed the indians are aro fearfully excited and an indian revolt Is feared A dispatch of the says the outlaws have shot and killed another settler they are still corall ed ad in the log house the country is in arms the indians indiana are sul bul sulky bulky ky but quiet A strong force of police with rifles and ammunition ammunitions left victoria tonight to night by special steam er or washington washington 18 the district supreme court courts in general terms took up today to day the case of the lottery agent against postmaster gen eral oral key in which the complainant seeks beeks an injunction unction to restrain atrain re the enforcement of the recen forder of the post office department forbidding the delivery to him of mail matter postal orders and registered letters counsel for respondent nied filed a demurrer betting forth that no affirmative allegation asking for relief had been made as in equity there should have been that no private letters had been withheld that respondent is improperly sued as a citizen ot of tennessee that the Postmaster General has hag the right ful custody of the mails malls and that the letters said to have been wita withheld are letters pertaining to the lottery business there was waa some discussion aa as to whether the argument should proceed on the demur or 0 on n the bill chief justice carter said eaid he had bad no doubt the de murren should be heard beard first in the natural order of argument judge i ray then proceeded with his arg argue mont ment upon the demurrer main that the president alone was sible for the official al act action 10 n of his bla exec executive autive officers and that the proceedings should be against him and not against the head of a department that bill could not properly be brought against the postmaster general as a citizen of tennessee that the court had no jurisdiction and no howerto power to issue the injunction pra prayed bod for and that the postmaster beneral Ue under the statute establishing the registered letter system had full power to take the course he had senator carpenter in behalf of the complainant argued that the postmaster general represented the president only in la the exercise of discretionary executive power the present case is evidently one in which the president could not act this court senator carpenter said is te called upon to say whether congress can authorize auth nuth orina oriza the postmaster general to try persons for sending improper matter by mail to cut him oil off from the benefits of postal service if ho he the postmaster general considers him guilty and then to tell the condemned individual that be he has no right to come into a court of equity and have justice done him the argument will be continued tomorrow to morrow the general land nahid office recently decided that all affidavits required by law in support of applications for mineral patents must be made by the applicants themselves under this thia ruling a number of applications and affidavits filed in local land districts by agents of nonresident owners of mines have been rejected The Acting commissioner of the general land office has to day however at the instance of senator rHill hill hili of colorado issued an order that no more cancellations of this sort shall be made until congress takes action upon the pending bill which provides that such applications and affidavits in cases of non residents shall be valid it sworn to by their local agents cog nazant of the facts facto NEW YOKE 16 10 the rimes times washington special bays says cumila tive evidence Is furnished in the dispatches in reference to the methods of increasing the ex pense of con son ducting the star service of the post office department has excited great surprise among members of congress not fa in sympathy with poal post office it is due to the postmaster general to state that no one acquainted with him suspects that he nad had any knowledge of the recklessness with which the public funds have been expended for increasing the star se service ivice the postmaster general has baa three assistants and to each of them la assigned by law certain duties in so far aa as these officers are subordinate to the postmaster general go nersi he is technically responsible for their official acts be but it will be readily understood that the head of so comprehensible a department part ment ent as the post office cannot t possibly supervise every act cf hla hia subordinates gen brady second assistant post muster master general has charge of all contra contracts c ts for the transportation of matis mails and is directly responsible for whatever may be irregular in this branch of the service an important fact in connection with the irregularities is that the postmaster general was absent on his california trip during last summer when most of the increase was awarded and during his absence general brady vas was acting postmaster gen eral brady in spi bpi speaking faking of this matter proclaimed bis big responsibility and invited an to do himself justice he should not wait for an inquiry which will undoubtedly be ordered but he should dem demand audit it no on elsmore one is moro more surprised at the revelations made in connection with the star service sei than the postmaster general who says that he will not be con tented until the matter is fully investigated vesti gated by a committee of congress it ia is claimed by gen Uen brady and his friends that if congress had not authorized the establish ment of about 2000 additional routes the money appropriated for the current year would have been sufficient and that the department would not have baen obliged to ask for an additional appropriation of it is true that 2000 additional dit ional routes were authorized and accor secor diug dlug to general brady service was established on about 1300 new now routes thus authorized the fact should not be overlooked however that the routes described in the times upon which increased compensation was allowed are all od routes and it will be doubtless discovered that whatever deficiency may be found to exist in the 0 pria aton for star service lson loon is on au ac the extravagant increase made in ln serving old routes and not on account of the establishment of new routes two additional routes are giver below in further illustration of the manner in which the compensation ia Is increased on star routes route no runs from santa fe to fort stanton Bt anton the distance is miles and the schedule time was fixed at 69 hours for one time each week the route was let in march 1878 to I 1 R miner for 1748 subsequently two trips were added and additional was allo ailo allowed wed rhen ihen rhen the speed was increased from 69 to 45 43 hours and additional compensation was paid thus raising the cost of the ser sef service bervice vice from tiara 1748 to per annum route runs frog from prescott arizona to washoe city a distance of miles two trips a time 48 hours this route was let in march marcia 1878 1978 to J H watts of santa fe for watts failed but singular to say eay la Is still carrying malls mails on other routes A A brown eucce succeeded eded watts receiving for continuing the service and sublet sub let the route to morton salisbury an extensive and evidently influential contractor soon arter after bail SAll salisbury abury took charge one tripper trip per week was added for which additional was paid the speed was next increased from 48 to 31 hours and 1737 was added not satisfied with this salisbury succeeded in having four more moret trips ripa ordered for which he was allowed addition althus increasing the expense of the route from to the worlds washington special bayst mris mra sprague has authorized her attorney to draw up paper for divorce from gov sprague last night in convers conveys conversation tion with a tribune correspondent representing the anti polygamy law and bills on that subject introduced in the house housey delegate cannon of of utah said eald he does not believe that those laws can ever be made effective he declares that the desire to disfranchise cormons mormons Is i born of the hope among impecunious in U tah tab that they will be able to control the offices a and n d disburse burse the taxes of utah it if the scheme of dla disfranchisement sa Is car tle Tie lydd dout out cannon denies I 1 he le has recently been 0 to o a wife he says also that it would mould be contrary to all precedents for the house of representatives to take any action toward expelling him |