Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-04-11
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
Wells Not on a Political Mission.
HAYES ANECDoTE.
THE VOTE ON THE INCOME TAX
WAsHINGToN. Anril 10.

NHShlNIioNr ApFll III.
j. Madison Wells protests that he
is not in Washington on n political
mission, and denies the report of the
spicy laik between himself and Sher-
man, published yesterday. He says
he saw sherman but a m He
SAYS il is true that he would like to see
his colleague, Anderson, made Collec-
tor OF New Orleans, but he Is not de-
msnding that office for him, and fears
that he could not be confirmed if NOM
mated. His real business here is to
press a claim of his own, which has
been pending before the Southern
Claims Commission for some time.
The i'll success of Howe's speech ap-
pears to have acted as a caution signal
to the anti Hayes Senators. Hayes is
credited with this remark Howe's
speech was only a trial, like the exper-
irnent of the menagerie man who, hav-
ing to cross a troop of elephants over a
frozen creek, and not knowing whether
the ice would zeal them, concluded to
send over a little elephant first by way
of trial, and the ice broke, and the little
elephant fell through and was drowned,
and the rest of the troop went back into
winter quarters.
The House bill placing Gen. James
Shields on the retired list, with the
rank and pay of a Brigadier General,
was presented in the Senate yesterday.
Gordon, Democrat, of Georgia, favored
Immediate action, but Edmunds, Re
publican, of Vermont, objected to con
sidering the bill at that time. He said
he did not believe in singing out Gen
eral Shields to receive aid, simply be-
cause such action was calculated to get
the House out of a scrape, so the bill
went ove for future consideration.
The Ways and Means Committee to-
day decided, by one majority, in favor
OF the income tax. The yeas were:
Thacker, Sayles, Robbins. Harris, Bur
chard and Gibson-6. The nays were:
Wood, Garfield, Banks, Kelly and
Phelps-5. The details of the measure
have yet to be prepared.
In the House to-day, O'Neil present
ed the remonstrance of a large mum
Der of merchants and manufacturers,
against the passage of the Tariff bill,
as vitality injurious to the interests of
the country. 1t was referred.
In the Senate, to day, Voorhees,
offered a resolution directing the Com
mittee on Pensions to report a bill
granting pensions to soldiers of the
"a of 1872, their widows and orphans,
and said he would Call it up on the Both
instant.
A General Conference In 1850.
NEW YORK, April 10.
Bishop Andrews. OF the New York
Methodist Conference, has decided
that the licensing of women preachers
- w.r- 81 I@. - NN,.Ia,v
The disappointed advocates of the new
departure have taken an appeal to the
General Conference of Methodists of
the whole country, to he held in 1880.
EuIOgy Of General Shields.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass, April 10.
A meeting of representative Irish
men, last evening, adopted a resolu
ton eulogiZing General Shields, the
soldier and statesman, and thanking
General Butler for his manly and clio
Quent effort in the behalf of an old
hero, who should have needed no
stronger passport to office than the
wounds he bore on his body.
81 Loved Her Ton Much"
BIDDEFoRD, Me-. April 10.
Frederick Savage, a F%renchman,
Yesterday murdered Rose Vincents. OF
Methuen, Mass, by throwing her inio
the river. When arrested, his only
explanation was, 80, l loved her too
much !" He is married and has
children.
Grand and Lofty TumbIing by sem
atOr Voorhees,.
NEW YORK, April 10.
The Herald's correspondent at
Washington says: The event of the
day in the Senate yesterday, was a
piece of grand and lofty tumbling with
a back somersault by Voorhees,. Until
yesterday Voorhees, had been regarded
as the great bulwark of oppressed peo-
pie against the monopolists and bond
holders of all sorts and kinds. His
voice had been persistently for war on
the autocrats who tyrannize over the
poor by owning bonds. To the gener-
al CONSERVATION of everybody, Voor-
bees yesterday came out as the friend
of the corporations and their vested
rights, and deprecated interference with
them by Congress. Several attempts
were made to explain this colossal
straddle from Communism O a defense
of the corporations. the most success
full of which we're, that the tall orator
of the Wabash makes An ingenious
distinction between the wretches who
own Government bonds and the gen.
tlemen who own railroad stock.
The Political Bearings of the New
DOOrkeeper.
New YORK. April 10.
The Trfbune's Washington special
says there has been much inquiry at
the Capital about the political bearings
of the new Doorkeeper. General Field.
On his own showing he turns out to be
a Republican. He had been serving
for some time under the Republican
committees of the district, and has al
so been a candidate for foreign appoint
ments, and was recommended as a Re-
publican by prominent Republican
politicians. If his sympathies are with
the Democratic party, he has recently
succeeded in keeping the fact very
quiet.
Has AbscOnded.
LITTLEToN, N. H., April 10.
Hiram Weeks, of St. Johnsburg, a
former director of the Merchants Ma
tional Bank of that town, is reported
to have ahsconded, taking 5000 OF
trust and borrowed funds.
Independent Cables.